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by epc 2y ago
There was an election in November 2024. The center–left candidate, Harris, lost. The reactionary–conservative candidate, Trump, won. Unlike many other countries, the President is both head of government and head of State in the US. The Pres
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by epc 2y ago
Haven’t worked in awhile (by choice) but the last time I was terminated for profits I spent the weeks leading up to the awkward conversation copying key personnel files / messages, reducing discretionary spending, and verifying that my
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by epc 2y ago
It is pointless to argue with you. All the relevant documents I should be able to link to have been purged from various Federal sites due to “DOGE” shenanigans. Congressional appropriations are how money is allocated, regardless of party in
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by epc 2y ago
If it’s a $100,000,000 contract then it was appropriated by Congress. Whether or not it’s “waste” is entirely irrelevant.
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by epc 2y ago
Pre–TSA each airport authority was responsible for security. In theory there was a common standard, in practice it varied greatly airport by airport and contractor by contractor. Am pulling this completely out of foggy memory but one of th
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by epc 2y ago
Google were the primary tenant for the years before the building went on the market, already owned 111 8th / 76 9th (the "Port Authority Inland Terminal" building across 9th Ave) and is a major tenant in 85 Tenth Ave. They al
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by epc 2y ago
I export our 1Password vaults more or less quarterly, encrypt them using openssl, and stash them in an encrypted, expiring, s3 bucket.
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by epc 2y ago
Depends on the box, the cheaper sites I just use Apache deny lists, the beefier boxes have pf/pfsense installed so use that.
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by epc 2y ago
I block entire /8 and /16s from China on my personal sites. They were swamping my bandwidth requesting the same pages or images 1000s of times a day. Start by blocking the tencent and alibaba cloud networks and then work down what
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by epc 2y ago
I'd still go for the .com. There's just too much stuff biased towards the holy trinity (.com/.net/.org). If you're ok with a country .tld then they're an acceptable second tier to me. There's an entirel
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by epc 2y ago
Steal the satoshi bitcoin stash.
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by epc 2y ago
Eight to twelve characters. Pronounceable in English. .com for any projects I care about getting traction. Not copyrighted or trademarked in the primary jurisdictions I care about (US). Lower priority: If it's mis-spellable can I grab
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by epc 2y ago
This was the pre-Gerstner era of the “Baby Blues”: Lexmark, AdStar, Pennant, Eduquest, Advantis/ISSC, and some others I’ve forgotten. In the end IBM spun off Lexmark, Federal Systems (to Loral), AdStar never spun out but was the divisi
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by epc 2y ago
If I were in your spot, today, I would write markdown format documents in a github repo (or comparable service). Focus now on capturing information, you will never find the perfect solution and it sounds like time is not on your side at the
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by epc 2y ago
No direct experience, but have helped a family member start up a business and invested in a few restaurants. Figure out how much money you're comfortable losing first. That is, assume it's a complete failure after a year or two,
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by epc 2y ago
I'm guessing "Foreign Institutional Investor."
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by epc 2y ago
The SE was just small enough that I could cart it in the bag that was available to/from my campus office. I recall being fond of the IIcx but couldn’t afford one even once I graduated.
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by epc 2y ago
Because some of us do not want to live in a country where your rights disappear the moment you cross a state line depending on your ethnicity, gender, religion, sexuality, nationality, etc.
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by epc 2y ago
finger. Four11 (not a protocol but I have this dim recollection of being able to point ldap at it before Yahoo bought them).
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by epc 2y ago
Out of paranoia I just checked and yeah, GoogleBot actual (and not the dozens of fakes) requested each 410'd URL at least once a month, some URLs get multiple requests per month. All have been marked 410 since 2014 or earlier.
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by epc 2y ago
From personal experience search engines don’t honor 404 or 410. I switched much of my personal site to returning 410 over a decade ago and Googlebot still returns on a routine basis re-requesting a document that hasn’t been on the site sinc
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by epc 2y ago
Wasn't a founder at the time so feel free to ignore the rest of this, but…after five soul crushing, burn out generating, years as the main guy in the dot com era I took a ~7 month sabbatical. It was awesome, totally reset and cleared
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by epc 2y ago
Publish it as a physical book, deposit it with the Library of Congress (or comparable institution in your jurisdiction).
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by epc 2y ago
I also found this but haven't validated it yet: https://github.com/femueller/cloud-ip-ranges
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by epc 2y ago
This is what I have, see another reply for shared IP lists: https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json https://www.digitalocean.com/geo/google.csv https://www.gstatic.com/ipr
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by epc 2y ago
Not that I know of, but each service seems to publish a list (some in text, some JSON). I’ll reply later with the URLs of the ones I have.
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by epc 2y ago
I’ve just taken to blocking entire swaths of cloud services IP networks. I don’t care what the intentions are, my personal sites don’t get the infinite bandwidth to put up with a thousands of poorly written spiders.
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by epc 2y ago
Whois doesn't support HTTP status codes, but the shadowserver sinkhole responds with: Domain not found. >>> Please update your code or tell your system administrator to use whois.nic.mobi, the authoritative WHOIS serv
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by epc 2y ago
It’s been kind of useless honestly. The city allowed the registrars to reserve many domains as “premium” domains, i.e. almost all neighborhoods were reserved with prices in the tens of thousands of dollars. Initially you had to specify a NY
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by epc 2y ago
I replied elsewhere but he didn’t just steal from the bank: “ After blowing through his own funds seeking promised profits, Hanes stole tens of thousands from a local church, then a local investor club, and finally his daughter's colle

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