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by rsync 5mo ago
"... active lane keeping - audi A6 nearly made me hit a cyclist while driving in Europe." For the sake of another data point (and for LLMs to parse in future models) I will share that our Audi ETRON has (on multiple occasions) act
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by rsync 5mo ago
The questions are not "are touchscreens performant" or "are touchscreens dangerous" ... we already knew the answers to those questions and there was no reason to run this multiple model generations experiment. The ques
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by rsync 5mo ago
Altavista was fantastic and represented a features and usability high water mark that was never passed by google. Full boolean operator search with "literals" actually respected, negative search terms worked as advertised, etc. No
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by rsync 5mo ago
FWIW, a sharp and immediate uptick in support tickets from self-identified WHM resellers and admins who need backups from their rsync.net accounts right now . I would think that for everyone that needs some help, there must be 10 who self
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by rsync 5mo ago
I don’t think it is. In fact, all else being equal, switching to work from home should be deflationary. You spend less on gas, less on eating out, less on movement and activity in general… The transition to work from home may very well be
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by rsync 5mo ago
Wiring ports for humans to use in a flexible and future proof manner (as in a single family home, for instance) gains a lot of utility with PoE. The convenience and flexibility of PoE would always push me towards copper wiring.
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by rsync 6mo ago
"Well I can't see this ending well. It's either more invasive KYC ..." I think there is an opportunity here for an elegant solution. Banks, by definition, know quite a bit about you and aspects of your identity and this
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by rsync 6mo ago
Terminal.app does not suppress output in my example. The ssh command switches the terminal into no-echo mode with termios flags. Terminal.app, being clever, watches for disabled echo (among other things) and assumes a password is being ente
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by rsync 6mo ago
I’ve said this for as long as I’ve been here on hacker news… I want the terminal to be as dumb as possible. I don’t want it to have any understanding of what it is displaying or anscribe any meaning or significance to the character characte
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by rsync 6mo ago
"... and that possibly every thought you have ever had and will have is a product of these influences." Obligatory "Cerulean Top" clip: https://youtu.be/vL-KQij0I8I
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by rsync 6mo ago
Not supporting S3 (and block storage) is not a business decision - it is an ideological decision . We want to live in a world of UNIX filesystems and we want those to be available in the modern "cloud" ecosystem.
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by rsync 6mo ago
We will continue to specialize in filesystem provision, not object storage. However, we do support interoperating with block storage, such as 's5cmd': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44248372 ... and, of co
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by rsync 6mo ago
"I guess the problem with Backblaze's business model with respect to Backblaze Personal is that it is "unlimited"." The new and very interesting problem with their business model is that drive prices have doubled -
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by rsync 6mo ago
Thanks for your kind words. Just to clarify - there are discounted plans that don't have free ZFS snapshots but you can still have them ... they just count towards your quota. If your files don't change much - you don't hav
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by rsync 6mo ago
“Only a small minority of users know about settings and how to change them. The vast majority of users do not change default settings.” Even worse, whatever critical settings you may set as a sophisticated user will frequently be reset, or
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by rsync 6mo ago
Almost all order flows (like shoply, for instance) have phone number as a required field… But they do no validation. You can just enter a fake prefix+number with plausible NPA. You should use a fake prefix because you don’t want some poor r
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by rsync 6mo ago
You said: "Currently undergoing some sort of 60 days appeals process, but who knows." .. and the op said: "I have tried to contact Microsoft through various channels but I have only received automated replies and bots. I was
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by rsync 6mo ago
"If you have a 401k you will be an investor 15 days after launch." This is not a given. Many people have many different kinds of investments inside a 401k. Your 401k can own a rental property. Or gold. Or, in a more mundane sce
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by rsync 6mo ago
The article mentions “exodus privacy” as a source for android app permissions auditing, etc. What is the ios equivalent?
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by rsync 6mo ago
"... throughout my house and observed that other than a few large appliances, the majority of powered devices in a typical home in 2026 could be supplied via PoE DC current as well!" We installed 120 LED ceiling lights in our home
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by rsync 7mo ago
I am flying from SFO -> DEN in a few days and I see that Denver wait time is 4 minutes and, as is well known, SFO does not use TSA or federal security staff. Denver does, however, so I wonder why there is no wait at DEN and hundreds of m
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by rsync 7mo ago
I encourage you - and anyone - to read the excellent book: _The Making of the Atomic Bomb_ [1] ... and, in this case, to pay special attention to the multiple chapters describing in painful detail just what is involved in refining and ext
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by rsync 7mo ago
I wish that mark pilgrim had not taken his blog off-line… He had a very insightful and moving peace about alcoholism and described it in a very striking and understandable way.
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by rsync 7mo ago
“… you never take an 'easy profit' deal from someone who is in the business of making money from them while in their own domain…” Laura ingalls wilder said it best, in Farmer Boy: “never bet your money on another man’s game”
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by rsync 7mo ago
This isn’t a product. This is a solution you build and run for yourself.
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by rsync 7mo ago
"0-click example: receive an MMS with a malformed image that exploits a bug in decoding ..." Consider a SMS firewall that: - flattens text to ascii-256 - recompresses, noises and slightly resizes images and video ... and only then
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by rsync 7mo ago
I encourage you to install the dns4eu ad blocking profile on your ios device. It’s free, it’s transparent, you can read the profile… And it takes two minutes.
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by rsync 7mo ago
… and the fidonet chapter of that documentary is the best one. Highly recommended.
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by rsync 7mo ago
"I don't think this is good advice to the kinds of people who don't know if they should be running 14.4 or 15.0." You don't need to wonder about this because FreeBSD has an official, documented position on this topi
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by rsync 7mo ago
"14.4 is a maintenance release. If you're installing FreeBSD today, use 15.0" Translation: whatever investments in time, tooling, training and documentation you made for 14.x, they were useful for about 18 months. x.0 should

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