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I'm not entirely sure what the fear is. The AST2600 the sticker seems to have been pasted to is a pretty complicated IC with (and this is the important part) user-upgradeable flash…

Neither Dell nor HPE manufactures switches (the former never has, the latter hasn't for the past few years). So, these are all sourced from an OEM like Edgecore. And, someone at th…

Not the person you're replying to, but... 1: Access to the data center requires either an access card plus biometric verification (fingerprint in one DC in my case, retina scan in …

My most precious mental model hack is, that if I see anything on news.ycombinator.com, that's something to avoid hard in real life. So, venturebros? Hard pass. Cryptobros? Hard, ha…

Oh, sorry for being so dumb. I'm just an Ubiquiti customer wanting to download the JRE v8 that their software requires. Guess I should just... use LISP to write my own solution? I …

Oh, yes, silly ignorant me. Real-world scenario: someone downloads the Ubiquiti network management software. It requires end-users to download JRE v8 (and nothing else: it won't wo…

Yup, you go and explain that to, say. Ubiquiti. Their network management software still requires end-users to download JRE v8 (and noothing else: it won't work). And, once end-user…

Yeah, right. As if I'm ever going to allow anything Java-related on anything I manage again. "This application requires JRE #" -- end-user Googles JRE # and downloads/installs it. …