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This is where gambling and vaping come in… As a viewer of ridiculous ad placements, and as a frustrated buyer of online ads, I continue to conclude That adtech Is largely snake oil. In fact, I encourage you to look into the well-founded cla
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In 2025 I have a dedicated pixel5 with no SIM card that is nothing but an mp3 player. It has nothing installed but VLC. Life is too short to deal with the ridiculous interoperability of (simple music files) and (any modern computing platfor
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1y ago
Were these devices UL listed?
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"No correlation between non-functional displays on passenger seats & possible engine failures etc." No. No no no. This is wrong, mistaken thinking. A minimum standard of operations and attention to detail must be adhered to
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I really enjoy the Monocle "Globalist" podcast which is well-produced, of global range, and a welcome departure from the npr/kqed bubble I was immersed in. It comes out daily.
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s5cmd is built into the rsync.net platform. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44248372
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If you don't want to install, or maintain, s5cmd yourself: ssh user@rsync.net s5cmd Password: NAME: s5cmd - Blazing fast S3 and local filesystem execution tool USAGE: s5cmd [global options] command [command options]
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I think about this a lot … I think the key aspect of a company with “soul” is humans directing the company rather than the company directing the humans. I think the biggest inflection point where this flips is when companies “pivot”. The hu
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"But slowly people started to realize what the collaboration between Mozilla and Cloudflare really means: Cloudflare gets all your DNS queries." This is not wrong. This is correct. The article speaks correctly here.
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... also you can point restic at any old SFTP server ...
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If what you are saying is true – and I am not being sarcastic - I encourage you to edit and update the Wikipedia page that I referenced. The authority that I have appealed to (Wikipedia) is a reasonable one and bias should not be implied in
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Wow this has gone off the rails quickly. To wit: Arsenic is not an essential micronutrient. "Trace quantities of arsenic have been proposed to be an essential dietary element in rats, hamsters, goats, and chickens. Research has no
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You can achieve append-only without exposing a rest server provided that 'rclone' can be called on the remote end: rclone serve restic --stdio You add something like this to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys: restrict,
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Displaying graphics (of any kind) without a framebuffer is called "racing the beam" and is technically quite difficult and involves managing the real world speed of the electron beam with the cpu clock speed ... as in, if you tax
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I appreciate the things you wrote at the end of the github page. I have no idea if you could make any use of such a thing, but, if you email info@rsync.net we would be happy to give a free-forever account to use in any way you see fit.
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I immediately searched the page for 'sftp' but did not find it ... I think your targets of amazon/google/aws are all using the same S3 compatible transport, yes ? Therefore adding sftp would probably be a big heavy lift
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Did running the geolocation service allow you to see otherwise hidden abuses by ISPs and other service providers ? What I mean is: did anything ever break or behave badly ... and then when you investigated you discovered "Oh, look at
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There used to be an all-in-one boot image for the raspberry pi: https://github.com/luigifcruz/pisdr-image Unfortunately it appears to have been abandoned ...
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This kind of thinking is a cancer. The paperclip optimizers are already here - they were always with us.
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I went down the acme/HiCA/RCE rabbit hole a year or so ago and, while I don't remember the specifics, my feeling was that the RCE was not that dangerous and was put into place by greedy scammers thwarting the rules of cert
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Yes, it does. I run acme in a non privileged jail whose file system I can access from outside the jail. So acme sees and accesses nothing and I can pluck results out with Unix primitives from the outside. Yes, I use dns mode. Yes, my dns
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"When I am roaming internationally, I leave my SIM card in a spare android at home plugged into a charger. Android has an app that forwards SMS to API ..." This is called a "2FA Mule": https://kozubik.com/
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"port her cellphone number to a VOIP provider that does support receiving SMS from shortcodes over wifi" ... "... unless the company she's dealing with is one of those that don't send SMS-OTP codes to VoIP numbers f
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"Sorry high schoolers, $70k a year is not happening - this kid is privileged as fuck." My oldest son is 17 years old and graduated one semester early from high school. He now works full-time as a welder and heavy equipment mechani
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"Any account in the world can be proven human by making a debit/credit card transaction from a card with a matching name." A reminder: neither the Visa nor Mastercard payment networks have any ability to match, or authentica
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"Yes, someone can strip out EXIF data, but we've seen over and over again that they generally don't. And even without EXIF a naive framing on the photo is more likely to expose information about the location or identity of th
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"uBlock is only for your web browser - it can't help with other apps, smart devices, game consoles, etc." Yes, but don't we expect all of those devices (and apps) to move to DoH resolution if they haven't already ?
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In this arms race you are saying a current "move" is a curated list of IPs that correspond to known DoH servers ... and that's fine .. However, if the adversary decides to just query - and answer - DoH requests on the same ho
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"Americans basically live like energy is unlimited, free and has no side effects ..." Agreed - and guilty as charged which is why we're switching entirely to solar. (I will also note that my household "cheats" by li
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I read, and appreciated, your entire comment - thank you. You describe a simple and elegant solution to some portions of these problems and what you are doing with your hot water "battery" is smart. I am forced, however, to ask: W
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