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by technofiend 2y ago
>I sincerely doubt most people who are in the workforce have ever handled a 40 person raid. Managing 25+ people across multiple time zones ends up overlapping quite a bit with raids! Particularly the need to stay calm when things inevita
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by technofiend 2y ago
Lobsters is invitation only: you have to find someone willing to sponsor you and your sponsor's reputation is tied to yours. In fact, the entire tree of sponsors is public. So people aren't just going to sponsor a stranger, and os
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by technofiend 2y ago
Lobster's barrier to entry is high enough (shades of gmail invitations) that in my humble opinion most people will choose the site over the browser.
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by technofiend 2y ago
May I suggest Firefox plus an ad blocking extension such as uBlock Origin? Enable every option, opt-in to every list and the web reverts to something a bit more palatable.
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by technofiend 2y ago
Yes, true today and the opposite for many: they don't want an expensive bundled subscription to subsidize sports when they don't watch sports themselves.
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by technofiend 2y ago
I realize this is ancient history, but prior to cable people got Big Ugly Dishes aka C Band dishes and at the time you could subscribe ala carte. When cable came along they practically doubled prices when they also bundled channels ostensi
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by technofiend 2y ago
I claim no expertise here, sorry. Best I can do is defer to Serve The Home; they have reviews of switches that include whether it's managed, actively cooled, throughput, etc.
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by technofiend 2y ago
Yes on Android it's already readable in Firefox, but that may be due to ad-blocking plugin. Even so, Firefox reader mode makes it even better.
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by technofiend 2y ago
Just my opinion but don't you want to patch that hole with a better switch? Or put it downstream of a switch that does enforce vlans? Most likely your iot devices don't really need anything more than 10-100 megabit connections any
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by technofiend 2y ago
I would expect a vigorous effort to reverse engineer Solark's firmware to spin up, assuming it hasn't already.
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by technofiend 2y ago
My employer invested tens of millions in telepresence, telecommuting and remote working options. When the pandemic hit they got Zoom scaled up and working for tens of thousands of employees. Which it did, beautifully. Now that the pandemi
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by technofiend 2y ago
I adore OpenBSD because it's so lightweight, but I dropped it for FreeBSD when the same hardware couldn't max out a 1 gigabit connection running OpenBSD but could with Free. Since then they have made network changes so I'll p
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by technofiend 2y ago
That may be your experience, it wasn't mine. I eat very healthy on Ozempic but yeah of the 60 lbs lost so far some of it is noticeably muscle because I don't exercise enough. The next 60 lbs of fat lost will hopefully be me swa
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by technofiend 2y ago
Had an aunt who wanted to be reachable but only by her friends in the know. She confided to me in the late 70s if I needed her she was listed under J.P. Sartre.
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by technofiend 2y ago
Same! My IPC served my domain using Solaris on a nailed up bonded ISDN circuit until someone filled the root disk trying to patch the rpc.cmsd remote exploit. After that it was BSDs until I settled on OpenBSD.
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by technofiend 2y ago
Telenet in Houston had a connection to a local credit agency of some kind. You could look up payment history and searches may have even created profiles for people who didn't have one. I'm a little surprised there's no menti
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by technofiend 2y ago
For example getting rid of these: https://apnews.com/article/fbi-justice-department-chinese-ha...
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by technofiend 2y ago
>Right now you can go to eBay and buy a used PC for $200 that will do everything you need to do... 100%! And the average HN poster presumably has the skills to make that work. My suggestion to retire vulnerable devices isn't a US
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by technofiend 2y ago
I'm thinking of the millions of IOT devices like old internet firewall appliances that make up modern botnets. Those need to die ASAP.
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by technofiend 2y ago
This just underscores the fact (IMHO) we need a "cash for clunkers" program for obsolete and unsupported devices. I mean I'd love to see more moonshot programs like DARPA's Tractor but in the meantime why not create ince
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by technofiend 2y ago
Compounded is amazingly cheap particularly when you start because a single bottle of compounded Wegovy is many doses at the lowest recommended dosage levels. I think the first bottle cost me $200 and lasted two months, possibly longer. Weg
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by technofiend 2y ago
Before you purchase anything try A1 solar. They often have deep discounts on single panels as well as container lots. For instance they have a 440 Watt panel priced at $140, six of which would get you 2,640 watts @ $840. https:/&#x2F
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by technofiend 2y ago
I recently purchased two third party solar panels for around $150 to feed a small Ecoflow battery. I specifically did not purchase Ecoflow panels because like their batteries everything is boutique priced. Based on energy costs, the panels
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by technofiend 2y ago
Many of them also have slate roofs. Slate's not going to suddenly start leaking unless it's cracked. Contrast that with roofs in the US that use asphalt that needs replacement every couple of decades.
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by technofiend 2y ago
Anecdotally I've used software that was capable of it if your hardware could be netbooted, preferably with pxe/ipxe. I used rackn and there's other vendors like maas with purportedly the same abilities. RackN is good enough
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by technofiend 2y ago
Early on my career my employer (a savings and loan) went into receivership because our CEO kept reselling a parcel of land at increasingly inflated prices to himself through holding companies he owned. Each time he was able to force a sale
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by technofiend 2y ago
Taylor, wow! I think you're the only person I've actually seen implement WAAS to boost GPS precision. So cool!
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by technofiend 2y ago
This is the kind of logic Microsoft should include in Windows by default.
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by technofiend 2y ago
This is a dated example but since "you've never heard of it", it's still relevant. I worked at Ford Aerospace/Loral and Boeing on space shuttle contracts. Part of the training was a video interview with a sysadmin
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by technofiend 2y ago
That's presumptive on having Internet at all, but even so people make poor economic decisions all the time. Think of title loan and paycheck loan places, grocery shopping at the dollar store. You get the idea. And the fact that at tim

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