joshmn

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by joshmn 8d ago
I recently got a reminder that my vbulletin license had expired.
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by joshmn 11d ago
An aside: Fantastico was such a wonderful piece of software for me to learn and toy and tinker with web stuff. I was so impressed by the simplicity of it. (I phased out of the shared scene a almost two decades ago; I guess everyone moved to
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by joshmn 1mo ago
What’s the prompt you used for this? Edit: oh wow, diffui looks nice!
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by joshmn 2mo ago
Oh, this. Author here. I'm waiting for legislation around this, but I'm not sure we'll ever get it. I was on the phone with a senior Apple support specialist person and I even proffered this idea of "what if a sitting se
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by joshmn 2mo ago
I had a streaming piracy site that I went to federal prison for. I can chime in on these people. It's worth separating the two populations: My users had money and had considered legal subscriptions. They paid me because the legal produ
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by joshmn 2mo ago
"Login to order" That's a new one.
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by joshmn 2mo ago
Sometimes I'll search LinkedIn for posts on internet piracy. It's usually companies or those affiliated with companies promoting their anti-piracy product—typically streaming. I'd wager about 90% of them are straight-up, unin
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by joshmn 2mo ago
I'm hardly a sysadmin and I think Unraid is great. My usecase is some Docker containers and media backups. The UI gets the job done well, whereas Synology tries to dumb things down and make things pretty. Android is to Unraid as iPhone
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by joshmn 2mo ago
Is there a best and not-so-best category for certain odds?
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by joshmn 3mo ago
I ran the ATS myself and had a similarly quirky experience. I was in the 70s because it couldn't find my GitHub profile, and then it didn't like some of the popular Ruby libraries I'm the author of. After a few runs it picked
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by joshmn 3mo ago
Reminds me of HotScripts, which is still around for anyone looking for nostalgia: https://www.hotscripts.com/category/scripts/php/scripts-prog...
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by joshmn 3mo ago
Been waiting for seahorse myself.
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by joshmn 4mo ago
The shame has passed and I served my time. What I owe now is not doing it again—which I'm not.
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by joshmn 4mo ago
It's the digital equivalent of your house burning down, your devices are inside it, and you never bothered to bring the 2FA codes you definitely wrote down to the bank.
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by joshmn 4mo ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45844197
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by joshmn 4mo ago
If there are any Dropboxers here (drew—I emailed you a few weeks ago, but I imagine you're busy): I went to prison for 18 months, my digital and physical life was stolen from me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=454
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by joshmn 5mo ago
barman seems to cover "Natural disaster" in their docs. Seems good. I'll take a look. Thanks!
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by joshmn 5mo ago
I have a moderately sized 2TB production database I have enjoyed using pgBackRest on, and was—this week—going to set it up on another 8TB database we have. What's the next-closest thing? wal-g? barman? databasus? I only get to cosplay
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by joshmn 5mo ago
is `current_user` really costing that much?
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by joshmn 5mo ago
I ran a sports streaming service ("pirated sports streaming service" ?). The US Government said I was making $250k MRR as a solo indie dev (I wasn't, but that's great validation). I'm pretty qualified to talk about
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by joshmn 5mo ago
What are your, um, favorite gum providers?
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by joshmn 5mo ago
I didn’t know about this case. When you said it I thought it must have been a US federal case. Nope. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45844197
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by joshmn 5mo ago
I was in federal prison with Sebastien Raoult, one of the ShinyHunters guys. We were in the same unit and talked regularly. I was about mid-way through my bid when another inmate told me "new guy in B3 is a another hacker." I got
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by joshmn 6mo ago
In my vast personal experience, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030 is the most absurdly vague law in existence.
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by joshmn 6mo ago
My dad spun up my Pentium Deschutes (400MHz!) machine the other day. Same hard drive from when I was 10 years old. “clouds.psd” was on the desktop. I still remember retiring that computer. The first thing I did when I got my Pentium IV chip
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by joshmn 6mo ago
Related: Em dash leaderboard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071722
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by joshmn 6mo ago
There are plenty of other dedicated server providers that do.
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by joshmn 7mo ago
> I keep reading folks saying OpenClaw has completely changed their life while posting a picture of 58 mac minis on their desk. I was having a conversation with someone about OpenClaw, and they proposed this idea of OpenClaw being used f
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by joshmn 7mo ago
You shared this with me via email and I had a great laugh. I'm very disappointed to not have made the list—going to federal prison for 18 months didn't help my score.
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by joshmn 7mo ago
Sometimes I daydream about people screaming at their LLM as if it was a TV they were playing video games on.

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