drenginian

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Ask HN: My local supermarket is running short of certain goods. Is yours?
2 points by drenginian 7y ago|0 comments
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by drenginian 7y ago
What’s the tldr?
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by drenginian 7y ago
“In any crisis, leaders have two equally important responsibilities: deflect responsibility and hold on to power.”
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by drenginian 7y ago
Instead of preparing, Trump disbanded the US pandemic response service.
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by drenginian 7y ago
Digital Ocean bandwidth is 1 cent per gigabyte.
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by drenginian 7y ago
There will be a plague of ducks. Well then need 100,000 of whatever preys on ducks to eat them. Etc etc
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Ask HN: Do you feel comfortable learning new technology at work?
6 points by drenginian 7y ago|3 comments
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by drenginian 7y ago
Can someone please help me understand what exactly this is?
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by drenginian 7y ago
>> People just run a local resolver that’s support’s these things. Nowhere do “people just run a local resolver”. Grandma and aunty Beryl certainly don’t, nor does any other ordinary person. If you want secure DNS you have to build it
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by drenginian 7y ago
Well it’s absolutely happening right now to every unencrypted DNS server, so what’s your point? DNS is the most openly insecure aspect of the entire internet. It’s wide open.
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by drenginian 7y ago
>> We invented DNSCrypt. There’s also DNS over TLS. Lots of ways to encrypt DNS without centralization. Ummm so what’s the downside then? Are those services arcane and hard to use and utterly forbidding blackest black magic, like almo
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by drenginian 7y ago
Why are people so down on DNS over HTTPS? DNS is the primary way governments control and spy on web access.
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by drenginian 7y ago
You really think people in China haven’t been scared out of doing risky things like eating wild animals?
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by drenginian 7y ago
If they’d bought it they’d probably have led it to failure. There’s a lot more to success than buying a company. The politics of blockbuster /the “old tech” being the owner would have been disastrous.
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by drenginian 7y ago
How old are you?
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by drenginian 7y ago
Well we are in a future where there will be no more winters. Already where I live it’s getting crazy hot in the middle of winter.
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by drenginian 7y ago
It’s not a problem of software engineering, it’s a property of software engineering.
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by drenginian 7y ago
Name the company in a separate headline HN post. Normally ghosting is expected, but since you put in so much effort it’s really disgraceful to not give you a phone call and at least some sort of vague phony explanation. What is it that woul
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by drenginian 7y ago
Centralized dns over http may be bad for privacy but unencrypted dns is much much worse.
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by drenginian 7y ago
How about you tell us? How did it work out? You can’t allude to something juicy and say nothing.
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by drenginian 7y ago
Just do a Tell HN: Bank of Foogistan stores passwords in plain text. Don’t agonize about it so much it’s not like you’re going to hurt the banks feelings. No one will notice or care anyway and banks deserve what they get if they do this. An
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by drenginian 7y ago
This scheme disconnects the founders from responsibility for the outcomes. God the politics that would arise from this would be soul crushing. Imagine being in a company like this..., who is really the boss ? Is the founder in charge, or i
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by drenginian 7y ago
So all the startup founders wanting to succeed will now to eclectic and interesting things on saturdays.
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by drenginian 7y ago
Sounds vague. I’d say do like bill gates and put the billions directly into worthwhile causes instead instead of suggesting the trickle down will be unquantified but amazing.
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by drenginian 7y ago
Im no less a science fiction fan than the next person but the whole “colonize Mars” thing is stupid and wasteful and arrogant and really pounds the message that billionaires are deeply deeply out of touch with the rest of society. Not only