trangus_1985

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by trangus_1985 5y ago
Trying to avoid proprietary things, where possible. Especially at the protocol/application layer. Lora and other chirp based protocols are incredibly cool, and I've been playing with them
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
> the channels are controlled and watched Do you think that ham radio couldn't be? Or isn't? What you really want is privacy, authz/authn concerns, and decentralization, it sounds like. And TCP/IP is about as useful a
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
Yeah, I definitely think they come from an era where we all didn't have a pocket communicator that plugs us into any community at will. When I flung packets across the bay with a friend, we used cell phones to figure out antenna positi
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
Yes, but ham radio is all about being open and a community of people communicating together. And if that's the use case you want, you should look elsewhere.... At least, that's what the people leading the ham radio community and a
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
It took me almost a decade to become licensed because I couldn't find any tests that weren't at 9am on a sunday, an hour drive away. Maybe that seems like a low bar, because it is! But, I got into ham radio to do interesting thing
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
> illegal to transmit encrypted data over the air While a massive restriction, you can prevent interference (but not eavesdropping!) by signing your payloads. Maybe it's because ham radio and privacy aware people is a venn diagram w
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
I said 40 years for a reason ;) But yes, those laws were horrible, and stifled innovation.
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
> Fine, whatever, their house their rules When they are the de facto form of communication for a significant percentage of the population, it starts to go from "their rules" territory to "society's rules". Can yo
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
But you can "buy less stuff" in general. And that will reduce your impact.
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
I'm not entirely convinced that fully disconnecting is necessary, although it is nice. Instead, I take an old phone without any work stuff on it, and go moto camping. Occasionally, messages will come in from friends and family, and I c
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
>I think the only time I've found people this far off the main track is users that only know C#/mono coming from Unity Engine. Damn, almost direct hit. I was a game developer for a year or so about 10 years ago. We were using x
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
Frankly, I don't remember. It's been a long time and using .net was a failed experiment. >Why were you targeting mono then? Well here's another issue with .net I ran into... really unclear guidance from numerous sources wh
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
Ah yeah, I was using core I think. Sorry, it's been a while, I kinda glazed over the acronyms and names over time. Since it was my own project, I really was trying to do things "the modern way".
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
Yes, I quite like C#, the language. That's why I put so much effort into trying to make it work - it's become one of my favorite languages!
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
it's been about a year but it was a death by a thousand papercuts kinda thing. I want to add that I was not an experienced python developer at the time - I'd used it for a handful of simple automation scripts. My day job was writi
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
I started a project that I hope to maybe turn into a product (foss/community edition hybrid approach). One of the tech stacks I evaluated was mono-based, using c# and the .net libraries. I ended up turning down that choice due to a cou
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
Correct. These vaccines are pretty safe, but we're at the part of the cycle where we're able to shave off .1% of risk, and thus are doing so.
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
For what it's worth, this guy is also known as "Tron Guy", one of the first widespread famous internet meme/personalities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Maynard#/media/File:Trongu...
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
>I have been an employer, an employee, a contractor. Curious, what are you right now?
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
>UK has the highest tech salaries in Europe and trade unions were buried in the 70s. Regardless of what we may or may not disagree upon, connecting these the way that you have betrays your ignorance of how salaries, employer relations, a
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
Car accidents resulting in fatality are relatively uncommon, thanks to modern safety standards, and Tesla FSD doesn't have nearly as many miles as it needs. Your sample size is way too small to be implying that FSD is safe - given a ye
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
> scroll back a few days I did and I'm not sure what I'm looking for. Could you do it and post here so that I can verify what you're talking about?
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
>Sure you document such stuff before releasing it? These are all likely documented internally - the process of cleaning it up is probably something they only care to do once a year. Very little of this affects most developers, and the st
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
I can't go too into details, but now that the AOP is doing cryptographical operations and key escrow, the internal bus is likely to show up in future documents. Maybe not the AOP but certainly the mechanisms it uses to interact with th
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
"who hates HN" This site, and this community, is great in my opinion. But it's not without valid criticism, especially considering the impact it can and has made in the industry and tech society. "naively uninformed tant
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
They do yearly updates, the 2022 doc will very likely have more information. Regardless, the 2021 doc has some key foundations of the technology that are worth knowing. The contract tracing docs _should_ be almost the same technology, and k
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
If you're not familiar with it, their platform security team releases a whitepaper about the technical details of their security. Regardless of how you feel about Apple, these documents are incredibly well done and interesting to read.
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
They had an agreement pre-established. I think he was just being polite. Versus "yo we agreed not to do this".
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
I made a coworker really uncomfortable by offering to smoke him out after work when he was visiting our site. But there really wasn't any recourse - he was conservative visiting from a conservative area (where it was "understood&q
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
I don't think HN was ever about just "technical" stuff. There is Lobsters for that kind of thing. Out of curiosity, I brought up HN from 10 years ago on archive.org. I counted - 10 of the top 20 links were things that I would

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