jmbwell

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by jmbwell 2y ago
Yeah but so many things bypass internal resolvers lately. VPNs, “private relay,” individual apps. DNS over HTTP. Local control over DNS is steadily being chipped away. The result is some apps will go out to public or vendor-controlled DNS i
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by jmbwell 2y ago
I wish more developers would seek out and embrace libraries for saving things in sensible locations. Python has one called “platformdirs” that takes the guesswork out of where to save things automatically for the user’s platform. I have no
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by jmbwell 2y ago
Same. I’ve relinquished control over all the OS-provided directories to Adobe and Microsoft and go and whatever else assumes I want its crap in those locations. Above someone jokes about just putting everything in Desktop, but honestly, it’
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by jmbwell 3y ago
The story is about gambling, but the headline is applicable all over the place, not least here on HN, even. And if you liked this content, you might be interested in my book based on my seminars based on my podcast. Be sure to like and su
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by jmbwell 3y ago
In the stories he’s listing in the article, plenty of organizations were taking the “team x” positions he describes. It’s not like NPR had the only newsroom having to make choices. Summing it up as a lack of transparency (would he rather sa
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by jmbwell 3y ago
In fairness, all that soft-outrageous shit is actually happening. But yes, turning off the news from time to time is, in general, good for your health.
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Being buried by Google because there’s a more marketable search result isn’t the same as being lost to time. Not yet anyway
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by jmbwell 3y ago
I like the idea of looking up a given project and seeing a list of other projects by the same contributors across all the various hubs. That's a big use case for IMDB for me... _"wow, what an actor/director/writer; I won
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by jmbwell 3y ago
In some cases, running docker containers using the vendor-provided docker compose file, inside a VM that you yourself provision according to your own needs using your own tooling (ansible etc), is the best approach, which at this point is r
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Yep, "UV eraser" confirmed by an elmer I know. A unit with a drawer and a timer knob, he says you'd typically set for 30 minutes. He says he does recall people calling it "flashing," but not until much later, by whi
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by jmbwell 3y ago
It does look like all the references I can find point to engineers at Toshiba in 1980 coining the name, although Google ngrams shows some references to "flash EPROM" prior to 1980, so I can't help but wonder if the idea exist
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by jmbwell 3y ago
I always thought 'flash' was a holdover from early reprogrammable ROM technology, non-volatile memory that you could erase by literally flashing a literal flashbulb over a little window on the chip. I would've sworn in a cour
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by jmbwell 3y ago
And the sleeping cat has no idea what's going on right behind it!
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Sure, but it's not like humans in all parts of the world haven't been proposing models for understanding happiness in some form or another since before the written word. If it were possible to compare every model for happiness eve
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Anecdotally, in Houston at least, it does seem true that people come back from travel abroad and talk about walking around, using public transit, and if renting a car, only for drives through the countryside or a particular tour. And then c
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by jmbwell 3y ago
One more rule written in blood. How much abuse has it taken to reach this point? Incalculable. This is how you do it. Come in as a "disruptor," ignore all the rules the establishment has already learned the hard way, and make shit
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Yeah, what exactly is Lego? Painting? Playing music? Model railroad? Ham radio? It’s a place to learn while playing pretend. LARPing enterprise IT if you like. Why wonder what the point is?
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by jmbwell 3y ago
If a home lab is for tinkering, it’s something to play with first of all, but it also helps facilitate re-patching things or moving things around, which in many cases you can do one port/cable at a time without interrupting services. I
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by jmbwell 3y ago
I use one of these. For a system that’s honestly mostly idle, it’s plenty for proxmox with Plex and pihole and whatever else, and it’s good on power and heat and noise. I made the mistake of getting Seagate 10TB rock tumblers, but they’re t
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by jmbwell 3y ago
It provides a way to preliminarily validate the number without having to waste an API call for verification of a malformed number. If it doesn't check out, you can kick it back immediately. I don't know whether this was the intent
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Well I’ve hosed my MacOS 9 machine trying to do this. Note, it doesn’t work with Mac OS 9! Now I get to enjoy the retro activity of getting a Mac to boot again after a botched installation…
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by jmbwell 3y ago
I wonder whether those drops might have used dry loops from the phone company, which used to offer circuits with no power or dial tone ostensibly just for alarm systems (but which could otherwise be used creatively). Maybe they were effecti
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by jmbwell 3y ago
My dad’s favorite movie growing up. He thinks of himself as Balloo incarnate. But I also have plenty other Disney songs memorized. Might be my only real talent!
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Or the prickly pear If you prick a raw paw, next time beware! Don’t pick a prickly pear by the paw, when you pick a pear try to use the claw! But you don’t need to use the paw when you pick a pear of the big pawpaw Have I given you a clue?
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by jmbwell 3y ago
In about 2005, while I was IT for a startup, I worked with a counterpart at an investor (Deloitte maybe?) whose job was largely coordinating video calls in advance of meetings. We’d exchange IP addresses and SIP addresses and whatnot so tha
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by jmbwell 3y ago
I assume taking any dispositive action at all only signals a different kind of “engagement” to be tracked and eventually monetized if not outright abused. Like when you “Press 1 to be removed” or “text STOP to opt out” — all it does is move
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Of course, if you have an Apple product, you can also use the TOTP function built-in to Keychain. iPhone doc here: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/automatically-fill-in...
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by jmbwell 3y ago
I like it! Have you considered adding a little easing to the animation so that the changes are more gradual?
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by jmbwell 3y ago
Domains is such a racket. On the retail side, there are too many entrants fighting over <$10/yr scraps like street vendors hawking knockoff DVDs. On the upstream side, there is a king rat of mafioso companies formed out of Byzantine
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by jmbwell 3y ago
I have long found this annoying, but it seems like this has improved with the latest box. I don’t know, but I imagine there is some effort into balancing staying-closed and falling-open within the constraints of the machinery used to produc

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