mike_d

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by mike_d 3y ago
Because most of the "common knowledge" around Google and privacy is hyperbole. Ask any ex-Google engineer how easy it is to get past a Security & Privacy launch review or how easily they can access personal customer data in pr
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> Getting up in altitude is the cheapest part of getting in orbit Think about it this way: The 30th second of a rocket flight consumes less fuel than the first second because you are carrying 30 seconds less of fuel. https://e
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by mike_d 3y ago
My friend owns a security guard company - he employs about a dozen guards and takes on contracts that last anywhere from a day to a few years. When a guard quits or gets fired he has another one on the bench that goes and fills that role. I
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by mike_d 3y ago
Just because they failed and had to resort to the courts for a second bite at the apple.
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The German government has given providers until 2026 to reduce their exposure to high risk vendors (Huawei and ZTE) to less than 25% of equipment, with a complete ban in places like the capitol and near military bases. Basically the same pr
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by mike_d 3y ago
We already have the technology for cheap orbital launches. SpaceRyde was developing a balloon that would take payloads to the edge of space then use a small rocket to get it the last little bit and do orbit positioning. Unfortunately they g
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by mike_d 3y ago
> but I'd love a more solid answer Unfortunately that isn't a question you'll get an answer to. Anyone who actually knows and has access to sensitive sources and methods is under an obligation not to disclose them. Further
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by mike_d 3y ago
Yes, you are correct. I probably put the word auth there because I had just finished setting up a new cluster of authoritative servers.
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by mike_d 3y ago
Because transparency and privacy are in direct conflict, and everyone has a "well ackshually" on where you should fall on that spectrum. If you require ISPs to hand over customer and connection performance data to the government y
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Maybe for a query or two, but the problem sorts itself out. Auth servers are very rarely running from a completely cold cache. Additionally most resolver software uses a system called scoreboarding where response times for each IP are recor
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by mike_d 3y ago
> implementing the Redis protocol would imply changing our architecture significantly and negatively affect performance Yes, you’d be doing a fair and honest benchmark if you want to compare yourself to Redis.
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by mike_d 3y ago
"Banksy" is now a group of artists, but the original is believed to be Robin Gunningham. He is named as a co-defendant in a lawsuit against Pest Control (the company that sells and validates Banksy art).
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by mike_d 3y ago
FYI it is a little suspect to write your own testing framework and then claim a ridiculous performance gain over something like Redis. There are already widely accepted testing tools [1] you could have used. It might make more sense to writ
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by mike_d 3y ago
Someone’s April Fools joke leaked early it looks like. Benchmarking a local program vs an AWS hosted service to claim you’re faster than Redis? Reads are served locally but all writes go to some hosted cloud service?
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by mike_d 3y ago
So sell support? Seems to work really well for a lot of companies.
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by mike_d 3y ago
I'll never understand the "we are open source but lock $cool_but_essential_features behind an enterprise license." Unless you plan to charge less than what a single developer makes in a quarter or two, any of your potential c
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by mike_d 3y ago
It started as part of the modern.ie project, which would distribute Windows VMs to the primarily Mac using web developers at the time so they could test against Internet Explorer, countering the trend of just telling people to switch to Chr
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by mike_d 3y ago
Amazon only pays him $81,000 a year so he has to make ends meet somehow. But seriously, he has sold over over $38 billion in stock [1]. The latest sale was part of a trading plan established last year. If he wanted to buy ULA for cash he co
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by mike_d 3y ago
The hashes are checked against an endpoint hosted by Cloudflare. So technically Cloudflare or anyone able to MitM traffic to them (which would be anyone in a position to MitM Facebook as well) can still do evil things. I haven't ripped
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by mike_d 3y ago
While the terms "woke," "stay woke," and similar are used to self describe by traditionally marginalized groups, the forms "wokeness" and "woke agenda" are predominately used outside these communities
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by mike_d 3y ago
I've found that anyone who uses the term "wokeness" seriously is likely arguing from a place of bad faith. It's origins are as a derogatory term, which people wanting to speak seriously on the topic should know.
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It is possible Google tried to avoid likenesses of well known people by removing any image from the training data that contained a face and then including a controlled set of people images. If you give a contractor a project that you want 2
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by mike_d 3y ago
At the time I thought the dumbest thing they did was sell Vudu. Now buying a TV brand with its own streaming service after selling off the successful one is the dumbest move.
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by mike_d 3y ago
> Google is apparently now hosting this dataset to make money Public datasets are hosted for free by Google (Amazon has a similar program) to take the burden off public projects. You didn't pay for the data, you paid for the query y
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No, I think that is very important which is why I fight against DNSSEC. Have a look at DNSCurve, it solves many of the problems DNSSEC was attempting to address but with proper transport security. We implemented this at OpenDNS back in 2010
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by mike_d 3y ago
> "it's not dumb if it works" It's not dumb if you know what you are doing. I and others have pointed out how to properly handle binary data in shell scripts. This might be a good start if you'd like to learn mor
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It should be noted the Netmaker benchmarks were ran in a shared cloud environment, so the throughput related metrics must be thrown out. You have no visibility into what other workloads are running on the same physical host or how your test
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by mike_d 3y ago
As with any language there are going to be foot-guns, gotchas, and edge cases. If you don't feel comfortable with a language (including bash) then don't use it. Before I really knew how to program I was a systems administrator and
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> Not gonna happen. I've never heard anyone successfully articulate why building enough roads to meet demand is such a bad idea. People need to get around and Caltrans has demonstrated they are far more competent and capable than BA
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You are in this mess because you are supposed to be piping binary data or using temp files, not putting it in variables. Also bash scripts are just glue between external programs. I mentioned the sanitization in the context of taking user i

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