I have a keyboard hotkey to take the copy/paste buffer and display a QR code on screen. Straightforward to implement on macOS, and presumably Linux too.

macOS: pbpaste | qrencode -t ANSI

Oh durr, yep, agree…not the flying experience I’d want.

Humans weren’t meant to live with zero autonomy.

Not every parent removes all autonomy from their child. Sorry that happened to you, sounds like it sucked.

Pretty sure I’d get up and walk off the plane. Not sure I wanna be on that flight with that flight crew.

IANAL but it might be better for the future lawsuit to be forced off.

Not just UNIX-like, but actual UNIX.

IIRC there were some UNIX-certified Linux distros out there too, not sure if they’re still around.

Only one of them is UNIX.

Cool, I recommend it!

I have my public facing reverse proxy point to my public services, and I also have it set up as a “roadwarrior” VPN to my home. So, I can connect my phone via WireGuard to my VPS, and a local DNS resolves my private services to the private IP addresses in my home network (so, I also run a reverse proxy on my server, for internal services).

I also have an off-site backup using this — just a raspberry pi and an HDD at family’s, that rsyncs+snapshots over the WireGuard network.

I’m sure I’m not following all the best practices here, but so far so good.

VPS with a public ip (which just takes all the fun out of selfhosting)

Why do you say this? My VPS only runs a reverse proxy and WireGuard, with all services hosted on my computers at home.

I’ve heard stories of grad students flat out refusing to work with HF. (Never relevant for me, other than being something very scary.)

Having kids has made random conversations somewhat frequent for me.

Something that I found super interesting learning about amateur (ham) radio was that antennas don’t always work “backwards” as you’d expect. From Maxwell’s equations they obey reciprocity, so it stands to reason (or so I thought) that an antenna that’s good at receiving is also good at transmitting.

But it’s not true! It turns out that the noise floor of the environment — in part due to atmospheric stuff like lightning — is so much higher than the sensitivity of radios (well above thermal/Johnson noise) that an inefficient antenna can be a really good antenna for receiving, in certain circumstances. Namely, if a receive antenna is inefficient but has good directionality, it can be useful…but probably no good for transmission!

It’s not super profound or anything, but I found it pretty interesting.

Remember that RAID and redundancy is not backup.

Try to 3-2-1, or something similar/better, if you can.

I am fairly sloppy here, and I am also very cheap. I have multiple copies in my home for important stuff (mainly Immich), the in use copy being on SSD and a few backups on spinning rust. I have a raspberry pi with an external HDD at family’s place, with a daily rsync+snapshot, for off site backups.

Of course, I’ve never had a catastrophic failure, so who knows how smooth that would be…

I switched to Technitium and I’ve been pretty happy. Seems very robust, and as a bonus was easy to use it to stop DNS leaks (each upstream has a static route through a different Mullvad VPN, and since they’re queried in parallel, a VPN connection can go down without losing any DNS…maybe this is how pihole would have handled it too though).

And of course, wildcards supported no problem.

Maybe take a look at Outline. (Not affiliated, but I host it for myself.)

I also host KitchenOwl, but mostly just as a grocery list.

The dot-com bubble burst, but…well, it got better.

Of course there were some casualties (famously pets.com), but Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Amazon…yeah they got their clock cleaned at the time, but long term they were pretty successful.

For all the problems with tech companies, having a chunk of compensation be in the form of RSUs isn’t the worst idea ever. (I know it’s not specific to tech companies, but it’s generally a very prominent aspect of tech company compensation, Netflix notwithstanding.)

At this point, they no longer obey the laws of classical physics, and the resulting quantum phenomena — known as relativistic effects…

This is…not how I would word things. Atomic physics is usually not in a classical (Newtonian) regime, and a quantum treatment is standard.

Adding relativistic effects to the quantum treatment is also standard, but many aspects of e.g. the hydrogen atom are reasonably well described without relativistic effects, though of course relativistic effects do matter.

Nitpicking aside, neat stuff!

Well, smallpox was definitely harmful to humans, and it’s a virus which is different from an animal.

(…and yes, I know that “harmful to humans” often means “good for the planet.”)

This louse was reportedly not harmful to its hosts.

Kinda interested to hear an ethics of science type argument for/against this human-made extinction.

I wonder if there’s a legal difference between companies adding a tariff line item to the invoice vs. just raising prices (not that there’s a moral difference IMHO).