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Open Source ERP system for Makerspaces and Community shared system. Started out as a kanban style of system where anyone could request that we re-order cleaning supplies at a Maker…

I've always said that in the back of my mind, the most successful grocery store would be the 'walls' of the store -- bakery, deli, produce, meats, floral, cheeses, dairy and having…

Some of my best hacker/nerd friends I met at notacon. It had a vibe that no other con I’ve been to has had.

I ran a large cloud environment for two different US based retailers. Grocer A: They built their cloud strategy with Azure in mind. Microsoft partnered up with them early on at the…

What overhead? Just about every web server these days supports ACME -- some natively, some via scripts, and you can set up your own internal CA using something like step-ca that sp…

Percepta was a company that was doing a lot of CV/ML in this space looking for shoplifting traits. They had a few paying customers before they were completely acquired by ADT Busin…

Debit card interchange fees are limited to 21 cents per swipe and 0.05% of the transaction. https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/regii-about.ht...

I've eliminated Chrome from my personal systems when uBO stopped working. Blocking v2 manifests also broke a few extensions that were being developed for my day job: they've spent …

My optometrist told me that I have a tendency to 'overcompensate' the last time I had my rx checked; I now tell the optometrists that I have a tendency to overcompensate and ask th…

In the 90's my grandma had her knee replaced. She was bed-bound for 2 weeks before they'd start physical therapy to get her knees back in order. (Ironically enough, her first knee …

As someone who manages a bug bounty program, this kind of pisses me off. For some of our bugs given on h1, we openly say, "Hey, we need to see a POC in order to get this to be tria…

My manager was just following orders to protect his job: he has kids and a wife at home and I don’t blame him, but, he’s one of the few bosses that I don’t keep in communication wi…

If you knew who it was, and understood the culture there, it’d be totally on brand for them. Large, global retailer with their tech center in the Midwest. Most of the long term goa…

About six years ago, my seven year old son passed away: he had liver cancer at a really young age, had a full liver transplant at six months, and lost all hearing as a side effect …

Get an itinerant frequency -- $300, requires no coordination, and you can encrypt your comms. One of the (ham) radio clubs that I'm a member of does this as a benefit for the group…

Location: Dallas Texas/Miami Florida (Winter), Chicago Illinois (Summer) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Only to mild climates with mild winters. Technologies: Terraform/Consul/No…

Kentucky was in the launch release from apple[0], but, still have no formal plans on when they're launching the ability to do so. -- 0: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/apple…

I think they (quietly) turned that off after a researcher exposed it earlier this week.

I had a similar experience with US Bank. Business account, over $50k lost; they said that they can 'terminate their relationship with me at any time for any or no reason whatsoever…

You'd think that, but, as someone who did a phyiscal pentest on a prison recently, that's 1000% not the case. You can set up your access controllers for anti-passback, but, most fo…

Don't forget, the telecom operators usually send large amounts of money in kickbacks to the prison in exchange for the 'privilege' to run these systems. While Prisoners have no exp…

I'm no longer under this specific NDA, so, I can talk a bit about this. It was well known in the wireless industry that ATT collected and kept the most data on all of the carriers:…

I've been hired through HN twice. Once at Singly, in 2010-ish. Was a contractor for about 4 months, they brought me on full time, and I spent about a year there, left to go to one …

Check out Softcover: https://www.softcover.io/ -- open source (no license needed), ruby based, and supports LaTeX and exporting to other formats. I've been using Softcover to publi…

He's def a good source, but, he said that "cybersecurity" is the new buzzword of the year, replacing "AI" and "Digital Retailing"[0]. When you talk security to most dealerships, it…