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buzer

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Staff Software Engineer at 8x8

Especially interested in systems scaling & IAM and also general interest in most of thing on backend side.

You can reach me via <username>@<username>.net

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buzer··on Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999)
At least Finland's stats are a bit misleading. They are using number of guns per capita, not number of households with guns (and might also be using number of permits instead of number of guns, same gun might have more than 1 permit). There's about 650 000 permit holders in Finland, i.e. about 12%. Of course there are some people who have access to illegal guns but I don't think that's very high number. Estimates I see for number of illegal guns (which include deactivated guns which can be reactivated) are from 35 000 to 200 000.
buzer··on Police Seized Innocent Peoples Property, Kept It for Years. What Will SCOTUS Do?
The case was appealed to 5th Circuit and there was oral argument on 6th of June https://www.courtlistener.com/audio/87002/baker-v-city-of-mc.... If I understand things correctly that should mean that the judgement should be out by end of next week?

Note: IANAL, I'm a complete layperson.

From what I could understand it sounds like 4 other district courts have ruled (around 31:30) on similar issues by siding that Eminent Domain does not apply on police actions while 4th has apparently ruled differently (I do not know which case they are referring to) & there were some arguments that earlier John Corp case from 5th Circuit (I believe https://casetext.com/case/john-corp-v-city-of-houston) already split the district courts.

To me it did sound like judges were taking the city side more though they did also ask for what kind of test should be implemented if they did rule in favor of Bakers.

Hopefully they do end up affirming the lower court decision but let's see.

buzer··on Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software
One thing that I would like to see is tax impact analysis though this is naturally very country-specific.

For example I would like to calculate the impact of wash sale or seeing the tax impact for selling from certain lot (in terms of short/long term taxes). And if you did these what would your tax impact look like if you sold things at expected mark growth rate (or certain value you set).

buzer··on We Are Not Supporting OpenTF
> The only companies that need to worry about the license change are those with production products that are “offering the Licensed Work to third parties on a hosted or embedded basis which is competitive with HashiCorp’s products.”

That's might be the current situation but it does not mean that will last. If the license changes again or if they e.g. decide stop the development, it will be a lot harder to make a fork in order to e.g. keep up to date with security patches.

> these problems with the Terraform core repository are not new

> The only material change over the past ~14 days, in our opinion, is that certain business’s have had their margin profile change.

Often people deal with things until something breaks camel's back. In this case it was the license change for many companies/users and hopefully it will mean that OpenTF will end up fixing those earlier problems as well.

buzer··on Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
This seems like very recent addition. I didn't initially see it in settings but I noticed Chrome wanted to update (I normally use Firefox). After updating there actually was a popup telling about the settings Ad Privacy with option to open the settings page. While it being opt-out setting is not great at least they did have decadency to inform me about the change which often is not the case. I forgot to take a screenshot but it did look like following: https://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/new-ads-pr...
buzer··on Onsen: A Peek into Japan’s Hot Springs
I would imagine most of tourists experience onsen during ryokan visit instead of going to separate bathhouse and those tend to be somewhat expensive.
buzer··on Cellebrite asks cops to keep its technology secret
Somewhat similar thing does happens often with DNA evidence. Prosecution submits evidence where report was generated in proprietary software and company's employee testifies that the result is correct & tell the chance of false positive is 1 in 10 billion. Defense asks for access to source code to validate the claims and company says they are trade secrets & judge decides to not grant access and does not dismiss the evidence.
buzer··on SUSE to go private
In worst case if someone is demanding it and it went through the arbitration process (and possibly appeals) it would be the same as any other debt. If the shareholder is a company the debtor could initiate the bankruptcy procedures. Of course it's possible that they could end up not getting full amount (if anything) from the estate if there are more debts than what assets were worth.

If they are private person they can attempt to judgement via court and let enforcement authority liquidate their assets or garnish their wages.

buzer··on SUSE to go private
They do have obligation to buy if the minority shareholders demand it. If they don't want to trigger the requirement they need to keep their ownership under 90%.

There's also requirement (with some exceptions) to make offer to buy publicly listed company's shares when the shareholder's control over the votes increases above 30% and 50%. Normally the price in that case would be the highest price that shareholder paid for the shares during previous 6 months.

buzer··on SUSE to go private
There is redemption committee in Finland Chamber of Commerce that will assign a arbitration court to handle the redemption. They will also assign a trustee who will represent the minority shareholders.

The valuation is decided during the arbitration process. From what I understand if there has been previous offer to buy it's quite likely that will be used at least as initial basis for the price.

There seems to be at least one English article about the process: https://insights.fondia.com/fi/en/articles/corporate-law/sha...

buzer··on SUSE to go private
In Finland if someone controls over 90% of the shares they have right to forcefully buy rest of the shares (and also obligation if someone wants to sell at at that point). So if they wanted to go fully own the company they need to high enough offer that they will at least hit 90%. I'm not sure if you could from public company to private without all shareholders agreeing to it as that would benefit large shareholder at minority holders cost.

No clue if there are similar laws in Germany or other countries.

buzer··on California PG&E joins proposal to set utility rates based on income
Tier 1 rate for me is currently about $0.35/kwh and tier 2 about $0.41/kwh from PG&E. They don't directly tell you the transmission cost, but about $0.145/kwh comes from generation.

For my 1 br apartment living alone the total bill has been about $100-$150 but can jump to up to $250 during summer months. Sounds like this will almost double my costs for most of the year.

buzer··on HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
I don't know if they have required old commiters to sign it. I commited to one library that is now under Hashicorp back in 2015 and did not need to sign anything but it was MIT licensed back then. They have also rewritten affected lines as part of larger rewrite.
buzer··on HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
Actual full license seems to be here: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/e94ce2dd3877096b...
buzer··on Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022)
It's in iframe. In Firefox right click table, This Frame - Show only this frame. That opens https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/32i0b/1/. In there you can see it makes request to https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/32i0b/1/dataset.csv
buzer··on Blocked by Cloudflare
https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/reference/verified-bo...

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/verified-bots

https://blog.cloudflare.com/friendly-bots/

> At Cloudflare, we manually “verify” good bots, so they don’t get blocked.

buzer··on Blocked by Cloudflare
It's also annoying how that check page ends up breaking page reload in Firefox. When Cloudflare redirects you back to the page it will happen via POST. This initial POST gets captured by Cloudflare, but if you reload the page that POST will go to page itself and there's pretty good chance it doesn't know what to do with that and just shows error.

The only fix is to navigate back to page somehow, either by going to address bar and pressing enter (to navigate there again instead of reloading) or finding some link that points you back to the page.

I wouldn't be surprised if those POSTs will end up banning you from some website since they "know" you shouldn't POSTing to that page so clearly you are evil bot trying to hack them.

buzer··on IRS launches paperless processing initiative
> the IRS offers free online filing to everyone

Not to dual-status individuals for example. Those individuals must mail/fax their return to IRS.

buzer··on Good code is like a love letter to the next developer who will maintain it
Short names actually help with readability when they are commonly used. It's a lot quicker to go over the code when you don't need to read as much, similar to how one would write something like x+y=z in math instead of putting descriptive name for each variable in each step or using things "1€/kg" instead of "one euro per kilogram" (or let alone including kilogram's definition from SI standard).
buzer··on FedNow Is Live
I hope they extend that to actual invoicing standard, i.e. pass the invoice details in that RFP message, like something similar to https://www.finanssiala.fi/en/topics/finvoice-standard/
buzer··on Teddit Is Shutting Down
Someone mentioned that it's probably using the JSON API.

https://www.reddit.com/.json

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/150ozmc/twitter_has_l...

buzer··on Bank transfers as a payment method (2021)
There are lots of things that many countries do better than US in regards to banking.

One thing that I don't often see mentioned are invoices. In Finland you can get many of them delivered as standardized e-invoice to your bank. This then allows you to setup automatic payment for them on your side (pay on the due date, set maximum value that will be approved automatically if the amount is not static). For consumer protection if the due date falls on weekend/bank holiday, the due date in reality is the first normal day. It's also the day when you need to make the payment, it doesn't need to arrive on seller's account on that date (though these days it normally will).

buzer··on Token revocation
One option could be to require that the access token needs to used within X seconds after it has been issued. During this period:

* Old refresh token can be used. Using it will revoke previous "new" tokens (and possibly generate some warnings, especially if new tokens are used after this)

* Using new access token will revoke old refresh token and access tokens, possibly requiring access on dedicated path (something like lookup, essentially confirming that you received it)

This probably should be rate limited to avoid malicious/buggy client filling the revoke list with junk. And it may also make sense to decrease the lifetime of the old refresh token (e.g. if it was originally going to expire in 24h make it expire in 30 minutes) or set maximum of times this swap can happen.

Of course this would still cause issues if e.g. database server where these were stored failed and client had to restore from backups.

buzer··on I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)
> am I limited to the number of open sockets

I assume they mean CPU sockets.

buzer··on Hacking the Philips Sonicare NFC Password
Earlier discussion about the initial hack (sniffing the password & resetting usage hours): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36128617
buzer··on How Reddit became the enemy [video]
One thing I do wonder is that if the issue was the ads, why wouldn't they just say that Reddit Gold users would still have free access to the API and charge the rest? Then app developers could implement more restrictions/paid access to non-gold users while gold users wouldn't directly be impacted at least by Reddit itself.
buzer··on I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me
I'm not familiar with how lawsuit process works in the US, but wouldn't the fact that he got served imply that he actually got sued by Amazon? Or is it normal that witness gets served as well?
buzer··on Update on Sharing
5 homes is likely rare, but I don't think 2 is extremely uncommon. Like vacation home where family might spend summer or working at different city than where family and coming home for weekends. In Finland over 10% of people have a cabin and in average they spend 79 days of the year there (https://suomenkuvalehti.fi/kotimaa/yli-puoli-miljoonaa-kesam...) though I'm not sure how common it's to have electricity these days.
buzer··on Launch HN: Common Paper (YC W23) – SAFEs for Commercial Contracts
There are likely similar things already in some countries. I know Finland has IT-ehdot (IT-terms), they are made by a group of organizations (the Finland Chamber of Commerce, Technology Industries of Finland, Finnish Association of Purchasing and Logistics LOGY, Finnish Information Processing Association TIVIA and the Finnish Software and E-business Association) though they are not free. They tend to get updated every 4-5 years.

The attachments (essentially similar to the terms in Common Paper) are readable in English at https://it-ehdot.fi/tutustu-ehtoihin/ ("ENGLANNIKSI" tab), but the agreement template (similar to the cover letter) requires buying them.

buzer··on Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines
Does Apple dogfood their OS X/iOS CI pipelines, i.e. are they running them on some off-the-shelf Macs like they expect everyone else to do? I remember reading that at least in the past they were running virtualized OS X on regular servers for those (actually found following: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18117885).

And it's not like Apple would need to verify anything. They can grant the license, but say that the only supported configuration is Mac, it's up to VMWare and such to provide the support if they want to say that you can run OS X on their platform.

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