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by dlenski 1y ago
45 minutes later, another reply here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44674209 ) suggests that Vodafone and O2 are indeed experiencing issues.
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by dlenski 1y ago
Yes, this is true. I had a great job in R&D at Intel, in a department full of PhDs, in the 2010s, then jumped to another semi company from 2015-20. Just before the pandemic in 2020, I got a job at AWS as a software engineer. It wasn&#x2
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by dlenski 1y ago
Are you being sarcastic, or does finance really involve this much garbage-in/garbage-out?
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by dlenski 1y ago
> I think America doesn't manufacture semiconductors because it is a very unclean process, full of nasty chemicals. It's expensive to make semiconductors and deal with the clean-up. There are less environmental restrictions and
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by dlenski 1y ago
Agreed. I'm rooting for the continued failure of everyone who locks down hardware (and software) to prevent its users from modifying or fully controlling it.
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by dlenski 1y ago
> a distilled report with clickable links back to the ai slop Goldmans et al sent out this morning. A summary with links back to AI slop is a _useful_ outcome? Why?
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by dlenski 1y ago
In my opinion, this article does a terrible job of explaining the technical mechanisms by which these blocks have been implemented, and the relationships between the entities involved. Trying to piece together the details, here's my
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by dlenski 1y ago
I had the same question (2). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560664 If it's only in the closed-source Chrome, then it seems it's intended to help Google's servers distinguish between Google's ow
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by dlenski 1y ago
Does the open-source Chromium generate this header as well? (Perhaps with a slightly different UA as input.) Or is it exclusive to the closed-source Chrome codebase?
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by dlenski 1y ago
Look, it's a great article, but the perfect title was right there. > What's my AEAD again, what's my AEAD again?
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by dlenski 2y ago
You're comparing blood sacrifices of animals and humans to… artistic signage advertising businesses?
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by dlenski 2y ago
> Or towns in various places that prohibit signage that is not in the same plane as the edge of the building (i.e. no sticky-outy signs). In many places where these signs are banned, old grandfathered-in examples have become beloved heri
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by dlenski 2y ago
I'm so sorry to hear of his death, and sending my prayers and wishes for peace and healing to his loved ones. I interacted with him directly only once, while working on a [buffering-related issue in Open connect]( https://git
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by dlenski 2y ago
The web server configuration was messed up, and serving the wrong certificate when loaded via IPv6. Fixed now . https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=snowpatch.org
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by dlenski 2y ago
I do think this approach would be fairly tractable within "hives" where most of the members have few-hop connections to all of the others, most of the time. The trouble is that there would be so many unpredictable cases: - Regul
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by dlenski 2y ago
It was 15 minutes’ worth of work. We were chatting about our different companies in the kitchenette, and I guess I mentioned some familiarity with DNS configuration. A few days later, a guy from Porkbun knocked on our office door and asked
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A total remote-control and remote-discovery vulnerability in IoT thermostats(snowpatch.org)
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by dlenski 2y ago
As I understand it, only Apple's own apps get the magical blessing to run in the background whenever they want.
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by dlenski 2y ago
I dunno why you're getting downvoted so much. This sort of thing seemed unthinkable a decade ago, or even in the first Trump admin, but definitely doesn't now. Other similarly-inclined regimes like Modi in India have proven the ef
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by dlenski 2y ago
> I haven't studied the protocol but that seems like it has some...obvious routing issues. Yes indeed. I don't understand how the peer-to-peer relaying can possibly scale without some directed routing algorithm. If my phone run
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by dlenski 2y ago
> It does if you consider that everyone can act as a relay. Let's think this through. Imagine civil war breaks out in Australia, and communications infrastructure is destroyed or shut off. I'm in Sydney and want to transmit a m
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by dlenski 2y ago
I used to work down the hall from Porkbun in a co-working space in Portland. They gave me a nice cozy hoodie for doing a bit of A/B testing for them. Nice folks! But how is this not just an ad?
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by dlenski 2y ago
Not in my experience. No user visible changes. There might be some fixes to bugs
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by dlenski 2y ago
The author also lives in a town called Scunthorpe. Can't catch a break.
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by dlenski 2y ago
I follow the same policy as you do with all non-open-source software. (With open source software, it's generally straightforward or at least possible to downgrade if something breaks… and I'm usually very confident that the softwa
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by dlenski 2y ago
Yes, with https://github.com/sedrubal/brother_printer_fwupd it's frequently possible. (I've contributed to it. Very useful tool.)
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by dlenski 2y ago
> I imagine what happened was that HP had a hard drive image they'd been loading on PCs since the early 2010s set up to dual-boot FreeDOS and a Debian kiosk installation with the digital manual. Someone at HP was tasked with making
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by dlenski 2y ago
> [C|E|V]GA support on modern video hardware can be flaky. Interesting. Do you think this is because the GPU’s support has bitrotted due to lack of testing? Or something else?
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by dlenski 2y ago
> Random forums keep popping up for credit card queries. For instance: > > River Boating Forum: https://www.riverdavesplace.com/forums/threads/best-credit-c... > Red Flag Deals: https://foru
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by dlenski 2y ago
> It would allow another source to downloading them from the Amazon website (as that is going away) on to a PC where stripping software can (in some cases) be applied. Right. I wonder how hard it is, or would be, to simply emulate whatev

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