bradfitz

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   by bradfitz 5y ago

   On the name: I knew jndi wasn't accurate (I read the 2016 blackhat slides) but the name I was going to use for the joke, log4g, was already in use and I didn't want to screw with their search results.
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   by bradfitz 5y ago

   I wrote this code. (note how my HN username matches the GitHub repo :)) I meant that it didn't take anywhere near an hour. (But I also didn't have a stopwatch out.)
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   by bradfitz 5y ago

   I wouldn't have wasted an hour on it. :)
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   by bradfitz 5y ago

   I considered it but stopped myself before actually running the response body from the HTTP GET. Too much :)
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   by bradfitz 5y ago

   I'm the author of the "mocking". I prefer to call it coping. :) I had a CVE against my own code just yesterday. It happens. I made fun of myself too: https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/1469015417679
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   by bradfitz 5y ago

   I almost stopped myself from posting it over such concerns, but I wasn't about to let all those minutes go to waste without sharing a joke to some. It was really just meant for Twitter banter. I was just screwing around bored in transi
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   by bradfitz 5y ago

   I wrote the repo. I preemptively apologized for the bad joke: https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/1469523009484431363 https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/1469523985998118925 It started w
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   by bradfitz 5y ago

   Maybe it sounded reasonable in the original German.
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   by bradfitz 5y ago

   > but that changes today! :) Exciting! :)
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    > ~~it's~~ Why are you calling that out? The original "its" was correct without the apostrophe.
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    But where's the app to _add_ a fake notch for old Macs?
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    While researching what Meson was after reading this, I was amused at this FAQ entry on their site: https://mesonbuild.com/howtox.html --- "How do I do X in Meson?" :)
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    Original source: https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    (Disclosure: Tailscale employee) I'll also note that the open source tailscaled runs on Windows and macOS. It just doesn't have a GUI.
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    Actually the version that's in the App Store does support alternate control servers. It just needs to be configured via MDM configuration ( https://support.apple.com/guide/mdm/mdm-overview-mdmbf9e668/... )
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    We're working on the key distribution trust problem. Stay tuned.
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    Not much to lose. Very few interested in self hosting are probably the type who are going to pay anyway! :) So worst case they help with the open source code or bug reports or they get sick of self hosting and pay (or use our hosted one for
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    Tailscale without a central server is raw Wireguard, basically. You can do that but then you lose Tailscale's automatic NAT traversal and packet relay fallbacks for when UDP is blocked or NAT traversal fails. Or you can self-host Tails
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    We (Tailscale employees) all feel that same pain so we continue to think about it. It's not the highest priority, but it's a priority.
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    In addition to userland Wireguard, we (Tailscale) also increasingly use Google's userland TCP/IP stack (netstack) for platforms that lack kernel facilities we need, when drivers aren't available, or when we lack permissions (
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    c'mon, they couldn't have named it the Amazon Genomics Toolkit CLI or something to get a T in there and then made the binary be named "agtc" instead of "agc"?
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    Not an entirely new idea... https://itwire.com/business-technology/good-news-bad-news-an... > And the free porn? According to Labovitz, it's just one incentive being offered to promote IPV6 "...IPv6 propon
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    Fun fact: search mars.google.com for "Jezero Crater", where Perseverance landed. "No results." I'm told that that's because who knows how that site works is still with the company.
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    Even Google's Go client for the GCE metadata uses an IP address: > Using a fixed IP makes it very difficult to spoof the metadata https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/commit/ae56891...
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    Tailscale | Remote (US or Canada) https://tailscale.com/ https://apply.workable.com/tailscale/j/DF581EE971/ We're seeking a full-time Windows Software Developer to join our growing team.
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    Tesla has multiple cameras on the front. See: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36542541/tesla-model-3-mo...
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    I built this for my ~1.5 year old who loves music: https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/1341470798825984001 .... a Raspberry Pi keyboard (no screen) with stickers on the keys that controls the Sonos.
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    The text says: > This material is extremely absorbent, and takes in moisture up to three times its weight. The image says: > [...] and takes in moisture up to 300 times its weight.
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    Oh right :)
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    by bradfitz 5y ago

    To promote my own tool, https://github.com/bradfitz/shotizam lets you drill down into why Go binaries are large without having to make up terms like "dark bytes".