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by aftbit 2y ago
I've spoken to the people behind Livewire Telecom. It's very much not stale data, and very much still in service in a real telco exchange. They have tariffs and everything. I'm not sure if they have any actual paying customer
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by aftbit 2y ago
>The AMD on Linux fiasco is because the HDMI Forum has prohibited AMD from implementing HDMI 2.1 in their open source Linux drivers. I wonder why this didn't stop nvidia. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming&#x
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by aftbit 2y ago
I sorta tried this, using a single one of those large 4k curved monitors at my desk in San Francisco before the pandemic. It was alright, but I always liked having two 2k monitors more. At this point, as an Awesome WM user (there are dozens
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by aftbit 2y ago
There is something a bit spooky about looking at a dead brain. To think that a person lived in that their entire life, and now it's just lying on a table not doing anything. I guess that's true for whole bodies and all of their pa
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by aftbit 2y ago
There is also a step-by-step in Florida still in the public phone network. https://www.telcodata.us/view-switch-detail-by-clli?clli=LGW... https://www.telcodata.us/search-area-code-exchange-detail?np...
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by aftbit 2y ago
>first-principles explanations: most people experience an “illusion of depth”, in that they believe they understand the causal mechanics of an area far better than they do. But in fact, they have learned only a superficial model of the a
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by aftbit 2y ago
I disagree with both points. I would say he is indeed a Matt Levine of his field. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the author's argument though. 1. His posts are inside-baseball - this is true for some posts, but many are written to b
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by aftbit 2y ago
Github would definitely reach out if you tried to make 100k+ Github repos. We once automatically opened issues in response to exceptions (sort of a ghetto Bugsnag / Sentry) and received a nice email from an engineer asking us if we rea
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by aftbit 2y ago
Meta: I don't fully understand the HN policy on political posts this close to the US elections, but I went ahead and vouched for this, as it contains some interesting content. If I was wrong, I'm sorry! We continue to exist in two
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by aftbit 2y ago
I agree, but I'll argue that this is not responsive to my question, nor a reasonable goal in general. You cannot be _sure_ that a student isn't cheating without taking draconian measures, but you can likely catch a lot of lazy che
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by aftbit 2y ago
IMO, these layoffs are not caused by AI or because Google suddenly doesn't need engineers. Instead, we're seeing at least four effects collide: 1. Growth can't last forever. Big tech is moving from an exponential phase to a s
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by aftbit 2y ago
I haven't seen this discussed as much as I expected - is this even possible? Can a tool be built to - in general - determine if an LLM was used to generate text? Can a human even do it in every case? _Maybe_ you can detect default Chat
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by aftbit 2y ago
Say the same thing for automated spell check or the little blue grammar highlight built in to Google Docs and I'll buy it.
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by aftbit 2y ago
>Sometimes its a good thing that tools slow you down. This has been a major learning in devops too. Sometimes you want the tool to go slow, at least to start, to give a chance to Ctrl-C when you realize you've made a mistake. A bad
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by aftbit 2y ago
That's a feature, not a bug. :P Alright if you prefer: read PW; sleep 3; xdotool type "$PW" Or if it's already on your clipboard: sleep 3; xdotool type "$(xclip -o)"
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by aftbit 2y ago
I had an account on an online game way back in the day with the password 12346, and it got hacked inside of 6 months.
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by aftbit 2y ago
I do something like this surprisingly often when dealing with iDRAC/IPMI/etc: sleep 3; xdotool type "abc123"
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by aftbit 2y ago
I like to subvert those sites by just adding A1! to the end of every otherwise totally lower-case password. There is a special place in hell for anyone who creates a maximum password length limit, however. That prevents passphrases and gain
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by aftbit 2y ago
>Now, in order for a player to appear to us as a "fresh player" they would need to change their Steam ID, IP address and Steam installation folder. As you can imagine, no one is going to do the latter. Really? I would expect th
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by aftbit 2y ago
bupstash is new to me. That looks like a cool set of properties. I do wish it supported S3 and compatible APIs as a backup target.
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by aftbit 2y ago
I do wish there were a way to allow a machine to perform backups without also allowing to read them. I generate per-machine secret keys for restic, then encrypt those keys to a set of GPG recipients, and store them alongside the backup data
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by aftbit 2y ago
Zendesk could refuse to allow "ticket collaboration" if customers had a missing or insufficiently secure SPF/DMARC configuration, or at least make customers check a box that says "Tickets may leak their contents to anyon
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by aftbit 2y ago
Wait... it looks like Zendesk only fixed the issue of Apple account verification emails being added to tickets, not actually the underlying issue? >In addition to this, we also implemented filters to automatically suspend the following c
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by aftbit 2y ago
Well to some extent they did make it Mv3 an option, not forever but for an extra few months, with that enterprise policy flag. Enterprises used their weight to demand not a more secure browser, but an extra flag to allow them to keep runnin
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by aftbit 2y ago
The one that is the worst for me is Google Cloud console. It takes tens of seconds to update page state when trying to create or edit resources in Firefox, especially anything in Compute Engine. Chrome feels reasonably snappy, at least as g
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by aftbit 2y ago
I use a little `chrome-new` script to develop (and sometimes take video calls or use buggy apps) against a totally clean fresh Chrome profile, then I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and uMatrix for daily driving. #!/bin/sh
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by aftbit 2y ago
Oh yeah, back when Minio was good, before they decided that POSIX filesystems were "legacy technology" and nobody could want to use their product in combination with the cloud, only as an equally-locked-in replacement. Okay I&#x27
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by aftbit 2y ago
Yes, you got it 100%. I agree, it is not idiomatic, but was intended to call back the "death before dishonor" trope that your sibling commenter mentioned. I intended "dishonor" to cover a number of cases short of my deat
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by aftbit 2y ago
The "original" dead man switch as I heard about it was a pedal on a train that would apply the brakes if the operator released it. I've often wondered about how to reliably take software actions after my death or dishonor. Af
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by aftbit 2y ago
Is there a reason you need specialized assertions over something like Python's generic assert? >>> big = 2; small = 3 >>> assert big >= small, "big is smaller than small" Traceback (most rec

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