LeonM

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by LeonM 2mo ago
What you get is not what you cost. 40% overhead is quite typical, so you'd be looking at $120k/year. In the USA I'd consider that a competitive salary for an admin capable or keeping a $6M rack of specialized hardware running
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by LeonM 2mo ago
No, 27-7 for the rest of the world. The separator is often the only way to distinguish American notation from ISO, so please use a dash for dd-mm-yy and a forward slash for mm/dd/yy
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by LeonM 3mo ago
> in Switzerland there is a thing, that if a product or service has the name "Swiss" in its name, then it can be sold for any price regardless of quality That's just basic marketing. You'll see that in most countries,
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by LeonM 3mo ago
The title makes it sound like they just did a seed round, but the seed round was announced in August of last year [0]. Their website landing page is now also showing the software is no longer maintained. No mention of why they made this de
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by LeonM 3mo ago
I was wondering the same thing. I had never heard of Portal before seeing this post. Actually had to pause the video to search what a Meta Portal even is... Too bad because it looks like a neat device. This feels the same as discovering a n
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by LeonM 4mo ago
For on-the-go compute I am using a 2017 12-inch Macbook (AS1534). This is a lesser known model, it was simply called "12 inch MacBook" (not air or pro) [0]. It has the aluminium body, it is ridiculously thin (3,5mm thinnest point,
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by LeonM 6mo ago
Glitching attacks are typically performed by switching the supply voltage at quite high frequencies, a typical low-voltage detection won't trigger a reset under such conditions. And this is also why glitching attacks are often performe
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by LeonM 6mo ago
Similar story, I had a customer who wanted me to change the entire UI of a legacy application, because some information would not fit on the ancient 1024*786 15" desktop monitor of one employee, meaning he would have to use horizontal
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by LeonM 6mo ago
I don't think that it would take that much. It is my understanding that the A18 CPU is pretty well understood already. AFAIK it doesn't have the new architecture that is keeping the Asahi team from supporting the M4 and M5 for exa
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by LeonM 7mo ago
I'm not sure what Hector's personal choices have to do with not "trusting" a piece of software? It's open source, so if you don't trust the quality of the software, then just inspect it yourself? Also, FWIW: He
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by LeonM 8mo ago
I'd take that claim by Mecha with a huge grain of salt. How are they going to fund 7 years of support for a device that sells maybe a few thousand units? How are they going to guarantee they will still be around, and interested in main
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by LeonM 8mo ago
I do the same. I can SSH into my router at home (which is on 24/7), then issue a WOL request to my dev machine to turn it on. You don't even have to fully shut down you dev machine, you can allow it to go into stand-by. For that i
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by LeonM 8mo ago
I used to work as a freelancer back in the days. I worked a lot for a customer became a good friend. At first I'd work on his projects, but this ultimately shifted to a model where I'd work on projects for his clients, I would bil
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by LeonM 9mo ago
I bought the top of the line TV from Samsung in 2011. The 'smart' functionality services went offline after a year or two, which means all 'smart' functions no longer work and I am now happily using it as a dumb TV. Even
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by LeonM 10mo ago
Story time! I've had a very similar problem with my cable internet circa 2010. It must have been DOCSIS 3.0. Multiple times a day my connection would stop working completely. The modem's 'connected' and 'carrier up&
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by LeonM 10mo ago
Alyssa works for Intel now, so I doubt she'll be doing much contract work for Valve anymore...
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by LeonM 11mo ago
For what I remember, most of the DNS root servers used to run Bind9 exclusively. I'm glad to see that this is now more diverse with NSD and Knot also being used (see table 4 in the report). Nothing against Bind9, but it is almost exclu
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by LeonM 11mo ago
I don't understand your sentiment against Cloudflare here. Cloudflare also delivers a rather large portion of said public infrastructure free of charge. They also released a few of their own projects as FOSS, and regularly contribute.
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by LeonM 1y ago
Yeah, please let this guy tackle Lenovo next. My Lenovo X1E regularly burns 20% of its CPU cycles on some high frequency recurring interrupt. I did get pretty far with debugging it, but eventually gave up since I can't justify spending
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by LeonM 1y ago
My best guess is that this attack was purely social engineering, and that no email spoofing actually happened. I think that the email message in question is actually a legit email from Google. I'm not familiar with the formal account t
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by LeonM 1y ago
What you're saying makes little sense. Yes, SPF (the original design) is horribly broken and trivially bypassed. The most prominent design flaw is that the inbound SMTP service uses the SMTP (rfc5321) MailFrom address for SPF validatio
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by LeonM 1y ago
From my experience, most businesses (or at least the developers working for them) actually would like to donate or pay for support on the OSS projects they rely on. The problem, at least from my experience, is that it is hard to do so due t
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by LeonM 1y ago
I volunteer for a historical museum about transportation (mainly steam engines/trains) I was recently approached if I could create an 'interactive video game' to use in the educational corner. I politely refused, of course, b
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by LeonM 1y ago
The actual commit referred to in the mailing list: https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/ee2db53800abe0382657ec...
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by LeonM 1y ago
> I've been here for more than a decade. I think that is where the difference is. The buy-vs-rent discussion is more aimed at first-time buyers. If you already own a property that is largely paid off and has had the benefit of appre
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by LeonM 1y ago
> I'll never forgive them for the brain fart they made of the namespace separator, though. You mean the backslash? What's wrong with that?
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by LeonM 1y ago
The data and PD communication are both working (that was the majority challenge on the EE side, shown in his video). So it would depend on the capability of his solution to let the phone work in host mode, thus being able to provide power t
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by LeonM 1y ago
Either he had some money available, or he just financed. It's not that hard to get a small business loan/financing for this kind of equipment. I don't know how many he sold, what his production capacity is, and what margin he
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by LeonM 1y ago
I work in the email industry, so I might be a bit biased on this one, but in my experience self-hosting email has actually gotten better , or at least for the outbound part, funnily enough. But I won't go into why IP-reputation is a t
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by LeonM 1y ago
> I’m roughly around 40bpm at the moment, down from ~60bpm 10 years ago To put that into perspective for other readers: I've been running for about 10 years also, but typically 2x a week (10k mid-week, 15~20k weekend), I have no rea

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