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by bostik 2y ago
Paprika is good, but I wouldn't elevate it to greatness. Whereas, for me, Perfect Blue makes the cut. The odd thing is, they both essentially explore aspects of the same theme: subjective reality and what happens when those of differ
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by bostik 2y ago
I hadn't realised Jin-Roh was from the same creator. And I can see why it wasn't a success: Jin-Roh is dark, properly dystopian, confusing, and unforgiving. But underneath there is a retold story of the little red riding-hood,
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by bostik 3y ago
And that is indeed a service worth paying for. LSEG data set has decent coverage for businesses outside US and Europe, and they are one of the few who offer fairly reliable UBO ("universal beneficial owner") data on top. They&#x27
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by bostik 3y ago
Myst may not have launched a genre, but it did establish its own kind of game style. 3D world. Adventure game mechanics, with problems and puzzles - but where progress opens up more puzzles, and where instead of developing the character s
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by bostik 3y ago
You nailed it. In my experience these "security" teams accumulate people who want PM level powers without having to deal with any of the accountability. The fact is that security is a holistic concept and can ONLY be evaluated i
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by bostik 3y ago
> a hell of a lot of engineering has gone into AWS' load balancers and network infrastructure Most of it hard earned, after having to deal with thousands of outlier events. An old friend used to run the Finnish election results se
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by bostik 3y ago
There are a couple of things wrong with the numbers. 1. Traffic is not evenly spread. The figures from the article (400M page loads per month) are subject to recursive 80/20 rule. 80% of the requests (320M) are served within 20% of t
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by bostik 3y ago
Rather unlikely. The bad actor never had access to git.tukaani.org, and the sshd version running on that host is: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.9p1 Debian-10+deb10u3 That is, a stable Debian release. Definitely not one with liblzma5:5.6.x
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by bostik 3y ago
> surely a decent password (long, random, etc) is for all practical purposes unguessable Sadly that is not how normies use passwords. WE know what passwords managers are for. Vast majority of people outside our confined sphere do not
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by bostik 3y ago
I'll bite. Real-time tracking of a person or their ground transport: not ok. Real-time tracking of a person's plane: ok. And the reason for such a distinction is that planes can only land on specific ground slots. That also means
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by bostik 3y ago
People like to harp on software written in C, and often for very good reasons. A vocal minority of those then whip out their calling card, "should have used Rust!" As a result, there is a sentiment in the peanut gallery that &quot
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by bostik 3y ago
> could have been in any language Bingo. This was a highly motivated, targeted, and well planned compromise of the supply chain itself. And funnily enough, using a memory-safe language could have actually made it less likely for this t
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by bostik 3y ago
Busybox has one big downside: the tools it provides tend to have a rather ... limited set of options available. The easy stuff you can do in a standard shell might not be supported.
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by bostik 3y ago
Resident keys are good for SSH (I've done my part to make their use more accessible: https://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/projects/yubikey-ssh.html ), although the overall usability can still be improved. We are
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by bostik 3y ago
Back in Finland I saw an incredible play: https://www.tinfo.fi/en/NPfF-Plays/48/I-Am-Adolf-Eichmann - the utter banality of the thing, how the convicted mastermind behind the genocide was "merely solvi
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by bostik 3y ago
When you embed the relevant (not necessarily that of object creation) timestamp as a prefix, it sure becomes one. Whether that prefix is part of the "path" (object/path/prefix/with/<4-digit year/)"
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by bostik 3y ago
When you consistently make decisions that knowingly prioritise profit over product safety[0], you have crossed the line between financial prudence and corporate manslaughter. 0: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts
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by bostik 3y ago
No no, you have those the wrong way around. You want your child's C++ experience be worthy of a Nabokov novel.
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by bostik 3y ago
Subscribing to a pricing data service: legal. Using data feed to guide pricing and set initial figures: legal. Agreeing, either implicitly or explicitly, to let the pricing data feed set the price floor : collusion. Leaving units unsold an
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by bostik 3y ago
I would say it's right about the middle of those two extremes. A well functioning service mesh (or even just a well maintained and discoverable ingress controller) is essentially invisible to the individual dev teams. Just think how mo
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by bostik 3y ago
Moon, Arrival and District 9. The last one would have been even better without the force-fed mecha segment, I think.
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by bostik 3y ago
Arrival is an incredible film. (And sure enough, as is the story it's based on.) That's even with the discounting factor of the useless rogue bombers subplot. Blade runner 2049 is an interesting film. Visually gorgeous. Ana de A
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by bostik 3y ago
That's definitely after my time. When I was there, the entire organisation was openly proud of their Prussian-flavoured, post-fascist culture. On the last full day of the penitentiary service, we were required to provide written feed
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by bostik 3y ago
Via google drive. It's not an automatic sync but it's sufficiently low-friction one for my purposes.
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by bostik 3y ago
Or as the Swedes call it: Management by Perkele [0]. Bonus points for inventively cruel and randomly meted punishments. 0: https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/2016571
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by bostik 3y ago
Yep, since about 2003. For the past decade or so I record the transactions on the mobile version, and use desktop software to dissect the data in more effective ways.
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by bostik 3y ago
See SEPA payments in EU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area Or UPI in India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface So to answer your question: with law on y
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by bostik 3y ago
I've been saying this for more than TWO DECADES : the entire "build vs. buy" is a false premise. There is no such thing as "buy". There is "build", and then there is "buy and build". Without the
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by bostik 3y ago
Consensus is a distributed systems problem. And in that space there are only two hard problems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery
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by bostik 3y ago
There is a difference between receiving purely textual content, strictly encoded as text, from third parties and consuming arbitrary binary content from arbitrary third parties. The worst I can receive is bile and propaganda. To this day,

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