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by gunapologist99 2y ago
frequency analysis would probably fix your fix.
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
> The math still kind of works out How many Gates are there in a typical Harvard grad cohort? Are 5% of Harvard grads a Gates? If we're looking at lightning strikes, it seems like we should look at some of the most successful tech C
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Redis is best as an in-memory cache, not a database. Having used it in production for roughly a decade, I don't trust it's on-disk capabilities (AOF/RDB etc) as either solid or reliable (or even performant) in an emergency sc
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
It's interesting you say "backup/recovery" as a strong point of relational databases (servers), because backup and recovery on hot databases have always been a challenge. With many enterprise databases these days, often
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
This sample size of one would seem to disagree. Stress is stress, and the outcome can certainly be the same in the end. RIP
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Our Vanishing Internet: An Interview with Dr. Larry Sanger(piratewires.com)
2 points by gunapologist99 2y ago|0 comments
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
But it was already kinda fringe, even back in the late 90's. People would talk on AIM or AOL chat, but it was rarer to find IRC users among the hoi polloi.
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24418815/how-do-i-instal... , here's an example that you can just paste into your load balancing LaunchConfig and never have to log into an instance at all (just add y
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
It's worth bearing in mind that, although any of these can be accomplished with any number of other products as you point out, LB and Horizontal Scaling, in particular, have been solved problems for more than 25 years (or longer depend
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Agreed. It's also a lot harder, more expensive, and much more easily detected to buy off the majority of Congress than a single President or Secretary.
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Well, also what happened in the last 40 years was that the administrative state exploded in size. And, now, for every new law that Congress passes, unelected bureaucrats in federal agencies create TWENTY-SEVEN new laws. https://w
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
If a supermajority of people agree on both the purpose and implementation of anything, then their elected representatives will easily come to an agreement as well. That's literally how laws get passed. Conversely, not passing laws is
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
(It's a myth that there's an IRS 7 years 'statute of limitations'. It's far more nuanced than that: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe... ) However, it's still a
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Krebs has some respect in the community for things like haveIbeenpwned and his in-depth exploration of various security issues, but it looks like he got this one wrong.
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"Sitting Duck" DNS Flaw Is a Red Herring(domainsure.com)
9 points by gunapologist99 2y ago|1 comments
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
In that case, you might just email your host's support team and ask them directly.
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Check the terms of service and the acceptable use policy of your host; even if the DMCA doesn't apply to you directly, it would apply to a U.S. based host, and you agreed to their terms when you became their customer.
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
... a literal sniff test? from what I hear (not having been there in more than a few years), it's become quite a problem.
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Not exactly. Yes, the certs expire, so they can't log in again , but existing sessions are not terminated. With Userify, sessions (like tmux or screen) actually get terminated within seconds when the user's access is removed. Tha
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Yeah, you can go a long way with a single line added to the top of your .ssh/config like: Include ~/.ssh/config.d/2024/*
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
cassh is a manager for CA's in SSH. CA's were added to SSH to satisfy people who thought PKI was a good idea; it's not, and SSH pubkeys are far better IMO. Better to use a tool like Userify (or similar like SSH.com) for pubke
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
One key per laptop.
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
(Or Userify installed with Ansible..)
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
You're right, and there are probably also many opportunities to invent new tools and techniques and pursue entrepreneurship, for those so inclined.
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
"inside the cultural revolution at wikipedia, which pivoted it from a decentralized database of all the world's knowledge to a top-down social activism and advocacy machine" (by Ashley Rindsberg)
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How the Regime Captured Wikipedia(piratewires.com)
7 points by gunapologist99 2y ago|1 comments
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Exactly - two guys in the plumbing dept were happy to haul it up to the attic and install it. They probably quadrupled their hourly rate for a few hours and got finished by 9pm on a Friday night.. so they probably burned through some of tha
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
I agree. I love coding and don't think I'd like non-creative work as much, but there's definitely nothing wrong with trades; it's honorable work, and I'd encourage anyone to seriously consider it if they weren'
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Agreed. And he probably doesn't even have to. (Incidentally, swing by your local big box store at closing time and ask the guys in plumbing if they want to make $500 or $1000 by putting in a water heater tonight; that worked for me, an
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by gunapologist99 2y ago
Not all trades require additional backbreaking labor in order to make top rates. Some of these trades have specialties that require a great deal of training, skill, and experience, and pay is commensurate. For example, telecom, electrical,

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