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comprambler··on Edward Stone retires after 50 years as NASA Voyager’s project scientist
“The Farthest” is an extremely well made documentary which is well worth the watch if you want to see this guy and others in their element.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6223974/

comprambler··on Ask HN: Am I getting older or did typing on the iPhone become unbearable?
Srsly do the "iPhones for idiots" books have this kind of information? I would read them if so.
comprambler··on Ask HN: How did Microsoft email services became the primary source for spam?
The likely design fault here is the key is the same for every O365/exchange online client (if they are using MS as their outbound transport). It should be unique so every client could have their own reputation.
comprambler··on Ask HN: How did Microsoft email services became the primary source for spam?
Heh, I received a spam email through my gmail which bypassed the spam filters and decided to investigate. It had DKIM signing as the sender was an Exchange 365 mailbox. The spam message originated from an Amazon SES which hooked through a compromised Exhange 365 mailbox. I contacted Microsoft Security Response with the Exchange mailbox in question to get this bullshit response.

The activity reported is associated with a customer account within the Microsoft Azure service. Microsoft Azure provides a cloud computing platform in which customers can deploy their own software applications. Customers, not Microsoft, control what applications are deployed on their account.

So why are even we using DKIM at all if bad actors can abuse an open cloud TOS.

comprambler··on Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption Insecure Mode of Operation
Not really, the current method of secure Microsoft “email” via Exchange Online is receiving a message that you have “secure mail”. You then have to click on a link to view the message stored on a webserver behind SAML/LDAP auth with a username/password hopefully provided by offline methods. Usually best if behind corp vpn, but that is going away now.

Sounds spammy, but this is industry norm from personal experience on Ironport and Exchange. Downside is the spam imitations of this that are likely quite successful at phishing creds from corporate users.

comprambler··on Trying to build the mother of all financial trackers
Plaid's TOS/data privacy isn't consumer data friendly.

Do you want your transactions to go to a "data analytics service provider" or "fraud prevention services providers" or "identity verification service providers"

https://plaid.com/legal/

A lot of crap can get by with the term "with your consent" AKA just clicking OK to get to the next screen.

comprambler··on Why 23.976 and not 24 FPS? (2016)
Frame sync ability?
comprambler··on Cheapest 10GbE 8-Port Switch TP-Link TL-ST1008F Review
Extreme bought Broadcom’s copper 10g line, so look to used units of theirs.
comprambler··on AMD Announces Preliminary Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results
I think the Radeons were mostly used for ETH mining.
comprambler··on First make the change easy, then make the easy change (2021)
The same concept applies for system administration, your environment (read codebase) eventually gets so complex that it accumulates odd infrastructure bugs that pile up over time exactly like tech debt. Sometimes you must just spend time figuring out how this infra piece (read code block) that was implemented by someone long gone from the company even works. This usually involves having to fix it as well.

You and your team must piecemeal the long term fixes if you want to make any progress towards understanding, scalability and reliability.

comprambler··on Rammstein Get Restraining Order Blocking Viagogo from Reselling Concert Tickets
They don’t “own” the venues so much as they obtain exclusive rights to all events being held at a facility which is worse. Dump trucks of money to venue reps are probably at play here.
comprambler··on Xerox 914
As I understand it, the xerographic assemblies in copiers are charged to comically high voltages. The early power supplies were likely of inefficient design and magic smoked/fire a lot.
comprambler··on Ask HN: Are there any positive sum board games?
A german card game called Bohnanza, though it may turn its players into communists lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohnanza

comprambler··on Academics make stronger connections between gum disease and Alzheimer's disease
Ouch no, you are not letting your gums heal. Try every 1-2 days. If gum health is very bad, try an oral health rinse, again every 1-2 days.
comprambler··on Digital Compact Cassette
Ergh, MPEG1 Layer 1. At least DAT’s (the “competitor”) have full PCM support.

Given CPU power of the day PCM should be easier to decode, just the excessive bandwidth (for the time) would be the expensive part to deal with.

comprambler··on Academics make stronger connections between gum disease and Alzheimer's disease
From personal experience, Waterpiks do not remove everything flossing does. Doing both is even more effective, floss then waterpik.

There are different kinds of floss and they all feel different, find whatever works for you.

Flossing only hurts the first couple times, then scar tissue builds up and you barely feel it anymore.

comprambler··on Next-gen stealth bomber the B-21 Raider unveils December 2022
Looks like a lot more Tacit Blue influence than even with the B2.
comprambler··on Russian airlines ordered to stop selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65
They "lost" Afghanistan as well.
comprambler··on Why is every podcast sponsored by a VPN company?
If I wanted to vacuum data to analyze at a grand scale, I would start a VPN company. Being able to tie user to website with accuracy to the minute for ad analytic decisioning would be extremely powerful. No TLS interception required. All dns.
comprambler··on Concorde Turbo-Jet Engine, Complete with Afterburner - £565,000
Anyone have a Boom contact?
comprambler··on Ask HN: IT Security Checklist for Startups?
Read the entire thread and didn’t see the obvious:

#1. Living Asset Inventory (constantly updated automatically)

#2. Intelligence on these Assets (can be mdm, but at least reporting of sysinfo, os update version, security version)

#3. Automatic patching of both security software and os version.

#4. Centralized identity management (Azure AD, other SAML options) with security intelligence builtin.

comprambler··on Could an Industrial Prehuman Civilization Have Existed on Earth Before Ours?
What is creationist bullshit doing here.
comprambler··on Ask HN: What's a small example of some of the best code ever written?
What the demoscene have been able to do with 8088 based (4.77mhz) systems is crazy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-xJZ9I4iqg8
comprambler··on LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)
Correct answer here, 1U fans are so small they have to spin at stupid RPMs to move a half decent volume of air.
comprambler··on Ask HN: What problem did Slack solve?
Lync for Business’ requirement for Microsoft’s (awful) Threat Management Gateway reverse proxy if you wanted to federate was terrible.
comprambler··on Ask HN: What problem did Slack solve?
Slack was IRC for it’s time. Most of the standard commands still work as testament to what market they were trying to capture. Devshop which ran dual IRC servers, TLS’d and on the WAN went to Slack.

Slack also had SAML, near feature complete web interface, and an easy to swallow onramp cost in 2017.

comprambler··on Resolving an unusual WiFi issue
Similar, but not exact, are deb, and likely others, with failed storage will continually dhcprenew as they can’t write the leasefile for the interface. Near ddos as far as windows dhcp server is concerned. Required an arp table trace to find. Bad_Address is usually the symptom.
comprambler··on Kilimanjaro gets high-speed internet so climbers can tweet or Instagram ascent
I get the want to draw tourism, but this seems terrible except that it would provide emergency services access.
comprambler··on Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff?
Hold spacebar, acts as a primitive horizontal touchpad.
comprambler··on Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers
https://radar.cloudflare.com/asn/812?date_filter=last_24_hou... look at the IPV4 vs IPV6 traffic, when there is IPV4, there is no IPV6 and vice versa. Issues announcing IPV6 BGP prefixes and IPV4 at the same time?
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