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721.
by giobox 4y ago
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - etc etc etc. It's becoming increasingly clear that many of these techniques that for the past 10 years that have been derided "pointless" or novelty now have real application
722.
by giobox 4y ago
Great! Maybe next time you can address the premises of my answer too, instead of inventing some new ones.
723.
by giobox 4y ago
I couldn't disagree more with the premise of this post. I've never been more productive at the terminal in 30 years. The thrust of your complaints appear to be you can't do company IM easily at terminal, but given most employ
724.
by giobox 4y ago
I don't think you really appreciate the scale of the problem, when any protocol can be used. Port/IP blocks simply are too blunt now, and once again you are screwed if app provider uses the same IP for illegitimate DNS as legitima
725.
by giobox 4y ago
And what happens when they start changing the port? It's a battle no one ultimately can win, in short term. The technical options available to get DNS by so many different means are so easy to implement, relatively speaking. Even a rea
726.
by giobox 4y ago
The key difference is the point of control: For PiHole today, most everything comes over port 53, and thus easy to track, monitor and block as required. Tomorrow, DNS requests can be on any port, to any server, on any protocol. This makes t
727.
by giobox 4y ago
This doesn't stop apps using things like DNS over HTTPS etc. PiHole works pretty great today, but developers are getting sneakier and sneakier about how to obtain outbound DNS. It's not just unencrypted port 53 all the time anymor
728.
by giobox 4y ago
So many times law enforcement take advantage of this too, to fingerprint devices. The number of people caught because someone leaks packets outside the VPN for a few seconds because they forgot to configure VPN to disable outbound data if V
729.
by giobox 4y ago
So much of what you receive is going to fall down to classic contention to backhaul ratios too (how many people connected to your tower, sharing a fixed amount of bandwidth etc). Just the presence of the "5G" signal tells you not
730.
by giobox 4y ago
It appears to be entirely at T-Mobile's discretion; they reserve the typical mobile carrier rights to shape any traffic they find unfavorable. I expect you will see the usual mobile industry reductions in throughput once you pass an ar
731.
by giobox 4y ago
If the crap security on these cheap cams is a concern, one thing that is pretty easy to do if you buy a "managed switch" or similar is put the crappy cheap IP cams on their own private VLAN with no internet access, firewalled from
732.
by giobox 4y ago
I'm not defending Meta, but what constitutes anti-competitive behaviour is often hard to define and requires a court process to ultimately decide - it's not a binary state one can easily recognize having entered or exited. If it w
733.
by giobox 4y ago
One thing which hasn't been great in all this is the communication from the Pi Foundation itself. I've been struggling to buy them for months, the only real public communication on the matter from them has been that blog post in A
734.
by giobox 4y ago
I have huge concerns about this, I think it's really hard for any publicly traded company who gets into ad-tech not to end up making some questionable choices. The incentive structure in the ad business is such that no matter how stron
735.
by giobox 4y ago
I mean, if Valve was just a deli or a corner store sure. It is very likely one of the most profitable-per-employee companies in the history of the world, and probably in the running for one of the most valuable privately-held companies in t
736.
by giobox 4y ago
The impetus is it’s an obvious vehicle to sell more games via Steam? I don’t think it is any more complex than this. AMD finally delivered a chip that can make the dream of desktop-ish performance in a handheld work. That simply wasn’t all
737.
by giobox 4y ago
I’m not ruling that out - naming a successor is much the same as selling - ownership still transfers to an entity which at this time is unknown. There’s all manner of odd ball alternative ownership structures in existence that can be consid
738.
by giobox 4y ago
I'd argue this to be a pretty dated take on Valve's strategy, personally. Gabe stated it was a hedge over 10 years ago, in response to the risk of Windows 8 moving to mandatory Microsoft Store: > https://www.forbes.c
739.
by giobox 4y ago
Realistically how does this end though? Unless technology is created to immortalize Gabe in a machine, at some point he presumably will want to sell or die. Does it just become a bozo filled public-company at that point, chasing quarterly n
740.
by giobox 4y ago
VR absolutely niche, but Steam Deck has delivered on its promise far more than I expected, and this seems to be being reflected in impressive sales. I'd happily place a bet today on there being a family of Steam Deck devices forming a
741.
by giobox 4y ago
It's also a game that arguably was directly limited by its advanced rendering techniques; the number of enemies on screen at any one time rarely exceeds four IIRC, corpses vanish almost immediately to reclaim resources, most environmen
742.
by giobox 4y ago
I think it's a huge stretch to say the two concepts aren't related. To take the example of the military; we have the "military industrial complex" which is the collection of private companies that form the vital part of
743.
by giobox 4y ago
I'm not arguing things don't fail. Entirely non-connected cars fail for all kinds of hardware/software related reasons too. One simply can't ignore the fact that today, including outside my own home, millions of cars upd
744.
by giobox 4y ago
One thing that is different regarding cars is that car industry executives have the benefit of hindsight here. Apple was not a trillion dollar business in 2007, in 2022 everyone pays attention. Apple's business model is clear; they wou
745.
by giobox 4y ago
I agree in most cases, with the main exception of Tesla. While not perfect, the responsiveness/design/ease of use in their cars is generally consistent and well executed. I'd still take Tesla's OS over CarPlay, personall
746.
by giobox 4y ago
Why does it not present hell in any other use case, such as computers, phones and games consoles, or actual cars on sale today? Why aren't Tesla or Rivian owners collectively going crazy - there are over 1 million Teslas receiving upda
747.
by giobox 4y ago
I think this is a fair take, and I've had similar thoughts too. However, one thing computer industry people don't seem to get is how much the idea of Apple owning the "dials" on the instrument cluster as shown in the key
748.
by giobox 4y ago
Is their Google search deal (~$400m a year) that expires next year being renewed? If not, might explain some of the desire to bite the hand that has fed it for so long.
749.
by giobox 4y ago
For sure, but I wouldn't recommend someone ignore things like Treasury I Bonds on account of the shitty website/customer service - especially at current rate above 9 percent. I had similar issues, they do resolve them if you get i
750.
by giobox 4y ago
This is nonsense. The last 2-3 generations of GPUs have seen nothing of the sort in terms of efficiency, the same is also true of many Intel desktop CPUs. The latest Alder Lake desktop parts from Intel have been universally criticized for p

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