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by bigfatkitten 4d ago
And then hire a FinOps team to try and restrain the development team’s profligate spending.
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by bigfatkitten 5d ago
Most software developers now are absolutely ignorant of performance concerns. Just throw more compute at it until it works, and someone else will pay the AWS bill.
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by bigfatkitten 6d ago
A motor vehicle extrication is a very technical exercise — firefighters don’t just jump out of the truck and start hacking into a car. They followed a structured arrival and size-up process that (among many other things) involves identifyin
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by bigfatkitten 6d ago
Travel is one. Have a daily driver phone that you use at home, and another one with much less personal data that you take across borders.
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by bigfatkitten 8d ago
> Considering the amount of ads they handle that seems... reasonable? Every time they disseminate one of these ads, they commit a serious criminal offence. What threshold of criminality is reasonable to you?
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by bigfatkitten 8d ago
I’ve got a Facebook account that doesn’t feature my real name, has no friends and follows no pages. The algorithm decided that I would most like to see CSAM, flat earth theory and Sovereign Citizen nonsense.
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by bigfatkitten 12d ago
> The environment in the US is very diverse so why is it federally regulated to the degree it is? Because there’s relatively little need for diversity. Dumping toxic waste into river systems is as bad in Oregon as it is in Florida. Thing
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by bigfatkitten 12d ago
The United States must be one of the only nations on earth that names its own military bases after enemy commanders.
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by bigfatkitten 12d ago
Adolph Hitler is often credited (with varying accuracy) with the Autobahn, fixing Germany’s unemployment and launching Volkswagen to produce affordable motor vehicles. None of these make him a good person any more than Meta’s occasional pos
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by bigfatkitten 13d ago
Though of late, IBM has apparently decided it should be just another Indian outsourcer.
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by bigfatkitten 16d ago
> Cheap GPS jammers fit in a cigarette lighter and are used by truckers who don't want their boss snooping on them, but they don't quite threaten aviation. They absolutely do threaten air and maritime navigation, because those
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by bigfatkitten 16d ago
Payphones in Australia have free national calls. Telstra, the formerly state owned incumbent telco is obliged under their universal service obligation to provide a certain number of payphones, but it costs more to collect the coins than the
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by bigfatkitten 17d ago
It’s already easy to commence a claim against an employer in the FWC. The system is specifically designed for self represented litigants to be able to navigate the process and get a just outcome without being ruined by legal costs if they l
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by bigfatkitten 18d ago
> As we've already seen AI hack in/out of companies in the real world accidently. None of these cases were accidental. They were caused and enabled by human negligence.
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by bigfatkitten 19d ago
For all of LinkedIn’s problems, this sounds like a problem that can be easily solved with some self-discipline. I only add, and only accept requests from people I actually know.
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by bigfatkitten 20d ago
The old saying that “there is nothing more expensive than a cheap aircraft” also applies to boats.
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by bigfatkitten 24d ago
Australia generally follows EU for vehicle safety regs, and red turn signals were banned for new vehicles in 1973.
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by bigfatkitten 24d ago
This has been a solved problem in the land mobile radio world for a number of decades. You have a bunch base stations forming a logical channel with a single uplink frequency, and either a single downlink frequency on which every base stati
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by bigfatkitten 27d ago
I like using short-lived SSH certificates, and avoiding long-lived keypairs entirely. Vendor post but it summarises the operational and security problems well. https://smallstep.com/blog/use-ssh-certificates/
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by bigfatkitten 27d ago
And even then, it wasn’t really about justice but more for the prosecutor, Carmen Ortiz’s career advancement. The case ultimately did not help her in her run for governor of MA.
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by bigfatkitten 27d ago
In Australia at least, the Director of Public Prosecutions has the power to take over the matter, and they often do. They can then do one of two things. They can either continue running it if it’s in the interests of justice to do so (publi
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by bigfatkitten 28d ago
Americans. The U.S. has a lot of people who are unaccustomed to 24 hour time.
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by bigfatkitten 1mo ago
Hey, Asia’s not that big. If you’re in Bangladesh, you can simply walk to the electronics store in Japan.
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by bigfatkitten 1mo ago
Australian electricians (as with most skilled trades) undergo 4 year apprenticeships where they split their time between learning on the job and attending a trade school. There’s nothing wrong with this model, it produces tradespeople with
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by bigfatkitten 1mo ago
> But except for drive-thru, the staff control the timer. If you delete the order off the screen, the computer that does all the metrics thinks you've served it. That was probably true at some point, but it isn’t now. My teenager wo
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by bigfatkitten 1mo ago
Splitter, not isolator.
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by bigfatkitten 1mo ago
Data diode hardware isn’t terribly expensive, but the software runs into the hundreds of thousands precisely because these are niche products. To DIY it you need three NICs (or an optical isolator, which is honestly more work than it’s wort
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by bigfatkitten 1mo ago
Things that don’t have a compelling need to be connected to the internet should never be connected to the internet. When there is a need, connectivity should be restricted to the bare minimum required for the task.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
Nobody is waiting on an RFC to make configuration changes to those devices to disable old cipher suites.
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by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
The separation of “OS X” and “macOS” gives me pause about the reliability of the other figures, particularly Linux and Chrome OS.

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