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Ben Schwartz

@lthummus.com

Software developer who works on video game stuff. PAX Enforcer. You might have seen me defuse (fake) bombs. Hairy ball of anxiety. My posts are mine. Perpetually disappointed Seattle sports fan. He | him.

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Ben Schwartz@lthummus.com · last wk.

BitWarden self-hosting ... yay or nay? Mostly just figuring out how to do backups (I assume I can just dump the DB and shove it up with the rest of my backup scripts?) Also is vaultwarden worth looking at?

Ben Schwartz@lthummus.com · last wk.

Weird OSS thing I'm not sure how to feel. I built a feature in a fork and posted about it on an issue in the original. No response for months, so I forget it. Someone opens a new issue and links my post. A 3rd person opens a PR with my solution, exactly, w/o credit. Not a huge deal, but feels weird

Ben Schwartz@lthummus.com · 2w ago

Weekend project: I like magic wormhole, but don't need peer discovery (I have a server, double-NAT gets in the way). I want a CLI app that I can give a file and it shares with a random URL and no foreground process. Files auto expire. Sit behind Traefik for TLS. Run in docker for easy containment.

A screenshot showing a command prompt. This is the text (note that the exact domain is censored in the screenshot) bschwartz@lost-island:~$ fling share sample-100-mb-random.bin https://fileflinger.<CENSORED>.com/d/whiskey-yankee-delta Size: 100.0 MiB Expires: in 59m bschwartz@lost-island:~$ fling share --ttl 48h /arrow/data/ubuntu-26.04-live-server-amd64.iso https://fileflinger.<CENSORED>.com/d/alpha-charlie-sierra Size: 2.7 GiB Expires: in 47h bschwartz@lost-island:~$ fling list CODE SIZE DOWNLOADS EXPIRES PATH alpha-charlie-sierra 2.7 GiB 0 in 47h /arrow/data/ubuntu-26.04-live-server-amd64.iso whiskey-yankee-delta 100.0 MiB 0 in 59m ~/sample-100-mb-random.bin bschwartz@lost-island:~$ fling revoke whiskey-yankee-delta whiskey-yankee-delta: revoked bschwartz@lost-island:~$
Ben Schwartz@lthummus.com · 2w ago

Every time I open Cash App, I am greeted with this message of disapproval. Apparently they do not want to issue a card with the word “STOLEN” scribbled on it

A screenshot showing the Cash App credit card (all black except for the smart chip). There is a message below saying “Card Design Not Approved, Update it it complete your order” with an Update button next to it
Ben Schwartz@lthummus.com · 2w ago

My first software developer job was working on video ingestion and encoding systems. One of the test videos I used was the movie Clue. So that's the best Tim Curry performance.

Ben Schwartz@lthummus.com · 3w ago

Today’s technical annoyance: my Quantum Fiber ONT was disconnected for 50 hours (long story). Reconnecting made it lose provisioning, leaving me stuck in QF’s walled garden. Support has a ticket open...but I want to know as soon as it’s fixed. So today's overengineered BS: github.com/LtHummus/qua...

GitHub - LtHummus/quantum-check: An exercise in over-engineering because my ISP is bad

An exercise in over-engineering because my ISP is bad - LtHummus/quantum-check

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Ben Schwartz@lthummus.com · 3w ago

This has been driving me wild. I have an Oppo Blu-Ray player with a chip in it that allows switching regions to watch imports. Changing regions requires a button sequence. I have a Logitech Harmony remote (rip). Doing the sequence manually works perfectly. Programming it on the remote doesn't. WTF

Instructions on how to switch Blu-Ray regions for my modded Oppo Blu-Ray player. The text is as follows: Switching Blu-Ray Zones: Switching Zones is done using the remote control. - Make sure the player is on and there is no disc in the player. - Press DIMMER - DIMMER - DIMMER - MUTE - Select Blu-ray zone as followed [sic]: - Zone A: Press 1 on the remote control - Zone B: Press 2 on the remote control - Zone C: Press 3 on the remote control - Restart the player (turn it off and then back on)
Ben Schwartz@lthummus.com · 2mo ago

Ok I just learned this so I am passing along the knowledge...but if you're on Linux, you can sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup to reboot right in to BIOS setup. No more mashing the delete key for me (especially helpful via PiKVM)