packet_nerd

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   by packet_nerd 6y ago

   I grew up in grizzly country in Northwest Montana, spent loads of time out in the wilderness on my own or with my younger brothers, and even saw a mamma grizzly with two cubs in the wild once. They are absolutely not a serious concern.[1] W
2. 32.▲
   by packet_nerd 6y ago

   If it's a government office or some service that only serves people from one country, then sure whatever, be a hard-ass if that's what you want to do. The problem is it's every SaaS online service in the world many of which h
3. 33.▲
   by packet_nerd 6y ago

   Burmese women (she's Burmese) aren't used to changing their names at marriage and she found the practice demeaning. We never really considered it beforehand. But, I think if she had fully realized at the time how hard it would be
4. 34.▲
   by packet_nerd 6y ago

   I know Myanmar is one country where basically everyone has just one name, but there are probably others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_names
5. 35.▲
   by packet_nerd 6y ago

   I feel for her. My wife was in the exact same situation, like almost everyone in her home country she had just one given name. When we moved here to the states she found it highly annoying and even limited some opportunities. Recently she d
6. 36.▲
   RFC8915: Network Time Security for the Network Time Protocol(tools.ietf.org)

   2 points by packet_nerd 6y ago|0 comments
7. 37.▲
   by packet_nerd 6y ago

   Wow... Our first daughter was born a few weeks ago. I took off the first week, but it had to come out of my PTO (and I only have 2 weeks total per year). My wife had to quit her job so she could recuperate and spend time with the baby. She
8. 38.▲
   by packet_nerd 6y ago

   Thanks for the link.. yes, I had energy and power confused.
9. 39.▲
   by packet_nerd 6y ago

   How so? If you feed 1 watt of power into a 10Mhz isotropic antenna you get a photons of a certain energy spreading out in all directions. If you feed 1 watt of 10Ghz into a isotropic antenna, are you saying that the photons have more energy
10. 40.▲
    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    Edit: As several have pointed out... I'm wrong. I was confusing energy with power. > microwave energy—an electromagnetic wave just like Marconi’s radio waves, only a bit more energetic Sorry for the nitpick, but, the difference betw
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    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    I lived with Karen people in Easter Burma for several years. One year the combination of poor timing for the rains[1] and fighting with the Burmese[2] left food scarce for many, including the village I lived in. We ate thin rice soup with b
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    Anatomy of a low frequency aviation radio beacon(hamradio.me)

    2 points by packet_nerd 6y ago|0 comments
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    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    AFAIK bouncing off clouds isn't a thing. :-) But lots of other types of bouncing for sure: the ionosphere, ionized trails from meteorites, the edge between air masses of different temperatures, mountains, the moon, satellites, repeater
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    Facebook Delenda Est(epsilontheory.com)

    1 points by packet_nerd 6y ago|0 comments
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    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    Human error is a bigger cause of downtime than technical failure or natural disasters. And in practice, a single server like this tends to be a hand managed one-off which only exasperates the human error component.
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    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    I see $4,000+ for the Iridium terminal and $500/m for a 100MB plan. Thats really really expensive for not a lot of data. Click the wrong link from HN front page and you could burn through half that in one click! I suppose it could be d
17. 47.▲
    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    Yes (If the service supports U2F)
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    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    I've long dreamed of sailing the world. The biggest obstacle is being able to support myself while doing that, and looking at existing boat satellite service is really depressing. Does anyone here know if between this, Starlink, and On
19. 49.▲
    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    Except it's not really a sliding scale with SMS being "easy" and U2F being "hard". U2F is SO much more convenient than either TOTP or SMS. SMS might be a little easier than TOTP, but with either one you still have t
20. 50.▲
    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    Regarding the "SMS-2FA is not only worthless, but harmful" claim, it's true, but only in the sense that widespread "lazy" SMS 2FA deployments stifle U2F, which, I believe, should just be the standard across the boar
21. 51.▲
    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    This is true regarding "next-gen" firewalls. But, if you design a plain old segmentation strategy with simple but well thought out allow/deny rules, then a firewall will be pretty valuable in many situations. Extreme example:
22. 52.▲
    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    Maybe have the DMV be the notary for driver's licenses?
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    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    I got a little U2F token that I leave plugged into my laptop and set it up on everything that supports it. It's really nice because you don't have to stop and hunt down a code, or a phone or app, just tap the side and it lets you
24. 54.▲
    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    Ha, I remember one of my brothers and a bunch of people from my hometown got all into those perpetual motion machines. They bought the "plans" and went on and on about how revolutionary it was, what a good deal the few hundred dol
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    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    Circular polarized antennas are often used in ham radio especially to communicate with satellites[1]. I'm not expert enough to know, is this the same physics as what the article is talking about? [1] https://www.qsl.net&#x2F
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    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    Learning to type in a new language maybe? I've used stickers for that before[1] but it would cool to be able change the labels on the keys automatically. :-) [1] Like this: https://www.amazon.com/HRH-Keyboard-Stickers-B
27. 57.▲
    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    China has a stock market [1] and 389 billionaires [2], second only to the US. A decidedly un-communist state of affairs... In reality they are an authoritarian capitalist surveillance state. [1] http://english.sse.com.cn/ [
28. 58.▲
    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    Nah, most people are caught in bullshit jobs that wouldn't matter if they went away. Consider, we're more or less just as busy now as our grandparents a 100 years ago, despite massive improvements in computers, manufacturing, agri
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    Peer Name Resolution Protocol(en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by packet_nerd 6y ago|0 comments
30. 60.▲
    by packet_nerd 6y ago

    Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466958-bullshit-jobs