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1. 1411.▲
   by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

   I keep trying to explain the difference between a configuration format and a data format. A configuration format is for humans. A data format is for computers. Try to make one format good for both, you end up with one format that sucks at b
2. 1412.▲
   by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

   Pretty much all construction uses materials which follow a specification. The least we could do is start requiring all commercial software do the following: 1. Declare an SBOM 2. Each software component must have a listed specificatio
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   by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

   Thanks, this is really interesting. I feel like it adds more weight to my feeling that we should have a software building code. When you have software that's critical infrastructure, with a nutso security policy like "no embargoes
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   by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

   The USA isn't a traditional oligarchy. It does have different levels and kinds of power. Most of them are corporate, but some are purely political or ideological (like Trump's regime). Our oligarchy is more like a collection of ol
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   by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

   For every one hobbyist making some kind of interesting video that they couldn't have made without ad money, there are 1,000 moronic influencers making the same video about the same thing, grasping at ad money or free products to shill.
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   by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

   The product everybody wants in the form factor nobody wants
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   by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

   this vocal fry is peak genz rizz
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   by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

   Is it just me or is this a misunderstanding of computer architecture? The computer can only output what the screen can support (native resolution), the screen can only display what the video card gives it, the video card can only display wh
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   by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

   The case study results would be "make a product that's really hard to make and that people want"
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    Most popular apps today have integrations to allow reading secrets from external programs. If not, they can take them from environment variables. Both those can then be loaded from a password manager, so the secret never lands on disk in pl
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    With Javascript, yes, but also with all programming-language package managers and software development culture in general. There's too huge of an attack surface, and virtually no attack mitigation. It's a free for all. These are
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    Stick to (pin) old stable versions, don't upgrade often. Pain in the butt to deal with eventual minimum-version-dependency limitations, but you don't get the brand new releases with bugs. Once a year, get all the newest versions a
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    The SF 'tech scene' was already a joke in 2014, when a TV show satirized it for six seasons. The city used to be known for art, counter-culture, free expression. It turned into tech bros telling themselves they were 'saving t
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    But the thing is, the burning man principles give you everything you need to deal with scenarios like this. The burn is not supposed to be a vacation, and definitely not a place to completely disconnect. It's supposed to challenge you.
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    I tried to create an art piece sorta like this once. Video cameras in two separate places in the world, hooked up to a monitor. Made to look like a mirror, only you realize you're looking into a completely different place. So if you an
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    It was added by the AI; "[ChatGPT] originally included that extra phrase only because many English-language sources habitually describe the U.S. as a “representative democratic republic”. To keep the wording consistent, you could simp
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    Honestly I just asked ChatGPT for the list and didn't notice x.x Interesting omission on its part, haha. I asked ChatGPT what's up, and it replied: "China is not in the top-50 group of “very high human development” countries
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    > What I want to do is find out what the maximum size battery I would need in order to store all of summer's electricity for use in winter. This is ridiculous. It's like asking how much propane do I need to store in summer to g
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    Afaik, there are already specific political definitions. It's just that "the common man" isn't very educated in them, and the "language of politics" eschews logic and specificity in favor of generalization (in
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    That's famously why all our mail gets read by the government, and all our phone calls are listened to, and all our homes' walls are transparent, right? Because privacy isn't a civil liberty?
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    All of this was well known when Wayland was developed. They just didn't give a shit about end-users. They had one or two specific things they personally wanted done, and they made sure that was supported, and that's it. And then a
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    Two basic ways: 1) Use your VPS OS's native software upgrade mechanism 2) Build, test, and deploy immutable images For 1), you configure your OS (Ubuntu LTS let's say) to do automatic unattended upgrades only for security updates
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    Yep! And TP-Link, Asus, GL.iNet, MicroTik, and other consumer routers also have Wireguard/OpenVPN servers and Dynamic DNS clients. For the parent commenter: you set up an account at a Dynamic DNS service, and configure your router so w
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    AZs are whole datacenters, so I imagine their backbone bandwidth between AZs is a fraction of total bandwidth inside the DC. If they didn't charge it'd probably get saturated and then there's not much point in using them for
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    This is good timing; I was just looking at a use-case where we need more iops and the only immediate solutions involve allocating way more high-performance disks or network storage. The problem with a cache is having a large dataset with ra
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    Fastmail is fine. It's somewhat limited in its UX, but technically speaking, everything works, and it's snappy. Very few outages. I really like their integrations with calendars, contacts, and mail for 3rd party sites/service
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    It's good advice. Losing a car is much less worse than personal injury or worse. Everybody's a toughguy until a methhead who can't feel pain stabs you 15 times. Should the police crack down? Sure, but they aren't magicia
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    But then you need one robot that's got 9,999 specializations. A human can't actually do 10,000 things. You need 10,000 humans, each that goes through a specialization process (training, developing muscle memory, etc) that builds b
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    Fwiw, for other projects you can look at other SoC brands than Raspberry, such as OrangePi, BananaPi, ClockworkPi, KickPi, Pine64, Rock64, Odroid, Libre Computer, Radxa, ArmSom, Onion, Udoo, NVIDIA Jetson, ASUS Tinker, Khadas. I was kinda b
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    by 0xbadcafebee 1y ago

    Worth reminding the casual reader that the word 'consent' doesn't mean what most people today think it means. The word's definition only means "permission for something to happen or agreement to do something".