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AWS guru, lol
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auslander··on Report says Apple to release new ‘iPhone SE’ with 4.7-inch display in 2020
Loved my Z1 compact till I learned about privacy and Google. Got an iPhone 7, similar size.

> .. out-of-date

I repurposed Z1C as in-car GPS, installing Lineage15+microG (Android 8?) on it, plus TomTom.

auslander··on Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead
Less captchas.
auslander··on Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead
Cloudflare somehow got better lately, I'm curious to know how :) Google search works fine and I'm not using other Google services. I see surprisingly few captchas. Yeah, I'm on VPN too, maybe they treat it differently.
auslander··on Today’s Firefox Blocks Third-Party Tracking Cookies and Cryptomining by Default
Including google-analytics?
auslander··on Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead
> delete cookies & cache every day

I'm browsing everywhere in Safari's Private mode by default, 3 years no problems.

auslander··on CircleCI Security Incident
> their main profit is not data, it's customers paying for infrasctructure. They don't have to share any data at all

But the goal is explosive growth, not profit, hence marketing tools. Ask their VC.

auslander··on Google’s GDPR Workaround
Did Google pay all of it yet?
auslander··on Google’s GDPR Workaround
Obviously a good thinker checks all possibilities, being paranoid in scientific sense.
auslander··on Google’s GDPR Workaround
> I bet that hurts Google 10 times more.

Nah. Too big to bother.

auslander··on Google’s GDPR Workaround
What?
auslander··on Google’s GDPR Workaround
> branded as a 'privacy nut'

Only the Paranoid Survive. A book by The President and CEO of Intel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove

auslander··on Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill
> Tip for protesters: paint cocktails. Bottles with hard to remove paint. I bet police will run out of uniforms quickly. They wont be seen on streets in painted suits and face shields.

Dunno, but graffiti is a pain to wash off the walls.

auslander··on Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill
Tip for protesters: paint cocktails. Bottles with hard to remove paint. I bet police will run out of uniforms quickly. They wont be seen on streets in painted suits and face shields.
auslander··on Traffic apps turned L.A.’s neighborhoods into ”shortcuts”
GPS jammers?
auslander··on Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat Chrome
Thanks! But IceCat is on 60.7 while FF is 68.0 ?
auslander··on Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat Chrome
> While I understand that they have to make money somehow

Put a paid Firefox app in Mac, iOS and Windows app stores. Make it clean from integrations and pre-configured for privacy, like no 3rd party cookies, uBlock Origin installed and so on. I'd buy.

auslander··on A Manager’s Guide to Kubernetes Adoption
You probably have not tried too hard? Misspelled CloudFormation hints at it. Btw, ECS is as good as k8s, more integrated with AWS and way simpler.
auslander··on On-Device, Real-Time Hand Tracking with MediaPipe
realtime hard tracking tech. Typo.
auslander··on Ask HN: How to Make Money from Machine Learning?
Adtech
auslander··on Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
Google knew they were friends. Common contacts, location histories, easy.
auslander··on Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
Was there Facebook Audience Network SDK in this open source app?
auslander··on Lessons we learned when debugging a scaling problem
> .. Oops now CPU is too high, bring them back. No, it's too low...

You just described closed-loop control system oscillation. Cause is wrong gain and/or delay parameters. AWS ASG has some knobs for tuning like Cooldown, MaxSize. What you described above is most probably long boot time (delay) problem. Service should be ready in less than 30 secs after boot. To get there, one should bake AMIs, not install afresh all the stuff on boot.

auslander··on Lessons we learned when debugging a scaling problem
> For example .. In fact this problem is so common ..

So whats the problem here? Assuming there are no misconfigurations anymore, and just spiking loads.

auslander··on Lessons we learned when debugging a scaling problem
> we have 27 SSH backends, and 18 HAproxy

No autoscaling? This load pattern is a prime candidate for it.

auslander··on Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity
He should stop smoking.
auslander··on From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love
DOS 6.22 and Norton Commander. Nothing else fits on my old floppy disk (I have two), highly recommend.
auslander··on NASA said to be investigating first allegation of a crime in space
She was allegedly checking if payment for the drilling arrived from Roscosmos. It was smart to use spouse bank account.
auslander··on NASA said to be investigating first allegation of a crime in space
Yes. Have you seen The Expanse documentary?
auslander··on NASA said to be investigating first allegation of a crime in space
> .. extradition back on Earth

She could seek asylum in Russian part of ISS.

auslander··on Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker blocking?
For Apple folks: Ka-Block! for Safari, both iOS and Mac, second Firefox Focus's content blocker on iOS. Always on VPN mobile and desktop. Always Private browsing mode everywhere. Kills 99% of germs :)
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