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Some have, some haven't, as far as my reading goes. There's definitely a broader spectrum of opinions and that alone seems like a good development to me.

Problem is that one can't measure social skills against anything other than ones own standards, and those evolve as generations go. In the eyes of a 1900 upper middle class person, we'd probably all be degenerates.

I'm born '86, regular access to technology since the early nineties. I'm a social kind of person, have many friends. Sometimes I just want to lock myself in for an entire weekend and play video games for 16 hours a day. Other times, I'll be having barbecues or going dancing.

And as many here have already stated, the extremes go smoothed over by time.

I just heard about that and I'm still kind of puzzled. App Store money, yeah, but isn't Tumblr like 10% SJW kids / fandoms and 90% porn? Seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot.

Indeed. The whole site exudes a nonchalance and cultural pluralism that just makes me think I'd have had heaps of fun attending, despite being from the other end of the globe and another background entirely.

I'm not racist but... [racism]

Wonderfully written. Sent this to a bunch of people already.

As a German, I cannot begin to explain how much I despised the guy's work and public persona. A life's work dripping with perpetual delusions of moral high ground contrasted by the very late revelation of having been one of those he so colorfully looked down upon. Apologetic rambling on behalf of the general populace who didn't know anything about what was going on and couldn't have done anything, either.

Grass was a supreme example of everything wrong with this nation and that's not even mentioning his repulsive, monotonous style of writing.

If you're planning to read a modern German novel, avoid this guy at all cost. Read Handke or Jelinek, Glavinic or Kracht, Gernhard or Böll. Or any of a million others. Don't let anyone sell you the Tin Drum, please.

I work for a small high end cosmetics business in the European Union. That particular industry has a lot of compliance and documentation rules imposed on it by Brussels. My predecessor in the line sadly pushed using Apple's Filemaker for that. It's not even that bad in the latest version and certainly offers some advantages over similar solutions but the guy was horribly in over his head. I'm talking fifty fields in a table having near identical names, undocumented... everything, no clear UI design paradigms, needlessly complicated UX and storing PDF as binary data in tables by the thousands.

But I feel like I'm stuck with repairing his shit because there's not a nice and clean solution anywhere in sight. I thought of Wiki systems but the actual data entry will be done by people who would be completely put off by any kind of syntax/markup whatsoever. I'm neither good enough a Web developer to roll something similar myself nor can I dream of creating something like an entire documentation system.

I think the problem might apply to other smaller businesses in the EU and especially Germany, too. Lots of docu to have ready in the unlikely but not impossible case of an inspection.

For the cosmetics industry it'd need to be able to track ingredients, lots of external evaluation docu, internal procedures and so on. While at the same time it would need to be usable by people who are far removed from tech literate.

If 5ghz works it's a v2 I think. Install is a while in the past, so if it worked out of the box for you all the better :)

I am running an Archer C7 v2 on OpenWRT. Works flawlessly. Some notes though:

- 5ghz only worked after manually inserting the latest firmware blob for the qca9880 chip and setup only works via shell for it, setting any options for it from the web interface breaks stuff

- it's fast enough... I'm running a freeradius2 server on it, SMB shares on two 32gb USB pendrives, miniDLNA, DHCP for ~50 physical and virtual clients, a VPN tunnel to a VPS and so on. Never hits full load.

- 2.4ghz range is massive, 5ghz less so obviously...

- it is absolutely stable however, uptime exceeds two months and the only reason for shutting it down back then was a move, almost nine months before that

If you're simply looking for APs I would recommend Unifi UAP-AC-Pros though.

I love OPs tutorials. If you're reading this, you taught me a lot, thank you.

I have a friend who builds kite buggies out of carbon fiber. Amazing, gifted inventor and craftsman, zero love for computers. Going to build a raspi based automatic tempering and ventilation system with him as well as seeing to getting him some crowdfunding.

Other than that, I really want to turn my, ahem, indoor flower growing project into a test environment to familiarise myself with sensor based programming. Thinking something like a bubbleponics setup with automatic nutritient dispensing and stuff. Zero human input being the goal.

Na, I think we were mostly facing band congestion. Think an area of a few dozen square miles with three independent wireless providers all doing customer connections with 5ghz plus another country's border with other users of these bands again right next.

Probably unfair to blame it on the AF5X.

As for the weather, I would assume Southern Germany has as much in common with Florida as Switzerland with Hawaii. Snow is an issue but in LoS links it was never a big one. Only on 60/80 Gigahertz links, but those you can kill with a well placed wrapper of tinfoil anyway :)

Our DFS false positives were, since FCC reqs don't matter here, most likely due to congestion or Swiss mobile providers playing with nanocell setups or what not.

All in all I prefered Ubiquity over Mikrotik, Ruckus and Cambium. Mimosa I liked, too, but when it came down to it Ubiquity had the nicest features, the best build quality, the most accessible configuration and the best resulting links.

Not in the WISP biz anymore but I do enjoy talking shop. Did you try the Amplifi the article mentions yet? I have my Unifi setup at home and really don't think I will change it to something else, but I would love to try their first consumer product :)

Yup. Writing this on a mobile client on an OpenWRT Archer C7 v2...

Though the binary firmware blob can still go to hell, it's certainly troublesome or was when I installed about a year ago.

Most comic book and games stores have boards where you can search for groups. Craigslist maybe too? It's not such an uncommon hobby and if you find no group to join you could always start your own!

Go for it. It's such fun.

Mostly interference, even by our own equip. We operated in an area that has multiple other WISPs and the last network step to our customers was entirely 5ghz, so almost all bands all across our network had at least some interference. And with the competition we could not ask to please not use 50mhz channels everywhere even when unnecessary.

I guess I should have said that right away. If interference or false DFS positives aren't an issue, they're excellent radios and with the 34dbi antenna dish UBNT offer you can potentially bridge unbelievable distances.

For LOS Backhauls I'd always go for the AF24HD unless the steep price is an issue. Then again, the license for 18ghz radios alone costs more in Germany and tbh I haven't seen any interference ever with 24ghz, even if it is a free band.

I just sent that link to a dozen people and am already trying to get my scattered-over-the-globe circle of high school friends to agree to a reunion of our Shadowrun group.

Hadn't heard of your site so far. Cannot believe it. Thank you so much!

This kind of high quality, high effort comment is why I love this site so much. Thanks for crunching the numbers and making me drop my jaw at the amount of data.

Just upvoting you doesn't suffice today.

Yup, was thinking mostly of those. The AF5x was giving us more trouble than it was worth, too.

Highly depends on the makeup of your electrical wiring. To get good performance:

- always plug directly into walls, never into extensions, or multi plugs.

- don't even try to jump phases, performance will be atrocious but...

- if you have to, there are phase converters that you can install into your mains

There's a huge performance gap between cheap and expensive homeplug kits, and protocol implementation varies miserably between manufacturers. Also lowest speed adapter determines network speed.

So ideally you want to buy Devolo or TP-Link Homeplug AV1200 kits with integrated power outlets, stick them into walls directly and you can absolutely get a solid Gigabit without running cable through walls.

I do absolutely agree that troubleshooting is a horrible pain however.

Used to work for a WISP. Got to know Ubiquity through their rock solid backhaul radios. Was hyped when they released the Unifi. Utterly and totally agree. Three UAC-AC-Pros over two stories deployed here, homeplug AV1200 for their uplinks and local PoE. Controller running on my VM server. Being at other people's homes has become amusing, link outage when you close too many doors and no coverage in front of the house? I remember that, but not fondly.

The Archer C7 the article recommends is solid, too. At least when flashed to OpenWRT, stock firmware is horrible.

I did use HTTPS mirrors. Doesn't help my problem. Unlike torrents.

Redownload. Check again. I'm on satellite internet with the horrible latencies and frequent timeouts associated with that tech, I recently had the netinstall image for Debian fail integrity checking three times in a row, from the http mirrors. Guy from the link said it himself, download via torrent and all is well.

Generally, being on such terrible interwebs I get angry whenever I hear people claim torrents are only for piracy. We all know they're wrong, but my legal torrent use has really never been more intense. Rsync's ability for aggressive retrying is also blessed :)

Noob disclaimer: I'm the Jon Snow of HN. If this a dumb question, sorry :)

Would you say an offline VM should provide a kinda sorta safe test environment or should I really run this on some old metal? I really want to try it and a VM seems more comfortable to revert after messing shit up, but seeing as this is an operating system from a horrible totalitarian dictatorship, I fear publicly available versions might be leaked on purpose to get decadent Westerners like me to install, revel in my perceived superiority and then wind up as an unwilling proxy for Kim surfing Pornhub?

Maybe I should just try Justin Bieber Linux[0] instead ...

[0] https://biebian.sourceforge.net/

For general use I'd like to add multitail (logging done wonderfully right), canto-rss (RSS reader/server), ncTelegram (Telegram client), turses (Twitter client), centerim (multi protocol IM client), weechat (IRC) and iftop (traffic monitoring for me), alpine (mail client) and mc (file manager). At least they're the tools termux starts with on my VPS and I pretty much live on there.

Logged in to post pretty much exactly this.

Since the author is reading this: thanks. Read the first few lines and am already hooked. I have been looking for a long time, but most texts on crypto are either way below my level of understanding or miles above. You're a godsend!

It turns out x86 assembly is much simpler than Hungarian

Well, what isn't? I have a knack for languages but that beautiful beast seems like an almost impenetrable fortress of strangeness.

On the other hand, that encourages me to learn to read basic assembly.

As somebody who overcame a different but similarly awful mental illness (addiction to strong opiates, mainly heroin and opium), I can't even begin to pretend I understand what people with anxiety issues are going through. But I know I've been at a point where I thought I would just pack it in, just go into a forest in winter and freeze to death. Didn't obviously and am unbelievably glad I didn't.

You know the generic tips. Get help, believe in change, keep trying. I'm not sure I want to reiterate that because none of these things were what helped me. It was a close friend, somebody I can genuinely say saved my life. And there's what imagine to be the worst problem with generalized anxiety: not easily being able to ask others for help.

Believe me, it wasn't easy for me either. But if social interaction scares you, if going out of the door is an impossibility? Man, I have no idea whatsoever how that could be improved.

Still, and this is vital, giving up for good is never the answer. I was jamming two grams of morphine per day into my veins five years ago, barely still literate and pretty much waiting for death. Back to working, back to a social and romantic life, back to... feeling good. Sober. And I'm neither stronger nor cleverer nor better than anyone else, not by a long shot.

Oh god that must be so much fun. Working on projects with the intent to deliver the worst in every aspect. I'd like to add terrible UI and UX, deliberately throttling any connection to anything and the prerequisite for users to learn obfuscated regex for any simple old search query. Make a ton on teaching absolutely useless knowledge in the process.

In any other circumstances this would be fraud and unethical, sure. But is it when you're preventing digital fascism?

Or it signifies the beginning of key-authenticated intercourse. Just saying...