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by kennu 6y ago
The actual MQTT payload seemed to have some sort of custom encryption on it (not the usual MQTT-over-TLS). I didn't dig deep enough to find out how it works, but it didn't seem very sophisticated.
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by kennu 6y ago
I have a cheap air quality meter which basically connects to an MQTT broker server in China to transmit its readings constantly. The phone app connects to the same MQTT server, subscribes to a topic and receives the readings. I guess this i
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by kennu 6y ago
This CloudPundit article makes the case that AWS is a second-tier ISP and thus has to comply with upstream Acceptable Use Policies. Otherwise they would be in a position where their Internet connectivity could, theoretically, be shut down.
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by kennu 6y ago
I've used Scuttlebutt ( https://scuttlebutt.nz/ ) and Aether ( https://getaether.net/ ) which are P2P apps, but I never really started using them. Didn't find interesting content or communities to kee
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by kennu 6y ago
I've been using AWS CDK since the first preview versions and experienced the same mind blown feeling. It really changes the way you think about IaC (Infrastructure as Code) when cloud resources are programmable and abstractable in Type
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by kennu 6y ago
But when you share some HTML in practice, e.g. send a HTML game exported from Godot to a friend, they will need to unzip it and install a local web server to actually play it with appropriate permissions. Whereas .swf files could be opened
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by kennu 6y ago
I think that at least within Finland, worries were mostly related to communication delays in informing relevant organizations about a potential nuclear incident. I.e. if this had turned out to be a more serious incident, the response would
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by kennu 6y ago
I remember this being debated already in the 1990s, when the press wanted to start writing "internet". I think it's still the Internet (proper noun) and nothing has essentially changed since then.
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by kennu 6y ago
I'm not entirely sure what you mean. But if we're talking about AWS cloud services, there are certainly AWS experts who know how to develop software in a cloud-native way and utilize most or all of the relevant services. That know
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by kennu 6y ago
I haven't seen this happen myself. In projects that I've been involved with, the justification of using serverless services has been to reduce development costs, because you don't have to setup and develop everything from scr
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by kennu 6y ago
In the past 5 years all my projects have been based on AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB and other serverless technologies which are only billed for actual usage and network traffic. So they don't cost much unless they actually get
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by kennu 6y ago
I have different experiences. My "lego blocks" are AWS services. Each service is a black box that maintains its API backwards compatible forever. My custom stuff is built around the API and keeps working forever. ( * ) In my view
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by kennu 6y ago
I agree. You have to know your lego blocks well and understand where they fit and where they don't. But if you choose to remain ignorant of the available lego blocks, and instead write everything from scratch every time, you're wa
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by kennu 6y ago
Playing with legos is delivering value. Reinventing the same wheel over and over again is not.
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by kennu 6y ago
I agree with the writer. Microservices have already made it possible to commoditize many of the services that we used to re-implement over and over again in the past. We can now buy them as cloud services. But that is just the beginning. Ou
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by kennu 6y ago
For me Serverless has replaced 99% of servers and there's no going back. I have absolutely no desire to run, maintain, update and monitor servers or server processes. Once you deploy an app to AWS Lambda and API Gateway, it keeps runni
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by kennu 6y ago
You have to give the game some time. If it's good (like Factorio is) it might just pull you in. You also need to be in the right mood for that particular game. Sometimes you have to try a game many times until get pulled in.
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by kennu 7y ago
There is value in keeping track of who wrote each line of code. Even if it's quite old, you can still figure out the persons that originally worked on a particular project/module and ask them about it. If you reset history, this k
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by kennu 7y ago
That works if you are 100% sure you know beforehand what the smallest possible fraction will be. What you gain by consistently using an arbitrary precision decimal library to process all monetary values, is the freedom to process smaller fr
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by kennu 7y ago
This approach doesn't work when dealing with fractional cents, like charging $0.0001 per hour for something. I would rather recommend using an arbitrary precision decimal library like Decimal.js, and using strings to represent money in
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by kennu 7y ago
If you're wondering what it is: WireGuard® is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headac
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by kennu 7y ago
I remember the advice in Robert Atkins' book being to start with very little carbs (and ketosis) for a few weeks, but then increase carbs until you're no longer losing weight. That's how you can find a personal carb limit, at
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Netflix Will Fix World War II Documentary Following Complaints from Polish PM(foxnews.com)
1 points by kennu 7y ago|0 comments
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by kennu 7y ago
I think you're right, I was only thinking about raw audio being uploaded to the cloud. In the future, there might be more and more local machine learning happening on the devices and the extracted metadata being uploaded unnoticed. On
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by kennu 7y ago
I'm sure people have different feelings about it. My personal view is that you can listen to anyone using the microphones in their computers and smartphones anyway (with a targeted attack) and nobody is unhackable. At the same time I t
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by kennu 7y ago
I don't think that's entirely true. People have analyzed the network traffic and found it to match the wakewords. The hardware and software architecture has also been analyzed and my understanding is that the wakeword functionalit
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by kennu 7y ago
Yeah, they're half-on listening for the wakeword, but they don't send the audio anywhere until you utter it.
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by kennu 7y ago
> From a consumer point-of-view, it’s hard to imagine Alexa becoming so useful that we’d come running when it summons us. But Alexa‘s primary mission will always be to gather data. Simply put: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are all trilli
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by kennu 7y ago
1Password has always offered the best usability for me. Many other password managers (eg LastPass) have failed, for instance, to work with the AWS sign in page and some other tricky websites. 1Password UX is also well polished in other ways
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by kennu 8y ago
I wonder who funded this research? Did it also account for frequent egg-eaters tendencies to maintain a particular kind of diet regarding other foods, and other similar associations?

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