mtlynch

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by mtlynch 7d ago
> Binding arbitration on individuals should be illegal, full stop. The only use case is taking away people's rights as consumers and workers. Or dodging responsibility for deadly mistakes like the Disney+ incident. Hijacking to li
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by mtlynch 8d ago
I love this idea and hope to see more on-device models. How do they make money, though? I tried out their demo for Clear, the audio quality improvement model.[0] I'm not sure if it's just I don't have refined enough an ear or
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by mtlynch 11d ago
> That's a lie. 9€ is not the max you pay, it's metered and extra traffic costs extra. So what you said about others can just as well apply here. From the pricing FAQ[0]: > Can I set a spending limit for overages? >
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by mtlynch 11d ago
Which vendor are you talking about? As I mentioned upthread, statichost.eu uses Bunny under the covers, and I think you'd be hard-pressed to argue that Bunny isn't a CDN. surge.sh has servers in 10 regions.[0] It's not trivia
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by mtlynch 11d ago
> Can I just point out that either the vendor is small and therefor can’t actually offer the N+2 reliability you list as a weakness of self-hosting, or they are large enough for N+2 but then stop being small. I don't understand wh
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by mtlynch 11d ago
I've seriously considered it, but then the VPS is my single point of failure. If there's a new nginx/apache/caddy/linux 0day that could compromise my server, I have to care about it and update. My websites typically
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by mtlynch 12d ago
What's the price that you expect to pay to a service run by a single person that has to keep your website available 24/7? I get frustrated that people seem pretty aware of the enshittification and centralization of large services,
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by mtlynch 12d ago
> An EU tiny VPS on Scaleway with unlimited bandwidth costs 5€. This thing costs 9€. With limited bandwidth. statichost.eu is a CDN,[0] not a single static host. Your VPS is the single point of failure, so if that one system goes down,
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by mtlynch 12d ago
I've been looking for a new static host recently since Netlify raised prices and is terrible at preventing bot traffic. Here was my assessment of Netlify from the perspective of a small customer who just wants static hosting (and not b
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by mtlynch 15d ago
Isn't ERSC aiming to be for jj what GitHub was for git? In which case, this would be great news for jj.
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by mtlynch 15d ago
I like the idea of Monica and having a way to remember things about friends and acquaintances. I tried using Monica self-hosted for about a year and felt like the authors of Monica had totally different priorities from me. This post capture
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by mtlynch 18d ago
Worth noting that TrueNAS recently stopped publishing their build scripts, intentionally making it harder to build their open source code.[0] [0] https://forums.truenas.com/t/clearing-the-air-on-build-scrip...
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by mtlynch 19d ago
I couldn't understand what this article was saying. There's nothing nefarious about EDIDs. EDIDs are just a way of the monitor to announce its capabilities to the device so that the device and the display can agree on things like
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by mtlynch 22d ago
> So, what am I missing? Gerrit/CodeApprove/Reviewable-style reviews are actually designed for exactly the scenario you're describing. The thing you're missing is that it's helpful to see a diff view of, "
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by mtlynch 23d ago
I jumped to the end and saw $2.3k for the mini split and couldn't believe it. I've installed mini splits on two homes and the quotes were always in the $15-25k range for 3-5 head units, so $2.3k for a head + outdoor condenser unit
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by mtlynch 23d ago
I've ported a couple of repos to CodeFloe in the last few days, and so far, so good. Performance is similar to when I self-host Forgejo on a dedicated VPS where I'm the only user, which is super fast. And their built-in CI is pret
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by mtlynch 23d ago
I think you're holding CodeFloe to an unreasonably high standard here. What SaaS vendors agree to financial guarantees if they lose user data or have an outage? Here's GitHub's policy: > We will not be liable for damages
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by mtlynch 1mo ago
I read the book Poor Economics [0] around when it came out, and it described something similar. For people who don't have access to banks, they form "savings clubs" where there will be, say, 12 people who put in $100 per mon
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by mtlynch 1mo ago
Strangely, a few years ago, Facebook hired a rabbi and appointed him "Director of Responsible Innovation."[0] He did an interview on Search Engine that I thought was interesting,[1] but it definitely seemed like there was more to
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by mtlynch 1mo ago
How is this Gruber's fault? What level of verification do you expect of a tech blog discussing the experience of another tech blogger?
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by mtlynch 1mo ago
This is such a cool and funny use of derivations. He defines a Nix attribute path that emulates game state in Super Mario 3 so that you can say nix build '.#level1.rightb.rightb.rightab.rightb' And it outputs the screensh
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Super Mario Derivations(fzakaria.com)
5 points by mtlynch 1mo ago|1 comments
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by mtlynch 1mo ago
I tried using it, but it didn't work well in my experience. There was be a huge textarea for notes, so I'd write detailed notes after a good conversation, but it didn't auto-save, so if your browser crashed or you accidentall
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by mtlynch 2mo ago
Also a happy Kagi user since 2023, and full disclosure: I participated in their crowdfund, so I have some financial stake in the company that I don't really understand. I'm always surprised when I see people say, "I can'
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Stripe Just Wants a Number(blog.exe.dev)
1 points by mtlynch 2mo ago|0 comments
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by mtlynch 2mo ago
Reposting is officially allowed: > Are reposts ok? > If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates. https://news.ycombinat
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by mtlynch 2mo ago
Yeah, exactly. If there's a C2 server, there's some protocol for communication between the C2 server and each victim node. You can intentionally infect a machine with the malware but then watch the traffic between the victim node
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by mtlynch 2mo ago
> Naturally, the next move was pivoting from defense to offense. I wanted to see if the attackers left any vulnerable services exposed on their IP. Why not attack them through the C2 interface? That's where I'd expect them to
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by mtlynch 2mo ago
I think we disagree on the connotation of the word "lead." To me, if someone describes me as a "lead," it implies that they are focused on making the sale rather than on anything else about the business relationship. I w
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by mtlynch 2mo ago
OP here. I wrote the post myself with no AI (modulo grammar checks). What makes you think it's AI-generated?

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