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FWIW I wrote that post with no aggression intended. I suspect you may be overanalyzing things. Have a Coke and a smile, Dan. Unfortunately, if my manner of speaking directly is bre…

I never said Ben wasn't talented. He's very talented. I like Ben. That said, they are leagues apart. It's like claiming Eric Clapton is as good as a guitarist in some shitty bar ba…

Ben is a hipster Elton John. To put him in the same league as Brian is insulting.

People bringing their pet dogs into grocery stores is an especially egregious societal ill. It's a major problem in places like Seattle where dogs outnumber children. I once watche…

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> and maintaining a dedicated three stage filter spout next to my kitchen faucet costs me approximately nothing Calling bullshit on this one. I have one, it's positively wonderful,…

> but do people brew green tea or good coffee with tap water? I use filtered tap water (under-sink type) which removes most of it. A lot of the higher end coffee makers like Keurig…

> But hey, at least it's not bottled water, which is basically tap water that has been put in a single-use plastic bottle and trucked across the country. Everyone acts like bottled…

Globally routable doesn't mean you don't have firewalls in between filtering and blocking traffic. You can be globally routable but drop all incoming traffic at what you define as …

> The modern Mac is a sea of Allow/Don't Allow prompts Remember when they used to mock this as part of their marketing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUPxkzV1RTc

> Can anyone explain to me if there is any way to determine whether an inbound IPv6 address is "local"? No, because it's the antithesis of IPv6 which is supposed to be globally rou…

> Sure - a destination is "local" if your machine has a route to that IP which isn't via a gateway. Fantastic. Well, Google doesn't agree The proposal defines it along RFC1918 addr…

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Can you define "local network"? Probably not. Most large enterprises own publicly-routable IP space for internal use. Internal doesn't mean 192.168.0.0/24. foo.corp.example.com cou…

Ironically, Chrome partially supported and utilized IE security zones on Windows, though it was not well documented.

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> what are you even doing? Forensics, among a hundred other things. > Literal amateurs can launch a WooCommerce site from nothing in a weekend Selling low-volume horseshit out of y…

> whereas startups building new products often get by with relatively few people 90% of startups fail within 5 years so probably not the best example of how to run things. The few …

HN posters love talking gangster shit when something goes offline but never walked a mile in their boots. I most recently remember sifting through gloating that 4chan - a shoestrin…

> RFID isn't smart Makes it utterly useless as a digital signature then.

> tap a RFID hanko we call those contactless smart cards

UPS driver left a $3500 MacBook Pro on my front steps, didn't even ring the bell... signature required my ass.