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by traceroute66 2mo ago
> For practical use you only care if it carries a certain amount of packets per second without excessive retries The $40 black-boxes do two things: 1. Basic electrical continuity test 2. Read the marker chips (if present) T
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
> Decent quality cable testers can be had for like $20,000. See the discusison linked to. Trust me, my interest was piqued by that thread and I went down the rabbit warren with Mr Google and spent far too much time on the subject. I loo
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
> I'm using the hardware tester from $INSERT_NAME_HERE Oh god not again... before everyone starts naming their favourite brand, here's a 265 comment HN thread[1] (from last week !) on why these cheap USB-cable "testers&quo
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
> They're paying for the data source Yup. If you want fixed-income data, Bloomberg is the only shop on the street data-wise. If you want other financial data, Bloomberg's fixed entry-point pricing tends to make more sense in te
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
The blog post is written by someone who has never heard of a Lombard loans. TL;DR: No surprise to anybody .... loans involve two parties, and shockingly (/s) its up to the bank what they take as collateral ! Lombard loans have been a t
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
If they wanted to build trust, they could have at least made an effort to find minimum of one non-US company ! Also the ties to phone numbers is not cool in 2026. :(
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
Isn't this the sort of thing TUF[1] was invented to combat ? [1] https://theupdateframework.io/
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
> travel and t&e budgets just never returned. It is also worth remembering that the cost of travel itself, and the cost of venues itself has also increased substantially. As well as associated costs such as catering and insurance. S
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
> Only $2,500! Actually no. That one is no good. The one I had in mind is the one that professional network cabling installers use. This one: https://www.cdw.com/product/fluke-dsx-cableanalyzer-dsx2-500... Only $13,
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
> they don't have the cable that can charge your phone. Nokia was the USB-C of the 90's. If you owned a Nokia someone in the room would always have a charger and offices would be full of spares at random desks.
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
> But for bandwidth can't you just have two simple computers at either end that can send a 100GB file and if it arrives in 20 seconds, you know you have 40gbps of bandwidth? Because that is not reproducible and introduces all sorts
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
> Is all Perl, Python, etc., generically just categorally unusable for someone? I am not the OP but my take as someone who is not keen on Perl or Python: 1. Perl has a dense programming style and is quite opaque to new maintainers
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
> If you take an even closer look- what exactly does that mean? Here is one example: "Critical Vulnerability Exclusion We will not pay you under the cyber and data risks section of cover where your legal liability or any
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
> Most people can't justify the time commitment needed to read and then modify the code for tools they use very often. A lot of modern open source software is often written in dependency heavy languages. So to do a "proper&quot
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
Oh, you're right https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-search-proxy-l... That's so sad. :(
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
Ecosia and Qwant have just started collaborating on EUSP (European Search Perspective)[1] This could easily yield very interesting (i.e. "not just another bing proxy") results once it starts gaining traction. I use DuckDuckGo at t
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
> I'm very curious what organisations would have such a policy. I would humbly suggest any org of any size that has insurance cover that covers anything tech related (e.g. data loss/recovery, cyber etc.) has a very good look
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
> 35B MoE is certainly a good and fast local model. I find 27B dense to be quite a bit smarter Isn't that just the definition of MoE vs dense ?
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by traceroute66 2mo ago
> the kind of financial advisor most people would find while looking at random Any regulated financial advisor will still go further and deeper than any LLM. For example, most (all ?) LLMs won't even consider or ask you about applic
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
Every security hole ? No, of course not. But things like insecure argument handling are low-hanging fruit for security auditors. Insecure argument handling is not like the more advanced subtle vulnerabilities that we are seeing in some LLM-
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
But why should insecure argument handling bugs (as per your recent SSH bulletin) be found after release ? Those are an ancient class of bugs that should be picked up by any competent security review.
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
The majority of your security bulletins are as the result of third-party reports to you. Which, by definition, means they are not done by you, which means you don't know when they will be done or how much of your code base they are loo
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> How would it be different with plain wireguard? Seriously ? You do realise that of all the security tools on the planet, plain wireguard most likely has the smallest attack surface of them all, right ? The problem here is as the other
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
Ethical AI company ? Is that a flock of flying pigs I see on the horizon ?
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
Yeah, please could everyone not pile in and start re-hashing the extensive comments that have already been made only a week and a half ago. Whatever you're thinking of posting has almost certainly already been said more than once on th
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
Yeah. In particular for "hot" topics like this people should use the search function at the bottom of every HN page before rushing into post. The last thing everyone needs is yet another duplicate post with hundreds of comments re
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
I employ a "minimum trust" attitude to anything Tailscale and that includes not using their DNS. So "use tailscale DNS" = off and install a DoH profile on devices.
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
THIS THIS THIS !! If I am going to subject myself to the horrors of London's over-crowded, over-priced, delay-ridden, filthy public transport then I sure as hell am not going to be doing that just to end up in the filthy confines of Eu
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> Electricity allows for so many more automatic safeguards. Since the mid-2000s there has actually been a push by Japanese utility companies for adoption of what they call "all-electric" オール電化. Adoption has been reasonably good
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by traceroute66 3mo ago
> The mall had a (most likely gas) explosion If the internet searches are to be believed, that is indeed sadly likely to be the cause. The internet suggests the explosion happened on the second floor of the mall where a large food court

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