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Yeah thanks, I have a sata/usb adaptor somewhere from when i had to rescue a hard drive from a broken laptop before.
I think I will get back in to using my desktop more and have that as main storage device backed up to iCloud.
My laptop can store a lesser amount of stuff and I can survive without having every file on every device at all times.
I do have homebrew from trying something a while ago. Hacking the Switch maybe. I have definitely installed a whole load of stuff via the terminal without checking properly what it is and whilst being slightly terrified it could be something malicious.
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1 hour ago, Dirty_habiT said:
I stopped backing up most of my stuff when I started using iCloud. Building a nas is ok but do you really want to be a NOC monkey? That's for network operations center or data center.
My point is that using Amazon glacier to backup your important data is way better/stronger than anything you could make at home. Disks wear out so you would need at least six identical disks to start out with. Four for the nas and two for the shelf when one of the drives in be nas fails.
You'd need power control with a backup generator. You will need fire suppression and a steel man trap with badge access into your computer room. You will need to build a locked cage in your computer room to put the servers in. Your hvac system would need to be built to cool a room like this specifically.
The reason I say this is because it costs a lot of money to get the durability and redundancy your data gets in glacier storage..... at home.
Should you really worry about someone breaking in and stealing your nas with all you data? Absolutely you should. No serious dc doesn't.
The ONLY people I'd say a nas is good for are people that need a much larger storage space than normal for work they're doing or for someone that collects torrents.
As a side note I don't really mess with pirated anything these days. When I did I had way too much data to lug around with me and ended up likening it to being a data pack rat. I eventually reasoned that I didn't need to save the movies I watch. It's like saving a pair of your blown out undies because they were your favorite knowing damn good and well the chances of using them again for their intended purpose is slim to none.
Most people I know with a nas barely use it and it only comes up for nerd bragging rights purposes. I have every movie or every season or every album blah blah.
I know that may not be super helpful but I'm highlighting the fact that I kinda outgrew the idea of warehousing date on "temporary storage". Because of this you cannot "sell me" on the idea of a nas. Please don't take this as me saying they're useless. They aren't but I just don't think most people have a true need for something like that.
If you want to build one for learning how it works and how raid works the id say go for it.
Lol yeah nerd bragging and torrent hoarding sounds about right.
One of the key considerations was the fact that my 11 year old laptop is on it's last legs and liked the idea of potentially getting something with a smallish SSD but that had access to all of my stuff & unlimited storage. I (used to) take a lot of photo and videos and there a lot of things I want to keep forever and add to without maxing out my HD storage.
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4 hours ago, Dirty_habiT said:
This is a cool project ( @craig) . Uses an FPGA to "emulate" hardware of old gaming systems.
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel
I have already built one of these things, it works fantastically well. The reason I say "emulation" in quotes is because it's not taking system calls from old gaming systems (processor specific instructions) and translating them with software (to x86 like your computer uses). An FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) can be reconfigured in real time with a set of software instructions to effectively behave EXACTLY like some piece of hardware.
So a 555 timer is a really common integrated circuit used in all kinds of electronics. An FPGA can easily just "turn into" a 555 timer without doing any certain kind of translation of instructions. In this way, it can also "turn into" a Super Nintendo, a Neo Geo, etc...... and you can load the same roms you'd use with your emulators, except on the FPGA they look and behave flawlessly and exactly like the original hardware would have run them.
It's a no BS no fuckery solution to playing retro games.
Looks like fun and guess there is a lot of other stuff you can do with the board once you’re done..?
I assume your regular computer can’t be figured to behave like a given piece of hardware as easily as a FPGA can?On a separate note, what do you do for data storage/back up?
I looked into setting up a synology NAS a while ago but it would have ended up costing way more money than using a cloud service, and without the benefit of offsite back up. Although I still like the idea of setting one up one day.-
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1 hour ago, Dirty_habiT said:
Awesome work!
I think there are likely some standalone applications that could process and display this data. I hadn't considered using the easy answer of apple or google maps..... however, my concern here is, not that anyone else cares, that it'd be easy for any of these orgs to set up a fingerprint of people pasting this info and then linking it to their accounts. The only way it'd be "safe" IMO is to use a vpn + private window + a not logged in acct on google/apple to view the maps.
This website probably has a forum somewhere that people are talking about applications that can consume the CSV files and display them. I think what you did works great though.
I found this with a quick search, it seems pretty cool and you can try out some code in the process.
https://blog.hugo-larcher.com/flight-data-visualisation-with-pandas-and-matplotlib-ebbd13038647
This looks cool. I enjoy the analysis part of my day job and am slowly trying to develop my data skills but haven't got to pandas or matplotlib yet.
I think this is probably too advanced for my current level but will give it a go..
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Thanks, understood. I guess git comes into it's own once you're actually developing stuff.
I dumped one of the CSV's into google maps and it populated, which is cool!
Obviously this way is is quite straight forward. How else would you think think about displaying the data?
I know excel and Power Bi have some map functions but don't know how well they would do with this kind of thing.
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On 12/24/2021 at 3:29 PM, Dirty_habiT said:
Github is "crowd sourced" software development..... or really "anything" development. It works on the concept of repositories and pull requests..... or repos and PR's (in industry lingo).
A git repo is a storage space where code (or documents, or anything) can be parked. There is very fine grained control over who can access the repo. So you could make a private repo for 12oz and then members could contribute to some document or set of files, or code or whatever.
Once a member has "cloned a repo" locally onto their computer, they can make a "branch" of the code. The branch is an exact copy of the main repo that you choose a different name for. So you make your branch, then you make your changes to the code/docs/whatever in the repo. After you're happy with your changes you create a Pull Request in which you can select other git users to review. They look over your changes and if it's approved you will then be allowed to merge your changes into the main branch (that anyone in the future gets if they clone the repo).
What does this mean? It kind of democratizes development of software or documents. Git can be an incredibly overwhelming if you don't understand that it can actually be very simple and there are only a few concepts to understand to be effective using it.
I'll provide you all with a "fun" repo to clone to get started..... the purpose of cloning this repo isn't to make changes or contribute anything other than the fact that you have a copy of information that has been scrubbed from the internet. Thank you to Casek for providing this to me yesterday. I have not yet tried to figure out what application can digest this information and plot the points but I'll post screenshots once I do.
https://github.com/adsbxchange/Jeffrey_Epstein_Lolita_Express (<--- Jeff Epsteins 3 jets and all of the places they traveled)
If you look up what adsbxchange is, you will find that it's a crowdsourced airplane tracking network. It is easy to setup an antenna attached to a raspberry pi running a custom operating system and "contribute" your data to increase the accuracy of airplane locations. Airplanes broadcast their data over public channels that anyone can listen to with the right equipment.
To clone a repo:
Create a github account.
Install git on your local machine.
Configure your git client on your local machine.
Find a repo you want to clone on github by searching around for things you're interested in.
Click the "code" button on the upper right side of the repo's file list..... and copy the link.
Go to your computer terminal and type "git clone <paste>".
I'm going to use this thread to help people understand things they don't understand about computers. You can ask about whatever you'd like whether it's software, hardware, bitcoin miners, engine computers for vehicles, etc..... whatever technical shit regarding computers you want to ask, I will do my best to help answer. I'm sure there are some others lurking that are also knowledgeable on these things and they're welcome to contribute as well.
Appreciate you doing this...
So I have git already installed (Mac OS)... I pasted the clone code into terminal and it cloned.
I have some very very basic Terminal navigation skills so I can see the files are there.
Is there any advantage to using Git here over just saving the files via web browser?
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On 10/28/2021 at 5:57 AM, CLICKCLACKONER said:
Different strategies for profit taking. I’m struggling with this myself, if anybody has any ideas please feel free to drop some knowledge.
I’m thinking of taking 10% off the top every time whatever coin hits an ath.
Personal strategy: I try and stack mostly eth and btc.and then have about 20% in lower cap coins and one or two gambles.
I then consolidate profit from these into eth/btc after a surge.
The logic being historically a lot of the alts and lower caps just don’t survive long term.
Re: Shib
It’s always good to take some profits during the euphoria stage.
SHIB just did 1m% or whatever so I would move at least some of it to something less volatile. If you think there’s more mileage in it, leave some in, but it’s always good to reduce your risk of total wipeout.
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I’m assuming this is similar to Monero…
I considered buying some Monero a while ago as felt like an obvious direction for people to head in.
Once you have someone’s wallet address, and unless everyone regularly changes their wallet address, surely a simple look up will tell you a list of all the places they have shopped at.
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15 minutes ago, ndv said:
So then how is the government able to haul trading crypto on the robinhood platform? I am confused then.
Because Robinhood hold the keys and cooperate with the government.
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Just picked up some more ankr, trying to get a bit of Nu.
I have about 50% of my modest net worth in crypto currency. Tempted to take some more out of my index tracker and buy more crypto but not sure that’s wise.
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On 1/10/2021 at 11:24 PM, Dirty_habiT said:
I wouldn't stop at Python. Once you have the basics down you can pick up any other language pretty easily (mostly kinda maybe for some small subset of nobody, but really).
My recommendation to you, if you have the capacity to learn software development, is to learn how to do DevOps. Pay for a LinuxAcademy.com subscription (yes I know kinda pricey).... and get certified in as many things as you can.
Jenkins
Kubernetes
AWS/GCE/Azure
Helm
Everything that Hashicorp makes (especially Terraform)
Anyway, the sky is the limit for things you can learn and do, and the amount of money you make doing this shit is up to you as well. Stick and move my friend, don't get stuck on software dev only.
Thanks for the advice, really appreciated.
I feel like my brain leans well towards learning this shit.
I’ll get reading and sign up to Linux academy right after I’ve finished this Udemy course. The investment should pay for itself in time...
What would your path be after getting certified in those areas?
im still very much a beginner but eager to learn.
I’ve already seen how just bringing some basic level shit can quickly revolutionise things at work whether it’s data analysis, admin work efficiency or finance reporting and management etc. Sky is the limit.
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On 1/3/2021 at 3:24 PM, Mercer said:
Jesus I can’t believe how oldskool footage from 2012 looks now. Awesome watch.
It’s so hard to sift through most of the bullshit on YouTube.
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6 minutes ago, NightmareOnElmStreet said:
That’s what like 80% of the population says. Don’t be that guy. Put a couple few you got laying around in.
I ended up doing exactly that earlier and planning to just dca in from here on - thanks
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Man I’ve got serious BTC fomo but feels like madness to buy right now.
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Yeah it was good whilst it lasted!
Leglocks were fine as no one gets crushed. I think I accidentally put a triangle on too hard once and that was the end of it haha.
I can’t see contact sparring at my gym being allowed for another 3-6 months. UK rates are on the rise and the space is owned by a big corporate gym and they will be setting the rules.
I really need to get back into some sort of exercise and stretching routine. I now work from home and barely even leave the house these days.
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This journey is wild.
I bought a small amount of Bitcoin a few weeks ago at $15k thinking I’d missed the boat. Now $15k is looking like a steal.
Waiting for a dip and just it goes from ATH to new ATH.
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2 minutes ago, glorydays said:
I've been tossing this around the garage
yeah I’d consider this if it was only a month or so but we’re at 9 months now.
I did manage to drill half of danahers leglock dvd on my girlfriend before she lost interest lol
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On 11/15/2020 at 1:07 AM, fat ralphy said:
Trained today and we ran a regular class format for the fist time since March - regular warmups, drilled and trained with a partner.
Me and one other dude were the only ones that wore masks - he opted to not train with any partners. I am paranoid but I will say that it felt good to actually train.
Sore after BJJ for the first time in a long time -
My professor is basically viewing shit with the Brazilian glasses and literally said there is no covid in Brazil now......idk
Keeping up with my cardio has helped immensely, I was able to get position for most of my rolls and got one sub. Brown beltch gonna brown beltch.
We have a real good technical brown belt - he is only 190lbs though but I am always happy if I can give him a run for his money.
Anyone else training?
My gym has been closed since March.
I’ve pretty much given up on trying to train at home or study video etc as without regular training it feels like a wasted effort.
Just going to focus my free time elsewhere until this blows over. 😞
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6 hours ago, Mercer said:
Nope, they want to keep printing money to enrich the politically connected class. Last thing they want do is to make the people trying to end them wealthy which is exactly what happens when the printer goes brrr. Unfortunately for them, enough the political class is also doing quite well for themselves in crypto to fight back.
At this point it's just infighting, but I don't think there's a single person out there with clout that supports XRP as anything more than a failed experiment, and there pretty much never was. Can't think of a single crypto OG, anarchist or not anarchist that ever had anything positive to say about it.
Not a big loss for anyone but misguided noobs, looking to exploit other misguided noobs, and the wise people at the top of the pyramid exploiting the worlds stupidity, AKA the people named in that lawsuit. Basically, if a crypto has zero defense against government regulators because it's mutable/censorable, it's not a crypto. To be honest I'm glad to take a hit just to see the herd culled into health, get rid of the weak links, and watch the industry move forward that much more sucker free.
Misguided noob here...
I’ve got a friend who was/still is a believer in XRP.
i could cut my losses but for the sake of $200 I might just leave it and pray.
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175 countries, four billion dollars, one scam: the inside story of the world’s biggest crypto con and the woman who got away with it.
I'm halfway through this... The story is absolutely insane.
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Yeah my bad...
I'm only a few days into crypto but invested £1000 last week after reading this thread and the one in Jekyll Island.
Split across BTC, ETH and XRP.
I suppose my question is why would you leave your currency sitting in a wallet when you could loan it and receive interest (and withdraw at anytime)?
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@MercerI realise how much my post looks like a spambot but it's a genuine question!
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Anyone use Nexo?
They will pay minimum 5% interest on your currency you loan them.
I feel like there must be a catch somewhere but seems like a no brainer.
Edit: wow I reset my password and now it's changed my username and lost my post history.
I'm not new here btw. Been lurking since 04.
Password storage apps?
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I fucks with Bitwarden.
Does the job and is free.