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by elevation 6mo ago
What I would love to have is a few compact dialup-to-wifi bridges so I could wifi-ize 30 year old hardware. Would be neat to read email with an old POP client, or chat over the original AIM software (perhaps patched to use a server on the L
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by elevation 6mo ago
I had a client once who used a USB SIM modem as an out of band alert system set to text IT staff if certain monitoring thresholds were detected connected —useful if the Internet post were damaged. At the time, 10DLC wasn’t a concern in the
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by elevation 6mo ago
I remember having an old Nokia phone that would expose the AT command set over a USB tty, yet still be useful as a handset. This feature wasn’t advertised in the box, I found it accidentally. Would love to find a low cost phone like this
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by elevation 6mo ago
Any funds you'd recommend that would preserve the legacy 1 year watch period?
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by elevation 6mo ago
> peltiers) are essential Peltiers have a lifetime measured in cycles, cycling from active (maximum delta Temp) to inactive (both sides ambient). After 1-2k cycles, Peltiers gradually lose efficiency and transition from a heat pump to a
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by elevation 6mo ago
If I ever become a life coach for small business owners, I don't know how I can recommend GSuite. Horror stories of "I've lost everything I had with them" are so plentiful I've stopped saving them. Seems like even
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by elevation 6mo ago
> as most people imagine it Which is to say, a conventional ransom: "pay us to restore your un-backed-up files". But if the attacker has already exfiltrated your files to machines you don't control, and the ransom is &quot
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by elevation 6mo ago
Ransomware as most people imagine it is a solved problem. After a close call, my employer invested in ZFS-backed storage. Our recovery time for recovery from accidental deletion went from "days of copying from offsite backups" t
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by elevation 6mo ago
The point was that Amazon wasn't independent from the frenzied, leveraged land grab that characterized the .COM bubble. Like many other companies, they were hiring aggressively until the bubble burst. Whether or not the companies wen
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by elevation 6mo ago
The .COM bubble was more than a divot because .COMs in so many industries employed so many people. There was amazon.com, but also pets.com, lowermybills.com, gateway.com. But if our economy somehow loses access to AI (rationing due to war
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by elevation 7mo ago
10 years ago, a non-technical friend gifted me an eMachines tower that no one bought from his uncle's estate sale. I loaded with ubuntu server, racked it up and ran a business off of it, storing some backups, generating 500+ daily cus
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by elevation 7mo ago
16MB still seems massive for this kind of app. I ran Visual Studio 4, not an app, but an entire app factory, on a 66MHz 486 with 16MB RAM. And it was snappy. A TODO list app that uses system UI elements could be significantly smaller. Wh
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by elevation 7mo ago
I wonder if a "woot" style service could work. If 10K like-minded consumers made a group-buy every 2-3 years, a high-end panel vendor might be willing to provision a new SKU with a few firmware tweaks.
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by elevation 7mo ago
> caveat emperor s/emperor/emptor I hope your friend's company spends $20K to harden the deployment of the new app so it doesn't become a deep liability.
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by elevation 7mo ago
Goodwill with hiring managers is good. But in a down economy it'd be helpful to boost your reputation more broadly. If I were running your college's program, I would invest in a presence at Defcon. If just one your students coul
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by elevation 7mo ago
None of the top cyber security talent I've worked with went to school for it, and I have been underwhelmed by what I see coming from college programs. These kinds of credentials themselves are not a signal of quality to me.
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by elevation 7mo ago
Wireguard exemplifies the superiority of a qualified independent developer over the fractal layers of ossified cruft that you get from industry efforts and compliance STIGS. So it feels wrong to see wireguard adapted for compliance purposes
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by elevation 7mo ago
> For most casual acquaintances You may feel this way, but it feels a lot different when you learn that one of your acquaintances has died. I enjoyed a brief intellectual conversation with a professor at the end of a semester. When I re
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by elevation 7mo ago
Looks like an arbitrary validation cap. By the time we're maxing out the 64-bit underlying representation we probably won't be using Ethernet any more.
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by elevation 7mo ago
I recently built a brilliant work in my domain by directing LLMs. I used C++ and a knowledge of data structures and algorithms to achieve 3+ orders of magnitude of speed up. I generated custom data structures which I designed to have the
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by elevation 7mo ago
I'd never heard of OpenFGA and considered playing with it. The ideal demo for me would be granular permissions in an application like gitea/forgejo. Since they're both golang binaries I could spin this up in a lab pretty qu
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by elevation 7mo ago
One of the first tasks I had for Claude was to build a protected KV store out of keepassx.cli. Out of the box I got a beautiful gui for seeding initial secrets while giving me a nice scriptable, non-interactive tool for injecting secrets i
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by elevation 7mo ago
How would Arrow undercut you? An R&D firm I know is constantly spinning low volume prototype designs with wildly different BOMs; they treat Arrow reps like North Korean spies. But another crank-turning design firm I know trusts Arrow to
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by elevation 7mo ago
Any serious journalist/aid work efforts should be doing the same. It's too easy for countries to disable terrestrial internet to suppress reporting. And it's too easy for AI to generate believable but false video evidence.
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by elevation 7mo ago
Private equity is a huge inflation driver. I'm thrifty, and for years I enjoyed a $10/mo phone provider, ~$12.39 with taxes. I even evangelized this carrier with some young parents who were struggling to get financial traction w
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by elevation 7mo ago
> I'd need to make a few dozen different fonts & have it randomly pick between them I took this approach once and enjoyed the result. I filled out 10 copies of the template of a handwriting font generator and generated all 10 f
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by elevation 7mo ago
I run my business on Ubuntu. Will be pivoting to Debian.
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by elevation 7mo ago
I’m with you here. I grew up without a mentor and my understanding of software stalled at certain points. When I couldn’t get a particular os API to work, in Google and stack overflow didn’t exist, and I had no one around me to ask. I wro
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by elevation 7mo ago
If you have a library that you want to keep out of the landfill, your job is not storing them, but convincing another human being (who's younger than you) that the books are of value. If no one you know has ever borrowed or expressed
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by elevation 7mo ago
The moral disposition of the Anthropic leaders doesn't matter because they don't own the company. Investors won't idly watch them decimate billions in ROI by alienating the largest institutional customers on the planet.

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