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by hedora 5mo ago
I guess I should also point out that I’ve used AWS at extremely large scale in the past, which is why I’m running this subproject on another cloud. As for simple permissions, go read the UNIX paper. It spends a page or two on their approac
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by hedora 5mo ago
IAM is unnecessarily bad. I recently had to set a trivial policy, and was doing it correctly. The console kept warning me that I was giving root AWS access to my external application because they want people to use the locked in AWS path,
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by hedora 5mo ago
First amazon was abusive. They abused their monopoly position to gain market dominance over upstream and didn’t contribute back monetarily or with code. Next, upstream responded with a license change, then amazon escalated with the fork.
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by hedora 5mo ago
That’s good to know, but the spelling of the command is incredibly user hostile, even by modern apple standards.
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by hedora 5mo ago
Benjamin Franklin famously taught himself to write well by doing what you describe: Read a piece of a book, then rewrite it, then compare. At first his copies were badly degraded. Eventually, he was considered one of the best writers of h
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by hedora 5mo ago
Assuming O_DIRECT actually blocks until the SSD has acked (this isn't actually what O_DIRECT's contract says, but what they rely on), you have to wait until each page write acks whenever you need a persistence barrier. My guess is
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by hedora 5mo ago
> Google maintained its position, authorizing public disclosure on April 29. I'm surprised they honored the embargo at that point, and delayed the fix until May. Why not just release immediately?
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by hedora 5mo ago
So, somewhere, some government or organization might want to blow the user into kibble, and that's an important use case? I feel like this should be toward the top of the terms of service for the phone, even above the mandatory arbitra
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by hedora 5mo ago
Is there a way to just ban all these sites? Like a firefox plugin or whatever that detects this crap, and just bounces over to some place more reputable, like archive.is.
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by hedora 5mo ago
As someone that uses AI agents, this makes me want to install a browser plugin for "public windows" that just archives everything I see, and then farms out clicks of content that are missing from those sites. The result of this wo
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by hedora 6mo ago
Fords too. By 2006, they'd pulled all the Volvo intellectual property they could out of the acquisition and ported it to their flagship vehicles.
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by hedora 6mo ago
Unless they use a completely different transmission platform than the 1500 or Jeeps, I wouldn't bet on it. The transmission has an integrated computer that controls shifting, cooling, etc. The lines between that and the speedometer ar
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by hedora 6mo ago
It sounds like (from the earnings report) they now have four classes of users: - Identity verified adults - Identity verified kids - Anonymous adults - Anonymous kids The last three groups are in a “degraded” mode, I think. I imagine a larg
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by hedora 6mo ago
This is strong evidence they are doing child safety wrong. My kids want to play roblox, but we all know their primary customers are pedophiles and influencers. Actual parental controls would mean I’d let kids use this service (and so would
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by hedora 6mo ago
0%. Wait, that’s not true: In true regulatory capture fashion, I’ll bet the exemption requires some sort of testing/certification that makes it significantly more expensive for smaller firms to bring devices to market.
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by hedora 6mo ago
As I understand it, everything about the industry was better back then too. Case in point: Old Perry Mason shows where characters regularly drive to the airport, pay for a ticket and get on a plane. Flying was actually faster than driving
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by hedora 6mo ago
Southwest used to do this, but then somehow got a CEO that burnt it all down instead of raising ticket prices by $20-30. Before them Alaska Air was similar, and is now similarly bad. Having the customers actually own the airline seems like
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by hedora 6mo ago
Price / fanciness has nothing to do with the amount of telemetry (if anything, there is a weak negative correlation). BMW was one of the best for privacy the last time I checked.
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by hedora 6mo ago
But I've never seen portable kubernetes configs (except for vendor software that probably wouldn't be needed outside of kubernetes). If you just tell kubectl to dump your pod configs, then load them on some other cluster, that def
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by hedora 6mo ago
We definitely are already in the second regime. The credit rating industry just makes sure the bottom 99% of the decision making also happens in secret.
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by hedora 6mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_AP3SGMxxM
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by hedora 6mo ago
The anti-tivo clause bans things like Apple pre-installing GPLv3 software on macs, but allows them to let you use exactly the same software as long as they do not give users access to the binary. AGPLv3 blocks both use cases, GPLv2 blocks
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by hedora 6mo ago
The point of the Free in free software was always to protect the users of the software, not the vendors or the redistributors. (This is why the license focuses on the redistributors -- the mechanisms of the license limit their rights in
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by hedora 6mo ago
But, free software lost it's way around GPLv3. From the end user's perspective, GPLv3 says that you can only use the software if it's either a cloud service, on hypothetical open firmware devices, or if you install it yourse
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by hedora 6mo ago
Isn’t this going to immediately become daily news? Half the time I call a company they say “we are recording your voice for security / authentication purposes”. The companies that do that have all the information on me that they requir
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by hedora 6mo ago
This would eliminate the credit report, monitoring and fixing industry, which would be a good thing. Court records are public in the US. If creditors want to know if you’ve been in financial trouble, they should check for bankruptcies and
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by hedora 6mo ago
This, and because of that, claiming your app "runs in kubernetes" is completely meaningless. Concretely: Take your app. With one button click, or apt-get install ??? on all your machines, configure k8s. Now, run your app. The i
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by hedora 6mo ago
The only things that work around here are the thermacell repellents (they have a little butane fire that evaporates stuff off a mesh pad). Their effect seems pretty localized in time and space, but I wonder what's in them, and how pro
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by hedora 6mo ago
Even so, surely it would have been easier and better to just fix or replace dmix (in kernel, in the existing data path) than introduce a userspace daemon, break API compatibility, and so on. It’s been 20 years and pulseaudio is still flaky
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by hedora 6mo ago
Even back then, it could play more than one stream. You had to have a sound card or kernel drivers that supported it (and all non-obsolete ones did by the time pulse audio came out). I still don’t know what purpose pulseaudio serves, other

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