mrngm

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by mrngm 11mo ago
Earlier submission of the Internet Resiliency Club linked in the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44287395 (579 points, 340 comments)
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by mrngm 11mo ago
Most, if not all, Asian take-out / restaurants in NL still use a TUI for registering your order. Several motorcyle retailers in NL use a TUI for parts management, invoicing, repair tracking. In both cases, people operating these system
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by mrngm 1y ago
I suppose that's a flexible way of looking at orders, but it sounds more like a shopping basket. What if the customer ordered three items, you started shipping those, then the customer cancels one item. That sounds like the wrong order
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by mrngm 1y ago
I'm not sure why orders/purchases/subscriptions would be seen as mutable. At some point in time, customer X decided to exchange money amount M for a subscription Y. This means the company is obliged to deliver subscription Y,
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by mrngm 1y ago
It would be useful to have some examples on the web page, as I'm not inclined to immediately download an app. Have a look at Info-Beamer as well: https://github.com/info-beamer
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by mrngm 1y ago
That really depends on local policy. It could be that an AS x present on multiple IXes (assuming another peer AS y is present on the same IXes) prefers sending traffic for AS y on IX t, while AS y prefers sending traffic for AS x on IX v.
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by mrngm 1y ago
Ideally, participants in an internet exchange purely exchange routing information, usually using the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This implies that devices connected to an internet exchange are routers. These devices receive routes for ot
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by mrngm 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925892 "Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford" (310 points, 263 comments). First build the thing that works, and only if it's really necessary,
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by mrngm 1y ago
Ceph has opt-in telemetry since a couple of years. This dashboard[0] panel suggests there are about 4-5 clusters (that send telemetry) within the 32-64 PiB range. It would be really interesting to see larger clusters join in on their teleme
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by mrngm 1y ago
"If you're remote, ramble" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44775563 (976 points, 464 comments)
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by mrngm 1y ago
Perhaps get in touch with the people behind SwiNOG? https://www.swinog.ch/ (Swiss Network Operators Group)
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by mrngm 1y ago
If anything, it allows hiding long URIs... especially those with tracking elements that visitors here may want to exclude when clicking on it.
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by mrngm 1y ago
One of my pet peeves is single line paragraphs. It's like you have to take a breath after reading one paragraph. But the paragraph was just one sentence. --- "Justified", I suppose, just looks nicer in smaller width columns,
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Big Enough to Fail(willgallego.com)
1 points by mrngm 1y ago|0 comments
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by mrngm 1y ago
Relatable recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44602532 "When root meets immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. log tampering" (153 points, 45 comments). Not to necessarily focus on the operating system used
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by mrngm 1y ago
I'll introduce you to our bespoke tool that automatically restarts processes when they exit... and redirects stdout/err by default to /dev/null :D
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by mrngm 1y ago
My default go-to: https://bgp.tools/ Why would you think this outage is (internet) BGP related?
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by mrngm 1y ago
NL as well, but the source data has a couple of indirections before you get to the postcode. It's doable, monthly updatable for free, but requires a bit of processing and understanding of the geo structures.
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by mrngm 1y ago
Not to mention the (usually mobile) terminal designs where only the merchant sees the amount entered, usually doesn't flip it to show it to the customer, and the customer needs to tap it on their side without first seeing the amount en
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by mrngm 1y ago
Yes, occasionally when refueling a shared car owned by a company that distributes those cars all over The Netherlands. It's common here in leased car fleets as well, where the user gets a magstripe card to refuel (and needs to provide
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by mrngm 1y ago
Here's their blog post from 2023 explaining what they did: https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2023-07-11-we-put-a-distributed...
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by mrngm 1y ago
I'll pick my battles, it's part risk appetite and part expected attacker model. It also depends on what I'm trying to protect. If it's in a standard library of an open source programming language, I'm less inclined
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by mrngm 1y ago
That holds not only for cryptography libraries, but generalizes to the entire computing stack. It's why, for example, coreboot exists, as well as various open source hardware projects. If it's fully open, you can inspect it yourse
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by mrngm 1y ago
The short, 3 minute, demo [video] is from 2022, the longer explanation video is from 2021. For the people less inclined to watch a 28 minute explanation video, do you have a text overview of your idea as well?
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by mrngm 1y ago
[2022], earlier discussion at the time (109 points, 103 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30320977
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by mrngm 1y ago
I've had one side of the same university campus observing the academic 15 minutes, while in one course on the other side did not... after the lunch break. So at 13:30 we started walking towards the other side of the campus (the class
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by mrngm 1y ago
Yup, works fine!
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by mrngm 1y ago
I suppose a tool like Beancount (or (h)ledger, but I only have experience with beancount) and bean-web would fulfill your needs. The latter offers HTML reports per arbitrary subaccount, based on the data entered in the beancount file (which
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by mrngm 1y ago
I'm not sure that level of detail (specifying receipts to the article level) helps you get a grasp of your overall spending, nor do I expect it giving the "right advice". Suppose you buy a lot of healthy fresh fruit and veget
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by mrngm 1y ago
PTA is more or less a collection of formats. Beancount, for example, uses a colon-separated account name per transaction line, such as "Income:Work:PrimaryJob:HolidayAllowance" (excluding the quotes). There are a couple of fixed m

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