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chrisswanda | 6 years ago | on: Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week

Head over to http://fallingfruit.org and do a filter for "Freegan". My locale has people marking dumpsters with food that is available. And if dumpster diving isn't your thing, then wild edibles is another option. I personally haven't dumpster dove for food, but based on what I have read, you'd be hard pressed to starve in the US.

http://fallingfruit.org/sharing?c=forager%2Cfreegan&locale=e...

chrisswanda | 6 years ago | on: Digital Detox Startups?

I've been teaching wilderness survival and outdoors skills for years. I've been thinking of migrating "digital detox" into some type of outdoors settings, environment with a focus on doing nothing. (Plus if your phone doesn't work, you're stuck in the woods anyway...).

I'll be interested in the comments here for some ideas also.

chrisswanda | 6 years ago | on: Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993

If you want to relive your BBS days...

http://telnet.org/htm/places.htm

chrisswanda | 6 years ago | on: Jenkins Is Getting Old

Jenkins is to CI,

as Nagios is to monitoring.

chrisswanda | 7 years ago | on: Former student destroys 59 university computers using USB Killer device

As a young man, I grabbed a 6146B tube before it discharged. I felt fine, until the pain started.

chrisswanda | 7 years ago | on: 5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk

It's called Rain Fade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_fade

chrisswanda | 7 years ago | on: Which American accent do you have? (2007)

It said I had a neutral accent...

I grew up in the deep south and make Andy Griffith sound like a northerner.

chrisswanda | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there a decentralised alternative to Slack?

What about https://keybase.io

chrisswanda | 7 years ago | on: The Lenovo ThinkPad A285 (12.5-Inch) Review: Ryzen Pro Gets Down to Business

Thanks for saving me the click.

chrisswanda | 7 years ago | on: Testing WireGuard with an early-adopter VPN service

I stood up WireGuard on my server this past weekend, and I am totally stoked about it. In fact, I am turning off OpenVPN on it at this very moment. It was stupid easy to turn up.

chrisswanda | 7 years ago | on: Wireguard VPN: Typical Setup (2017)

Today was my iPad. But I've ran my laptop before many times. This is an express bus, with only a couple of stops and runs mostly on the interstate for 25 miles.

chrisswanda | 7 years ago | on: Wireguard VPN: Typical Setup (2017)

I picked up WireGuard yesterday, and within an hour, I had my server and 4 clients setup. Freaking gravy.

And this morning, I connected to the bus WiFi, I turned on WireGuard, and kept a constant connection throughout my commute to work. It just works so well.

I could never do that with my OpenVPN connections.

chrisswanda | 7 years ago | on: ATDT relief

Our building once leased out a portion to a call center based in India. India's country code is "91" and to get out on the PBX was "9". But this old junky Nortel system would outpluse immediately when it saw the dial string "911". So when ever someone would try to dial "9911XXXXXXXX" it would immediately outpulse to our local PD when the dialed digits equaled 911. And whenever the outbound caller heard the PD pickup, they would get scared and just hangup.

Ugh. Those were good times.

chrisswanda | 7 years ago | on: Securing Your Site Like It’s 1999

And there's Shibboleet too.

https://www.xkcd.com/806/

chrisswanda | 7 years ago | on: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

You're making me feel down, Ma' llard.

My wife and I used to breed ducks and have a duck farm. We were quack addicts, and quack dealers. I could go on and on.

chrisswanda | 7 years ago | on: LED Strain

> No, the diodes don't, the drivers do. You are speaking to a technical audience ;)

Pulse width modulation. ;)

chrisswanda | 7 years ago | on: Receiving NOAA Weather Satellite Images with $10 USB SDR Device (2014) [video]

You can use an el-cheapo radio and sstv software to receive images from the International Space Station also.