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  • [Help] Hissing sound from fanless Raspberry Pi 4 [SOLVED]

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  • Sometimes the parts are glued to the board at the factory and start vibrating later if the glue comes loose. Silicon carne is an ok fix in that situation, I think. I guess sometimes the parts themselves are faulty. This isn't really my area.

    An 8gb pi 4 is around $160 now, ouch.

  • [Help] Hissing sound from fanless Raspberry Pi 4 [SOLVED]

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  • At today's prices? Buy a soldering iron and watch some youtubes about how to use it.

    Added: sometimes you can put a blob of silicone sealant over the vibrating component, to dampen the vibration. Lots of consumer electronics already has that. If you watch any AvE youtubes, he likes to call the stuff "silicon carne".

  • Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans

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  • I never thought those leopards would eat MY face.

  • [Help] Hissing sound from fanless Raspberry Pi 4 [SOLVED]

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  • There's a bunch of power conversion stuff on the rpi board, right? Look for little inductors or capacitors that could be vibrating.

  • If most of the jobs get replaced by AI, how people will have income to spend on products which will likely be produced by AI itself?

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  • Is there any possibility besides Universal Basic Income to keep the system running and not collapsing?

    Do you know the saying "Soylent Green is people"? Well, ...

  • A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver's licenses open for anyone to see | TechCrunch

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  • The hotel check-in system, called Tabiq, is maintained by the Japan-based tech startup Reqrea. According to its website, Tabiq is used in several hotels across Japan and relies on facial recognition and document scanning to check guests in.

    They left an S3 bucket open.

  • Meet ‘Gabi,’ the Robot That Just Became a Monk at a Buddhist Temple in South Korea. It’s the Latest Robot to Take Up Religious Practice

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  • Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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  • Lemmy as far as I can tell is mostly dup posts and blind links, especially links to youtube. The absence of Spez is of course priceless, but otherwise Lemmy is duller than plenty of single-issue blogs or forums, or even the still-decaying corpse of Usenet. That article is about Mastodon, which has a different crowd than Lemmy does. I'm not big on the "follower" model though, so I'm not there very much.

  • discuss.online having SSL cert issues

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  • I don't think that was the problem. Auto renewal should have been a month ago.

  • Can we build our own software based firewall ?

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  • Iptables ?

  • Your feed is overrun with clips — this is the cutthroat community of “clippers” behind it

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  • Beware of lemmychan.org: it’s exactly what you’d expect.

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  • Er I didn't know what to expect and trans-related is the last thing I would have thought of. I had been thinking of using that name for an instance or community with per-thread anonymity, mostly to make it harder to build user profiles by scraping.

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  • I don't know of any that iterated on usability enough times to compete with Android. It's also very hard to get power management right on the weird proprietary hardware that almost all phones use. We're in a crap situation because the modern worldwide web demands a huge and ever-increasing amount of compute power from the browser, so phones always have to use bleeding edge hardware to get decent battery runtime.

    I think of giving up and switching to a small laptop, but then it's a backpack device instead of pocket sized.

  • Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

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  • It's kind of feasible now to use a small Linux laptop or tablet, plus a cellular modem or wifi hotspot, giving up on smartphones altogether.

  • You need to secure a load onto trailer using just plain rope and then untie it later without using a knife - how screwed are you?

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  • How a company likened to a sex cult is lobbying Trump for pardons

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  • "Likened to"?

  • Do you know any songs about trains?

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  • There are about a zillion of them. "I've Been Working On The Railroad" is the most famous I'm sure.

    My favorite is Marty Burke's version of "Fast Freight" by Terry Gilkyson. I couldn't find it on youtube but here's Terry Gilkyson's daughter Eliza's version (much different in feel from Marty Burke's version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sin3FeAQAws (fixed link, had Kingston Trio version earlier, oops).

    Added: Found Marty Burke's version! It's been so long since I've heard this!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8y2iIzk6dw&t=1336s

    "Riding On The City of New Orleans" is another one. I mostly know it from a version with rewritten lyrics inspired by James Blish's science fiction series "Cities in Flight". New Orleans, the city, is literally launched into space.

    I thought of "America" by Simon and Garfunkel but it turns out to be about a bus ride rather than a train ride. Oops.

    Your friend should see the movie "Mystery Train". It's great. Also read the short story "The Hell-bound Train" by Robert Bloch. We need a song based on the Robert Bloch story, which won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story of 1958.

    Added: aha! The Bloch story was inspired by an actual song from 1910 (https://balladindex.org/Ballads/R599.html)! Here's a version by Dick Flood (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L85ciHPwDf8) and none other than Chuck Berry did a version titled "Downbound Train" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zCWJNILXUg), maybe because Berry's label wouldn't let him say "hell".

    Here's a half hour podcast of a spoken-word reading of the Bloch story. You might want to skip the first two minutes, which are the podcast intro: https://archive.org/download/MindWebs_201410/046TheHell-boundTrain-RobertBloch.mp3

    A now deceased friend of mine wrote a parody of "Song of the Shield Wall" about the history of the NYC subway system, but I don't think it's online anywhere.

    Here's Leslie Fish (RIP)'s "Grain Train", based partly on her experiences as a railroad yard worker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRvJ2xgHt0E

    Casey Jones? Out there somewhere, I'm sure you can find it.

    Peter, Paul, and Mary, "500 Miles".

    Oh how could I forget "Charlie on the M.T.A.". A classic. https://potrzebie.review/charlie.html

    Tom Lehrer, "The Subway Song": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQKA8UUH2yI

    Dubliners' version of "Paddy on the Railway": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kh_O2eyfX4 Again I prefer Marty Burke's version, which starts out livelier. Added: Found that too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnKjP5cywpo part of a 3-song "Canadian Railroad Trilogy". Someone has uploaded all the tapes of his that I lost decades ago!

    Oh this one's important. You're bringing back so many memories. Shadows on a Dime by Ferron, title track of an absolutely intense folk album from 1984. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMvnfBwv_l4

    Bob Dylan's album "Blood on the Tracks" sadly doesn't contain any train songs as far as I know.

    I'm not that big a train buff but I can understand the wish for a playlist. We almost need a genre of "train shanties" to go along with sea shanties. Sure, ping me with a list!

    Added: aha, there is a Wikipedia category. That sort of spoils the fun, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_about_trains

    Ok, memory jogs from that category. Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull is great. The category mentions Railroad Bill but the version I'm familiar with is Andy Breckman's. It's funny as hell but barely mentions trains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msAuWlPZuAY

    This has been fun!

  • Registrar recommendation?

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  • I've been using porkbun and they never asked my ID. Maybe it's specific to the .xyz TLD? That surprises me but the domain you wanted are super cheap, so maybe they attract spammers. .xyz is somewhat disreputable anyway.

    This is actually the first time I had heard of the 6-9 digit .xyz domains being discounted (.99/year). That was not mentioned on porkbun's .xyz page, but web search found info. For those unaware, those domains register and renew at $0.99/year at some registrars, though $1.24 at porkbun.

    And lol, almost everything I could think of related to mathematical constants were unavailable, e.g. 61803399.xyz. Some random ones were available and maybe I'll try to buy one just to see what happens.

    I wonder if porkbun suddenly requires ID for all domain purchases? That would be annoying. It's been a while since I last bought from them.

    Added: ok, this might help: https://kb.porkbun.com/article/225-why-porkbun-id-verification

  • Remote Code Execution in Forgejo?

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  • There's an HN thread about this and yes it sounds like the guy is being stupid and/or there was a communications error. He submitted a PR for a potentially breaking change and it was closed as "needs discussion". That is, instead of clicking "open PR", he was advised to instead click "open discussion" and talk about the proposed change and its potential downstream effects. He instead got pissy and started spamming forums.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941590