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by korethr 6y ago
I know someone who works for one of the major US pizza chains. He was faced with a similar request. At first, it was just a polite request. Then it became a condition of employment. He rightly did not want a pizza corporation tracking his e
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by korethr 6y ago
If certain corners of the Internet oft derided as right-wing whackjob conspiracy theorists are to be believed, not only is China betting that the West is in irreversible decline, but is covertly actively sewing the seeds of the factors driv
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by korethr 6y ago
There is. The main thing is reducing one's food waste in general. That requires some mindfulness with regard to one's food purchasing, storage, preparation, and disposal habits. Unfortunately, IMO, not everyone seems able or willi
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by korethr 6y ago
"And if these people stop, the world burns. Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecti
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by korethr 6y ago
While I can understand not wanting a diversity of clients for the support headache that could rapidly become, I don't fully agree that a diversity of clients forces them to be stuck at a lowest common denominator. What prevents them fr
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by korethr 6y ago
The best April Fools jokes are the ones with enough plausibility that they _could_ be real.
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by korethr 6y ago
Interesting. I can't say I'm terribly surprised there's an official word for it or that it was a historical practice. Reading Digger, it is quickly clear the author drew on a wide variety of sources and inspiration. I'd
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by korethr 6y ago
Now that you say that, that points out why it probably shouldn't catch on. That attitude being taken seriously widespread could have some bad effects on the right to a fair trial. Fundamental rights should not be toyed with lightly. Ev
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by korethr 6y ago
It's more than just refusing to name the assailant. It's the notion that in renouncing their humanity with such a horrific act, they are now bereft of a name. The assailant has already declared to the world that they aren't a
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by korethr 6y ago
There is an idea I've been playing with for years that I think would be useful in this sort of situation, though sadly I think its a bit too clever to get traction amongst not-nerds. In the webcomic Digger[1], one of the main character
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by korethr 6y ago
Yeah, I find myself kinda annoyed at the term WAF, as it overloads the term "firewall". But your description is quite accurate. Whether you're doing your filtering with an expensive F5 Big-IP with its nifty glowy logo on the
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by korethr 6y ago
While I agree with your assessment that Cloudflare serves as a modern firewall, I disagree with your assessment of disingenuousness. My lament was mainly at the more robotic and/or malicious "auditors" and "compliance of
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by korethr 6y ago
I wonder if they have any sales to large enterprises or similar institutions. In my experience, the larger organizations will have a "security" questionnaire required of their vendors, and the person administering it is a droid, i
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by korethr 6y ago
A note to mods, I have edited the submitted title, omitting the "(And What It Has to Do With Aliens)". IMO, the article explains the title well enough, and the subtitle strikes me an extra bit of sensationalism that adds nothing t
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Why Channel 37 Doesn’t Exist(vice.com)
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Allan McDonald, Who Refused to Approve Shuttle Challenger Launch, Has Died(npr.org)
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by korethr 6y ago
I see various hobbyist cards like this one for the S100 bus, even today, I presume because the S100 bus is is not covered by any current patents, and is electrically simple and easy to build. But AFAIU, one of the downsides of its simple pa
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by korethr 6y ago
Thank you for this explanation. I think part of the reason people end up in these situations is because they don't think about things from the systems perspective. And in most cases, they don't need to, so long as everything sta
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by korethr 6y ago
I'm not confused as to how it's legal. I'm quite sure it's not. However, it seems to me that except in rare cases, no matter the color of the tie worn by the politician, nominal legality is not an impediment. There'
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by korethr 6y ago
> Most of the others remove regulatory requirements or speed up permitting processes for ISPs. This, I can possibly get behind, depending on the details. Part of the reason we end up with regional monopolies or duopolies is the high up-f
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by korethr 6y ago
I was going to go on a long rant about how this article and comments in this thread were wrong for saying or implying that the Model M mechanism, and indeed other high-quality not-Cherry-MX-derivative switches, were not mechanical. But no m
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by korethr 6y ago
I agree with your assessment that a help desk or support position would be a good match for your skills as you've described them. You say you can't find any right now, but the jobs are out there; I know someone who just recently g
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by korethr 6y ago
This confused me as well. In the article, there's the criticism that by not being allowed to charge for electricity what it cost to generate, producers have fallen behind on maintenance of their plants. But I don't see how that fo
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by korethr 6y ago
I will elaborate on why I think it's relevant. The election infrastructure for much of the country has the security of swiss cheese. And this isn't some new thing created from whole cloth by Trump supporters; people have been ra
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by korethr 6y ago
Mixed feelings on this. Personally, I'd switched back to Firefox from Chrome years ago, because I'd lost some trust in Google, and didn't want a browser that required me to sign in to make use of its features. My own personal
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by korethr 6y ago
The cool thing is, if you were able to source the chips today, you could probably build a clone of this system yourself.
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by korethr 6y ago
> A sustained short interest does not necessarily mean that the shorts are holding their initial position, they could have closed and reopened at these elevated levels. This occurred to me today. I see it as entirely plausible that one
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by korethr 6y ago
If I understand this correctly the obligation to remove these structures from internetational law that the UK has agreed to. ISTM that the point of this law is to protect the ecosystems of the waters -- it seems to be operating on the assum
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by korethr 6y ago
Assuming this post is in earnest instead of accidentally omitting <sarc></sarc> tags: Have you payed attention to mainstream journalism over the past couple decades? The material they cover and the framing with which they d
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by korethr 6y ago
Well, we already have ascii penises so we're well on our way.

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