OmarAssadi

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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
I think it is less Stasi and more so 30 euro dedicated servers with unmetered gigabit lines are ripe for bad clients. You've got the general issue of abuse and fraud that all providers face. But I think there are two issues that make i
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
I can't imagine it is war-related, or at least not in any direct sense, like literally trying to intercept soldiers or spies. I think the more likely scenario is that someone was to catch carders/botnet operators, since Jabber&#x2
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
Assuming this was done at the government's request, I assume Hetzner is more than willing to comply with a court order mandating they allow them to monitor and physically size a machine. And outside of nation-state requests, even ignor
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
I'm not sure truly verifiable "Secure" Boot is actually realistic in most scenarios, though, right? I'm not super up-to-date on what's being offered right now, but I'm not sure if there is a way to have a prope
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
Yeah, Palestinian-American; I was born in Israel with Israeli and American citizenship, but grew up mostly in Florida, did a government thing in high school that sent me to Moscow, stayed in Russia for university, and back in the U.S. now.
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by OmarAssadi 3y ago
It's sort of strange to me how many Americans seem to share the same sentiment when my experience has often been the total opposite. China has some of the best factories, supply chains, and collaboration in the world. And while yes, of
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
I'm using Nix now on my macOS installs, so I might not be totally correct the current situation. But yeah, I believe most of those sorts of issues have gone away with the new prefix. There's still some weird annoyances for me, tho
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
> Is anybody aware of anything that's price competitive in the US (or within a 50ms ping)? OVH [1] is not quite as cheap, but I can't really think of anyone else in the area that is totally comparable. One draw of OVH, Hetzner,
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
> What's the catch? To me, there kind of isn't one. I have generally had very good and fast support, even on the auction servers (which are even wilder in terms of pricing than the ones linked -- e.g., I was paying like 40 euro
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
> Hetzner feels like a hard discount cloud provider. Not to discount your experience, but honestly, my experiences with Hetzner support have generally been unexpectedly good. They've been very quick to respond, tend to immediately s
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
I pay for ChatGPT Plus and have paid a fair bit in OpenAI API fees; I don't care that they are making money. The problem is the openwashing, not the monetization.
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
Stable Diffusion will run on any decent gaming GPU or a modern MacBook, meanwhile LLMs comparable to GPT-3/ChatGPT have had pretty insane memory requirements - e.g., < https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq&
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
I am tired of this idea that the US being large invalidates anything that happens in Europe as impossible. I lived in Russia for a while, in a city in the middle of Siberia, and there is a night and day difference between how people live. R
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
For the same reason you might have other external peripherals. A laptop, realistically, can only fit something so decent inside of it. The 2020+ MacBooks do have surprisingly OK internal mics, but that's about all they are: OK. Maybe I
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
For me, it's less of a macOS inherent issue and more so that many, many things just assume Linux by default. Anything you find on GitHub that relies on some sort of native module is really hit or miss in terms of "will this just w
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
That feels about right to me too. I don't know if I'm usually just doing more computationally intensive stuff than most with my 16" M1 Pro, but I think the only way I could get anywhere near the advertised numbers is if I bas
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
Cool! I love Nix, but really am not a fan of the Nix package listing website. So, it is nice to see. And I guess worth mentioning, but if you or anyone else is ever feeling a little less lazy than me and want to add more available metadata,
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
> here is definitely the correct answer this time and then it gives you another wrong answer. My favorite is when it gets into some weird context loop, apologizes and claims to have corrected an issue, but gives you literally, characte
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
Yeah, it seems to still be the case. This post ended up being longer than I intended, but I figure it might be interesting to anyone curious about curriculum in other countries. While I'm American, I did a weird U.S. DoD/State Dep
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
Are you running arm64 or amd64 images? I switched from docker to podman, mostly due to other issues (e.g., the weirdness with the Docker VM seemingly growing infinitely in size and refusing to trim automaticity), but running arm-native cont
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
While you're not wrong RE: object references, Java does have the `final` keyword that you can apply to fields, local variables, method arguments, etc. This prevents the value from being re-assigned short of going out of your way to do
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
There’s also something beautifully awful about blocking entire countries due to the reputation their IP addresses have, while making strange, sweeping xenophobic statements about the people that live there, meanwhile a non-insignificant per
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
Yep. For many years, horrific American providers like C…C….ing had been super well-known effectively allow DDoS amplification attacks.
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
Yeah, despite how little I comment on here, I use HN all the time for basically the same thing. I think the good moderation, smaller, tighter-knit community, and relatively high-quality of posts compared to Reddit has made it my first go-to
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
Oh my GOD. The 60 FPS 4K memescaling shouldn't drive me as insane as it does, but jesus christ, the amount of times I have wanted to show someone some opening, gone on YouTube, and literally everything is some tweened upscale. I usua
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
I had already begun using my own domain for emails by the time it happened to me, but nothing accelerated that process faster than getting locked out of my Google account. I was lucky it wasn't permanent in my case, at least, but it wa
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
Nix is pretty usable for both desktops and headless servers. Personally, I even use it on macOS without much trouble. My system looks like any other install of Ventura, but all of my configuration, ranging from the terminal and VS Code to m
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
While crushing freedom of speech is obviously not okay, I find it strange to see this posted here. This post smells a lot like sinophobia. I do not want to assume malice; is there something I am missing, or is this literally just a Chinese
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
Has anything changed over the last six months or so regarding piracy, though? The last thing I had paid attention to was the Russian government lifting the blocks on RuTracker, the most popular Russian-language torrent site, in reaction to
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by OmarAssadi 4y ago
Would definitely consider paying for it; I had licenses for self-hosted JIRA, BitBucket, etc, ages ago before Atlassian announced the end of everything except the datacenter plans, which are just super not necessary/absurdly expensive

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