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by spondyl 8y ago
For anyone wondering, 9.9.9.9 is https://www.quad9.net/ who claim to not only resolve requests but also check them against IBM X-Force's threat intelligence database.
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by spondyl 8y ago
Rather than guessing, you can also connect to the SMTP gateway of that company using telnet then enter rcpt to:<ceo@company.com>. It'll tell you if that's a valid address or not. Rinse and repeat.
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by spondyl 8y ago
I know from my past data exports on Android (pre-Cambridge Analytica) that my location history was pretty precise at all times. Same deal with Google Maps but I was aware of it so that's not really a complaint. I tried looking for the
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by spondyl 8y ago
Yarn seems to be unaffected with this issue so I imagine you'll be fine. There's been a few users (including myself) who simply swapped out npm for yarn and have had the issue resolved. It doesn't really address the root caus
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by spondyl 8y ago
I recognised it straight away when it popped up this morning and thought "What the fuck, how could anything even trigger that?". There were no issues mentioning it for the longest time so we figured no way, it must be something be
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NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot(github.com)
294 points by spondyl 8y ago|252 comments
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by spondyl 8y ago
I think this post is relevant here: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
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by spondyl 8y ago
My coworker likes to say "None of this [tech] shit is cool" and that's kind of how I feel about browsers. Firefox Quantum is quite nice but in the past, I've had a constant resizing bug that makes it unusable on my home
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by spondyl 9y ago
I thought this article was fascinating, not because I believe Pagerduty wants to disrupt work/life balance, but because it's almost a "Missing the forest for the trees" view on uptime/availability for a service&#x2F
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Pagerduty wants to disrupt your work/life balance(theoutline.com)
2 points by spondyl 9y ago|1 comments
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by spondyl 9y ago
I just bought an Amazon Echo Dot and they're pretty neat. Here's some scenarios I've used in the last few days > I need to provide some identifying info to get 2FA removed from my web host (new phone) and one of them was l
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by spondyl 9y ago
Clearly there is value here: https://github.com/micromatch/nanomatch/pull/7/files/573338f... /sarcasm
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by spondyl 9y ago
I always wondered why tech companies had such an impenetrable inward communication until I came across the following insight: "If you have a billion users, and 0.1% of them have an issue that requires support on a given day (an average
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by spondyl 9y ago
I use iwantmyname for the reasons mentioned by the others. I originally met a bunch of the team at a hackathon in Wellington, New Zealand which is where they're based. They're a nice lot with no upsell and reliable service. As men
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by spondyl 9y ago
I had a similar feeling when it was reported that the injured were transported to Zuckerberg General Hospital[0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_General_Hospital
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by spondyl 9y ago
Ah, thanks! I just had a look at Subsonic and it's right up my alley. I'm slowly transitioning from Spotify to a local file setup and Subsonic looks like the missing piece. I was considering dropping on a Plex membership but this
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by spondyl 9y ago
Oooh, a fellow NZ HNer :wave:
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by spondyl 9y ago
Facebook: Eh, I don't check it but I use Messenger at least a few times a day. Events is neat but I never go to any. It was useful for flat hunting because there's a closed group on there with about 70K people in my city. Things l
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by spondyl 9y ago
Oh, hey! I was gonna say, your writing style seems familiar for some reason but I knew you by your previous handle. Nice to see you're still around
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by spondyl 9y ago
We were having a discussion about this at work and figure it's worth pointing out any potential regulation will affect the industry as a whole. That's obvious of course but I get the feeling some of those who are pro-regulatory fo
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by spondyl 9y ago
As horrific as it was, the NYT's "Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design Standards, Indictment Says" bizarre headline actually made by day :) I had to do a double take and check that I hadn't been redirec
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by spondyl 9y ago
I use a Yubikey NEO myself which is nice but not a heap of services support it. Probably my favourite feature, which gets very little attention, is that you can store your MFA tokens on your key. Scanning a Yubikey NEO with the Yubikey app
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by spondyl 9y ago
It's totally anecdotal but I asked a few people about this and everyone had never heard, or seemed particular interested in hearing about Cambridge Analytica. I mentioned the whole thing about phone contacts and the response was basica
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by spondyl 9y ago
For anyone staying because of Facebook Messenger, it's not obvious but you can tie Messenger to your phone number instead of having a Facebook account. It still requires you to create a new account (that has an account key you can auto
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by spondyl 9y ago
I'm genuinely curious as to what would be left wing conspiracies? I don't doubt they exist but googling "Left wing conspiracy theories" quite literally brings up a list of "Right wing conspiracy theories".
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by spondyl 9y ago
As a Workflowy fan, I can also recommend Dynalist
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by spondyl 9y ago
For anything dynamic, I usually start with Django but I'm not opposed to building with Node and React For my personal site, I rebuild it in whatever language I'm trying to learn. In this case, I'm rewriting part of it in gola
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by spondyl 9y ago
My personal laptop is a Macbook Pro 2015 but for work, I've got an HP ZBook Studio G3 (i7-7820HQ/32GB RAM/256GB SSD) which is quite nice. The ZBook is Windows 10 Enterprise but surprisingly, it's been not bad to use. I r
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by spondyl 9y ago
I think about what he says on taste quite a bit. Similarly, artists will create a piece of art, for example, and look back as it as being rubbish. If I'm someone who sees that piece of art and I really like it, perhaps that just means
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by spondyl 9y ago
Hype feeding hype? On a side note, I've been using it at work and I'm actually quite liking it myself

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