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MUNI's shortcomings are visible during rush hour due to system collapse, and off-hours / on secondary routes due to missing runs or too-infrequent scheduling. Moving around the mos…

Yup, also Twin Peaks near Sutro Tower. "Dead battery," mode doesn't work for me either. So much fun.

"It was better next year" has been my running line. I rather like this one too.

Yeah, you have to remember that in pulse dial days a central office station had a reach of roughly 3 miles. The longer you go, the more you're paying for cable, repeaters, or just …

Buuuuut.... not if you hijack the destination route. It helps if the DNS servers are hijacked, but if you also snag the destination route's IP then you can still get the certificat…

If you are using DNSSEC, hopefully the issuers are validating it.

I believe we called that, "2003 engineering decisions."

Removal performance of large directories is very bad. Reading large directories can result in lots of seeks. Directories are not suited to this at scale, and symlink directories de…

A side note: at least in python, I benchmarked MsgPack as 3 times faster than JSON, and a whopping 850 times faster to read than YAML. It seems unlikely that people will ever be ed…

It depends on which 2FA method you use, and there's an associated time window. The TOTP method (Google Authenticator App) of a rotating number must be used within a window of at mo…

If it's all about sharing, why do we attribute anything here? Might as well make the submission and all the comments anonymous here as well. Reputation is mark of making _good_ con…