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What approach did you end up going with instead?

I sadly do not atm beyond some notes but I can if there is interest.

Nonpersistent vm-based browser, I use qemu + cage + firefox and some glue logic to fire up a copy of a base image which gets deleted on exit. Fires up slower than a native firefox …

I always thought the opposite was true like whales breaking up orders for various reasons like not moving the market too much over things like portfolio adjustments, secrecy, etc?

I think it might be a "our product IS dangerous but look we are on top of it!" kind of deal. Still leaves a funny taste either way.

It's wild how the West collectively looked down on China for years over its censorship of search engines, only to suddenly dive headfirst into the same illiberal playbook It is mon…

I think a lot of that in the US got spun up with Nixon, Reagan brought a lot of it to the mainstream though. Both of them hated unions with a passion that is for sure.

Ah didn't know that, thanks!

Preexisting solutions to future problems! Thanks to AI (mostly) botnets specifically for renting residential IPs have multiplied since most commercial VPN IP blocks get rate-limite…

faint sound of fading laughter from a US SSBN If you want a successful lunch program (and rations if you have a to-go bag) look no further than the US Navy's sub program. Given the…

Ah well different tools for different folks, sorry to hear you couldn't get it going.

Check out SmartOS, it's illumos/solaris based but I think you'll find it is a nice middle ground. Not as abstracted, nice tooling that makes common tasks simple but not so opiniona…

Granted my film scanner (epson v750) has gotten on in years the more prosumer-professional Epson scanners were good, software was still a bit janky but IIRC there is aftermarket sc…

So your argument is my argument is old? Why were there oil corps there and why were they so pissed when they got kicked out? Also did you think I was suggesting the U.S. govt wants…

So pick Venezuela? Which at best is a transshipment point, why no strikes in the Darién, why not take out some railroad tracks since a lot of drugs go up from coca country by rail?…

cough Guantanamo Bay cough

Archive should just rebrand as an AI start up then offer an 'llm' that is suspiciously 'over-trained' and happens to spit out the site you query exactly... Copyright infringement? …

Tim Cook's most important customer is Wall St, granted that is every CEO these days. The enshittification ceiling is pretty damn high but I get the intuitive sense the profit at al…

Ah haven't looked at their current offerings in a while, I am still on the first gen USG 1000fdx but hand-rolling a 2.5 router (Radxa E52C, it's nifty) to replace it when I stop be…

Other trap is some of the unifi features, IIRC their IDS is one of them, will cut throughput if you are running it.

I think a more elegant solution would simply be to assign everyone a minder to monitor in real time, it is simpler than securely back-dooring (hell of an oxymoron) encryption syste…

The corp platform model seems to excel at abstracted wheel re-inventing and then pretending it is innovation.

Wait you were kidding? I've already spun up a kubes cluster so we can feed FHS in a globally load-balanced CI/CD pipeline, I have an agentic LLM doing constant improvements so we c…

I'll throw Mamiya 645 in there for a good medium format camera as well. Yashica is great, I own a Yashica Electro 35 and it is awesome no thought rangefinder.

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