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I'm not a git expert, but how was the attacker able to push the stability branch directly to the Amazon owned repo? The PR would have been to merge the modified branch to main righ…

Not true. They are widely available and used in Australia.

Is anyone familiar with the matter able to comment on the use of Torq-set fasteners? Are they a standard for these sort of use cases? They seem to be used frequently in Aerospace? …

Amazon has a reuse program for old hardware[1]. Disks will be shredded on-site and then recycled. [1] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/how-aws-data-centers-re...

I remember my first professional job in 2008 and noticing the lifts in the building had ashtrays in them. I couldn't fathom smoking in such a confined space with others!

My sister-in-law swam the channel a few weeks ago, under the supervision of a pilot from the linked association. A direct point to point swim is around 33km. Due to the tides and t…

I feel folks overcomplicate this. At least for the the HN crowd, it is totally possible to eat mostly non-processed, fresh food, don't drink too much booze, and get an average of 3…

The email is to exec staff, not the entire company? Perhaps a BCC, or maybe just wants the execs to set an example?

Ha, I did have hassio running on a pi, but it killed the SD card twice. Apparently a common issue just due to to the volume of writes...

I'm using an Acer laptop that must be 15 years old for pfsense, never misses a beat, built in UPS! I've got a second laptop, a MacBook air from 2012 running a bunch of containers f…

Not just startups[1]. AWS, among others I'm sure, have at least attempted to turn this man's intuition into a little yellow box and an algorithm. Scaling to many thousands of machi…

I previously worked in this space and have a fair bit of experience optimising AWS spend for customers. Cool idea! I see the pain point you are addressing here is friction in the m…

I'm not familiar with Hetzner at all. But it seems they are running a single self managed VM to serve these updates globally, and then comparing that to the cost of egress on a glo…

Yes, one of the core benefits of a provider like AWS is that they provide tooling to treat individual instances as immutable entities that you simply replace without any interrupti…

I'd be curious to see the typical rate of hearing degradation due to age graphed against typical income growth with age that would be required to support systems of this standard. …

As a non-American I'm always surprised at how quickly people are fired there. I cannot imagine such a severe action been taking in any country I've worked in, thanks to robust work…

Disadvantage of this is that the DAC in the echo dot is quite low quality. On a quality HiFi it doesn't sound very good. I started with this, and then moved to an Echo Link, which …

Thanks. What if I purchase a home, to live in. Then I take a job overseas and move for 2-3 years. Must I sell the house rather than rent it out on a short term basis?

I don't understand how this would work. How do people rent? Obviously many people can't or do not wish to own their house for any number of reasons. Who will own houses that are re…

I'm a hobbyist tig welder. 1-2% thoriated electrodes emit alpha particles that won't penetrate skin. It's really only a risk if you breath in a lot of the dust created by grinding …

The referenced research mentions Belchatow power plant in Poland as the most polluting of all. This was an interesting fact about efforts toward carbon capture at the plant I found…

Not OP, but I have an MSR Hubba Hubba NX that is pretty amazing. I've had several backpacking tents over the years and its my favourite.