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by efitz 2y ago
I call this “fail normal” and it has been a foundational principle of all my smart home automation.
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by efitz 2y ago
I was excited when I upgraded my NetWare 3.11 servers to NetWare 4, installed the TCP/IP update, and went to enable it. Then, I saw the UX. You had to configure IP addresses as dotted HEX quads. It was pretty obvious that someone at
573.
by efitz 2y ago
Oh man this brings back bad memories- I had forgotten about the Bindery. I was a CNE (3.X) back in the day.
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by efitz 2y ago
I was advocating for a paper fall back. That means that WHILE the computers are running, you must create a paper record, eg “medication x administered at time y”, etc., hence the receipt printers, which are cheap and low-dependency. The g
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by efitz 2y ago
This. Anyone involved in designing and/or deploying a system where an application outage threatens life safety, should be charged with criminal negligence. A receipt printer in every patient room seems like a reasonable investment.
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by efitz 2y ago
Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson had a subplot where a main character used morse code on his keyboard, or some other layered encoding on top of the keyboard, to write software and communicate surreptitiously even while his screen was being
577.
by efitz 2y ago
Wait, what, Voodoo doesn't work? Has this been studied?
578.
by efitz 2y ago
Microsoft sold (maybe still sells) Home Server and Small Business Server which were turnkey solutions that included directory services, file & print sharing, and other stuff.
579.
by efitz 2y ago
This caught my eye and I started reading over it but my eyes glazed over after a couple of sections of setting up various docker containers in various zfs directory structures and editing toml configuration files and zzzz… Here’s a hint: fo
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by efitz 2y ago
Several financial institutions I work with require 2FA with SMS, and do not offer an option for HOTP/TOTP. FML.
581.
by efitz 2y ago
There should be more choices rather than "find another company". The problem is that it is an economically valid argument to say "if I don't, someone else will". I believe that professions should have codes of ethi
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by efitz 2y ago
The app-based barcodes don’t seem to be solving a security problem for customers - they seem to be for the purpose of ensuring that traditional scalping doesn’t work, forcing ticket resale into a market that TicketMaster can profit from. I
583.
by efitz 2y ago
No, the first amendment allows PEOPLE the right of free speech. The core of my argument is that corporations themselves are NOT people. The individuals who work for (or own stock in) a corporation are people and can do what they want; the
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by efitz 2y ago
Last I saw, the word “extremist” wasn’t in the first amendment. And in any case it’s highly subjective.
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by efitz 2y ago
Not true- as an individual you are liable for everything you do. Incorporation shields personal assets from corporate liability and usually shields corporate officers, and in any case corporate officers usually have officers & directors
586.
by efitz 2y ago
There are two problems around free speech in America, as I see it: 1. There are a small but very loud minority of people on the far left who are authoritarian and want to suppress all speech that they don't like (there are such people
587.
by efitz 2y ago
I appreciate it, but why not just: alias wcurl="curl -# -O $1" (I just tested this on MacOS).
588.
by efitz 2y ago
Did Engadget jump the gun on this one? I don't see a link, blog post or press release on any of Proton's sites, and I don't see a link in the article.
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by efitz 2y ago
Paying customer for many years. I like Proton Pass and switched to it about a month ago from 1Password. It's not quite there yet; I'm thinking of switching back. There are still some sharp edges like lack of support for credit c
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by efitz 2y ago
An impeachment (by the House of Representatives) is analagous to an indictment. The trial is held in the Senate, and the Senators serve as a judge-less jury. Partisan impeachment is rightfully difficult, by design. Juries either have to be
591.
by efitz 2y ago
I loved the author's point on "incidental complexity". I would point out though, that even if you CAN explain why something is complex doesn't mean it SHOULD be complex. When the subject of "tech debt" comes u
592.
by efitz 2y ago
Alternative interpretation: The courts just remedied a situation where the executive branch of government had arrogated to itself powers reserved to the legislature by the Constitution. Notably another case ruled on this week did the same t
593.
by efitz 2y ago
But now that the ruling potentially exposes the Sacklers directly, they have much more incentive to negotiate a new settlement. If the plaintiff's attorneys are clever, they will leverage this to come to a quick settlement of approxim
594.
by efitz 2y ago
Despite the title “tracing garbage collection for arenas”, the article is not about analysis of sanitation practices at sports facilities.
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by efitz 2y ago
Infosec guy here. When you work for a company, the computer issued for your use is not your computer. It belongs to the company. Modern threats often target the user, and often through the web or email. The user is the target. Of course
596.
by efitz 2y ago
The other big problem is that in the case that you get on Apple’s bad side for whatever reason, you now lose your passwords to everything.
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by efitz 2y ago
And that is one of the reasons why medical insurance is so crazy in the United States nowadays - it’s no longer used to hedge catastrophic unpredictable events (which used to be called “major medical”), but instead is used to pay for normal
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by efitz 2y ago
This is the image (the one on the left): https://media.wired.com/photos/5c5354d391d0df22c1dee493/mast... The one on the right is a recent re-creation as the model is now in her late 60s.
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by efitz 2y ago
I never said LOTR is one big trope. I said the Shire storyline re: Saruman was a trope. I happen to love LOTR anyway and have read it many times; I just am not blind to the themes in it.
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by efitz 2y ago
The reason that there is no discussion of the economics of the Shire in LOTR is because it’s not relevant to the story and the land and the people are all fictional. It doesn’t have to work. Tolkien was setting up a dichotomy between the

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