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by buro9 3y ago
They're already written off SF decades ago, has no one ever stayed at the Whitcomb?! SF has some of the worst hotels I've seen anywhere. So much hasn't been updated for decades and it definitely shows.
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by buro9 3y ago
That's just the advertising industry
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by buro9 3y ago
Extreme cargo culting is how I've been thinking about it. It mostly looks correct, but there's no real understanding going on so even if it looks viable you still need the wit to verify whether what you see is actually correct. In
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Crowd sourced city overview maps(hoodmaps.com)
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by buro9 3y ago
Reminds me of https://hoodmaps.com/lisbon-neighborhood-map Which I discovered a few days ago whilst trying to find a Barcelona crime map of reasonably high resolution due to feeling bruised and tender for tackling a pickpoc
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by buro9 3y ago
I'm waiting for Cloudflare to open source their web server as promised. But failing that I'm likely to implement a web proxy that utilizes the wirefilter library that is already open sourced by Cloudflare (but no longer updated).
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by buro9 3y ago
I assume that there is a solution, that the solution is already known, and that it's my approach that prevents me from seeing it.
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by buro9 3y ago
Hardly any. I dip in from time to time. I tend to only comment on things I'm knowledgeable about or have reflected on, or that overlap to my experience. As such the comments tend to be relevant and to some degree insightful, and they g
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by buro9 3y ago
Ripe Atlas probe coupled with Prometheus: https://labs.ripe.net/author/daniel_czerwonk/using-ripe-atla... I get an alert for an internet outage (I use Grafana Cloud so the outage isn't preventing me from bein
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by buro9 3y ago
Those who date you because you're famous aren't high quality matches. There may be an argument that being famous is like being advertised to the widest possible group and that your matches should improve. But the argument I'd
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by buro9 3y ago
This tangent is in relation to my shuttering one forum. That forum was around a music band in the UK, and the audience of the forum turned out to be lower than expected - University age. They were emotionally immature, over-shared online, s
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by buro9 3y ago
You have no inherent right to other people's data, regardless of how they shared it or the visibility of it at the time they shared it. You are not owed the sum of human knowledge. If people wished for their content to be available to
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by buro9 3y ago
I designed most of, and built a chunk of, the WAF and firewall stuff at Cloudflare. That includes wirefilter (a wireshark display filter inspired firewall), and coupled with Cloudflare using maxmind you get to block ASNs in addition to othe
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by buro9 3y ago
I've only ever shuttered one forum, and that was at the behest of the community itself. A decade in and it had become a toxic place, everyone agreed that they wanted to give multiple new things a try and that the place in question shou
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by buro9 3y ago
It's a multi-tenant platform (about 300 forums, with the biggest being around 250K visitors per month), the database is on a vertically scaled box that is too excessive now the traffic has reduced, but I was able to delete a few of the
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by buro9 3y ago
Both myself and my partner have different Pixel phones on different phone networks, yet in the last few days we've both struggled to keep our phone charged and within 1-2 hours of being off a charger the battery empties to the point th
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Tell HN: Google App on Android is draining batteries within hours(issuetracker.google.com)
5 points by buro9 3y ago|2 comments
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by buro9 3y ago
I run some forums, some of them are quite large. Recently the big increase in scraping by the search engines (Bing has had the greatest increase) caused me to question why. It used to be that the cost of scraping came with the benefit of be
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by buro9 3y ago
5? I would've been it answered 3 or 6
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by buro9 3y ago
I'd need "find my" to be perfect before I trust it at all again. I set up a MacBook Pro with Find My, I changed the email on my Apple ID and no longer had access to the old email... time passes... I discover Find My does not
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by buro9 3y ago
I feel like I've been slowly de-Googling for many years now. A decade ago I was all-in, Chromecast Audio, Android, GSuite for a personal domain, Photos, Maps, Home products when they emerged. I'd made a bet that software could imp
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by buro9 3y ago
A steering wheel lock is better at preventing car thefts, something like this https://www.milenco.com/products/automotive-security/automot... Then it doesn't matter if someone gains entry to your car and is d
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by buro9 3y ago
Loki docs are here: https://github.com/grafana/loki/tree/main/docs/sources they are OSS. The last contributor to the docs was an hour ago (at time of writing this comment) and came from a maintainer
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by buro9 3y ago
They're 25 days late with this announcement, which is also about right for the UK gov.
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London Street Trees(apps.london.gov.uk)
4 points by buro9 3y ago|0 comments
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by buro9 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Storie... The story is cantered around the Sneetches, a group of yellow bird-like creatures. Some Sneetches have a star on their belly, thus making them special. Th
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by buro9 3y ago
The article mentions aircraft multiple times. Once a range is achieved through available energy, reducing weight is a goal. The energy is more useful the less weight you need to move as then you can shave off a bit more weight as less energ
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by buro9 4y ago
Semi related, What's the best markdown wiki for use within an intranet?
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by buro9 4y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2008/jan/07/personalfinanc... these things are still possible, you don't even have to know as much detail as this person gave out
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by buro9 4y ago
The best case is that this works. The worst case here is a lot of fraud for the people who shared their details.

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