solrize @ solrize @lemmy.ml

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I think the stuff you're describing is outside the range where we internet randos can give any concrete help. You're doing the right thing in seeing professionals who have actual training in dealing with this stuff. I can only offer sympathy and best wishes.

I find if I get agitated about something, I can often calm myself down with deep breathing. But I'm sure my experiences are less intense than yours to begin with, so I have no idea whether the same methods would work for you.

Tape is unfortunately uneconomical for regular people due to the drives costing so much, unless you get a used, older generation one.

How many GB's do you mean? Maybe try some optical discs, BD-R at 25GB maybe.

Otherwise just rent some online storage. Hetzner Storage Box is cheap and Storage Share is only slightly less cheap, and has lots of sharing features (it's really NextCloud).

The one time I tried streaming I just piped ffmpeg output through icecast and that worked, but it took some reading of the ffmpeg wiki to find the right options. You might even be able to point icecast to the folder directly without ffmpeg. I needed ffmpeg because it was transcoding from a webcam. On the playback side you'd again use ffmpeg to stream the icecast channel to your computer's hdmi output, and wire that to your TV. I'm still going with 10 line shell script, but maybe I'd use python to avoid too much shell cleverness.

Added: maybe you don't even need icecast. Its purpose is to fan out a single input to multiple clients. You can even cascade them across a bunch of cheap VPS into a do-it-yourself youtube with 1000s of simultaneous viewers.

The first pipe to shuf chooses a random album and the second randomizes the order of the songs on that album. I thought that is what OP had asked for.

I thought the donors were going to pick one and push out the other, but web search indicates that hasn't been successful yet. We'll see.

I hate amazon but haven't been following stuff about newegg and have been buying from them now and then. No probs so far but yeah, B&H is also good. Also centralcomputer.com if you are in the SF bay area. Actual stores.

I wouldn't buy a Synology but either way I'd want a 5 or 6 bay for raid-6 with two parity drives. Going from 4 bay (raid 6 or 10) to 5 bay (raid 6) is 50% more user data for 25% more drives. I wouldn't do raid 5 with drives of this size.

Is the Republican even relevant in NYC this election? I saw this as Lieberman for Connecticut redux.

try mplayer?

I expect one or the other will get pressured/bribed into dropping out.

Anyone suggest a decent FOSS CAD program good for designing 3d prints? IDK if there is one.

Ok 6 lines (untested):

        while true; do
      album=$(ls albums | shuf -n 1)
      for song in $(ls albums/$album/*.mp3 | shuf); do
         mplayer $song
      done
    done

  

Well, largest this week. And

Yeah, $800 isn’t a small chunk of change, but for a hard drive of this capacity, it’s monumentally cheap.

Nah, a 24TB is $300 and some 20TB's are even lower $ per TB.

That is like a 10 5 line bash script? Well a little more but not much.

That is like a 10 line bash script? Well maybe a little more but not much. Start here: https://linux.die.net/man/1/at

Not that good a thing to be doing as each such project potentially balloons into drama, dealing with each new client and their often confused or inexperienced expectations will be its own hassle, etc. Working full time or having a few long term clients is a lot better, as is getting leads through people you know if you have some special expertise in something.

I've heard people suggest looking for bug bounties. I haven't tried that myself so I'm just relaying the suggestion.

Front-end web stuff is its own circle of hell but back-end is just like any other programming, so you could look for that.

I mentioned the "freelancer" HN thread a while back, but it's mostly people looking for work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434575

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html

ten distinct propositions, enumerated from 0 to 9,

11th proposition: write unreadable manifesto and make sure to maximize irony by posting on a Microsoft site (github) that uses everything there for AI training among other things.

This isn't about random vs pseudorandom numbers, it's about the use of hashing in protocols that are provably secure under the random oracle model (ROM) but turn out to have problems anyway. It's a pretty near certainty that first year CS courses don't explain what the random oracle model is. But basically, there have been known attacks for decades against protocols intentionally designed to be vulnerable in the standard model while still secure in the ROM. This is the first time such an attack has been found against a real world protocol.

Matthew Green had an explainer a few months ago that was more detailed than the Quanta article while still being readable: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/04/how-to-prove-false-statements-part-1/

Anyway it sounds like caution is warranted but "ZOMG the sky is falling" is overreaction.

No idea about dads but I wear these and they are great. I lose them all the time and they're cheap enough that I don't mind, and they also provide some impact protection.

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