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  1. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Hosting right now is not my issue, as with Github pages hosting is free. The bigger thing I would want to do in switching over to Cloudflare is it seems that it is a cheaper place to buy domains...

    Hosting right now is not my issue, as with Github pages hosting is free. The bigger thing I would want to do in switching over to Cloudflare is it seems that it is a cheaper place to buy domains from compared to my current provider

  2. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I recently renewed my subscription with my domain provider, but I took a quick look and cloudflare might be the way to go when I need to renew. The pricing seems a bit better, and my current...

    I recently renewed my subscription with my domain provider, but I took a quick look and cloudflare might be the way to go when I need to renew. The pricing seems a bit better, and my current provider while cheaper, did not include a certificate. I should look into what my current provider provides for stats (if any) in the meantime though

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  3. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I am hosting via Github pages so I can only run static HTML, so self-hosting is not an option for now.

    I am hosting via Github pages so I can only run static HTML, so self-hosting is not an option for now.

  4. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Trying to keep the cost down, since analytics are more of just a nice to have, it is not something worth paying for.

    Trying to keep the cost down, since analytics are more of just a nice to have, it is not something worth paying for.

  5. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I use Github pages for a portfolio website when I apply for jobs. On my document.onload function, I implemented a simple thing that sends me email notifications, therefore logging page views. To...

    I use Github pages for a portfolio website when I apply for jobs. On my document.onload function, I implemented a simple thing that sends me email notifications, therefore logging page views. To avoid spamming myself when they switch between index.html and other subpages, I set it up to use cookies that expire after 24hrs. The basic email notification is being done through an Ajax call to submit a Google form that gives me email notifications. I am planning on implementing having the page viewer also submit IP addresses, so that if I submit an application to two different cities, I could look up that IP address to view which organization is reviewing my application. I do need to do further research into that still though.

    For my audio player project, that is currently on temporary hold. I believe I shorted out some USB connections and therefore fried my USB controller, so I am currently waiting on a replacement RPi to arrive. I also need to modify the case design, but I messed up dependencies in FreeCAD (more so did not know that existed, so the dependency tree is a dependency line), so it might just be easier to design from scratch again.

    Edit: Got the new RPi today, and was able to connect everything together. I now have a working portable prototype of my audio player. After months of work, it is exciting seeing it so close to being fully working.

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  6. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    So I have done some more troubleshooting and starting to hit a wall on the cause of this. Here are a list of things I have tried: WORKED: USB DAC plugged directly into Pi 3a+ WORKED: USB DAC...

    So I have done some more troubleshooting and starting to hit a wall on the cause of this. Here are a list of things I have tried:

    1. WORKED: USB DAC plugged directly into Pi 3a+
    2. WORKED: USB DAC plugged into USB hub (passive powered off of the Pi), USB hub plugged into Pi Zero 2W via OTG cable
    3. DOES NOT WORK: USB DAC plugged into Pi Zero 2W via OTG cable
    4. DOES NOT WORK: USB mouse plugged directly into Pi Zero 2W via OTG cable (the mouse does work when plugged into the USB hub)

    I am unsure the culprit, but my suspicion is that that the Pi is struggling with doing handshakes with USB devices directly.

    Edit: After some further thinking, my theory is that the USB controller on my Pi Zero 2W is broken. The USB hub probably has a USB controller, so it works when connected to the hub, but not directly. Odds are that I shorted out a cable in my initial wiring of the system, so I will replace and buy a new RPi. The frustrating part is that shipping costs just as much as the RPi itself

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  7. Comment on Wireless earphones: a belated review in ~tech

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    As previously explained, but I thought I would add on to it, in the audio world there are two types of monitors: Audio engineer/tech monitors (commonly referred to as studio monitors/monitoring...

    As previously explained, but I thought I would add on to it, in the audio world there are two types of monitors:

    1. Audio engineer/tech monitors (commonly referred to as studio monitors/monitoring headphones). This is what you thought of when hearing monitor, where they try to be flat as possible. These could either be speakers or headphones. Use cases involve monitoring audio during recording (either music or for video production) to make sure things are being recorded well (not normally what the talent is listening to, but instead the tech listening during the performance) or for doing post production audio adjustment (think mixing the separate audio tracks down in a song). The idea is that you do not want your audio device coloured during this stage as it would sound good only on devices that are coloured the same way.

    2. Musician monitors to listen to what they need to hear while playing. This could either be wedge monitors (what you normally see on concert stages of the speakers on the floor angled up towards musicians) or in ear monitors (IEMs). For wedges, these almost always have EQ to reduce feedback. This is where latency is most noticeable, because the delay between saying something and hearing it is extremely jarring and actually can cause people to freeze and be unable to speak.

    With these two distinctions, it is also worth pointing out with the rise of home studios in recent years, the lines are being blurred. Someone may be using studio monitors (category 1) to mix their music that they record at home, but since they are the speakers they have, they will also use it as musician monitors as they are recording additional tracks.

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  8. Comment on Question about breathing while exercising in ~health

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    I have a decent amount of experience doing competitive running, and something worth noting is that your breathing may not be equal with your muscle endurance, and that is normal. Especially in the...

    I have a decent amount of experience doing competitive running, and something worth noting is that your breathing may not be equal with your muscle endurance, and that is normal. Especially in the last couple hundred meters of a race, I would start pushing it harder, and normally my breathing would be the limitation. I would be in excellent shape, but struggling for air. For a majority of the race, my muscle endurance would be the limitation (although I was always careful of pacing myself), but that final sprint I would muster enough strength in my legs to push for 30 seconds, and my breathing would struggle. Another thing to consider is that now that your muscles are not struggling, you may have started subconsciously been pushing harder up this hill.

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  9. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I have my audio player case working close enough. It fits everything once I took a dremel and cut some areas away. I am having some issues with librespot not always detecting my USB audio device....

    I have my audio player case working close enough. It fits everything once I took a dremel and cut some areas away. I am having some issues with librespot not always detecting my USB audio device. I think the culprit might be the DIY cable I made or the micro USB breakout connectors I am using. It is kind of getting frustrating as I doubt the culprit is software, but I have tried most things on the hardware side and am getting no where

    Edit: Came up with a new plan. Test it out using an OTG cable. If that works, then I can take my dissected micro USB to USB-A cable, plug the USB-A into the OTG cable and use my multimeter to double check that I am connecting each cable to the right pin.

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  10. Comment on Two Door Cinema Club - Lavender (2017) in ~music

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    I do enjoy Two Door Cinema Club, but I do understand how Lavender could appeal to you if you do not enjoy their earlier work. The entire Gameshow album is different in style than their previous...

    I do enjoy Two Door Cinema Club, but I do understand how Lavender could appeal to you if you do not enjoy their earlier work. The entire Gameshow album is different in style than their previous two albums. If you enjoy Lavender, I do recommend checking out the full album

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  11. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    I didn't bother saving the screech recording. I normally work in live audio, so I just viewed the screech as the unwanted feedback loop. My setup looks nice, but that is because I am currently...

    I didn't bother saving the screech recording. I normally work in live audio, so I just viewed the screech as the unwanted feedback loop. My setup looks nice, but that is because I am currently borrowing the outboard reverb unit and outboard compressors for a gig I did last week. The compressor is being returned this afternoon sadly

  12. Comment on HELP: Suddenly seeing a huge influx of ethernet devices on my network in ~tech

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    I did look into that before posting, and came to the same conclusion. That is my suspicion I plan on running Wireshark (it just didn't occur to me last night), but also these addresses have been...

    I can’t find this MAC OUI prefix in any database (02:B8:B6) so it means these MAC adresses are generated.

    I did look into that before posting, and came to the same conclusion.

    Could it be your proxmox or docker? Check the MAC adresses of containers (ip l on the host) to see if there is any overlap.

    That is my suspicion

    You could also listen to what traffic they’re sending with wire shark (or at least what hosts they’re taking to if it’s encrypted)

    I plan on running Wireshark (it just didn't occur to me last night), but also these addresses have been offline after a restart of my Proxmox host

  13. Comment on HELP: Suddenly seeing a huge influx of ethernet devices on my network in ~tech

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    I did not notice that at first, but Liru pointed that out, and they are the same MAC address as my OpenMediaVault VM. I did notice that they were all static, and that it was just sequential I have...

    It looks like you have a lot of entries with the same MAC address and different IPs.

    I did not notice that at first, but Liru pointed that out, and they are the same MAC address as my OpenMediaVault VM.

    And over on the right the allocation type is "static", which is weird if the theory is that something or a bunch of things are showing up and getting a bunch of IPs by DHCP, because that would be called "dynamic".

    I did notice that they were all static, and that it was just sequential

    Are you sure you didn't somehow configure the router to assign dozens of IPs to this MAC? Or is the "static" column lying to you for some reason?

    I have done no configuration on my router

    Do you maybe have a device or a VM that keeps releasing and renewing (or not releasing and then still trying to renew) its IP? If the MACs are all the same, and the "static" column isn't to be believed, this could be one device asking for IPs repeatedly, and getting a different one each time (either because the DHCP server is not very clever, or because the device is using the Client ID option to get a bunch of different leases on purpose).

    I am starting to think that might be the culprit, once it was pointed out that the MAC was the same as my OMV. I am wondering if there was an issue with it for a bit, since I have not seen those addresses online after a restart of my Proxmox machine.

    If you fire up Wireshark and tell it to filter for DHCP traffic, you might get some insight into what is being asked by the device. You could also see how frequently it is asking for new addresses and how practical it would be to wander around unplugging things until it stops.

    I for some odd reason did not think of running Wireshark, that would be a useful tool to run so I will plan to do that today

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  14. Comment on HELP: Suddenly seeing a huge influx of ethernet devices on my network in ~tech

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    I doubt it since it is all listing as these addresses as static, not DHCP I am thinking that might be the case. It seemed to be causing issues last night where I could not reach some of the...

    It's probably the Windows VM which is getting a new DHCP address each time you restart it?

    I doubt it since it is all listing as these addresses as static, not DHCP

    It looks like something is misconfigured rather than malicious

    I am thinking that might be the case. It seemed to be causing issues last night where I could not reach some of the devices on my network properly, but once I restarted my Proxmox host, these addresses were no longer in use.

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  15. Comment on HELP: Suddenly seeing a huge influx of ethernet devices on my network in ~tech

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    I am not running docker containers

    I am not running docker containers

  16. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    Ok, I tried recording morning recess, but it ended up being unusable since I routed a channel incorrectly and made a screeching feedback mess. Hoping to get a good recording at lunch recess....

    Ok, I tried recording morning recess, but it ended up being unusable since I routed a channel incorrectly and made a screeching feedback mess. Hoping to get a good recording at lunch recess. Picture of my dining table currently with the setup

  17. Comment on HELP: Suddenly seeing a huge influx of ethernet devices on my network in ~tech

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    You are correct, that is my OpenMediaVault VM. I did not catch the similarity there. Looking into it further, I also have a Windows VM that has a different MAC address. I will look into my OMV VM...

    You are correct, that is my OpenMediaVault VM. I did not catch the similarity there. Looking into it further, I also have a Windows VM that has a different MAC address. I will look into my OMV VM to see if anything seems off with it. Thank you

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  18. HELP: Suddenly seeing a huge influx of ethernet devices on my network

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    I noticed today that there are a large number of devices on my home network, all claiming to be ethernet connections. They kind of claimed all free IP addresses from x.x.x.63-253. They are not all...

    I noticed today that there are a large number of devices on my home network, all claiming to be ethernet connections. They kind of claimed all free IP addresses from x.x.x.63-253. They are not all on from what I have seen (and they are currently almost all off). Normally, my network should have only a handful of ethernet devices, which are my Fedora desktop, my Proxmox host, my OpenMediaVault VM on Proxmox machine running 24/7, and then the occassional VM I boot up as needed. I searched the occasional MAC address of one of these devices, and nothing came up. Does anyone know what the culprit of this would be or what I could use to diagnose it?

    Screenshot of some of the weird devices listed (I blacked out my known devices)

    Edit: It appears to be solved. I believe my OpenMediaVault VM was acting up/having issues and was gobbling up IP addresses. The issue has not occurred since restarting my Proxmox host.

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  19. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    Ok, I will plan on recording that tomorrow. How long are your tracks (trying to figure out how long of a recording I should aim to make)?

    Ok, I will plan on recording that tomorrow. How long are your tracks (trying to figure out how long of a recording I should aim to make)?

  20. Comment on Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films? in ~movies

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    I feel like this article is both interesting, but also doesn't really make a strong conclusion. The article makes the point that appeasing the algorithm feels a bit similar to earlier periods...

    I feel like this article is both interesting, but also doesn't really make a strong conclusion. The article makes the point that appeasing the algorithm feels a bit similar to earlier periods where movie execs tried to predict what movies would be popular, the only difference with streaming is having more data points.

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