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by philsnow 4y ago
I'm just running a dnsmasq and using that to alias machines / workloads. For my network I needed to make sure a route to the dnsmasq IP is advertised by a subnet router and then I told tailscale to "override local dns"
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by philsnow 4y ago
> this technology is bad because isn’t perfect and here and can be used in nefarious ways Did you click through to the wired article ([0]) about the tech disproportionately making false positive identifications of black people? The thesi
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by philsnow 4y ago
We can't expect everybody to get to the level of understanding you have about the fine points of AWS IAM. It's a scalpel shotgun, an extremely sharp tool that can easily blow your company's entire leg off. Companies generall
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by philsnow 4y ago
Are you suggesting having 2+ copies of your infra so that you can withstand losing one of them? I've never heard anybody propose this approach before. > If you want to build a _reliable_ infrastructure, the only rule is to avoid si
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by philsnow 4y ago
Don't tell the aliens about the missing 12 days in 1752: https://www.augustachronicle.com/story/lifestyle/columns/201...
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by philsnow 4y ago
> you guys really should invest in dynamic charging using electrified roads The state of our roads is already atrocious. Electrifying them would make them worse (installing any significant amount of road would take away from repairing t
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by philsnow 4y ago
Until there are cybernetic implants, the "ends" are the app running on your phones, which they control. The quandary of what one allows to run on those implants sounds like a chilling sci-fi novel (chilling not because "but F
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by philsnow 4y ago
> So the most habitable planet would have roughly twice the mass of Earth and be between 20 to 30 percent larger by volume. So, ~60% denser than Earth? Density is mass/volume, and 2x / 1.25x = 1.6x. The math works out really w
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by philsnow 4y ago
Thanks, this is amazing work!
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by philsnow 4y ago
Datadog's product is a bit too close to Apache Druid to have named their design system so similarly. From https://druid.apache.org/ : > Druid unlocks new types of queries and workflows for clickstream, APM, supply c
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by philsnow 4y ago
Am I understanding correctly, this is kind of like code generation (which is roughly a compiler that takes some sugared language and produces unsugared code that's usually incredibly ugly / indecipherable), but the input is some s
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by philsnow 4y ago
> connect to a US-based cell tower in order to "reactivate" the international plan if it has been disconnected > if you change countries or have to make an additional unplanned hop, VZ does not work in that scenario either J
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by philsnow 4y ago
It's a setting that AFAICT only shows up in facetime. When I'm in a facetime call, in the control center there's a new "mic mode" tile (next to the also-facetime-only "video effects" tile that toggles por
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by philsnow 4y ago
I haven't experienced the issue with iTunes starting on bluetooth connections, but some people pointed me to this project to deal with it: https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes You can also set it to start something
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by philsnow 4y ago
> BCG would give me the rough equivalent of $16,000 in UAE dirhams I read that as enough AED to be equivalent to ~$16k USD.
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by philsnow 4y ago
Do you have any idea having two new car loans improves your credit score any more than having one new car loan? OP might have enough income / savings to not be bothered at the idea of buying two new cars (they don't have to be Be
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by philsnow 4y ago
> If you're solving a five-figure problem for one client and a seven-figure problem for another using basically the same solution, why charge them the same? Do you have a script for sussing out the value of solving a problem for any
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by philsnow 4y ago
To get past `pip install -r requirements` I had to muck around with CFLAGS/LDFLAGS because I guess maybe on your system /opt/homebrew/opt/openssl is a symlink to something? On mine it doesn't exist, I just hav
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by philsnow 4y ago
Say what you will about politics in Texas, but one thing they do that seems really right is institutionalized de-institutionalization via the Sunset Advisory Commission [0], whose job it is to periodically review government agencies' e
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by philsnow 4y ago
> If the SSH process dies or is restarted for any reason, the user level process can harvest usernames and passwords. That wouldn't work because the user level process wouldn't have read access to the machine's host keys i
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by philsnow 4y ago
attackers also want persistence and lateral movement, and privileged/kernel access makes that way easier
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> I was actually with them until > "In fact, the Kitten installer does just this." 100% agree > Even if there's a confirmation There isn't, if your sudo is set up to cache credentials and you have sudo'ed s
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by philsnow 4y ago
> There are plenty of cases where a web server is just a reverse proxy to :8080 or some other non-privileged port that could potentially be taken over in such a manner True, but you can also proxy through a named unix domain socket on th
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by philsnow 4y ago
> Water rights are property rights. Legally they can't just be taken away. That's precisely eminent domain, "the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensati
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My two complaints about floating headers / footers: - they grow over time, so at first 90% of the vertical space is for content but later it becomes closer to 70% or worse. - they hide the content that's underneath them, but hitti
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by philsnow 4y ago
I really wish there were room for a "your margin is my opportunity" player in spaces like this, but the existing cast already executes the "dumb pipe" role too well.
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Look at tarsnap's pricing: https://www.tarsnap.com/ currently it says "250 picodollars / byte-month of encoded data"
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I think about this a fair amount. Either games these days are completely different or I am; now that I've played streamlined modern games I don't have the time or patience to deal with games that are incredibly fiddly or have rou
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Angband itself also has dozens of forks[0], mostly bolting on additional mechanics like SAngband (skills Angband), or new content like ZAngband (Zelazny Angband), adding multiplayer like MAngband, all the way to an almost total rewrite to
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by philsnow 4y ago
I don't know much of the history or politics. I've mostly been a "let's just use (open source, if it needs to be said out loud) nginx" fire-and-forget kind of dude for a while now because I mostly don't care

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