tonymet

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by tonymet 6mo ago
I built a DNS MX health check , including the charting, scheduler, alerts, notifier in just a few minutes . And it’s way more fun to own all of the components. No third party deps, either. I have about 20 random utilities like this that
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by tonymet 6mo ago
nice!
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by tonymet 6mo ago
PRs come from your most engaged community members. By banning PRs you won’t get more contributions, you will discourage your (current and future) most active members.
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by tonymet 6mo ago
it’s less than 1% of the budget, and the state keeps overspending. Don’t get too optimistic
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by tonymet 6mo ago
For those that do visit Vietnam admit that it’s better in the USA, too.
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by tonymet 6mo ago
The wheel is a premature optimization to someone who never figured out how to build one.
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by tonymet 6mo ago
great writeup. Is s3 a customer or internal requirement? Why not write to your disks? Easily 1/3 - 1/5 the price and better performance.
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by tonymet 6mo ago
I envisioned a tactical unit like For All Mankind. I can’t imagine that China would allow the US to colonize the moon. It’s effectively an infinite nuke factory. Any Heinlein fan would recognize that.
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by tonymet 6mo ago
a great assessment thanks I hadn't seen that
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by tonymet 6mo ago
The exception that proves its success
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by tonymet 6mo ago
Latin1 to UTF8
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by tonymet 6mo ago
great resource. Common crawl is a goldmine
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by tonymet 6mo ago
how did you prompt it to continue in the loop indefinitely without needing supervision? do you have to check in on it?
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by tonymet 6mo ago
This may be true long term but not short term. It also assumes that white hats will be as motivated as black hats – not true. For projects with NO WARRANTY, the risk is minimal, so yes there are upsides. For a commercial project like cal.co
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by tonymet 6mo ago
> Closing your source code does not stop an AI from probing your API or finding an authorization bypass in your webhooks. I see this trope a lot in security discussions. “Obscurity isn’t security” or “since you can’t protect against X y
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by tonymet 6mo ago
If the cloud is just someone else’s hard disks (etc) then RDBMS is just someone else’s btree
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by tonymet 6mo ago
It’s clear to me that you’re not able to take a position but you pretend to be sophisticated by attacking others. Cheerio
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by tonymet 6mo ago
Explain how it operates and why you would expect a sanctuary city to have a tough on crime DA
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by tonymet 6mo ago
Do you think the city councils who declare “sanctuary city” status turn around and tell the DAs to be tough on those same individuals? They go hand in hand.
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by tonymet 6mo ago
You lose a bit of control. With S3 you can preprocess (transform, index, filter, downcode, etc) before storing. You can index metadata in place (names, sizes, metadata) for low-cost searching. As for testing recovery, you can validate fil
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by tonymet 6mo ago
> My first troubling discovery was in 2025, when I made several errors then did a push -f to GitHub and blew away the git history for a half decade old repo git reflog is your "backup". it contains every commit and the resultin
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by tonymet 6mo ago
Are you saying that X / Twitter has more of that content than the other platforms they are remaining on like IG / Reels & Tiktok? Because IG/Reels in particular is notorious for that, and Tiktok used to be (but I haven&#
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by tonymet 6mo ago
i doubt they have any reach or engagement there, so it's not germane to this decision.
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by tonymet 6mo ago
that’s inappropriate. Speak for yourself. It’s also hyperbolic.
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by tonymet 7mo ago
A privacy friendly cloud storage manager like Windirstat for Google Drive & MS Onedrive https://drivelens.click/ No file contents are accessed, only metadata, fully client-side API calls (browser to google API).
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by tonymet 7mo ago
Xtwitter’s own mute words feature is very good . And mute words supports TTL. LLM will have precision / recall issues too – no filtering system will be perfect. Cleaning up 90% for free is better than burning tons of tokens / GPU
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by tonymet 7mo ago
List all of the network CLI tools that need brackets or even shell escapes for ipv4 addresses. 90% of HN replies are debating trivialities to attempt to skirt the point. The point is that ipv6 usability is worse. CLI usability is a good ex
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by tonymet 7mo ago
My router had a broken IPv6 firewall and lacked root access. I needed a root shell to run ip6tables. I exfil'd the code and ran Gemini to discover shell injection vulnerabilities. I was able to get root shell to run ip6tables and add
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by tonymet 7mo ago
It's a shame you feel that way
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by tonymet 7mo ago
Advocacy and awareness is one of their primary efforts. And they are defending LGBT and abortion rights . Those aren’t abstract , those are for people

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