Seeking technical advice on several router / wi-fi / Free-NAS / co-op ideas.

ikidd · 2019-06-22T05:07:44+00:00

Openwrt or ddwrt can allow you to create subinterfaces that you can set firewall rules against. but I don't think that router is supported by either, though you can pick up an inexpensive one that is.

ikidd · 2019-05-16T15:03:32+00:00

Damn that works pretty well.

There's also ReactOS which is Win98 reverse engineered and coded from scratch.

ikidd · 2019-05-16T02:15:51+00:00

You're welcome

ikidd · 2019-05-16T02:05:38+00:00

16 months to 2nd term presidential election is coming up soon, it's almost time to get a good shooting war started.

ikidd · 2019-05-09T05:27:39+00:00

This seems like a poor idea.

ikidd · 2019-05-09T05:11:17+00:00

Methinks they dost protest too much.

ikidd · 2019-05-09T05:13:30+00:00

First album I ever bought.

Never listened to it since.

ikidd · 2019-05-06T05:47:12+00:00

Actually sounds like they had no control over it. But they did have control over requiring extensions be signed, and they had control over the Studies that introduced that MrRobot shite, prompting a lot of people to disable that, and short of an update, the only way they had to send a hotfix for it.

ikidd · 2019-05-06T06:58:35+00:00

Wireguard is way easier to set up, and much faster.

ikidd · 2019-05-06T05:49:08+00:00

What's the choice, Google Chrome, or Google Edge, or Google Chromium, or Google Vivaldi?

Overall, Firefox is the closest thing we have to a large userbase browser with fair support that isn't part of the Google spying machine.

ikidd · 2019-04-07T00:12:52+00:00

To my knowledge there are dozens of well designed studies that say it's safe at the low doses that even farmers get, let alone anything else, and it degrades so quickly that there's nothing left to get anywhere near a consumer. The studies that say there's a risk are of dubious construction, refer to doses millions of times higher, or are generally meta-studies of bad design and conclusions. The junk science behind European bans is well known, but authorities like Health Canada which are not known for letting things get very far beyond super safe are perfectly fine with it and have reviewed it repeatedly.

But there's a lot of conspiracists here, so that doesn't play well.

There's also the "well, Monsanto is a multi-billion dollar company so they must be evil somehow", ignoring the fact that they had a lower market capitalization than Whole Foods Group when they were sold to Bayer.

Plus, I tell you right now if it weren't for glyphosate, we'd be using twice as much land and 3 times as much fuel to produce the same amount of food. So decide how much of the Amazon you want cut down for more farmland, and how much harder you want CO2 targets to be reached. Or how many more brown people you want dead, because starving kills much better than some imaginary effects of glyphosate.

ikidd · 2019-04-07T00:08:32+00:00

https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-q-a-44-203

ikidd · 2019-04-05T15:06:01+00:00

They're also putting oout a phone based on that system, UBPorts Touch is working on a port of their phone OS. Supposed to price around 150

ikidd · 2019-04-05T02:10:54+00:00

Scumbags. Assange is a hero, the lack of support from the worlds journalists is shortsighted idiocy.

ikidd · 2019-04-03T19:02:57+00:00

That is a very cool gif, I like the 3D look.

ikidd · 2019-04-02T03:02:20+00:00

An epic example of virtue signalling that managed to divide their community way more than anything else they could have done. Impressively stupid.

ikidd · 2019-04-02T03:19:39+00:00

Only if you ban people like an arbitrary little bitch. Then it'll really be wegunnit

ikidd · 2019-03-31T18:35:29+00:00

This old chestnut. Wetlands makes up the vast majority of methane production and prior to agriculture, wetlands were massively more common. As well, native ruminants that were displaced by cattle production (bison, elk, moose, deer) produced as much methane as well. Vegetative matter decomposing in any environment, whether it be by cattle or by soil organisms creates methane, and looking at an entire system and not just one level in a system gives you a better idea of where methane is produced.

You'd be better off blaming shale oil production that actually release stored methane, or clathrates on the ocean floor and arctic being liberated by warmer global temperatures.

I'm not one to deny global warming, but blame the right things.

ikidd · 2019-03-31T19:17:31+00:00

You'll be a long time making up the energy emissions of building and buying a new efficient (or electric) vehicle over using a relatively low-emissions vehicle like a Civic. Granted, that Civic would probably be used by someone else that isn't going to then buy a new car, but keeping existing vehicles running is more efficient than making new ones constantly.

Again, looking at systems from top to bottom and not focusing on individual elements makes more sense, though it's not easy. This is why hydrogen powered vehicles make no sense if you need to use fossil-fuel energy to make hydrogen, or take away clean energy from other users to do the same.

By far, the best option is to use solar energy already falling on the earth to generate electricity, but then storage and the high environmental costs of mining rare-earth elements used in solar cells becomes a factor, as well as building distribution networks to get it from where it's made to where it's used.

ikidd · 2019-04-01T05:35:22+00:00

Yet when a kid dies because their parents were shaking a dead chicken over them instead of taking them to a goddamn hospital, people wring their hands over the lack of protection for children.

I have little respect for idiots that let their children suffer because they're too stupid to take them to a doctor. We had some assholes here that ended up in jail because their son died after they ignored his symptoms for 2 weeks and were told by a nurse friend to get him to a hospital immediately.

I'd like to think it's Darwin in action, but then the kids are paying the price of the parents idiocy.

ikidd · 2019-03-31T21:53:55+00:00

My CJ7 getting a bath

My 98 5.9 Grand Cherokee with a brother

ikidd · 2019-03-31T21:16:54+00:00

I think the estimate for an installation that would provide enough electricity for the US was 2000 acres of Mojave desert covered in cells, at a cost of about $1trillion, and the distribution and storage was another 1.3trillion, over 10 years.

Which frankly, is probably not a patch on what is spent by the military ensuring access to foreign oil by shooting brown people and propping up genocidal maniacs, and making themselves a target for terrorists.

ikidd · 2019-03-30T13:21:58+00:00

And these little power-tripping twats did it on the basis of accusations on issues outside of Reddit.

This is where normalizing censorship leads.

ikidd · 2019-03-30T22:11:02+00:00

They'll keep trying to assassinatrher reputation, but this is par for the course fir the Liberals. It would great to see them destroy thenselves before the election.

ikidd · 2019-03-30T02:27:19+00:00

RES for Saidit seems to break RES for Reddit (at least on FF) and I still frequent the non-political subs there.

ikidd · 2019-03-30T02:19:56+00:00

Plasma on Arch fanboy. I like tweaking my environment, and I use it on an older desktop so it's lightweight for the huge amount of features.

ikidd · 2019-03-30T02:25:45+00:00

I'd imagine this is a fair amount of vaporware given the issues with Pulseaudio and Jack. Or it's expecting those will come to maturity around the timelines they're reporting.

ikidd · 2019-03-29T11:52:19+00:00

Recently Steam introduced an open source component called Proton which is an actively developed and bugfixed amalgamation of a number of technologies like WINE and DXVK. Reportedly a majority of games are running under it well, with more being added constantly. Many even run at higher framerates via this than under Windows, which speaks to the fact that if devs ever put the money they put to Windows gaming under Linux, we'd probably see some kickass performance increases.

https://www.protondb.com/

Ubuntu is the most highly supported distro, so coming from Windows I'd say you would want a desktop environment like KDE Plasma for familiarity, so I'd look at the Kubuntu flavour that integrates that DE instead of Gnome. Another option that's more up to date for the latest kernel version and libraries is Manjaro KDE, a rolling release distro based on a cutting edge distribution called Arch that's more for veterans of Linux. Manjaro is a curated release so they test the Arch version and release their packages as they seem bugfree. Arch is particularly well suited to Proton for being so up to date, but can be a pain when the updates break things, but you'd be used to that on Windows given their lack of patch QC these days.

Let me know if you have any questions, I've not regretted my changeover, though my gaming interest is limited to WoW. I still do some network consulting in the winters, and Linux experience has been invaluable when you get into many of these server environments. Besides releases like SQL Server and Visual Studio Code on Linux , Microsoft has gotten very active in the opensource community, I think mainly because they realize Linux is becoming the dominant server environment.

ikidd · 2019-03-30T02:18:39+00:00

I'd have figured it would mention Tails.

ikidd · 2019-03-28T15:42:59+00:00

I used to be the tech team manager for a MS only MSP but moving to Linux after that was like a breathvof fresh air. You dont realize how fucking goofy the Microsoft environment us until you climb out of it.

ikidd · 2019-03-28T02:06:11+00:00

So you're going to pay Microsoft for an OS when there's perfectly good ones out there that respect privacy and are free?

ikidd · 2019-03-28T16:15:40+00:00

Exactly what I thought when I read the headline. How many days has it been since he said he would get waterboarded?

ikidd · 2019-03-28T15:39:12+00:00

Its hard to do at any scale and keep productivity. Proper rotations do through job, as well as changing group # on the chemicals often

ikidd · 2019-03-28T01:35:29+00:00

The option is low productivity agriculture that uses more fuel and land to feed a planet. So you can offload your objections to the Amazon rainforest and global warming.

ikidd · 2019-03-28T01:32:26+00:00

Make the content what you want to see.

ikidd · 2019-03-27T10:43:37+00:00

Canola is a large crop for Canada and 40% of production gets sold to China. This is mainly a punishment for arresting the Huawei exec on behalf of the US a couple months ago. On top of arbitrarily changing the sentence of a Canadian prisoner to death shortly after the arrest.

China is nobody's friend.

ikidd · 2019-03-26T21:29:04+00:00

Now do the rest of them.

ikidd · 2019-03-26T15:31:16+00:00

Those mods didn't start through subs, there was a stealthy takeover by srs sick puppets getting nodded then the other mods would get invited until they forced out the moderate veterans. it can happen here easily enough, maybe faster since the SOP is standardized.

ikidd · 2019-03-26T21:27:33+00:00

I'm out of the loop, is he getting away with faking a hate crime? Like, they literally aren't going to charge him for that fuckery?

ikidd · 2019-03-26T18:27:37+00:00

I don't see my submarine.

ikidd · 2019-03-25T15:28:38+00:00

Hi-res: https://www.deviantart.com/chromattix/art/Earth-s-Engine-Exposed-535482510

ikidd · 2019-03-25T01:39:39+00:00

Sigh. not WTF, just loony.

ikidd · 2019-03-24T22:19:40+00:00

Carmen Ortiz is a murderer.

ikidd · 2019-03-25T01:37:37+00:00

Yah, I made a post that brought that on. Cant get too wtf apparently.

ikidd · 2019-03-24T01:46:08+00:00

Its all relative.

ikidd · 2019-03-23T14:47:00+00:00

I'm in for $10 but I want a submarine.

ikidd · 2019-03-23T14:53:59+00:00

That might be a lot to put on someone that brought their computer in to have Linux installed because they couldn't do it themselves, especially in these days of dead simple installers.

ikidd · 2019-03-22T06:09:40+00:00

Jesus, how old is that thing? It's not even made in China.

ikidd · 2019-03-22T03:00:21+00:00

I just picked up a couple of shitty Nexus5 for $40 off "some guy". I've been happy enough with it to use as a daily driver, but it still has some quirks.

I'd like to go the Purism route but I don't really like spending a lot of money on a phone that's going to end up in a lake of cowshit like my Nexus did yesterday.

ikidd · 2019-03-22T01:11:01+00:00

Screenshot

ikidd · 2019-03-22T06:11:26+00:00

Juries are anything but reliable arbiters of science.

ikidd · 2019-03-21T18:12:20+00:00

Probably not interesting to very many users, but I've published a webapp frontend for Saidit on the Ubuntu Touch Openstore.

https://open-store.io/app/saiditwebapp.ikidd

ikidd · 2019-03-22T06:08:14+00:00

He and his wife Rosalynn have been married more than 70 years and are still active.

I think I'm going to be sick.

ikidd · 2019-03-21T14:40:47+00:00

+1 on that. I've seen the anti-GMO crowd settling in here though with subs like /s/bayer-monsanto. Yet another extreme.

ikidd · 2019-03-22T06:06:02+00:00

Wouldn't that be some rich irony?

ikidd · 2019-03-21T20:32:36+00:00

its basically just a view of the mobile webpage. I was going to add some extra stuff, ill send an update later and maybe I can take a SS thats more interesting

ikidd · 2019-03-21T14:26:11+00:00

I used to build ipchains firewalls for SMB customers out of cheap or used desktops before there were things like Linksys or Dlink hardware firewalls. I'd just build from a scratch kernel with appropriate options, and I'd buy boxes of NE2K network cards because that was the only reliable network driver at that time.

Then I went full Microsoft for a bunch of years because I was running an MSP, and came back to it only a few years ago when Windows 8 pissed me off.

ikidd · 2019-03-21T19:24:12+00:00

Not a big deal, its a pretty quick process. I need to fine tune it a bit and add some suburls for In box and profile when I get a few minutes.

For the 3 users that run UBTouch that have ever logged in :)

ikidd · 2019-03-21T14:43:47+00:00

I suspect whoever is pushing the censorship is also astroturfing reddit.

ikidd · 2019-03-21T02:17:21+00:00

Then perhaps default it that way, because WTF should be like this. No facebook cats.

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