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  • Setting Up ATT Fiber (BGW320-505) With your Router (DD WRT)

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    *Post has been modified to exclude use of 192.169.x.x ip since it isn't convention to use it as a private ip. You should not have to use cascaded router unless you have bought a public IP space which is why you will get the error involving WAN wide subnet when you try to enter in 192.168.x.x with a /24 subnet into the cascaded router boxes.*


    Information is a bit scattered around, but unless you are a network engineer (which I am not) you are not going to have a fun time trying to configure a cascaded router...

  • How to Fix Brave Browser GPG check failed on Fedora

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    Oddly kept getting a public key failure on Fedora whenever I wanted to upgrade or reinstall brave browser. Took a while, longer than I would have liked, of searching before I was able to resolve it.

    Public key for brave-browser-1.3.115-1.x86_64.rpm is not installed
    Public key for brave-keyring-1.7-1.noarch.rpm is not installed
    The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful transaction.
    You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'.
    Error: GPG check FAILED

    I think one can ...

  • Actix-Web is now Unmaintained?! Update: It is back.

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    Wtf? NoooooOOOoooOOOoo!

    Reddit's toxic Rust community strikes down a popular Rust library.

    Yes, the maintainer of Actix has quit the open source realm, well, because of the Rust communities' shitstorms over the use of unsafe. "unsafe shitstorm" is hilarious.

    "Ahhhhhh, U R USIN UNSAFE. Remove dis shit."

    "Plss no... it iz badness. U r a bad Rust dev. Dun use Rust. Not welcome here."

    Reddit Rust Open Sores Community Member on finding alternative to Actix-web: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ce09id/why_we_nee...

  • Show Mac OS X Bluetooth Signal Strength

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    Not sure why it is so hard to show signal strength of bluetooth devices on a Mac nowadays, but...

    HOLD OPTION KEY and PRESS THE BLUETOOTH ICON and HOVER OVER THE DEVICE YOU WANT TO SEE

    The signal strength is not real time updated, so you'll have to do the same steps to get an updated value.


    zzzZz Thanks Apple zzZzz for complicating this. Makes me wanna sleep zzzZZZzzZZZZzz.

  • Without my MacBook. Oh Hello, again, Fedora Desktop.

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    What can I say, but Apple your butterfly keyboard doesn't fly. I was annoyed that my "b"'s double hit, but when my command key fell off I finally made a trip to the Apple Store to get it replaced. It took 3 days, so that was 3 days without my MacBook. What to do during this time? I turned on my desktop and booted to Fedora for the first time in a while.

    Overall, Fedora has come a long way for usability. Wow, I didn't care too much about my Mac anymore!

    Using Fedora

    I was on FC30 and immediately upgraded to FC...

  • Learning about Blockchain and Smart Contracts

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    Recently I've picked up blockchain and more Ethereum's smart contracts as I've had interest in the decentralized trust area. [Digression: I'm mining bitcore, so I have some vested interest in learning about what I am throwing myself into.] I've recently been talking with some friends about their idea for education and blockchain and found some interest in it, not enough to join it, but enough to stay interested that maybe some day I'll join them on it. 

    Let's talk about some of the parts: Blockchain, Crypto...

  • Been Learning a Bit About SEO

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    SEO techniques tend to work when you've had your site linked to quite a bit of times by reputable sources. Titles, keywords, sitemaps, even meta tags are important factors no matter how any one search engine tries to downplay it.


    First things I've noticed is that I don't have a sitemap and I don't have good meta tags. FB reads some meta tags for crawling content! I definitely need a way to submit posts semi-automatically (not automation, just augmentation!) to search engines in order to increase the amount o...

  • Cloud/Ephemeral Everything eh?

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    I understand why people want to move back to the shared (cloud) model, but understanding what needs to be ephemeral needs to be considered based off of requirements. Elasticsearch in a docker container scheduled by a compute scheduler? Is that not a bad idea for something as unstable as Elasticsearch? MemSQL in a docker container? The point of MemSQL is for fast data access in memory and I would think there is a legit case for it, so why not allocate MemSQL dedicated servers? The more important question one...