ChipTuner

https://www.vaughnnugent.com

Building software they don't like. Free, as in freedom.
Low-level and server engineer: libnoscrypt, NVault, vnlib.

Public Key

npub1qdjn8j4gwgmkj3k5un775nq6q3q7mguv5tvajstmkdsqdja2havq03fqm7

NIP-05 Address

ChipTuner@gitcitadel.com

NIP-57 Address

ChipTuner@coinos.io

Profile Code

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relay.mostr.pub

nostr.bitcoiner.social

nos.lol

Author Public Key

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2025-04-02 20:42:28

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Just recently? Like this year or so?

2025-03-30 06:22:53

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So I don't know how to nostr. I would love separate follow lists I could easily switch between. Devs, news, other leisure and fun stuff follow lists. Sure I could create new keys, but not good ux to switch between them

2025-03-30 06:08:07

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Don't tempt me :)

2025-03-30 04:34:39

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The http part makes nostr auth easy. I haven't researched how to implement any sort of auth via nostr keys over ssh. If we did it, I was planning to maybe find a way to add ssh keys over http with nostr auth possibly.

2025-03-30 04:29:57

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I really need to catch up with @npub16ux…lra7 at some point for CI/CD on nostr then it won't really be our problem to manage that from scratch and be nostr native. Which we'd all love to see.

2025-03-30 04:25:58

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Ehh, if all goes as planned maybe by the end of the year. If the design (I plan to get road mapped and charted this week hopefully) works, it should scale very well, so I think it could be done, but I don't want to promise anything yet!

2025-03-28 16:26:01

Curious what you might consider a long software build time? My vnlib projects are starting to creep up on 4-5 minutes on an 8 core vm. Incremental stuff during development is nearly instant so it doesn't matter, but a full publish be hammering my hardware.
Just running all vnlib builds and testing at one time can keep a 64 core machine very busy. If I wasn't running my own hardware I don't think I could afford to run a cloud build server, albeit with slightly newer hardware. Builds would probably take all day on a 2-4 vcore cloud vm.
I've never used GH actions, but do you have to pay for CPU time?

2025-03-24 16:19:43

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It's end of life so no way to upgrade it. There's nothing on it to take. I suppose the worst that could happen is it becomes a packet sniffer without my knowledge.

2025-03-18 15:36:20

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Our options are only as independent as our cloud provider(s)... Most cloud is supported by the same big tech. CDNs and other backend tools inside data-centers are often the same big tech subject to the same policies.

2025-02-26 18:07:45

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It's to avoid repeating yourself actually. And yes, to get people to use your stuff you need to make compromises that help other developers and may take extra work. That's what it takes to make a good product.
Sorry doxygen didn't get bundled inside my compiler toolchain. C developers already know this. It's not complicated or difficult to make it part of the build process, or just write read useful docs. People who consume code regularly know actually hand written docs outside the source code are superior anyway. That's the focus.

2025-02-25 19:11:08

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Whats that, my cgit server?
https://git.vaughnnugent.com

2025-02-25 17:22:46

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lmao it cuts the part where he has to rip chug's head out to breath because it forgets to breath XD

2025-02-24 21:26:05

Lol I slimmed and vendored Brotli and zlib this weekend into VNLib.Core, and now GitHub shows it as 49% C and 48% C#
https://github.com/VnUgE/VNLib.Core

2025-02-24 19:26:46

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Yes and especially those who advertise explicitly that they don't test XD and yet somehow that's what gets all the type. not boring old tested software

2025-02-23 20:35:40

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So he just sent me some back story. His dad had a work accident a few years ago and needed to find something to do. Turns out he can make some sweet knives who knew
https://preview.mailerlite.io/preview/957740/emails/144991577834522591

2025-02-23 20:27:04

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Unfortunately not yet although I'm really trying to orange pill them. His family runs the site and their old timers. They'd prefer gold up there XD

2025-02-23 20:21:02

Helping a good friend sell some bad ass knives. Hand forged on their homestead in Alaska. Some handles are made of moose antler or bone so you know it's authentic :)
https://commongroundalaska.com/product-category/common-ground-bladesmith/
I think this one is my favorite style
https://commongroundalaska.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/6-1536x864.png

2025-02-22 21:23:37

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lol relay and server devs GFY

2025-02-22 21:17:36

I could pine for hours, but no one would listen
#nevent1q…0fja

2025-02-22 21:15:10

Look how snazzy things are becoming
#nevent1q…5dh7

2025-02-22 21:14:17

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Anything but eclipse.
I paid for a commercial license for Visual Studio a while ago (not vscode) so I use that for 90% of my work and VScode for most other things. I like netbeans too (MPLab variant for working with TI hardware, sims, and debuggers). I used to use netbeans very often for Java at one point.
Python is for toddlers, so I fiddle with Idle on the rare occasion I whip out python the shell isn't enough XD.
Notepad++ with extensions was the go to before I got a VS license.

2025-02-22 20:10:03

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Na were talking enterprise dawg

2025-02-21 21:07:08

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> You’re probably thinking of the concept of two-party consent in the context of privacy laws, particularly regarding wiretapping and recording conversations, rather than warrants.
Yeah that's not what I meant. It latched onto the "2 party consent part" unfortunately that was the best way I could phrase it.

2025-02-21 20:07:24

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It's only missing the emojis XD

2025-02-21 20:02:11

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Chances are I read that wrong, but that's how I understood it

2025-02-21 18:20:31

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I was reading (or misreading) the US constitution and I remember reading about a part where (at some point) warrants must have 2 party consent. Meaning You must be notified and allow representation at the warrant hearing and lose that judgement, and at some point that was papered away to single party (the state).

2025-02-21 02:25:10

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Please read the and papers yourself to make an actually informed decision. I find most normies look at signal or WhatsApp. Whatsapp is more mainstream (they run ads everywhere including televison). If your choice is between signal or whatsapp please convince them to consider signal. Both can be a trust-me bro model but one is owned by a company who has absolutely no incentive or history at preserving user's privacy, in fact their business model relies on the complete opposite.

2025-02-21 00:48:38

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Popular mainstream normie platform bias, for me anyway. I also assume platforms that large are gross with KYC. Choose your KYC platform evil I suppose.

2025-02-20 17:29:51

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That's the dream :)

2025-02-20 17:29:01

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Were the same over here. High taxes, expensive land. $150k combined is pennies. Barely pays the insane mortgage on people's $500k 1000sqft starter home and utilities XD

2025-02-20 17:26:03

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I don't know any of those but I'll take your word for it. Maybe people in their 50s I could point to. But they had 30 years of making much less than that. By the time I'm 50 I want wayyyyy more than that, or that much completely passive.

2025-02-20 16:36:26

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100%

2025-02-20 16:36:06

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My friend's and I have decided, from our experience (mostly theirs) about $250-350k is a healthy range for a single income and keeps the feds away. It's also possible to make that without really getting into shuffling money everywhere all the time.

2025-02-20 16:34:20

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Not at all and I've never made anything near that. But I also think $1m isn't a lot of money either.

2025-02-20 16:26:34

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It's the learning how to do that part that's tricky.

2025-02-19 20:52:08

I finally added some contributing guidelines to noscrypt.
https://www.vaughnnugent.com/resources/software/articles/62ca932f68b8e0b1b99dca6e1c9ffe5538205efb#contributing

2025-02-19 19:06:59

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Where's the gif?

2025-02-19 18:59:32

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Did they put the cap back on the budget yet? Or are they still adding more printers to the treasury department

2025-02-19 18:57:48

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My computer is mounted in a rack :) I'd need a lot of cables to take it outside

2025-02-19 00:02:34

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Very good!

2025-02-18 20:25:39

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Gotta keep the sats coming in brother! Hope everything is going as well as it can be, I haven't been on nostr much lately to check in on ya.

2025-02-18 16:14:30

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ORMs still fix this pretty well in many language cathedrals in my experience. I find people who often complain about SQL haven't learned ORMs.

2025-02-18 16:03:24

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Well a file has a path which describes the traversal to reach the desired leaf. So it contains a pointer to the root, which could be fetched for metadata. So as long as there is enough information to find the root, then you shouldn't have any trouble fetching metadata from a child node.

2025-02-16 20:10:50

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That's pretty neat. Almost what I was after with my project cmnext, except it's still a server system, and not focused on websites just content.
https://www.vaughnnugent.com/resources/software/modules/CMNext

2025-02-16 20:08:35

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For components, depending on the task, I might use a mix of:
- daisy
- flowbite (html)
https://www.hyperui.dev (html)
https://sailboatui.com (html)
https://www.agnosticui.com

2025-02-15 03:26:50

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Too many sciencey words to say a structure is a contiguous region of memory with a constant size and named offsets. You can get into vectors if you want, but that's it.

2025-02-15 03:18:49

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hahahaha. I mean I hold on to some disks if they're still working in an array, assuming I have the space in a non-important application, but my rotations typically knock them out. I used to resell them. Ones that had good smart data I run some DBAN (I have an old copy if you need it btw) for a couple bucks just to see them move on. I sold a bunch of 3tb drives for $15 a piece on markeyplace a few years ago with almost 40k hours on them. They sold out basically over night it was wild.

2025-02-15 03:15:16

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There are much smaller models and ones that are trained off R1 that need much less hardware, but they seem to be big stinkers, so I was hoping others may have actually be able to do some real work with them without $6000 worth of hardware. I spend that much on far more hardware for my application, doesn't involve GPU's though and hard to justify the price of them for how many CPU's I could buy for the same price.

2025-02-15 03:13:10

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The issue I have with models is it's practically useless for doing actual work. I can be fairly useful for asking questions, especially less technical, and getting a response. It's terrible to integrate into things and have it actually perform more than, "who is this" or "what does this term mean", when I need it understand me, my way of doing things, and helping me accomplish tasks. Public AI models require complex integration and it's expensive when you need to ingest large amounts of data to help make predictions and decisions. Local models kind of offer a much cheaper alternative and easier integration into workloads, which is my goal.
we love to imagine "what tools could if" or "AI will take over, when", but like it can't do anything practical yet and no one is talking about that.

2025-02-14 21:21:30

What local LLM models are you using that actually seem to be useful? Please describe a successful use case you've had with it!

2025-02-14 17:21:44

I'm getting pretty sick of electron-ish apps. All the crappiness of a web browser without the control of a web browser, and lots of extra disk space and duplicated files.

2025-02-14 17:06:00

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2025-02-13 19:07:41

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Thank you sir

2025-02-13 19:05:44

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That's the way. I use it as a mirror and was wondering why my CI server was notifying me a failed builds lol.

2025-02-13 17:38:25

Is https://codeberg.org down or is it just me?

2025-02-13 16:28:14

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2025-02-13 01:51:00

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nip07, where possible is the way
https://www.vaughnnugent.com/resources/software/modules/NVault

2025-02-12 21:58:07

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Nah this is wild to me. If I chat with people but I don't remember what they said, I need to be able to look back at it. I do this quite frequently. Don't ask me what I said two weeks ago because you deleted it when you could have just looked it up.

2025-02-12 17:13:08

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That's my point exactly. That's the way it used to be, and so far it's not hateful which made me quite happy. It's like the DMV (if you've ever heard those stereotypes) except jail time instead of bad service XD

2025-02-12 01:25:16

I'm generally not one to applaud something the government does well, but I was talking with a friend a few weeks ago after filing to shut on of my businesses down, about how nice Pennsylvania's new "One Stop Shop" system is for small businesses is, that didn't exist a few years ago. And what I mean is, it's just refreshing to work with a system that doesn't absolutely hate your existence and want you to fail and get in trouble with the law.
It:
- Actually works, websites, links, redirects, pictures, all of it mostly worked
- Has detailed step by step guides for how to do the correct paperwork for tons of scenarios (hard to do right)
- Tips for things like federal guidelines and SEC stuff
- Help and guides for setting up unemployment, employee taxes and licensing stuff
- A central portal for managing and seeing the state of your businesses according to the department of commerce
- Submitting/e-filing paperwork
- Checklists that actually ensure you don't get in trouble and do the correct paperwork at the correct times.
- Offers to email you reminders and checklists at every step so you don't forget or get overwhelmed.
It's seriously refreshing. When I started one of my businesses I was scared shitless I didn't do the right paperwork, or didn't talk to the right department or didn't get authorization from X etc. You just simply didn't know. Accountants only know or can help so much.

2025-02-12 00:13:54

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That, for power and/or heat issues recently right?

2025-02-11 19:26:06

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He just dropped support for SQLServer. So all the others Hibernate supports are still supported (MySQL specifically). I asked him about it on the issues page for the release.

2025-02-11 18:44:32

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For example on OneDev about 3 weeks ago he just dropped support for SQLServer which I rely on heavily. Had I just run a normal container upgrade it would have just stopped. Now my release path is blocked until I migrate away from SQLServer and stand up ANOTHER mariadb (assuming it' supports maria) and now have even more services running that I have to backup, prune and whatnot.

2025-02-11 18:41:31

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My issue with this 'yet-another-server' is that all of this stuff is new and doesn't have classic production qualities, or even have a version contract yet. Even OneDev is good, but I still staple the container version because sometimes he release incompatible minor or patch versions that are within contract. So you can't automate these things. This is why large companies have so much manual IT staff. I know so many people in this field now, literally manually installing certificates and even Windows updates from rdp. IT sux and nearly impossible to automate without risk of massive outages.
AlbyHub is still very experimental. I have no problem running an apg-get upgrade after a manual audit because nearly everything managed by Canonicle will usually be very stable, and the tools we might use from their prod repo will abide by production quality version contract. Meaning nearly no risk of massive downtime or corruption.
So basically every server we have to deploy is experimental, which means manual backups before and after, continuous babysitting for crashes, that can't be fixed and needs an issue to be created with the maintainers, manual version checking, package stapling, and monitoring.

2025-02-11 16:34:57

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Not exactly new, I guess the news just feels like covering it now. Take a look at the blancolirio youtube channel. I've been watching for years. There's a new crash or incident basically every day in the US lol.

2025-02-10 19:42:52

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That would be nice, but there is a reason there are so few competetors to Shopify. We swapped between them and BigCommerce a few times. Both publicly traded companies with, until very recently, pretty, objectively crappy software and tools, and not great internal testing. Their stocks tanked during 2020 and we felt it. Offshore customer support if any, AI chatbots, cancelled or slow to integrate features. Tools that just flat out didn't work. APIs that have poor documentation or closed off. Plugin systems with terrible partnership terms and bad app stores with unmaintained or poorly advertised projects. An absolute wasteland if you ask me. Shopify got much better at the middle of 2023 because they just started axing things and changed their focus. Increased ad spend and so on. They could actually be doing better, or it could be a bubble idk.
My point is, these are both massive public companies and still can't get it right. Unless one of those players takes a change in direction I'm not sure the money is there to compete. Shop owners fought hard to get Shopify how they wanted it, they may not want to give it up. Stores care about selling things, they don't want the other stuff, and ownership and freedom of speech matters quite little imo, most of them won't touch bitcoin with a 20ft pole.
Nostr can't fix the SEO or ranking yet, but it could allow shops to own their review's a little easier while the public can still have trust in the reviews being public.

2025-02-10 18:56:26

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What do you mean by single source BTC focused?

2025-02-09 23:25:05

Feels good, but sysadmin is so much work sometimes XD
- secondary file server is back in healthy working order with realtime sync
- daily snapshots on both servers are working correctly
- clients can fail-over file services transparently, and it works again
- encrypt everything where possible
- all hard drives over 30k hours were retired.
- hosts, guests, containers, storage, network devices, firmwares are all up to date (huge success)
- failover/migrations tested (again) and successfully working across all hosts
- guest applications & containers all up to date (manually check patch notes and update container hashes)
- all firewalls and rules were audited, updated, and tested
- all apps were tested to successfully persist reboots (also big accomplishment)
- fixed some performance issues with L3 routing and cifs shares
- audited DNS servers and updated blocklists
- less than 2 minutes downtime for my customer's services (also big success) would be less if I had redundant networking gear. Maybe in the near future.

2025-02-09 06:18:48

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https://github.com/cline/cline

2025-02-08 01:52:11

Who is John Galt?

2025-02-07 18:36:29

I respect developers who require some hoops to jump through when contacting. GitHub issues are social media and often are too low friction for people to ask simple things like usage questions. Email contact is nice, and I will always take the time to create a detailed and thorough message with more than enough info, but not overwhelming to another developer. I don't expect a quick response as OSS maintainers usually have a life outside their projects, but just a friendly and thoughtful response is S tier.
Don't forget, user's can't care that you don't have a support staff, you are the support staff. Do what you have to do allow yourself to be helpful and let other helpful people help you.
It's often a two way street. I notified a developer about a warning that popped up after a recent release. He helped me understand why it was there and what I should do, and I helped him learn about an edge case he could adjust his builds for. In fact it made him question why he made the change in the first place, and said he was going to review it lol. We helped each other. Crazy.

2025-02-07 16:32:15

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Yeah possibly, while skilled people running actually successful business are often quite smart (in my experience anyway), their goal is quite simple. Give people what they want. If the stats show they're more likely to xyz, then give them xyz. I don't think much more action goes into it.

2025-02-07 03:40:49

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You can even make the hello world much, much smaller:
https://4zm.org/2024/12/25/a-simple-elf.html

2025-02-07 03:35:13

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Yeah good point. I read up a bit on that a little while ago!

2025-02-07 03:11:22

A friend sent over some marketing statistics he was sent from a pretty large internal marking agency, in the order of a few 100m probably. So I think their stats are pretty reliable. After studying the material for a bit all I can think is:
Were just walking wallets.
Every action most people make is so predictable it can be targeted and optimized to get you to make a purchase. I'm not righteous enough to argue the morality, but the psychology is still fascinating to say the least.

2025-02-06 19:32:11

The idea of creating an alternating an electric field is still one of the coolest concepts to me. Continuous signals specifically. I never liked discrete time once understanding continuous.

2025-02-03 18:49:11

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Yeah man! It took me a few years to get into it this heavily. Yeah that's really good. I started weaving in some iso between the compounds so I can do like 2-3 minutes rest per set instead of 5 per set. So I'm down to a little over 2 hours without warmup/cooldown stuff.

2025-02-03 17:58:24

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Strength days are 5-10lbs per week, whatever I think I can handle. Sometimes I start at 5 then bump to 10 if I can. Some days I'm low on energy or I screw up my log and stay the same weight for a week.

2025-02-03 17:54:59

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~3 hours 5 days a week fren.
- Mon leg strength,
- Tue upper push,
- wed rest,
- thur leg hyp,
-friday pull
- sat full body hyp focus

2025-02-02 20:15:00

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As other's have mentioned. A secret key is just a securely random 32byte number. That's it. The reason that libraries don't include this, is because there is no safe, unified, and guaranteed place to get random data from on all platforms.

2025-02-02 20:08:44

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Ah shit time to buy the dip. Apparently checking the price a few times per day isn't enough.

2025-02-02 19:45:39

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Yes. but I've really been liking Daisy-UI since you shared it a while ago.

2025-02-02 19:14:58

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Ah. it's a next.nostrudel cache issue I'm guessing. It's showing silberengel@sovbit.host and it's failing

2025-02-02 18:49:11

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What's up with your nip05?

2025-02-02 18:20:13

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SSDs are only for small fast storage (OS) or cache. Backup to redundant spinning rust regularly. Replace all drives (or rotate to non-critical) after about 30,000 hours.

2025-02-02 16:20:59

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You're supposed to aim at your screen. much easier to clean XD

2025-02-02 15:59:50

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I'll have you know this was supposed to sound like a genuine question

2025-02-02 04:57:49

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Did this build pass all CI tests before it was released?

2025-02-02 03:22:01

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This is my major argument against deletion events.

2025-02-01 23:54:08

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That's one takeaway. That's crazy.
The other takeaway is my bias. Available attention is far more scarce than media availability. When I read between 6 figures and $0, it translated to, attention is easily controlled and directed.

2025-02-01 23:45:47

I kind of miss flipping enterprise hardware. I also miss my auction guy who would come by with truck loads of retired government hardware. Inflation is kind of changed the game though. Retired gear is going for 3x-4x the price for the same hours it did 6-7 years ago. I sold some 11th gen Dell gear (10+ year old hardware) for a lot more than I paid for it 8 years ago.

2025-02-01 23:35:14

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I sure hope it doesn't feel like 100c on your hand XD

2025-01-31 19:38:26

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100*C OOF bother

2025-01-30 06:27:11

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>Or invade your neighbor. LOL
XD

2025-01-30 00:17:30

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When I was customer facing, there is a certain paranoia that can really wear you down, never knowing if any call or email was a legitimate customer or the one they would use on the warrant to kick your door in. It's good for weight loss though XD.

2025-01-30 00:14:05

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Well you're not the only one :) Don't forget where I came from. From one door kicking hobby to another.

2025-01-29 22:06:58

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Often in business over investment, requires large (if not larger) risk of liability. Some people (me) care more about that than losing money.

2025-01-29 22:04:43

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A friend sent this to me, you might appreciate it.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dd05454f1a7771855d537b7/t/5deed4a0ab886c6b1e431011/1575933092462/Hershfield_Shu_Benartzi_Temporal+Reframing+and+Participation+in+a+Savings+Program_2019.pdf

2025-01-29 03:14:45

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I saw the release from Google this morning. Keep in mind the source is incomplete and won't compile but at least most of it's there. I had no idea someone would actually try to re-create it and get it working.
I had one of the first-gen models, I forget which one. I broke a strap attachment (the metal shaft piece) and they wouldn't sell replacements so I stopped wearing it and well they disappeared.

2025-01-28 00:47:04

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I like LXD in certain circumstances. It's just not as easy to run podman-compose build and be done lol