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From the FAQ:

> You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known game Where's Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click on him, he will appear in full and wave at you.


I once bought one of those alarms that brighten along with the pattern of natural sunlight in the morning (and dim in the evening), as I don’t get much natural light in my bedroom. The time display on it was so unbelievably bright at its lowest setting that my sleep was worse until I piled stuff up in front of it. I don’t even bother with it anymore.


A related problem: I do get some natural light, but also a lot of night-time light from the apartment complex parking-lot lamps.

I've been thinking of a time-controlled motor on my window blinds.


Literally same here. Could've written your comment word for word.

That was going to be my DIY project, time to finally do it, I guess.


Renting, I'd want something I can temporarily attach to arbitrary pre-existing blinds. On reflection, there are several types one might encounter but I'm particularly thinking of the "twist stick to adjust horizontal slats" style. (As opposed to "loop of chain controls angle", or "fully unroll from top".)

I think there was a Show HN some months back where somebody 3D printed a mount so that the twist-stick could be slotted in at a slight angle.


Of 60-something Linodes in Newark across a few accounts (we don't use LKE, Node Balancers, etc)

- Many came back up yesterday. Most of the rest came back up this morning.

- All but two are back online. One of those is "Powered off" but can't be turned on because "Linode busy". The other is online but unreachable, same behavior as most of them during the outage.

- Three required me to put them in Rescue Mode and run fsck.ext4 -F /dev/sda to get them back online.


I woke up to a few hundred messages from Icinga - thankfully my phone is on do-not-disturb overnight. Some of my servers in Newark are up and responding, some are not.

Happy Sunday! Cleaning up the automatically-created maintenance/alert tickets generated by this is going to be a fun time.



How did you make that link?


This isn't obvious at all but you can click the star next to an item that's "Linked" on DF (where the title goes to another site) to get a permalink to the item on DF itself! https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/02/18/hp-buys-humane


Oh, wow, that UX is clear as mud. Thanks!


For anyone else trying this, the password is hackernews - without an exclamation point. Tripped me up.

Thanks for setting this up adenta!


From the article:

> The new law doesn’t apply to classified code, national security systems or code that would post privacy risks if shared.


With Icinga, for webservers:

- apt status (for security/critical updates that haven't been run yet)

- reboot needed (presence of /var/run/reboot-required)

- fail2ban jail status (how many are in each of our defined jails)

- CPU usage

- MySQL active, long-running processes, number of queries

- iostat numbers

- disk space

- SSL cert expiration date

- domain expiration date

- reachability (ping, domain resolution, specific string in an HTTP request)

- Application-specific checks (WordPress, Drupal, CRM, etc)

- postfix queue size


First mention of [ -f /var/run/reboot-required ], which is important to ensure security updates have taken effect


The Carter Foundation is absolutely not impartial here. They get funding from CIA cutout USAID, the US State Department, Meta, the Walton Family Foundation, National Democratic Institute, Open Society Foundation and so on: https://www.cartercenter.org/donate/corporate-government-fou...


The issue in this post has nothing to do with any of the outside election observers. You could replace the Carter Foundation with the CIA itself and you'd still be left with the same problem, which is that these vote counts are fictitious.


The comment I’m replying to says they’re “the only impartial observers who were in Venezuela for the election,” so I think the point stands - given their funding and connection to the US government and international capital, they can’t be considered impartial in this situation.


It might have been overstated but it's pretty tangential to the discussion. You can just imagine the poster made a typo, if that helps, and move on - the results look fishy and people have asked for the data. We don't really need to reconstruct the origin story of every asker.


Who would you propose as impartial?


The Carter Foundation stood up to the US govt in 2004, when they validated Chavez's win. Maybe they became un-impartial since then. But you're assuming a lot.


How should they be funded, for you to consider them impartial?


Not by a country directly opposed to Venezula's government would be a good start.


Is anyone really impartial?


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