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by fmajid 3y ago
Tom Cotton is a former military officer and attorney, he knew exactly what “no quarter” means, it is explicitly called out as a war crime in the Geneva Conventions. To accept that he misspoke or meant something else is the height of bad fai
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by fmajid 3y ago
Most Big Tech companies have entry points and partnerships beyond their own ASN, e.g. Apple partnering with CloudFlare for Private Relay, so relying on ASN alone is insufficient.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Workplace is essentially Facebook for business. It’s used internally at Meta, but also some large enterprise customers like Wal-Mart. Much better collaboration software than Slack et al in my experience.
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by fmajid 3y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/arizona-water-rio-verd...
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by fmajid 3y ago
Arizona is pretty much there already.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Orange is not just any telecom in France. It’s the incumbent, a bit like AT&T or Verizon in the US or BT in the UK, the French government still owns almost a quarter of the company.
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by fmajid 3y ago
The user is the French government who contracted Orange to build its portal and Orange forked the Lasso single-sign-on library without respecting the GPL or buying the proprietary license on offer.
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by fmajid 3y ago
To measure the intrinsic overhead of the mesh VPN, but your point is well-takem, robustness to latency is also an important consideration, probably more important when they are all within spitting distance.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Julius Streicher was executed at Nurenberg for just that, words. Vicious words he published in his newspaper Der Stürmer to demonize Jews and justify their extermination.
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by fmajid 3y ago
I do the same using self-hosted email, and wrote a web UI for Postfix virtual domain management to streamline this: https://github.com/fazalmajid/postmapweb
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by fmajid 3y ago
Works like pg_repack, but won’t deal with partitioned tables and you lose atomic schema changes of transactional DDL.
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by fmajid 3y ago
In any case, they are bumping against their NIC's performance, so they'd have to test using a 40GbE or 100GbE interface to show a difference.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Exactly, carriers have no way to know if a SMS comes from Twilio's legitimate or less legitimate clients, so they have to block everything. SMS is no longer the cash cow it used to be so tehy can't afford to spend lots of money on
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by fmajid 3y ago
Neither does Signal, or any mainstream secure messenger. For that you’d have to look at MIT’s Vuvuzela/Alpenhorn.
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by fmajid 3y ago
David Rosenthal has more on the horrific backstory behind “pig-butchering” scams: https://blog.dshr.org/2024/02/tracing-pig-butchers.html
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by fmajid 3y ago
Even Twilio has a hard time with deliverability of SMS due to spam blaclisting by carriers. There’s a reason why SMS delivery is so expensive, and why alternatives like WhatsApp want in on the action.
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by fmajid 3y ago
The form factor is not that great. Much later I got a HP95LX then a HP200LX, which were genuinely useful machines.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Fossil would be a breath of fresh air, and I use mercurial at work.
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by fmajid 3y ago
SourceHut? It’s a forge organized around an email rather than pull request workflow.
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by fmajid 3y ago
I had the Casio fx-780P. It was a piece of junk, even by the standards of the day.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Shell took a busy station next to my old office at South Park, San Francisco, out of commission for 6 months to install hydrogen pumps. Six months of forgone revenues, installation costs for likely no actual new revenues as most of those 2K
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by fmajid 3y ago
Agreed. Anything by Oracle is an automatic hard nope.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Exactly, you need to have Internet service, and the phone is an add-on to that. What you won't get is a standalone emulation of Alexander Graham Bell's Plain Old Telephone Service without also having to pay for the broadband.
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by fmajid 3y ago
The companies that used to make phone switches (Nortel, Lucent) went out of business over 2 decades ago and they are unmaintainable. Building modernized VoIP-based landlines that still offer the 48V analog POTS interface would be phenomenal
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by fmajid 3y ago
Nope: https://www.lefigaro.fr/langue-francaise/actu-des-mots/2018/...
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by fmajid 3y ago
OK, you got me curious. I took a candy tin lid, 0.22mm thick according to my micrometer. Using 80% power, 100 mm/s, 40kHz and a loop count of 300, I was able to cut through in about 3 minutes (letter K in your honor, Gill Sans, 1cm wid
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by fmajid 3y ago
Couldn't they find a nice house near the Wannsee, like normal conspirators would?
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by fmajid 3y ago
Oh hi again Kragen, I didn't notice it was you. This is the specific model (EM-SMart Nova 18W): https://www.em-smart.com/EM-Smart-Nova.html I don't have a depth gauge but I would guess 0.1 to 0.2mm. It's with
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by fmajid 3y ago
“When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done” ― John Maynard Keynes
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by fmajid 3y ago
I had the original Oculus Rift (tethered to a PC), the Oculus Go, the Quest 2 (paid for by my former employer) and now the Quest 3 (employer discount, I work for Meta but on WhatsApp, not Quest), and it’s a huge improvement over the Quest P

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