relax88

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by relax88 8mo ago
Might wanna put some shoes on before you deep fry your turkey.
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by relax88 2y ago
The US has 1/3 the population density as Europe. I'm sure that helps to explain it somewhat.
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by relax88 2y ago
I really wish SpaceX would use industry-standard PoE with a normal Cat5E/Cat6 cable instead of a proprietary cable. I don't understand why they insist on a proprietary cable, it caused us tons of problems in a commercial environme
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by relax88 5y ago
People like getting fucked up. It’s not that confusing.
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by relax88 5y ago
I more or less quit alcohol when cannabis was legalized in Canada. It’s a better recreational drug by pretty much every metric. It only takes a few tens of milligrams of THC to get the desired effect vs 50+ grams of ethanol in an evening (t
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by relax88 5y ago
Seems more likely the old mines in the area are causing the contamination with BMAA and that it is being consumed in shellfish. BMAA contamination is often associated with old flooded mine shafts, and there are several in the area where the
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by relax88 5y ago
Switching from fossil fuels to renewables and nuclear can have massive benefits to population health. It’s not all a negative trade off.
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by relax88 5y ago
It’s much easier to spend an hour getting a vaccine than it is to live a healthy life.
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by relax88 5y ago
If there was a safe and effective vaccine against lung cancer and obesity do you think your argument would be as strong?
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by relax88 5y ago
Agreed. The only clearly justified use cases I’ve seen are illegal or unsanctioned activity. The only things Bitcoin and Monero really excel at is avoiding sanctions, buying drugs on the dark web, ransomware, and as an alternative if your e
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by relax88 5y ago
I never really changed my mind about Bitcoin. I always thought that Bitcoin is an interesting and novel technology, and risky speculative asset. I’ve also always thought that most of the crypto ecosystem is fraudulent schemes designed to se
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by relax88 5y ago
Uhh.... we already do this: https://dnaspaces.cisco.com/
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by relax88 5y ago
If someone were to gain some kind of advantage that could prevent a retaliatory nuclear strike, then I could see it. Otherwise I highly doubt it. World War 2 offensives were made possible by the advances in mechanized and aerial warfare. In
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by relax88 5y ago
The problem is often political. I have been at many orgs where the management of the dev team over promises something to the executive, and then when ops finds out about it and realizes the project is going to be a giant dumpster fire whose
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by relax88 5y ago
It bypasses all proxies and interception, and hides all of the traffic contained in the tunnel. This means no traffic logging of the tunneled traffic, no IPS/IDS in front of the SSH service, and no visibility into the SSH traffic itsel
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by relax88 5y ago
“Because I think I might know better I will act in a disrespectful way, and make someone else’s job harder instead of working with them to solve the problem” You’re not the one who’s phone is going to ring at 3am on Saturday when that Tor n
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by relax88 5y ago
What you’ve just described is most post secondary institutions, public utilities, government, etc.
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by relax88 5y ago
“Policy made my job slightly harder so because I know better than the netsec team who clearly has or should have unlimited time and resources to help me I will do what I want anyways, and put the organization at risk.” Also known as “how to
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by relax88 5y ago
I can confirm as someone who works in netsec that this exactly how it would have gone at my previous employer. There is a tone of “I know what’s best and will do what I want” in this thread. If you think that the way to get the IT departmen
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by relax88 5y ago
When someone just does whatever they feel like and violates policy, what do you think should happen? Should someone send them a sternly worded email for them to ignore? Or maybe they should be allowed to do whatever they want regardless of
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by relax88 5y ago
Yeah I don’t think the convenience is what is holding it back. It’s pretty easy to pay for something with BTC. I think it’s more to do with how there is limited coin supply, no dispute or consumer protection, and then the issue of taxes. If
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by relax88 5y ago
Depends on the bank, account type, and the destination for the funds. My bank requires in-person to send a wire transfer, meaning in person identification at a bank branch with photo ID and PIN. You can only transfer money on the app within
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by relax88 5y ago
This is correct, and why the average end consumer will never actually use Bitcoin for anything. It may have some utility as an asset class but the crypto fan boys seem to ignore that it is largely incompatible with our current financial and
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by relax88 5y ago
A vast system of fraud detection and limits on what can be done to accounts, especially on a mobile app. If you try and move large amounts of money via your mobile banking app you won’t get very far before you have to show up in person at a
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by relax88 5y ago
Considering most of the population doesn’t eat very healthy and rates of B12 deficiency are only ~6% I can’t imagine it would make much difference what your genetics are. Especially since many cases of deficiency will be the result of medic
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by relax88 5y ago
I brought up nuclear because I felt that your original comment above was overly optimistic about what is possible with renewables. People bring up nuclear because it’s the only high density low carbon energy source we have. Splitting atoms
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by relax88 5y ago
Solar has more than 15x the materials throughput per energy generated: https://www.energy.gov/quadrennial-technology-review-0 Solar produces 4x more carbon than Nuclear: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5&#
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by relax88 5y ago
Yes… the wireless card on the Librem 15 has given me some grief due to sticky roaming. I’ll have to look into this!
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by relax88 5y ago
Intel ME is apparently disabled and not connected to the network interface in the Librem 13/15 if I remember correctly.
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by relax88 5y ago
Yeah I had no issues with shipping my Librem 15 laptop, it was only a few weeks. The phone however I opted for the Evergreen release of the Librem 5 hoping to get something a little more polished. I’ve been waiting since summer 2019. It see

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