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1. Apache Answer - A Q&A platform software for teams 2025-01-12

   tags: community, forum, programming/go, programming/typescript

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   • apache/answer
   • How to Improve Knowledge Sharing with Answer
   • Plugins
2. macos - DNS Resolution Fails for ping and curl, but not dig 2025-01-11

   tags: apple/macos, network/dns, network/http

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   • OSX Domain-Specific DNS Servers (/etc/resolver)
   • [macOS] need to support domain specific dns server (custom DNS)
   • Using scutil to set DNS for specific domains
   • How to query macOS DNS resolver from Terminal?
3. UsenetArchives - One of the most extensive archives of Usenet newsgroups on the Internet 2024-12-08

   tags: bulletin-board-system, forum/usenet, history, storage/tape, text

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   • Converting UTZOO-Wiseman Usenet Tapes to Website with PostgreSQL backend using Python 3.8
   • 2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online for Anyone to Read
   • DataHoarders, UsenetArchives.com now includes UTZOO-Wiseman tapes of the earliest internet posts made between Feb 1981 and June 1991
   • The UTZOO Wiseman Usenet Archive (data removed following legal action)
4. Slate Star Codex - The Comment Policy Is “Victorian Sufi Buddha Lite” 2024-11-27

   tags: communication, community/code-of-conduct, forum, respect

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   Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates; At the first gate, ask yourself, is is true? At the second gate ask, is it necessary? At the third gate ask, is it kind?

5. DNS over HTTPS 2024-11-25

   tags: cryptography/encryption, ietf/rfc, internet/browser/chrome, internet/browser/firefox, network/dns, network/http, network/transport-layer-security

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   RFCs:

   • RFC 7858 - Specification for DNS over Transport Layer Security (TLS)
   • RFC 8484 - DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH)

   Resources:

   • Carsten Strotmann - doh.defaultroutes.de DNS-over-TLS/HTTPS Server
   • DNS over HTTPS - Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Documentation

   Setting up a DNS-over-HTTPS server:

   • DNS over HTTPS - ArchWiki
   • DNS-over-TLS almost working - Træfik Forum
   • Using Google’s dns.google.com with CoreDNS

   Browser configuration:

   • Configure DoH on your browser - Cloudflare Documentation
   • Using custom DNS-over-HTTPS with CoreDNS and Google Chrome
   • Firefox DNS-over-HTTPS - Firefox Help
6. Famicom Mahjong controller 2024-11-22

   tags: controller, game, game/arcade, game/emulator, nintendo/nes, serial-communication/usb

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   • Famicom Mahjong/Hanafuda controller USB keyboard mod
   • Adventures in Lo-Fi: Famicom Mahjong controller USB keyboard mod
   • Famicom Mahjong controller and how does it work?
   • Nes Dev - Jissen Mahjong controller
7. Image Dithering - Create the illusion of color depth in images on systems with a limited color palette 2024-11-18

   tags: color/palette, game, image/2d, image/compression, image/dithering, image/noise, indie

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   • Re: Return of the Obra Dinn [GDC 2016 Demo Build] - Dithering Process
   • Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
   • Cyan's Richard A. Watson - Dithering 101 (archive)
   • Differentiable Dithering
   • What the Heck is Blue Noise?
   • Generating Blue Noise Textures With Void And Cluster
     • Atrix256/VoidAndCluster
     • jdupuy/BlueNoiseDitherMaskTiles
   • Why Your Website Should Use Dithered Images
     • Dither Me This!
   • Why Your Website Should Not Use Dithered Images

   Online dithering tools:

   • Dither It! - A Web application to dither images
     • alexharris/ditherit-v2
   • Building Retro Dither: Dithering Algorithms, Run-Length Encoding, Resource Forks and More!
   • Blue Noise in Futhark
     • Munksgaard/bluenoise
8. BBS - The Documentary 2024-11-10

   tags: bulletin-board-system, community, diy, documentary, electronics, forum, history, internet, text/ascii

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   The BBS Documentary Video Collection is a varied set of video items collected by Jason Scott, curator of TEXTFILES.COM. These are recordings about and from the era of the domination of ASCII and Dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (roughly the 1970s through the 1990s, with examples far before and after that).

   • The Full BBS Documentary Interviews are Going Online
   • BBS: The Documentary Archive
   • FidoNet
   • FidoNews Volume 6, Number 19 - 8 May 1989
9. Hacking and upgrading the Korg Kronos - From a 1.66GHz Atom to a 3.9GHz Skylake 2023-10-01

   tags: diy, embedded, hardware, instrument/synthesizer, korg/kronos, linux

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   • https://kronoshacker.blogspot.com/
   • https://www.kronoshaven.com/
   • http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=60
10. The XY Problem 2023-08-25

    tags: discussion, forum, information, question

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    The XY problem is asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem. This leads to enormous amounts of wasted time and energy, both on the part of people asking for help, and on the part of those providing help.

    • https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem
    • https://www.perlmonks.org/?node=XY+Problem
    • http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem
11. Obsidian - a powerful and extensible knowledge base that works on top of your local folder of plain text files 2023-01-31

    tags: knowledge, programming/markdown, programming/yaml, text

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    • https://minimal.guide/Home
    • https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal
    • https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal-settings
    • https://forum.obsidian.md/t/share-your-minimal-theme-screenshots-configuration/8983
    • https://github.com/dvcrn/obsidian-filename-heading-sync
    • https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin
    • https://github.com/lynchjames/obsidian-mind-map
    • https://www.eleanorkonik.com/its-not-just-a-pretty-gimmick-in-defense-of-obsidians-graph-view/
    • https://medium.com/@ensleytan/using-obsidians-graph-view-for-real-99fd94153514
    • Obsidian TTRPG
    • Zsolt's Visual Personal Knowledge Management
12. Postfix, iPhone, Apple Mail and the reject_unknown_helo_hostname parameter 2023-01-28

    tags: email/postfix, mobile/ios, network/dns

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    I'd get a better behaved mail client. — Hu on Gentoo Forums

    • http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#reject_invalid_helo_hostname
    • https://serverfault.com/questions/575539/postfix-helo-command-rejected-host-not-found
    • https://serverfault.com/questions/527541/postfix-whitelist-host-for-specific-sender
    • https://serverfault.com/questions/922935/why-does-postfix-say-helo-command-rejected-host-not-found-when-dig-finds-the
    • https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3120175
    • https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8604630.html?sid=a666f84af3d663d43b4c72a5b82115c4
13. Audio-only YouTube player 2022-12-22

    tags: audio, command-line, google/youtube, video

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    • https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/298086/play-youtube-playlist-with-youtube-dl-with-shuffling-or-repeat
    • https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=10231
14. Behringer FCB1010 MIDI pedalboard | Hardware and Software mods 2022-08-04

    tags: digital-audio-workstation, diy, electronics, instrument/midi

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    • https://fcb1010.groups.io/g/main
    • https://fcb1010.groups.io/g/uno
    • https://mountainutilities.eu/fcb1010
    • https://www.fcb1010.eu/
    • https://www.fcb1010.uno/
    • https://www.eurekasound.com/eurekaprom
    • https://www.voes.be/fcb1010/software.htm
    • https://el34world.com/Misc/Music/FCB_Kemper1.htm
    • https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/fcb1010-uno-editor.124710/
    • http://forum.cakewalk.com/FCB-1010-MIDI-Controller-Configuration-m2588616.aspx
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/ableton/comments/wb2twe/looper_is_awesome/
15. Get your Minitel back, the COMPUTEL videotex BBS is back! | by Christian Quest | Medium 2022-06-26

    tags: apple, diy, forum, minitel

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    • https://cq94.medium.com/acc%C3%A9der-au-contenu-dun-backup-de-plus-de-30-ans-75837443d7b3
    • https://cq94.medium.com/computel-de-retour-1340d00ea79e (French version)
    • https://github.com/cquest/cristel
16. Recapping and restoring a Harman Kardon 330C 2022-06-05

    tags: audio, diy, electronics, noise

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    • Harman Kardon 330C Stereo Receiver Repair and Service - BG020
    • Harman Kardon HK 330c - Fixing Noisy Transistor Issue
    • https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BnK_k1osh5Qrh0_jvQ-hdS4oiHbICk57
    • https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/harman-kardon-330c-repair-random-buzzing.530928/
17. EI2030 Working Groups aims to create a laptop using e-ink or similar non-emissive technology 2022-05-02

    tags: display, diy, e-ink, embedded, laptop, linux, raspberry-pi

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    • https://github.com/EI2030
    • https://alexsoto.dev/modos-paper-laptop.html
    • https://forum.ei2030.org/t/proposal-ei-2030-the-community-built-e-ink-laptop-project/118
    • https://alexsoto.dev/building-an-e-ink-laptop.html
    • https://forum.ei2030.org/t/papertop-laptop/136
    • https://forum.pi-top.com/t/buying-another-power-supply-for-pi-top4/481/10
    • https://forum.ei2030.org/t/low-power-e-paper-os/138
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIz8JL6xc9A
    • https://forum.ei2030.org/t/research-porting-linux-to-ultra-low-power-microcontroller/151/1
18. Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method 2021-10-17

    tags: graph, knowledge, programming/markdown, text

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    • https://luhmann.surge.sh/communicating-with-slip-boxes
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24916536
    • https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/comment/5918/
    • https://zettelkasten.de/posts/understanding-hierarchy-translating-folgezettel/
    • https://zettelkasten.de/posts/luhmanns-second-zettelkasten/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten
    • https://www.foleymusicandarts.com/blog/2019/3/5/how-i-use-the-archive-and-my-music-staff-to-create-engaging-lesson-notes
19. Solving GPU noise hum/buzz in external USB audio interfaces - Audio - Linus Tech Tips 2021-10-09

    tags: audio, electronics, gpu, hiss, hum, serial-communication/usb

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    • https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/3d-vision/41/249476/nvidia-ground-loop-noise-under-load/
    • https://www.avforums.com/threads/resolve-audible-gpu-noise-on-external-usb-audio-interface.2250879/
20. USB filters / isolators for audio applications 2021-01-04

    tags: audio, diy, electronics, hiss, hum, serial-communication/usb

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    Available products:

    • https://www.alldaq.com/en/products/pc-sio/usb-isolators/adq-usb-30-iso/
    • https://pro.intona.eu/en/products/7054/
    • https://www.audiophonics.fr/en/diy-interfaces/audiophonics-usb-isolator-module-adum-4160-raspberry-pi-p-8395.html
    • https://hifimediy.com/product-category/usb-isolators/
    • https://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Jitterbug-USB-Filter/dp/B00YTA78FW

    Reviews:

    • https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/audioquest-jitterbug-usb-filter-review.10205/
    • https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/digital-line-level/354894-usb-isolators-filters-audio-passive-active.html
    • https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/pc-based/326069-usb-isolator-dedicated-power.html
    • https://forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.php?id=29907
    • https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/digital-line-level/143175-usb-dac-isolation.html
    • https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/pc-based/151844-usb-galvanic-isolation.html