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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 80 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Daniel Radcliffe used this to his advantage---same outfit, and the paparazzi stopped bothering him:

It was three or four months. Because I was doing a play in London and every night there was paparazzi outside. And I suddenly realized after like after I just had just been lazy and not changed my clothes for a few days, that they were not there. And I realized it’s probably because I’m wearing the same thing so it all looks like photos from the same day. So I was like ‘I’ll just continue wearing this.’ And they never came back because it all looks like the same picture in front of the same door.

If you search around you might find free ones. Oracle has/had a free tier (though it's Oracle, so...).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes, but you can run multiple VPS, from different providers, simultaneously.

What I like is that while it does depend on an external provider, it doesn't depend on a specific external provider. Any VPS with a public IPv4 would work.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

VPS+VPN, this is what I do.

VPS has public IP and runs WireGuard "server"* and a reverse proxy (and fail2ban...). Reverse proxy points to my home computer over the WireGuard link. No open ports on my home router.

For private facing/LAN-only services I just don't have an entry in the VPS reverse proxy. DNS on the router points everything to my local server, so if at home I access everything directly. To access internal services remotely requires VPN (i.e., WireGuard to the VPS).

Works well; I have a tiny free tier VPS but even so, no complaints.

*Yes I know there are no wg clients or servers, only peers, but it plays a server-likr role.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

For me, the real issue is more a question of why she was appointed in the first place. Sunset resident and small business owner are basically her only qualifications---but there are tons of such folks, and I imagine she's one of the only ones with both dead pets in her freezer and (alleged) tax fraud on her resume.

Why not appoint someone for a political position who has, you know, some political experience? Anyone who plays a role in local politics would make a more sensible choice, at least from my perspective.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 5 days ago

In a VHCOL area, $100k with one child is extremely tough/you're likely dipping into savings. Our daycare alone is over $40k/yr per kid, and only $5k ($7500 next year) is fully tax exempt.

Median 2 bedroom in my area is over $50k/yr.

$100k doesn't cut it. "Just move to a cheaper area" is IMHO not a proper response to this---anyone who works in my city should be able to afford to raise a family here, with a high quality of life/standard of living, but that's not really the case.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Economically mediated de facto sterilization is an extremely dystopian thing to just accept. I think it's pretty justified to be more or less outraged in this case.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I managed to get it working with IPv6 mangle.

I seem to need 3x mangle rules, preroute mark connection, preroute mark routing, and forward mark routing. I also needed to disable fasttrack for marked connections.

The downside is that there seems to be a performance hit, as mangle is (I guess?) more resource intensive than simple routing rules.

ETA: It seems the mark routing preroute wants an interface (in my case, a VLAN), although my use case is a little funky as I am routing this traffic via WireGuard running on an AP, as the AP CPU is way beefier than my router.

 

What I want: I want to be able to route specific clients through different interfaces (WireGuard tunnels), and I want this behavior to persist upon disconnect/reconnect. Clients can change which tunnel, with several VLANs being able to use the tunnels (so a client A on VLAN 124 and client B on VLAN 789 can both use VPN tunnel X or Y at their discretion).

What I have: IPv4 works fine (routing rule src address -> routing table). IPv6 works, but is not persistent, as clients change their IPv6 address. (I have a dinky script where I enter IPv4 address and country, and it will grab a VPN peer from a json file, set it up, and add the IPv4+current IPv6 address to the routing rules. This works well currently; I use Mullvad.)

Any recommendations? Ideas: use IPv6 mangle based on MAC address, but I have been having trouble getting this to work (extremely slow). Another idea is to have a script run and grab the IPv6 address of client (either by hostname or by DHCP lease+MAC info), but I'm not sure if it's possible to trigger a script upon IPv6 neighbor discovery.

Any help appreciated!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago

I suspect that if you throw resources at the problem, you can tolerate much more degradation than standard tape readers.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This review of Olive Garden went viral, and the review/reviewer was mocked online---but then Anthony Bourdain came to her defense.

Kinda a cute story, and a fun read.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 22 points 2 weeks ago

The messaging on 50 has been great IMHO. Basically, "this is an affront to democracy, but Texas did it first and if we take the moral high ground we're screwed."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 2 weeks ago

Having lived without a dishwasher for many years, I'm never complaining about loading/unloading the dishwasher. From starting the kettle to finishing a pour over is more than enough time to unload.

And never again having to schlep clothes to the laundromat because we have laundry in our home? Likewise, I'm not going to complain. The only reason laundry takes real effort is when we opt to use the clothesline instead of the dryer.

Not everyone has a dishwasher, washing machine, and clothes dryer, so I absolutely recognize that I'm very fortunate here. And the crazy thing is, these devices aren't even particularly expensive, especially since they can be had used


I think a big reason folks don't have them is the installation+room required. Which probably says something about landlords and the general cost per area of housing.

 

People often complain about San Francisco's public transit


and to be sure, it's not perfect by any means (multiple separate agencies doesn't help). But the historic streetcars are pretty neat!

They're painted with the livery of various historic streetcars from all over the country (and a few international, I think). Best of all, they run alongside the modern fleet


same route, same fare.

 

Noticed a few days ago that Sutro Tower's red blinking lights are now white. Just asked them on their website form, but wondered if anyone else knows the story with this.

Personally, I miss the red ones!

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website to c/amateur_radio@lemmy.radio
 

Howdy!

I got my Technician in early 2000s, and last year finally upgraded to Extra. Looking to set up a very basic shack.

I'm looking for an HF setup, with most of my use probably using digital modes, but would like the ability to use voice.

Current transceiver is on loan from girlfriend's dad, a Ten-Tec Scout 555


50W HF unit with separate modules for each band. One limitation of this is that the modules set the mode, so it's LSB on 40m, making e.g. FT8 not possible (without some hacking of code or perhaps hacking the module).

Antenna is end-fed with an off-the-shelf 49:1. Currently only have 20m half-wave, but have just enough room for a 40m half-wave in the attic, which is the ultimate goal.

For digital modes, it looks like there are sort of 3 classes of radio:

  • "full digital" where the radio has e.g. a USB port and handles audio, transmit, and frequency set.
  • Some computer-control with RS232, but uses computer audio+adapter to transmit.
  • No digital, use adapter to transmit. This is what the current setup uses (and it works great!)

I'm leaning towards a conventional transceiver, e.g., something from ICOM, Kenwood, Yaesu, (or others) rather than an SDR unit. I'd like the ability to go up to 50-100W if possible.

I don't have a hard-and-fast budget; would like to keep it <$1000 if possible; mostly just looking at used transceivers. Something like a Kenwood TS-590 looks pretty amazing and very "plug-and-play" (but pushing up against price). Something like a Yaesu FT-920 looks pretty feature-rich too; and even something more affordable like an ICOM 706 or even a 725 is probably more radio than I need. Or just grab a new 7300 and call it a day!

Anyway...clearly, I don't know exactly what I want, but figured I'd ask folks with more experience if they have any wisdom. Thanks!

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