darkhelmet

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by darkhelmet 5mo ago
I have some issue with how some of these are represented. For example, syncthing has an explicit opt-in request for telemetry / analytics. The suggested setting change is something entirely different - a call to ask what the latest v
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by darkhelmet 5mo ago
Agile, as implemented in every big company that I've worked for, was a lie. It was really telling at a smaller company that was trying to behave like a big company. I asked a coworker (who had great metrics) what the secret was for de
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by darkhelmet 1y ago
For what it's worth, upcoming iOS 26 has a new screening feature. The idea is that calls from numbers you don't have a connection with will be asked to briefly identify themselves and why they're calling. It'll show you
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by darkhelmet 1y ago
You're missing the point. The approach is block anything that doesn't execute the javascript. The javascript generates a key that allows your queries to work. No javascript => no key => no content for you to scrape. Its a
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by darkhelmet 2y ago
Right up front: I agree. But, implementing this will be an absolute PITA because so many other things are systemically broken. Case in point: cost breakdown from the invoice of an online order a few months ago (with the dollar amounts remo
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by darkhelmet 2y ago
> "how are you supposed to write a compiler for this?" It's been a while so I probably am misremembering the terminology, but I was always amused with the dynamic profile/feedback system that I always imagined would b
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by darkhelmet 2y ago
Every time I see people struggling with this, I am so incredibly glad that I forced the issue for FreeBSD when I did the initial amd64 port. I got to set the fundamental types in the ABI and decided to look forward rather than backward. Th
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by darkhelmet 2y ago
I had two apple US$49 battery replacements both of my iPhone 8 phones before my wife and I jumped to a 14 pro max. I preferred touchid over faceid. Sure, there was always the SE option, but if I was buying a newer phone then it was going t
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by darkhelmet 2y ago
This is more common than you might think. I have encountered cheap home routers that have dumb dns proxy caches on them that simply cache everything for a fixed time period. I heard of one that simply flushed its cache at the same time eve
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by darkhelmet 2y ago
We took a shot at doing ultra-fast kernel threads on FreeBSD a few decades ago. For various reasons, it was reverted and removed a few major versions later. If you look a the old KSE work, the general gist was that if you were about to bloc
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by darkhelmet 2y ago
Playing devils advocate for a moment: One reason why is that many app developers truly do not have your best interests at heart. Taking heat for being a gatekeeper sucks, but the downsides of the alternatives are potentially limitless. Ran
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by darkhelmet 2y ago
One of the things I've done in the past that is quick and easy is to use grub to chainload another bootable volume. Scp an iso or other disk image over, chainload to that, run the installer inside it as though it had just been pxeboote
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by darkhelmet 2y ago
cough nginx. Nginx would start up and serve TLS on must-staple certs .. before doing the staple setup. ie: any client that validated that a must-staple cert had a stapled ocsp ticket would fail for the first few queries after nginx star
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by darkhelmet 2y ago
I don't think this is really about protecting minors, or hurting big tech, or scoring some short term votes, or anything like that. I feel it's more likely that the long game is ultimately about de-anonymizing the Internet. This p
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
- prioritize process over product My most recent position descended into a farce. The company had been reborn from the ashes of the old company. The product was 15 years old and had accumulated a lot of tech debt during the crash-and-burn
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
It's not that simple. Disagreements are one thing, but the real reason was the conflict and drama that happened when things didn't go his way. The threading approach just happened to be a really good trigger for those conflicts.
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
DragonFly and FreeBSD have radically different ideas on how multithreading should work. (Understatement of the century right there!) FWIW the threading in the network stack is one of the original major divergences between Open/FreeBSD
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
That sort of thing still happens with FreeBSD, even recently. Find a kernel bug, spend days tracking it down and fixing it, contact a maintainer for feedback before submitting it, and then they slightly reformat it and commit as their own
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
You are correct. In spite of the carve-up of the company, many designers ended up at AMD. I'm a bit fuzzy on the details and it is second hand information, but as I remember it: * The Alpha bus architecture was used directly as the f
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
It's one of the things that ground Yahoo to a halt. We spent years migrating from RHEL-4 to 6, then RHEL-6 to RHEL-7, and by the time the projects were pretty much complete, the next sunset was approaching. My cynicism comes from see
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
There is another problem that wasn't covered in the article. The 10+ years of stability leads to behaviors and outcomes that remind me of the long-lived SSL certificate problem. Updating is done so infrequently that the "how?&qu
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
"carp" should also be included in discoveries alongside pfsync. carp functions like cisco/juniper/etc VRRP to enable real-time failover. With pfsync being a stateful firewall a lot of care needs to happen with failover
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
It was all truly unfortunate. But sometimes there are no clear right answers - but you have to make a choice between multiple bad options. When doing nothing isn't an option either then you have to make a call as to what you think th
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
Heh. I can't blame them for doing this, but not telling people what's happening (and why) was the big mistake. People generally want their gadgets to be as lightweight as possible, cheap as possible, last as long as possible, and
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
The cynic in me suspects that they probably tried this and discovered that they will lose a percentage of logged-in accounts and how much that costs their revenues/bottom-lines. Seriously though, even apple does this - where they perio
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
I'm having flashbacks to some Alpha machines that were donated to FreeBSD.org in the early 2000s for an Alpha build cluster. They came from Microsoft, although perhaps indirectly, and the drives had all sorts of NT/Windows labels
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
Agreed. If that's all it cost them then they'll consider it a bargain!
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
I remember going over every page and every Ad when magazines like this were the news pipeline for what was going on. Before Usenet, Internet etc, that was pretty much it. Dial-up BBS systems were more local than anything. One thing really
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
Meanwhile, one of the most annoying holdouts on the service side is github.com - I've had a collection of v6-only systems for years and github seems to be the one recurring thing that requires bolting on kludge of some sort. Come on gi
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by darkhelmet 3y ago
It's not just BBB. This description could apply to a good number of chain stores these days. There are exceptions but this seems to be an increasing trend. There are ghost town stores everywhere you look. If I make a trip to (for exa

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