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by _jal 5y ago
"Weighs as much as a garden hose long enough to circle the earth almost 18 times."
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by _jal 5y ago
> Block AWS CIDR ranges ? I do, actually. There is zero reason for anyone to use EC2 instances to contact my personal public machines. > With IPv4 exhaustion increasing numbers of people will be using IPv4 allocations across geograph
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by _jal 5y ago
You really don't want to do that. We use one of those services, too, and you have to use a very light touch. Just using them at all makes people paranoid. If there are people you find who pose a risk, yes, you should do something about
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by _jal 5y ago
Ah, thanks, couldn't see your grin through the font I'm using.
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by _jal 5y ago
Like what? I'm unaware of other ways to get consistent listings of new content at various sites in a machine readable format.
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by _jal 5y ago
This is everywhere, and there is no escape. I do occasionally blow things in to Postgres for my own sanity, but it usually isn't worth it, and even when it is, data goes back out to other people in CSV. As just one example, if your sec
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by _jal 5y ago
> Tell me why should technological change benefit workers? Tell me why should the prior arrangement where there was what many feel was a more equitable arrangement not continue? > I am my own employer. Congrats. I was self-employed f
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by _jal 5y ago
> getting downvoted In the US, you're entitled to free speech. You're not entitled to respect, or even an audience. And I'm sorry, but if getting downvoted is political oppression to you, you need to grow some skin. > S
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by _jal 5y ago
The fact remains that the bargain has changed over the last 40 years, with the bulk of the benefits of technological change not reaching workers. Now it is becoming common for even well-paid jobs to move to an assumption of no annual raise.
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by _jal 5y ago
> Discourse around dissent of the popular narrative is simply not allowed What are you talking about? You're dissenting right here. People do it in the national press daily, as they have been for literally years now on this particul
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by _jal 5y ago
> You make it sound so ominous It is like a group of folks only recently discovered the marketing value of being "banned". A lot of them apparently just noticed punk rock this decade, I guess. And so you get amazing spectacles
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by _jal 5y ago
Shame about that other environmental nasty thing related to proof-of-work that renders the entire earth somewhere you'd prefer not to raise a kid.
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by _jal 5y ago
> discovery of places where the price of energy is directly subsidized, or otherwise broken So, an anti-state financial mechanism subsidized by governments and fraud. There is nothing new under the sun.
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by _jal 5y ago
There appears to be a weird blind-spot when discussing COVID outcomes - anything short of death appears to be discounted or ignored. So hospital issues, long COVID, etc. just don't exist, so catching it either didn't matter or you
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by _jal 5y ago
For better or worse, western governments are well past the size at which different parts find themselves in tension with other parts. Recognizing that helps understand why they act the way they do. It is entirely possible for one part of a
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by _jal 5y ago
They'll fraudulently open accounts for you too, so it all balances out.
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by _jal 5y ago
Happy to give them credit. I just refuse to give them my passwords. > The only thing I pay for is the managed hosting Funny, I was happy to pay them until they removed my ability to store it myself. edit: > CVEs are relatively mild co
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by _jal 5y ago
Nope. Keeping my secrets store on someone else's computer is simply not compatible with my threat model. Yes, they say it is encrypted, and I believe them and believe they're competent. But competent people write vulnerable code a
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by _jal 5y ago
> I find it super interesting that people want to get other people in trouble over (often) things that don't negatively affect them I find it super interesting that people don't see a gradient here. On one extreme, you have som
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by _jal 5y ago
The third stage of internet arguments: arguing definitions
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by _jal 5y ago
A side effect of deciding systems engineers can be replaced by devops. In reality, you want both. A good systems person can save you a ton of money.
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by _jal 5y ago
Think of it as a reference implementation that, in a perfect world, hardware vendors would proudly target.
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by _jal 5y ago
> Or consider unlimited vacation for developers. Is there any evidence that developers (or anyone else with "unlimited vacation") take more time than they did previously? I've assumed that was more akin to "open offic
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by _jal 5y ago
Yeah, it is kind of amazing how quickly 1pw went to hell. It was a great app at one time. Then they forced cloud storage, subscriptions, Electron... it is like they decided to start acting like a private capital sunsetting cash extractor.
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by _jal 5y ago
I mean, you can say that about residentially-stored explosives, too. This isn't about what one can do, it is about what is prudent. Grindr just learned a lesson about the difference.
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by _jal 5y ago
You are translating "legal threat" into "asking for data". And your 'learning' comment makes me think this is a cause for you. That's fine, and I even applaud what I take to be the motivation behind it. Bu
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by _jal 5y ago
> Why aren't these extended to credit consumers in general Take your pick: - Finance companies have effective lobbyists. - Americans demand All The Freedoms. (Except for those freedoms.)
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by _jal 5y ago
They were talking about JBIG2, not PDF. JBIG2 has been in the news periodically for a different sort of problem - you can't trust it to accurately represent what was scanned: https://www.theregister.com/2013/08&#x2
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by _jal 5y ago
Unless you're studying how people react to online legal threats, why would you not try to avoid this problem with your study entirely?
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by _jal 5y ago
The issue here was not primarily about deception. It seems mainly to be that (a) at least one recipient interpreted their mail as a legal threat, and (b) it was a mass-mailing. Spend a minute thinking through the implications if that were t

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