mike_d

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by mike_d 2y ago
I have had a project on the back burner for about a year now to offer a BGP feed via a websocket to facilitate people playing around and doing research without allowing them to accidently spew crap into the DFZ. Shoot me an email if you are
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by mike_d 2y ago
One of the few good things to come out of the next four years is that California will be able to basically ignore any federal requirements that serve no real purpose.
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by mike_d 2y ago
I have had my phone set to reboot every day at sunrise and have had no issues with it prompting for input in weeks.
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by mike_d 2y ago
I guess you found the one state who isn't in line with federal law. :) https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/meth/cma2005.html https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/pseudoephed...
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by mike_d 2y ago
> Note that 6g / .240g = 25 Fortunately we are both wrong. I have updated my previous post up thread.
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by mike_d 2y ago
> Unfortunately there is an absurdly low limit on purchasing amount in the US. The maximum safe dose for an adult is 240 mg in a 24 hour period. Current guidelines allow for getting a 10 day supply (the average cold lasts 7-10 days) in a
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by mike_d 2y ago
> * Drill for oil, lower the price of gas, prices at the store come down. Strategically and economically stupid. Buy oil when everyone has it, sell oil when everyone else has ran out. > * Stop the wars that make for unstable access fo
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by mike_d 2y ago
I recently tried to use SSH remote editing with VSCode on a plane. It is so incredibly chatty that the in-flight wifi system thought I was trying to tunnel traffic via SSH and kept killing the connection. I hope the Zed developers have take
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by mike_d 2y ago
> Or is this one of those privacy battles we just have to accept as unwinnable? It depends on what you want to win. There are two types of fingerprinting: - Browser fingerprinting (what you see here): Make sure that your Chrome on Window
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by mike_d 2y ago
Residential solar was a terrible idea. It only works during the day, it is hard to store, and you can't efficiently transport it to where there is demand without a major overhaul of the grid. I guess you could pump seawater to affluent
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by mike_d 2y ago
Wikimedia India has nothing to do with the operation of Wikipedia.org and does not appear to be a party to the case. It is just a local wikipedia editors club.
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by mike_d 2y ago
The IPv6 transition is a side effect of China building their own internal "internet" from the ground up that will not be connected to what we think of as the internet. "Turning off IPv4" is code for shutting off the DFZ
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by mike_d 2y ago
Wide scale deployment of NAT (the "home router" that allowed you to connect multiple devices) was the greatest leap in internet security we ever made. I remember the days when we had "everything gets a global IP," and we
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by mike_d 2y ago
> Lots of people are asking how good the self driving has to be before we tolerate it. When I feel as safe as I do sitting in the back of a Waymo.
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by mike_d 2y ago
Epic's "First Run" program does all the things they got mad at Apple and Google about. You don't have to pay any license fees for Unreal Engine if you use Epic exclusively for payments. They give you 100% revshare for 6
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by mike_d 2y ago
> Sure, but to do that they'd need to know they are about to be cut off, something which they were given zero warning about According to Automattic they had been in discussions for 20 months. Your anger should be with WPEngine for t
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by mike_d 2y ago
> make 1.5 million enemies in the WordPress community in one weekend by shutting down their ability to update plugins with zero warning AWS and Digital Ocean run local Ubuntu download servers and do not depend on Canonical to run their b
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by mike_d 2y ago
"Serverless" is an overloaded term marketing that really means functions-as-a-service. Looking at the stack, I don't actually see any components that you couldn't easily port to an on-prem solution.
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by mike_d 2y ago
I absolutely love this project and had a similar idea on my todo list for a while because I agree there should be at least one free open map provider with a developer friendly stack. If you want free servers/bandwidth around the world,
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by mike_d 2y ago
Computers getting infected with malware, pre-compromised cheap internet devices from Amazon/Wish.com, and game developers monetizing "free" games by running proxies in the background. There are usually a few layers of reselle
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by mike_d 2y ago
Systemd being one big monolithic system locks you in to, frankly, just a lot of shitty decisions. Take for example the fact that it decides to bind to port 53 on localhost, for absolutely no good reason. Now if your response is that is not
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by mike_d 2y ago
> We've become acclimated to expect violation from the "tech" industry, but what about the medical field? Oh, you sweet innocent child. Look at price gouging on EpiPens, J&J "lifelong" hip implants needing re
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by mike_d 2y ago
Clearview is a perfect example of how to avoid EU-nexus. They don't have any corporate presence, employees, assets, or customers in the EU. They are even careful to only pull photos from US based servers. Because they only do facial ma
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by mike_d 2y ago
How is the government wrong? He is being charged with money laundering and wire fraud, both things that require pretty substantial paper trails to prove in court. I think enough time has passed that I can say this openly: I worked for an ad
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by mike_d 2y ago
Corridor Crew was great until some of their shock value videos started to get big and they decided that was a high value niche. Some of it was funny but the underlying joke got old. They made a video glorifying killing dogs and I was absolu
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by mike_d 2y ago
> I think Tesseract is the smarter/faster/less obnoxious choice [...] There's almost certainly a better paid option available in our enlightened AI age It would have cost $375,000 to use cloud OCR for this project. Mandato
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by mike_d 2y ago
Start putting together conference bridges for "P1 customer outages" and have someone who is responsible for calling the developers, PMs, scrum masters, managers, etc. on the team and getting them all on at 1 AM to fix it.
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by mike_d 2y ago
> TailScale has been at all times a good actor. This is the Cloudflare problem all over again. One day Matthew Prince will get hit by a bus, all the "trustworthy people" will leave, a PE firm will take the company private, and
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by mike_d 2y ago
Can you help me understand the intention of this other than just being a DoS tool?
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by mike_d 2y ago
Posting something to github does not shift the burden of proof for fantastic claims onto the community. You also completely failed to address my larger point, which is that the data or code is not flawed, your assumptions are.

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