mike_d

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by mike_d 1y ago
Yes they are trying to be cheeky, but missing the mark. Pine Gap is a large facility for collecting data coming down from our own satellites. Foreign satellite collection in Australia happens at two other facilities: https://en.w
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by mike_d 1y ago
> I can confirm that bring-your-own certificates, ACME, and mTLS are all included in the OSS version If I open a pull request for distributed Lets Encrypt, you'd accept it? > Regarding the cache middleware ... purchase an enterpr
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by mike_d 1y ago
https://doc.traefik.io/traefik-hub/api-gateway/secure/tls/le... They actively block the use of any sort of certificate store that would allow you to run a sane setup with HA.
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by mike_d 1y ago
They consider caching and TLS to be enterprise features. If you can't get the basics right, you stay at the kids table forever.
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by mike_d 1y ago
I am genuinely curious what protections are in place to ensure that? What is the plan after you are gone? It looks like you have voting shares with 10x the power of institutional investors, but activist investors aren't dumb either. My
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by mike_d 1y ago
I can't wait for you to realize that this makes no financial sense, and you pivot to the real money maker: charging people on the internet to remotely dig holes.
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by mike_d 1y ago
It was maybe $50k in hardware at each site. They operate a bunch of cellular modems that send SMS spam, receive SMS verification codes for creating fake accounts, and use the data to act as proxies for web scraping and other nonsense. It is
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by mike_d 1y ago
> phone manufacturers are pushing for esim [...] rather than to free up space in phones for a bigger battery. It is being pushed by the carriers because retail locations are their biggest overhead expense, for what is basically a place
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by mike_d 1y ago
> I wonder if an MVNO has local-level data to detect a situation like this when hundreds of phones are in one area and don't move MVNOs don't care because they collect the profit without having to deal with any of the network i
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by mike_d 1y ago
I am very familiar with the hardware being used in that operation and Rob is 100% correct. Someone used an online SMS service to send threatening messages to a member of the Gleichschaltung squad, and the secret service traced the SIM card
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by mike_d 1y ago
I agree that civil debate and cooler heads deterred and delayed fascism in many cases. I was referring specifically to when it has taken hold and needs to be stopped . An apt comparison would be instituting mandatory cybersecurity training
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by mike_d 1y ago
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by mike_d 1y ago
The Bay Area is crippled by people who live comfortably within biking distance of Whole Foods, Zeitgeist, and their Apple shuttle bus stop. These people can't fathom why anyone would want to drive a dirty car and blight the city with r
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by mike_d 1y ago
Wow this brings up memories. I was at OpenDNS when Dan gave us the heads up. I'll just leave this here: https://blog.netherlabs.nl/articles/2008/07/09/some-thoughts...
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by mike_d 1y ago
> protecting against an authoritative name server operator from maliciously modifying the zone data in their server was not a significant consideration in any of the IETF/implementation discussions I was in Honestly this statement i
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by mike_d 1y ago
DNSSEC was created because we needed to put root and gTLD servers in Russia and China (lying authoritatives). Transport security like dnscrypt and DoH were created to solve this problem. DNS cookies are also strong mitigations.
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by mike_d 1y ago
Hospitals are categorized as critical care facilities, regardless of how much on prem compute they have. Under national fire and electrical codes hospitals have to have at least three completely isolated power systems (these are the differe
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by mike_d 1y ago
> But when the Texas legislature gets involved, it's typically to build a political franchise by creating government power than can be used arbitrarily against a fixed asset. When I saw that it only applies to datacenters using more
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by mike_d 1y ago
> Put it like this - would you prefer public employee's retirement scheme did Nnot hold shares in it? Yes? Regulators should not financially benefit from doing or not doing their job.
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by mike_d 1y ago
> They have to get government approval for their rates. We need laws that prevent government employees from directly or indirectly investing in utilities. The California Public Employees' Retirement System for example directly holds
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by mike_d 1y ago
> But it's just telling the model what to reply/what tools to use in that exact situation. So the exact same way we train human children to solve problems.
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by mike_d 1y ago
What if you care about your users privacy and security and don't use Cloudflare?
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by mike_d 1y ago
The pool is not exhausted, the IPv6 cabal realized after 20 years that actively fighting against freeing up more space was the only way they could drive adoption. If we just stop listing 240/4 as a bogon we could be allocating from it
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by mike_d 1y ago
In the Swiss system the private insurance companies are required to be non-profits. The government sets the standard for care and coverage and all the companies can do is compete on price. Basically what Obamacare was originally intended to
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by mike_d 1y ago
> Look at all the huge companies that keep spending millions trying to DIY their own datacenter for the 3rd time You mean all the huge companies that ran multiple datacenters before the cloud was even a thing?
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by mike_d 1y ago
This analysis seems rooted in a misunderstanding of the law of large numbers. LLN only says that large samples converge to the observed distribution, it does not guarantee that the samples reflect voter intent. If Elon has a few hundred mil
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by mike_d 1y ago
We have been trying to deploy IPv6 for 20 years now. This would be comparatively easier and buy us another 20 years to finish v6 deployment.
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by mike_d 1y ago
The map also does a good job showing why we need to do away with multicast/class E and reuse the address space.
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by mike_d 1y ago
Proposed question for next IMO: "Show a proof that 'after the closing ceremony' and 'one week later' are not the same unit of time"
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by mike_d 1y ago
The only real feature of Docker is the ability to keep unmaintained software running as the world around it moves forward. Academics could do the same thing by just distributing read only VMs as well.

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