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I spent a few years hanging around the VC-adjacent scene in a major city, met quite a few of them (because I'm that way. elevator docent during events... priceless). There is publi…

Why wouldn't it move underground? Create analogues of the AMOC?

Feel free to use https though, it's a self-signed cert. http://athena.m3047.net/pub/fwm/rfc-tree.pdf

I'll give +1 for that.

What is a "winning argument"? Let's say two parties in an argument both make ad hominem arguments against the other party. Is the winning party's ad hominem "winning"? Just because…

We're not talking about sports here. If someone is a possible candidate for a clinical trial, there are probably other treatment options, maybe not preferable. I could buy "cancer …

I have concerns regarding insider trading (as I certainly do regarding the stock market), but Kalshi's statement seems straightforward: "If you want to ban profiting from the failu…

"We all could have done more.": said by every politician. Which is easier: writing good code, or winning a political battle over crappy code? I mean, if you're not capable of codin…

Brazil. Last year I effectively blocked Brazil for a while. Ultimately I settled on three possibilities for the traffic I was seeing: 01: DDOS 10: Residential proxies 11: Somebody …

I blocked AWS incoming traffic a few years ago. I wrote a blog post about it. I get maybe dozens of actual visitors a week; I got around 15,000 real people views of the post in abo…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banditti_of_the_Plains

Seems like the programmers at LinkedIn never imagined that the network isn't reliable, and can't invalidate the session on actual logout; it only happens when whatever page is repl…

Another journalist was picked up in a different state with another dealer plate (on a different vehicle) with the same partial match. TLDR: what's in Flock is a partial, but when F…

+1 for "...may not be understandable as a normal distribution." "Rogue" might just be the operators wishful thinking. Hammer nail (something from a prior life), politics isn't norm…

I don't disagree. What do you make? I've got contact info and a link to my GitHub account in my profile. Are you having problems with motivating yourself to Make?

I'm coming to the conclusion that this is the wrong attitude about FOSS. The "model" is: make it possible for people to obtain the product with as little friction as possible. That…

Why should I have a blog post? I get amazing "performance" out of fail2ban, it does what it's supposed to do and I don't ask it to do more. I've given it "super powers". Last year …

"Many sysadmins know about fail2ban..." and many will now know about reaction. But why will the result be any different than fail2ban? It won't. I identify features (which can be e…

Anything which fills my logs with garbage is unwanted. Your cat could have fallen asleep on the keyboard, I don't care. If you want to use the internet as a giant petri dish, that'…

CO2, you say? Human activity produces tens of percent of the bioavailable nitrogen.

As a professed "hacker tourist" I've been rewarded with the trust and respect not to set myself or my coworkers on fire, in cultures which didn't see a lot of outsiders. Several ti…

I've been a Forward Deployed Engineer practically speaking, and properly construed the title correlates well with the personal sobriquet "hacker tourist". I've been to Prudhoe Bay,…

Schools can develop training and scholarship programs. Maybe we'll find out a degree in Egyptology isn't necessary to teach basic reading and writing? Although walking like an Egyp…

I'll leave this here, although it 404s now: http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/

Without digressing into spy vs spy, I think deprecation warnings (shared with the customer base) are a good thing. It might not be a good thing for sales, but that's not a concern …