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by mdip 9y ago
I automated waking up at 5:30 AM without feeling miserable when I had a remote work job[0] It's not terribly sexy and was really simple to get working. I purchased the highest wattage LIFX RGBA bulbs and a high wattage (350W Incandesc
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by mdip 9y ago
> People who really wanted an hardware floating point unit in 1991 could buy one. The only people who could possibly want one back then would have been scientists (as per Intel understanding of the market). They were marketed as "M
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by mdip 9y ago
I wonder if these are sold at Microcenter. They're about 15-20 miles from one here in Michigan, although it's not like that particular store is their Headquarters or anything. It is a shame there aren't more MicroCenter st
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by mdip 9y ago
This is not surprising at all, to me. In fact, I'd speculate that it's something that most successful "start-up" or "small business" founders end up doing. My dad has owned two small businesses in his lifeti
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by mdip 9y ago
Kudos on this. Coming off of the Symantec thing, I think we're all viewing businesses in the CA space a lot more skeptically. I worked in a hybrid Infrastructure / Development job for almost 17 years. One of the reasons I could
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by mdip 9y ago
This is an interesting play on a very old con game[0] that was common in used car dealerships and appliance shops. It works like this: You walk in, interested in buying. You talk with the salesman, settle on a car but are having cold feet&
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by mdip 9y ago
The best and most legendary developers still make mistakes that cause this kind of thing. And certified or not, all developers run into deadlines that result in production of imperfect code (and that word is key -- code has to be perf
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by mdip 9y ago
There are a few things here that shouldn't surprise me[0], but do. A credit reporting agency's one product is personal data (basically, it's you). Leaking that data basically makes it worthless (or worth a lot less) and b
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by mdip 9y ago
Kind of the guy to offer. I found it interesting thinking about the issue of trust, here. He's claimed to be a certain individual, linked to social media with a long history as a proof of identity, but still had to admit that you&#x2
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by mdip 9y ago
While it's nice to think that's actually the case, the legal situation is almost certainly more nuanced. The thing that comes to mind for me is the implicit copyright protection. I'm not sure if that would apply to a message
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by mdip 9y ago
There is a "sort-of" port (you were correct in saying a "similar thing for Windows"). It's Dokany: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany Keybase.io and sshfs use it, currently. Personally, I lo
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by mdip 9y ago
I suspect someone is already playing the idea of implementing support for it, but if NTFS is any indication, it'll take a long time before anything stable exists. There's also less motivation for implementing this filesystem in Li
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by mdip 9y ago
I'd wondered this, too. My first (wrong) assumption was that the author was aiming for a different license with the Windows version, but it's GPL. If I had a guess, aside from "because I wanted to see if I could", it mi
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by mdip 9y ago
For startups - GDPR is like Y2K at the time, a GOLDMINE. So much opportunity to sell solutions, from real to snake oil. GDPR compliance is already and will continue to trigger a massive wave of investment. I'll start by sayin
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by mdip 9y ago
My first instinct was to be pretty happy about these laws, which surprised me quite a bit. I generally identify on the libertarian/pro-capitalist side of things and "as a general rule" subscribe to the belief that government
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by mdip 9y ago
Agreed, and that's to say nothing of the speed at which blindness can occur. Then there's those pesky IR lasers which at the right class level can blind you in wavelengths you cannot see[0]. [0] Which to me has always been one of
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by mdip 9y ago
Oh man ... and I feel bad about the 25 bitcoin I lost as a result of haphazardly formatting a hard drive back when they were effectively worthless. It could be worse - I could have purchased a $40M circle of cardboard covered in ketchup tha
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by mdip 9y ago
Yes, that's exactly how I do it with my Yubikey. Once 'moved' to the key, the private key cannot be retrieved.
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by mdip 9y ago
That was my first thought. A lot of people in the last several years have learned the hard way that for all practical purposes, the Internet tends to be forever. Sure, you may not be able to find that really useful utility you once used to
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by mdip 9y ago
In the past I've done the same things, as some have mentioned already, as a form of two-factor authentication. There were a few reasons for this that made a lot of sense: (1) Private keys were being stored haphazardly -- people were no
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by mdip 9y ago
Correct, you are. The later parts in the article, though, specifically call out SFTP by name. Based on the other comments and some searches I did before hitting that second part, I'm fairly certain they're actually using SFTP ra
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by mdip 9y ago
That's a fair point. It's very easy to get stuck inside the developer bubble, where 'archaic' means 'something that was state-of-the-art four years ago (or in the web/design world, 3.5 minutes ago)'. SFTP
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by mdip 9y ago
I noticed a few comments specifically referencing FTP (and who can blame them since the HN title as of this moment specifically references it). In the first post of the series, the author refers to the server as a "Secure FTP" se
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by mdip 9y ago
I'm guessing this was an intentionally snarky comment, but the article includes the cost of buying a Chromebook in the figures it provides so "buy a decent laptop" would have a monthly cost associated with it. In addition, St
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Import Keybase.io Public Keys to SSH Authorized_keys(matthewdippel.blogspot.com)
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by mdip 9y ago
Interesting read and not my area of expertise, but it sounds like a bunch of hypotheticals built on top of other hypotheticals. And, of course, I didn't read the scientific paper behind it[0] so I'm sure some of my misgivings on
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by mdip 9y ago
Gotta comment ... I dove into TypeScript about a year ago and dropped it. I saw the value but because of a large number of libraries and custom components of my own, switching purely to TypeScript wasn't easy and I was in a hurry. Fas
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by mdip 9y ago
Here's a take from an individual: I was recently unemployed (January)[0]. I signed up for COBRA right away. Within about a month, I had offers and I ended up narrowing it down to two. I was having a really difficult time choosing bet
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by mdip 9y ago
I use one. And most of the time it's the one on my laptop, which is 1080p. I made the choice three years ago to do this on purpose . The main reason I started handicapping myself with the single monitor was so that I could write sof
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by mdip 9y ago
IoT security is a messy problem, quite frankly. Most (is it safe to say all?) of us carry around IoT devices with us every day that are based on software with documented, in-the-wild, security issues -- and the Android ones of us are the m

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