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by imroot 9mo ago
Open Source ERP system for Makerspaces and Community shared system. Started out as a kanban style of system where anyone could request that we re-order cleaning supplies at a Makerspace. Has evolved to tagging assets and maintaining those
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by imroot 9mo ago
I've always said that in the back of my mind, the most successful grocery store would be the 'walls' of the store -- bakery, deli, produce, meats, floral, cheeses, dairy and having a little selection of store brands in the mi
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by imroot 1y ago
Some of my best hacker/nerd friends I met at notacon. It had a vibe that no other con I’ve been to has had.
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by imroot 1y ago
I ran a large cloud environment for two different US based retailers. Grocer A: They built their cloud strategy with Azure in mind. Microsoft partnered up with them early on at the C-Level and grocer was given a metric fuck-ton of free se
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by imroot 1y ago
What overhead? Just about every web server these days supports ACME -- some natively, some via scripts, and you can set up your own internal CA using something like step-ca that speaks ACME if you don't want your certs going out to the
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by imroot 1y ago
Percepta was a company that was doing a lot of CV/ML in this space looking for shoplifting traits. They had a few paying customers before they were completely acquired by ADT Business. A lot of shoplifters use the PLU for bananas whe
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by imroot 1y ago
Debit card interchange fees are limited to 21 cents per swipe and 0.05% of the transaction. https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/regii-about.ht...
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by imroot 2y ago
I've eliminated Chrome from my personal systems when uBO stopped working. Blocking v2 manifests also broke a few extensions that were being developed for my day job: they've spent the last few weeks working on Firefox extensions
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by imroot 2y ago
My optometrist told me that I have a tendency to 'overcompensate' the last time I had my rx checked; I now tell the optometrists that I have a tendency to overcompensate and ask that they dilate my eyes before anything starts and
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by imroot 2y ago
In the 90's my grandma had her knee replaced. She was bed-bound for 2 weeks before they'd start physical therapy to get her knees back in order. (Ironically enough, her first knee was recalled...so she had a total of three knee
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by imroot 2y ago
As someone who manages a bug bounty program, this kind of pisses me off. For some of our bugs given on h1, we openly say, "Hey, we need to see a POC in order to get this to be triaged." We do not provide test accounts for H1 user
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by imroot 2y ago
My manager was just following orders to protect his job: he has kids and a wife at home and I don’t blame him, but, he’s one of the few bosses that I don’t keep in communication with. I hope your daughter is doing better and is adapting to
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by imroot 2y ago
If you knew who it was, and understood the culture there, it’d be totally on brand for them. Large, global retailer with their tech center in the Midwest. Most of the long term goals were presented from Italy, most of my coworkers were ther
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by imroot 2y ago
About six years ago, my seven year old son passed away: he had liver cancer at a really young age, had a full liver transplant at six months, and lost all hearing as a side effect of the anti-rejection medications. It was a sudden turn --
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by imroot 2y ago
Get an itinerant frequency -- $300, requires no coordination, and you can encrypt your comms. One of the (ham) radio clubs that I'm a member of does this as a benefit for the group, and it's something that's nice to have: I c
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by imroot 2y ago
Location: Dallas Texas/Miami Florida (Winter), Chicago Illinois (Summer) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Only to mild climates with mild winters. Technologies: Terraform/Consul/Nomad/Vault/Ansible&#x2
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by imroot 2y ago
Kentucky was in the launch release from apple[0], but, still have no formal plans on when they're launching the ability to do so. -- 0: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/apple-announces-first...
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by imroot 2y ago
I think they (quietly) turned that off after a researcher exposed it earlier this week.
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by imroot 2y ago
I had a similar experience with US Bank. Business account, over $50k lost; they said that they can 'terminate their relationship with me at any time for any or no reason whatsoever,' and didn't have to return the money. The
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by imroot 2y ago
You'd think that, but, as someone who did a phyiscal pentest on a prison recently, that's 1000% not the case. You can set up your access controllers for anti-passback, but, most folks don't, because companies don't wan
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by imroot 2y ago
Don't forget, the telecom operators usually send large amounts of money in kickbacks to the prison in exchange for the 'privilege' to run these systems. While Prisoners have no expectations of privacy, most do not know that a
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by imroot 2y ago
I'm no longer under this specific NDA, so, I can talk a bit about this. It was well known in the wireless industry that ATT collected and kept the most data on all of the carriers: 7 years for text metadata, "7 years" for ca
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by imroot 2y ago
I've been hired through HN twice. Once at Singly, in 2010-ish. Was a contractor for about 4 months, they brought me on full time, and I spent about a year there, left to go to one of the big 4 consulting companies, spent 7 years there
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by imroot 2y ago
Check out Softcover: https://www.softcover.io/ -- open source (no license needed), ruby based, and supports LaTeX and exporting to other formats. I've been using Softcover to publish my runbooks for years.
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by imroot 2y ago
He's def a good source, but, he said that "cybersecurity" is the new buzzword of the year, replacing "AI" and "Digital Retailing"[0]. When you talk security to most dealerships, it's about protecting
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by imroot 2y ago
From the best of my recollection, Lowe's runs Linux internally, Costco Is IBM. Did some work for Lowe's Home improvement and their PXE booting thin clients in the early 2000's.
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by imroot 2y ago
I'm a huge fan of charmbracelet's vhs: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs I have a gitlab CI job to update my demo .gif's every time I update my application; always ensures that things are up-to-date
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by imroot 2y ago
I have a ton of MFJ in my shack, and some MFJ hooked up to the radios I'm using on a daily basis; MFJ's loss will be felt in the amateur and public safety industries. Edit to add: Whenever I've had issues with one of their pr
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by imroot 2y ago
The number one source of both professional services revenue and production incidents at one of my previous companies were from users who would completely remove or invalidate anywhere between 600 and 60,000 records from our system EVEN AFTE
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by imroot 3y ago
I rent at a WeWork style building, and have been at this coworking space since 2018. My rent has consistently been around $700/month. This year, they got a new sales person, a new community manager, and finally started fixing things l

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