typicalrunt

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by typicalrunt 7mo ago
I used to use SyncThing, then Dropbox, then iCloud. But then I just caved and paid for Obsidian Sync and it is the best money spent aside from Claude. I don't have to tinker with weird settings anymore or deal with sync issues, it just
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by typicalrunt 3y ago
> People are kinda stupid when it comes to eating meat. The current scale of meat consumption [1] is just mind boggling. Yet even this comment has to be a throwaway because people can't handle someone telling them they shouldn'
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by typicalrunt 3y ago
And their timeframe is pre-COVID and the worst possible time during COVID, when people were just trying to figure out how to work and live and not catch some deadly virus. 2020 was a hectic time and such an abnormality that I wouldn't
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by typicalrunt 3y ago
As a non-judgemental sidekick. It helps with flesh out a random thought, it helps me understand a random coding problem, it helps me see why a vuln exists in a particularly difficult-to-read piece of code, and building outlines for reports
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by typicalrunt 6y ago
That's not my point suggesting CISSP. The book I recommended takes the reader through the different OSI layers for networking and security, a basic intro to threat modeling, and other stuff that is fundamental to security. One can alwa
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by typicalrunt 6y ago
Security is mutli-faceted, so it's hard to know where to start. I like to help people begin by getting them to learn the fundamentals. A lot of security training is changing your mindset (perspective) on situations. Two books I like t
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AWS Web Console Down?
102 points by typicalrunt 7y ago|49 comments
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by typicalrunt 8y ago
40 is a great time. In fact, I went down a similar path. Now that you've done your share of sysadmins, SRE and software developer, you can see how things can fail. That's the heart of security. As tptacek advises, choose an area o
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by typicalrunt 10y ago
You're only going to get anecdotes and opinions. Given the inputs you stated, I am full CF because I don't want to manage state files, and I want some more advanced things like Deletion policies and automatic tagging of resources
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by typicalrunt 10y ago
> I still can't really figure out what a container is. If you mean this in a general sense... One use case at Unbounce (where I worked in infrastructure) was to encapsulate the runtime dependencies for different services that were o
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by typicalrunt 10y ago
Duo: https://duo.com Super easy to setup and use. About $1/user/month, so fairly cheap.
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by typicalrunt 10y ago
Hmm, I'm replying to a comment... Oh well. :) > you'll get paid more than you need to survive - so don't be an idiot with your money. Adding to this is something to consider: You will be paid more than you need to survive,
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by typicalrunt 10y ago
~ is for one character. If you have a word you want in caps, do gUw. For lowercase, it's guw.
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by typicalrunt 10y ago
That'd be quite witty of them. Polly would normally map to being a parrot, repeating whatever was told to it.
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by typicalrunt 10y ago
Ledger cli. Intimidating at first, but everything is in a text file so it's super portable.
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by typicalrunt 10y ago
I do understand capitalism, the point I made was that sometimes I don't have to like it. Scalping included. I don't need to prove my knowledge to you by pointing out lots of capitalism's flaws. Instead of reading my comment c
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by typicalrunt 10y ago
I grok capitalism and even like it. But there are times where it is difficult to like it. In this case, people rushed to buy this product for the sole purpose of reselling it for 8x. What's wrong with our society that some people can
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by typicalrunt 10y ago
Threatstack will do that. Their agent runs on your machine as a kernel mod and will alert you to any libs being used (e.g. openssl, libcurl) whose version matches a known CVE.
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by typicalrunt 10y ago
This killed one of our main webapps, but since the site was hosted on AWS, I provisioned an ACM certificate (free) in about 5 minutes and manually applied it to the ELB listener. Couldn't have been easier. Today's weirdness and c
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by typicalrunt 10y ago
To separate the marketing website (www.) with the webapp (app.). It allows you to scale one independently of the other, and you can have different codebase and deployment workflows.
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by typicalrunt 10y ago
I use them indirectly like I use design patterns. I'm not thinking "Oh, I'm using 3rd NF" or "I'm using Singleton" at work. Instead, when designing databases I'm thinking about removing duplication (w
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by typicalrunt 11y ago
I got the chance to play with Holus last month during one of H+'s open houses. The unit itself is pretty neat and the holograms (yes, they are just Pepper's Ghost) is of good resolution. The use of iPhones and iPads to control t
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Running a SaaS Business Actually Is Rocket Science(medium.com)
1 points by typicalrunt 11y ago|0 comments
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
> I'm not entirely sure that subtly influencing people to be nicer to each other is a bad thing This would be a subjective opinion. The ends do not justify the means. I agree with you that getting people to act nicer to each other
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
To answer the title: it's never OK to manipulate users. Let's look no further than the dictionary to see why. Here is the OED definition (3rd entry): manipulate: To manage, control, or influence in a subtle, devious, or und
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
There's a fable, "The Scorpion and the Frog" [1] wherein the moral is (copied from Wikipedia): The fable is used to illustrate the position that no change can be made in the behavior of the fundamentally vicious. My point a
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
Your writing reads like you have a chip on your shoulder. It beats around the bush, but you should just come out an say that you don't like people over a certain age. But be careful, because there's a good chance you will soon b
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
Holy shit, settle down for a second. The guy equates working for a paycheck with entitlement... how out of touch can you be? I didn't read any of what you said in the author's blog. He even mentions, at the end, about "wax
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
There's a bias that interviewers need to watch for when they interview candidates. People who write interview questions often find the answers easy, and for the obvious reason that they are the ones that have spent the most time with i
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
> "Writing good specs is important" - it's also really really hard. Yes, this is a very good point. Unfortunately it's also a point that many non-software developers miss. Writing software is hard. Very hard. We,

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