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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Isn't this particular failure mode applicable to any TDMA technology (of which even GPON fiber is one) when the contention ratios become too high? The issue is that the ISP selling services beyond what that physical network segment can
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> mandate electricity and water as well as telephone line as standard. I wonder why we cant mandate Optical Fibre as standard as well Electricity and water was mandated at the time the government mostly did right by the people and wasn&#
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
"Active" with those systems just means the encryption key is now user-supplied instead of being stored on the controller/drive. The actual encryption is always active; which makes sense, if anything it means you have one less
724.
by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Same policy that "redacted" the brand of the SD card, even though anyone that would be able to do anything with that information would immediately recognize it as a SanDisk.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
This is a chicken and egg problem; right now there is no compelling reason for the masses to use Firefox so developers are right to not worry about it and tell people to just use Chrome if they’re experiencing any issues. But if Mozilla mak
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Thread/Matter is a bullshit standard for “growth and engagement” home automation whose primary purpose is to get users locked into an ecosystem and watch ads or “engage”, with the “home automation” part being secondary (if it automates
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Standards conformance is one thing. But to guard against manufacturer end-of-support and/or bankruptcy there must be provisions for adversarial interoperability too, which I believe is currently lacking. This is not the case in other,
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
There are two issues - one is that the permission model of Linux may not be suitable for modern workloads, but the second is that Linux is a huge, constantly-moving beast written in a memory-unsafe language and has regular privilege escalat
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Microsoft at least has the decency not to base their entire marketing on being pro-online-privacy.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Nobody would have an issue with those features being add-ons. In fact the Pocket integration is actually an add-on, silently downloaded on first run based on some online check. If they’re gonna be bundling add-ons, I’d rather have them bund
731.
by Nextgrid 11mo ago
I wish Mozilla would explore the enterprise productivity space. There’s huge amount of money currently being made on dubious enterprise security products, and with the browser being at the forefront of threats (its literal purpose is to exe
732.
by Nextgrid 11mo ago
I think the whole tech career/ladder and concept of permanently employed software engineer is flawed and leads to unnecessary complexity and endless churn in the ecosystem. Despite what the techbros will claim, software once built requ
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Speak to an attorney and ask them if there's a way to counter-sue for attorney fees + damages. If there is, you may be able to find someone willing to work on contingency, and then not only not spend much of your money but eliminate th
734.
by Nextgrid 11mo ago
ZIRP was mostly limited to the US tech industry no? Where as back then even any blue-collar job would allow you to support a family and buy a property outright after some years of savings.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Rootless containers make no sense to me: First scenario: the machine is single-purpose and protects a single asset (confidential data, access to a privileged network, etc). In this case, XKCD 1200 ( https://xkcd.com/1200&#x2F
736.
by Nextgrid 11mo ago
But then again, online ads are the physical equivalent of a crowd of paparazzi following you 24/7 including inside your home, which would also prompt physical violence in the real world. From my perspective I couldn't care less if
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Doing it via conventional card networks won't work, the fees would eat most/all of the payment. A critical mass of publishers would need to team up and form a cooperative/etc where a user could register once, deposit some mon
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
For rent, scraping property rental websites would work. Same for grocery/etc.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
1) You can't `npm install` it, which is a huge barrier to entry to the modern breed of "engineers". 2) Companies will happily pay thousands in recurring fees for the built-in NAT gateway, but if an engineer asks for even half
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
OpenWrt is also a good option.
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> hand-picked by parents to keep away problem children Unless you can magically guarantee (or have enough money to fund their whole life) your children will never have to interact with "problem" people, they will need to learn
742.
by Nextgrid 11mo ago
The police state needs to enforce its dominance.
743.
by Nextgrid 11mo ago
I'm sure there would be plenty of things to blame me for, but I'm still waiting to be able to sit and do nothing while my assets grow by an order of magnitude effectively risk-free, and be able to influence local policies to prote
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> labor and rent Labor, who pays a sizeable chunk of their income on rent... and rent, well is rent. Rent is only expensive when demand outstrips supply, and demand keeps being artificially constrained by existing property owners (of whi
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
Publicly traded entities which are components of many pension funds. The boomers essentially took out a loan against themselves, and now it's due, with interest to boot. There's some schadenfreude seeing the boomers complain about
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
"Line must go up". The same line boomers enjoyed riding on while their property and other investments went up massively without any effort on their part, at the expense of subsequent generations. Now, they're getting a taste
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> everyone else is trying but haven't really shown much promise What was the incentive/funding for their attempts? In a non-national-security scenario it makes sense not to try too hard because you can just buy ASML's solu
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
It would however have second-order effects; having less wealthy people would drive down rents/etc. If the wealthy just keep getting wealthier you'll end up in a situation where the wealthy just trade between each other out because
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> allowed the UK to control its own migration policy Has that helped? Seems like they traded-off Eastern European migrants (who all fled during the pandemic because life in their own country is now much better than in the UK) for Middle
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by Nextgrid 11mo ago
> Taking a photograph of a car with its license plate is legal. As is selling a photo you've taken, whether it has a license plate or not. Because when those laws were enacted the technology to do so at scale wasn't there or wa

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