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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
IBM: Footgunning before the XT and before the Republican conformity dress code when it was cool to enable genocidal regimes for money. IBM is the quintessential big, dumb company that innovates in spurts and then is a perpetual loser becaus
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
I never understood and continue to be baffled by the naïveté of FOSS people giving commit access to core projects to unknown parties. Assume they're a state actor or a crazy person, until proven otherwise.
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Giant, fragile, pointless build infrastructure is always suspicious. Just take k8s or any other Go cli utility unable to build directly as it was originally intended back when there was go get and now go install. Simplicity and clarity tran
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Hydrogen infrastructure is a Japanese pipe dream. Maybe it can work for one company, but it's a bridge too far for widespread or rapid transition.
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Trucking is the single biggest career in the US. Threatening that would be political suicide.
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
When you have a billionaire CEO who fires people at random like cartoonish figures, espouses antisemitism and conspiracy theories reminiscent of Henry Ford, and names their kids random letters, you know they don't care about fit, finis
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
I'm reminded troublemakers are the ones who often change history and make huge piles of money but are seldom stable marriage prospects. On the other hand, those whose who are too timid make great marriage prospects but are seldom remem
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
I once took a meeting with a "founder" from HN in the feedback widget space who was supposedly interviewing to hire a senior engineer role. He went through the motions but was only interested in information. There was no job. Bewa
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Yep. Assume one or more layers are pwned and rootkitted, especially if it runs Linux because the attack surface is huge in most distros. Never fall for the braggadocio of arrogant, lazy MAANG employees who blindly declare the infra to be &q
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
This is the problem of projects that allow direct access and lack code review.
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Never allow complexity in code or so-called engineers who ask to merge tons of shitty code. Get rid of that shit and don't trust committers blindly. Anyone who enables this crap is also a liability.
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
"I object to this obvious communism attacking defenseless megacorporations. Also, cheap insulin is killing us." - what Martin Shkreli would say
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Open source hardware including silicon, board designs, and firmware coupled with deep supply chain surveillance are needed to mitigate this threat. There is no other way other than destructive and NDT of samples with verification. Also, an
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
eBay continues to enable theft, counterfeiting, and fraud.
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
It only appeals to rich alpha hipsters because alphas drive diesel trucks with massive aftermarket vertical stacks because they scoff at EVs as some sort of feminine or substandard "imposter."
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
It wouldn't be hard to check by BGP AS. Stack Overflow routinely didn't work at one MAANG because of egress from a narrow range of IPs appearing to be bot-like behavior, but it was really an enormous amount to traffic from ~10k&#x
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
I don't think most companies can say why they're not at least isolating workloads with something like Kata Containers and why they're using only glorified cgroup jails, have an inventory of all the services they're runni
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
That's not what they meant. And, S3-compatible object stores already exist. Ceph, for one. Cachable, scalable apps that you write as part of a web-centric business are ones that use in-application level knowledge to coordinate with t
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Hey now, I made a killing in AWS consulting to convince megacorps to get rid of their own hardware and avoid going the OpenStack route. The problems of pre-IaaS and pre-K8s were manageability, flexibility, and capacity utilization. These pr
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Hahaha, I remember our favorite, plucky EE presenter opining about this. Solar freak'n roadways and friends must be zombies because these dumb ideas just won't die.
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Context: This image was a "Utah teapot" for testing early image compression file formats and algorithms such as PCX, TIFF, GIF, JPG, etc.
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
On Mapple devices, if you don't wait long enough after boot to send a message from iMessage, it will fallback to SMS and green bubble between legit Cupertino-designed devices anyhow.
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Agreed. This a good engineering effort over at Snap. It does clustering too. https://docs.keydb.dev/docs/cluster-tutorial/ I wished they'd release some of their "Pro" stuff and/or internal-only
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
My mom lived in Paradise, CA. There was at least one black bear who roamed the neighborhood because it took a dump in the middle of her lawn to proclaim ownership of their land. According to neighbors, it didn't get into garbage contai
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Seems like non-scalable effort by a LEA misrepresenting about keeping us "safe", wasting agent time, and pissing away taxpayer money. Surely, they should instead use taxpayer money more effectively by paying a boiler room army of
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
It went a long way from the early days of Jay Adelson & PAIX. Publicly-traded megacorps tend to devolve into chicanery without solid leadership and supportive board of directors. Instead, the bureaucrats, pyramid builders, and greedy fo
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
In Soviet Britain, the computer is always right, data is always perfect, and software bugs don't exist... and privately prosecute you.
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Likely, they use some authenticated hash like HMAC SHA-256 with a schedule of randomly chosen keys added periodically. (Can't really rotate out keys once generated.) GFL reversing the algorithm AND any working key. Also, an "is it
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
I was just about to write this. If you can't make money by criminalizing the service providers, find new ways to criminalize the act of sending a letter on the demand side. Brilliant! ;@] Perhaps: 1. Deregulation and privatization don&
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
With user consent and communication, it's not as evil as others are trying to make it sound. The arguable legal gray area is: If a user gives unlimited permission to do so, is decrypting another company's network traffic on device

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