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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
We were out better selves back then. Seriously though any project of size almost had to involve large amounts of code written or printed on paper. Lots and lots of paper.
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
The cryptography to support this has been around for ever and it's been next to impossible to make the decision makers at companies and large organizations care, much less end users. Small time players like GE routinely fail to correct
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
Also a factor was that while clone machines existed of the IBM/Intel systems and earlier Apple and other 6502 computers, often out of Taiwan, the other vertical vendors managed to keep tighter control. 68k equipment from 3rd parties fo
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
That pitch for the most metal Mad Max sequel was pure molten gold and still holds up.
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
This is observed post hoc rationalization behavior for a lot of subjects, but it's worth remembering that a lot of the kooky stuff from step 1 turns out to in fact be run of the mill lunacy, so there is some harsh survivorship bias.
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
I do a lot of consulting and it's pretty common that the main value we provide is giving a reality check on whether many of these ladders even need to be climbed because all the people involved are focused on how slowly they're ge
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
There seem to be hard cuts in search returns at 5 and 10 years, it's been really difficult to find anything from before 2012 without incredibly specific searches. Lots and lots of link rot too so it's hard to say how much of that
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
This is a silly strawman and victimless crime has never been used in honest discourse to describe a perpetrator too incompetent to cause harm.
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
With so many multifunction SOC embedded controllers out there it's possible some one just didn't cut the lines to the radio built into the board that was selected for other reasons. Would not surprise me to see a lot of control bo
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
And the qualification for becoming one is largely liking money, not any sort of training and functional education. Smart, observant, motivated people generally improve outcomes regardless of what they are involved in. There are amazingly go
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
Competence is a large factor in not getting into unsafe operating conditions. Once outside the envelope, it's only a matter of time before you're unlucky.
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
Kibana and Graylog on top of elastic/opensearch. Even the commerical licenses on those are usually a tiny fraction of splunk's costs, and Graylog does enough for free that it's a much easier path to stand that up and then buy
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
More like three decades. But you'll need to send the memo to small time players like Microsoft, who continue doing all kinds of stupid blocking IO on every possible user interaction because who even fucking knows.
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
It was at one point usable but they drove off the hobbyist/small business crowd a long time ago. We do some work setting up elasticsearch tools that aggregate and filter data later sent to central splunk purely to affect a large reduct
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
No one knows at which point that number goes from being a hypothetical problem into a very realized one. Everyone knows the US needs to roll back the batshit tax advantages it keeps handing out to certain groups that largely already have al
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
The Loyal Wingman concept seems to lend itself to small squadrons of f35 and f15ex command planes managing much larger groups of drones that are actively running radars and using AESA arrays for command and control. Those drones seem to loo
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
In most cases it is that various rights are held by defunct or disinterested parties and so it's near impossible to get relicensing done legally.
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
Do the M1s have especially short write lifetimes? I have a Toshiba from 2010 or so and the SSD is still fine even if the trackpad and speaker ports died years ago.
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
If for some reason an invalid time causes boot failure? Sure. There are some instrumented devices I work with that will alarm and cease operation if they lose their serial connection to a satellite clock, but those are few and far between.
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
Man it's like you and the other respondent want to be helpful but didn't read the next sentence after that bit of hyperbole. If all available time sources are not trustable and none of the existing answers make sense, do not try t
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
That's the point, if you can't trust the connection, stop trying to come up with more complicated ways to use the untrustable connection and accept that there is no safe way to update time.
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
It's probably still the case that Windows will consider the firmware clock more reliable than anything but a stratum 1 (direct gps/glonas/atomic) or maybe 2 time source which can result in truly bizarre behavior if the firmwa
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
I can't imagine the sequence of horrible decisions that led to doing this. Like, why would the time service ever want to depend on all this insanity when if it has a network and everything else is bizarro world, just like scrape the ti
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
Ipv4 has been "fine" largely due to carrier level NAT that has had significant impact on protocol functionality. Also who are you explaining entering v6 addresses to? Serious question. And how is that effectively longer than a dns
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
My experience dealing with Linux over the years can be summed up by the exclamation "oh my fucking god can you people just PICK ONE." There are certainly arguments for why the variety of replacements for simple, old, well trod and
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
If you're using V6 addresses by hand often enough to consider them unfriendly, you're doing something wrong. Also basically every home router in the last 10 years is V6 dual stack because they're all more or less just running
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
Not intending to come off as insulting here but it sounds like you don't know much about criminal enterprises OR money laundering. KYC rules and many of the other AML efforts that make international students with 500 quid to their name
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
If the goal is to make crime more expensive it's been a miserable failure. Cocaine is cheaper inflation adjusted and Deutschebank and Wells Fargo are still in business.
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
As an interested party who has been using classic Start and explorerpatcher on LTSC or server for years to make Windows even slightly less miserable, this site tells me only barely more than nothing. Why not just link to the discord if that
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by yetanotherloss 3y ago
SFTP exists but never really took off for anonymous usage modes as people were already being conditioned to use browsers and cramming everything into HTTP.

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