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by marcusb 1mo ago
Interestingly, DNS does have such a record (MB,) just never widely used - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1035/#section-3.3.3
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by marcusb 3mo ago
They implemented it. They just couldn't get out of their own way to successfully sell it (See "Dealer's of Lightning"[0]) 0 - https://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer...
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by marcusb 3mo ago
Or tried that vocabulary estimator that is currently on the front page (it gave me zenzizenizenic in the last section.)
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by marcusb 9mo ago
It is used as a shielding gas in some welding processes (notably, MIG welding.)
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by marcusb 9mo ago
False equivalence. In your straw man, the elephant isn't misled into believing that by posing for a photo it could be "helped," nor is it possible to communicate such an idea to an elephant. In the story, money was raised fo
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by marcusb 9mo ago
Yeah. “We’re not incentivized to push one model or the other,” may be a statement of current fact, not of values.
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by marcusb 9mo ago
I think the kid in the article who got $27k raised in his name for cancer treatment, received $0 in cancer treatment from those funds, and subsequently died of cancer definitely got scammed.
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by marcusb 9mo ago
I'm one of the Hickory maintainers, although I mainly work on the server-side code. https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns is our Git repo Documentation for the resolver including an example: https:/&#x2
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by marcusb 9mo ago
https://www.redox-os.org/
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by marcusb 9mo ago
A lot? Also irrelevant. All it takes is one for the statement "nobody can see the bubble" to be false. Take the housing bubble for instance. Do you think the people who called that one were successful purely by chance, or does
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by marcusb 9mo ago
That's the conventional wisdom, undercut by the fact that people have guessed (and bet their fortunes) that previous bubbles were bubbles well before they popped. Its more accurate to say that bubbles rely on most people being blind
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by marcusb 9mo ago
> The GenAI bubble is going to pop. Everyone knows that. I think the first part of this is probably true, but I don’t think everyone knows it. A lot of people are acting like they don’t know it. It feels like a bubble to me, but I don’t
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by marcusb 10mo ago
More choice as in “more revenue streams from which to create shareholder value.”
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by marcusb 10mo ago
Another happy rsync.net customer. I published my scripts[0] and notes[1] about doing append-only backups with Borg on rsync.net since at the time rclone studio wasn't supported. My strategy is to do Restic backups to a backup server a
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by marcusb 10mo ago
Rust has debug asserts for that. Using expect with a comment about why the condition should not/can't ever happen is idiomatic for cases where you never expect an Err. This reads to me more like the error type returned by append
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by marcusb 10mo ago
The security world overemphasizes (fetishizes, even,) the "advanced" part because zero days and security tools to compensate against zero days are cool and fun, and underemphasizes the "persistent" part because that&#x27
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by marcusb 10mo ago
I used to work for medium/big tech companies (8,000 - 70,000 employees.) I always had a sticker on my laptop - everybody had the same laptop (or maybe one of two models.) It was a reliable way to quickly identify mine in a big group at
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by marcusb 10mo ago
I once worked at a place where one of the partners consistently claimed the engineering team over-built and over-thought everything (reality: almost everything was under-engineered and hanging on by a thread.) His catch phrase was "all
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by marcusb 10mo ago
Interesting. I've used my personal domain name for email for almost 30 years and I've never had that problem.
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by marcusb 10mo ago
? My comment had nothing to do with Starlink. Your first example I was referring to - which you've now edited out of the article[0] to be more generic - stated: > When Deutsche Telekom customers want to watch YouTube, that traffic
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by marcusb 10mo ago
After using Deutsche Telekom as an example of how great direct peering is, a few paragraphs later the article uses Deutsche Telekom as an example of the dangers of using peering provider intermediaries.
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by marcusb 11mo ago
Once a company moves on to recurring, large-scale layoffs justified by vague corporate Mumbo-Jumbo, I think it is safe to assume it is a "day 2" company.
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by marcusb 11mo ago
Sure, every little bit helps. But, keep in mind formal verification isn’t going to prevent configuration errors, and it remains to be seen if, for example, automated verifiers can do anything like the sel4 proof at scale. sel4 is tiny com
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by marcusb 11mo ago
Mostly I mean they research vulns and buy exploits on the open market, but yes they are also getting backdoors placed in commercial products.
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by marcusb 11mo ago
> I agree. I think what we are split on is purpose/intent. I… don’t think so? Your original comment was that companies claim nation state attack as a way to get government funding. That has nothing to do with assessing blame for a
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by marcusb 11mo ago
> I keep seeing it pop up again and again and it only makes sense in that context. Not saying that these companies would turn down corporate welfare given the chance, but I’ll offer an alternative explanation: it shifts accountability aw
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by marcusb 11mo ago
Really? I had no idea! Thanks for clearing that up.
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by marcusb 11mo ago
This is a very frivolous argument against solar farms given the amount of noise and other pollution emanating from regular farms. Farm-scale irrigation is not silent. Crop Dusters are not silent. Combines and other tractors are not silent.
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by marcusb 11mo ago
As they say, you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride.
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by marcusb 11mo ago
In the US, the Veteran's Administration wrote their own EHR (Vista) which was released as public domain. They've been trying (and mostly failing) to migrate to a commercial EHR for the last seven or eight years.

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