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sigh Mom and Dad are fighting...

But seriously, this illustrates to me that Codes of Conduct are mostly suspect. This is obviously a private feud (nobody looks to be in the right here and I don't care who started what), so to pull "they violated the CoC" is pure theatre and bullshit. I'm a Sparkfun customer and I find that really disappointing.

SHHHHHH!!!! Don't tell people that or pretty soon we won't be able to find them any more! ;)

Seriously though, seconded, but also install Rockbox: https://www.rockbox.org/

Not sure if this is the best, but I use nftables and this article helped me setup port knocking on a debian server: https://home.regit.org/2017/07/nftables-port-knocking/

Then I added a tripwire feature to make it less likely that a random port traversal would be successful. Here's a snippet of my nftables.conf:

    define KNOCK_PORT1 = 20000
    define KNOCK_PORT2 = 30000
    define KNOCK_PORT3 = 10000
    define TRIPWIRE_PORT1 = 15000
    define TRIPWIRE_PORT2 = 25000
    
    table inet filter {
    
        .
        .
    
        set allowed_ssh {
            type ipv4_addr
            flags timeout
            elements = { $HOME_IP, $OTHER_SERVER_IP }
        }
    
        # track port knocking
        set knock1 {
            type ipv4_addr
            timeout 5s
        }
        set knock2 {
            type ipv4_addr
            timeout 5s
        }
        set banned {
            type ipv4_addr
            timeout 1m
        }
    
        # handle port knocking
        chain raw {
            type filter hook prerouting priority raw;
            policy accept;
    
            ip saddr @banned tcp dport { $KNOCK_PORT1, $KNOCK_PORT2, $KNOCK_PORT3} log prefix "nft banned: " drop
    
            tcp dport $KNOCK_PORT1 set add ip saddr @knock1 log prefix "nft knock1: " drop
            ip saddr @knock1 tcp dport $TRIPWIRE_PORT1 set add ip saddr @banned log prefix "nft tripwire1: " drop
            ip saddr @knock1 tcp dport $KNOCK_PORT2 set add ip saddr @knock2 log prefix "nft knock2: " drop
            ip saddr @knock2 tcp dport $TRIPWIRE_PORT2 set add ip saddr @banned log prefix "nft tripwire2: " drop
            ip saddr @knock2 tcp dport $KNOCK_PORT3 set add ip saddr @allowed_ssh log prefix "nft knock3: " drop
        }
    }

Very Black Mirror indeed: "View Obstructed - Resume Viewing". From the episode Fifteen Million Merits.

For some reason I find this kind of sad. This kid seems like a Dunning Kruger effect poster boy.

I mean, when I was younger I would have been gleeful about some bragging idiot getting busted but now, *shrug*, everyone just has some "condition".

Wait, these companies seem so inept that there's gotta be a way to do this without them noticing for a while:

  - detect bot IPs, serve them special pages
  - special pages require javascript to render
  - javascript mines bitcoin
  - result of mining gets back to your server somehow (encoded in which page they fetch next?)

Find a Sansa Clip, Clip+ or similar on ebay and install rockbox on it. Once setup you can just plug it into your computer and drag & drop mp3s like any other USB thumb drive. They're tiny and it's great having physical buttons; you can pause, skip, etc without looking at the device.

There are a bunch more supported players but I've only used Sansa. See: https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/TargetStatus

For me it was "JavaScript must be enabled in order to use Notion" (I'm a NoScript user). But it had already redirected me to another domain to show this page. How am I supposed to enable JS for the actual domain of the page? I have ways of course, but it seems like notion is deliberately flipping the bird to people like me...

Seems related to this: https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/column-mass-arbi...

For some reason, when I read this I heard it in the voice of GlaDOS.

"All your other friends couldn't come either because you don't have any other friends. Because of how unlikable you are."

Original poster here. I heard back from OVH that this was their automatic fraud detection system kicking in, and after manual review they removed this requirement. Apparently I made a mistake entering my CC info. Doh...

Now I feel like I jumped the gun posting, but I also feel relieved. In any case, thanks for all the support.

Thanks for the advice, I will try that.

My dehumidifier isn't on the list but I believe maybe it should be. Several times now it gets into a state where it's very loud, abnormally hot and it turns out the compressor is stuck ON even though the fan is not running. Even powering it down (with the button) will not turn off the compressor.

Unplugging it and plugging back in will sometimes fix the problem. Looked into it and it turns out the power relay is getting stuck in the on position. I have to open the dehumidifier completely to get access to the relay and then tap on it with something hard. This has worked to unstick it, at least so far.

I think maybe this relay isn't up to its task. I was curious about replacing it with something similar but couldn't find anything remotely as small for switching 120 VAC mains power.

For reference, my dehumidifer is a Toshiba TDDP7011ES2. The relay in question is a Sanyou SFK-112DMP.

I dunno, maybe this will help someone out there figure out what's going on.

I feel compelled to mention here the 1987 film "The Man Who Planted Trees", which is essentially a 30 minute minute long animated painting with a story. Blew my mind when I first saw it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093488/

Another great way to experience a variety of C64 SIDs is to listen to the Immortal C64 podcast. It's been going on for years with over a hundred episodes so far.

http://www.akumadesigns.com/ic64/index.html

The wide range of answers to this has been really helpful. What I'm getting out of it is this: If you're a linked-in refuser (like I've been so far) then it limits you somewhat, filtering out some potential employers, but possibly in a good way.

But you don't HAVE to use it. Good to know!

Just realized that there's almost no mention in the comments so far about the similarity to hypnosis: access to previously inaccessible memories, hallucinations, high suggestibility...

Not sure how much I believe about hypnosis, but maybe it's related. Could it be just helping people get into this N1 state while awake?

increased the throughput from 400 bytes/s to 7.5 kB/s

Since then someone has come up with yet another custom disk loader that's more than twice as fast as that one!

https://csdb.dk/release/?id=197710

It's incredible that people are still pushing the limits of the stock C64 system these days...

Yes but it looks like this wasn't possible. C64 multicolor sprites have 4 colors and it looks like one frame of the dragon is already using 4 colors.

Also, having two separate ditherings of each sprite would use twice the memory per sprite, and that dragon looks to be composed of multiple sprites and possibly multiple frames of animation per sprite. Most games were memory limited, which means the devs had to make several compromises just to get the game to fit at all.