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abwizz··on To make dishwashers great again? (2020)
> But reusable plastic food containers (Gladware, etc.) always come out sopping wet and I have to hand-dry them.

ime this is because plastics have lower thermal mass and hence cool out faster than the ceramic/glass/metal things. while the water evaporates from warm objects it then condenses at lower temperature surfaces.

abwizz··on On Desktop GUI Minimalism
> Text is a not an information-dense medium

true, but the api is very stable

abwizz··on UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging
> As long as the messaging platforms don’t change their commitment

what could possibly go wrong

abwizz··on NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild
idk seems to me that what you wish for is already here.

os-vendors are predominiantly us-american and the rest of the world has to get their lawful interception on the free market, no?

abwizz··on 25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
cable is shared media
abwizz··on New LoRa RF distance record
fwiw lora is meant for extreme low-bw applications, like a few key-value pairs per hour.

maybe not mentioning the bitrate discourages misappropriation?

abwizz··on Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web
* fud from youtube sponsorships

* circumvention of geoblocking

abwizz··on Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web
german avm coporation has the "fritzbox" router lineup which can do ipsec and wireguard with normie gui.

openwrt surely will do the job on many aio or a old laptop.

abwizz··on Move Over, Software Developers – In Cybersecurity, the Government Wants to Drive
finally establish that this is not acceptable
abwizz··on The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real
ime a lot of companies do this, but most don't

also phrasings like "average" and "up to" tend to obstruct an important part of the picture (i.e. the common worker)

abwizz··on Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
tbf 700ppl software business in rapid growth is probably not the worst choice
abwizz··on Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
> The whole cottage industry around work is a festering wound at this point.

and (we?) the internet natives are most prone to this assessment as growing up in a world of free ideas (foss) wrecks any connection between work and reward.

abwizz··on Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
a good paying non-management job with a overseeable workload is what i'm look for as well.

kinda hard to find as most hr ppl seem to be looking for either rock stars or code monkeys, any tipps?

abwizz··on Engineer’s guide to career growth: Advice from my time at Stripe and Facebook
how so?

i mean, the most esoteric ppl i know aren't even married

abwizz··on The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real
probably a bubble thing as most produce of the hn crowd does indeed not need any trucking
abwizz··on Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
> All manufacturer firmware are buggy with poor security? That's very obviously false.

guess we have a difference of opinion then

abwizz··on The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real
yea, but hiding behind the differences in meaning does also not help effective discussion.

i get where you're coming from, but also sympathize with the position of "if the compensation changes in value, the value of the compensation has changed"

maybe time to question this whole stock option thing for c-suite and just grant all employees a similar share of company performance

abwizz··on The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real
not set in stone, but might well be.
abwizz··on Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
openwrt is surely lacking in many aspects, but all the points you brought forward also apply to the manufacturer firmware but those are even less user friendly and cannot be modified.

there are a lot of open and closed firmware projects building upon openwrt

abwizz··on Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)
imo it means that you should also own a place to live in.
abwizz··on The Musaicum EU-plus 10M resolution image of Europe
1 pixel = 10 meters

i'm slow too

abwizz··on The boiling frog of digital freedom
certainly not that far fetched.

> other freedom fighting initiatives

"one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist"

abwizz··on The boiling frog of digital freedom
not much, but most build upon foss and some would not be viable without it.
abwizz··on Pooling and Sharing of wealth makes everyone's wealth grow faster
they arguably got the best military power projection capabilities
abwizz··on Shining a light on the digital dark age
> all the videos I uploaded have slowly reduced in resolution, bitrate, and quality, over the years.

i know that feeling when i watch "old" stuff too, did you confirm this in any way or is just subjective?

asking because after a while of watching pal/ntsc style content it becomes normal again.

abwizz··on Pooling and Sharing of wealth makes everyone's wealth grow faster
on the flip side, would you rather the bribe your dr for an appointment and "donate" to the school?
abwizz··on The problem of creeping commercial surveillance (2022)
lots of datapoints for model training?
abwizz··on Ask Microsoft: Are you using our personal data to train AI?
"If you need to ask, you're not going to understand it anyway."
abwizz··on Fairphone 5
they need a rubber case, preferably one that overlaps the display slightly.
abwizz··on Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)
tend to sympathize, it's slack or discord invites that trigger it for me
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