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emptybottle··on Cloudflare.com was redirecting to Clickfunnels.com
Wow yeah, seeing this as well

wget cloudflare.com --2022-01-24 23:21:32-- http://cloudflare.com/ Resolving cloudflare.com... 104.16.132.229, 104.16.133.229, 2606:4700::6810:85e5, ... Connecting to cloudflare.com|104.16.132.229|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://www.cloudflare.com/ [following] --2022-01-24 23:21:32-- https://www.cloudflare.com/ Resolving www.cloudflare.com... 104.16.123.96, 104.16.124.96, 2606:4700::6810:7b60, ... Connecting to www.cloudflare.com|104.16.123.96|:443... HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: https://www.clickfunnels.com?aff_sub=domain_redirect&utm_cam... [following] --2022-01-24 23:21:33-- https://www.clickfunnels.com/?aff_sub=domain_redirect&utm_ca... Resolving www.clickfunnels.com... 104.16.16.194, 104.16.14.194, 104.16.15.194, ... Connecting to www.clickfunnels.com|104.16.16.194|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

emptybottle··on I got pwned by my cloud costs
This is why I personally won't run projects on infrastructure with what roughly equates to unlimited risk billing.

It's my opinion that it's better to work with known limitations and optimize for them.

In the case of bandwidth, work with a fixed pipe size, or do the math and set up a QoS that implements a throttle to avoid exceeding your bandwidth allotment.

emptybottle··on Ask HN: Recommendations for an SMTP Sending Service?
Fastmail has been great for both final deivery and outbound smtp for personal email.
emptybottle··on Architect behind Googleplex now says it's 'dangerous' to work at posh offices
TIL that Google popularized the open floor plan.

Is there anything in the tech industry that they haven’t made worse?

emptybottle··on Is compensation stagnation to blame for the great resignation?
There was a poll about this recently on HN and salary did actually score much higher than culture.

I think the reality is it’s complicated and many things need to be above a threshold, and reasonably better than their current role.

emptybottle··on Set up Pi-hole with your own recursive DNS server using DNSSEC
A dnscrypt-proxy or similar tutorial is probably a good starting point
emptybottle··on Set up Pi-hole with your own recursive DNS server using DNSSEC
Don't you think it's a bit backwards to deploy pihole to prevent trackers, while being ok with your DNS traffic being tracked?

Agreed though, the DoH recursor should use DNSSEC in actual DNS upstream queries. IMO you want to use both.

emptybottle··on Set up Pi-hole with your own recursive DNS server using DNSSEC
With a goal being to circumvent tracking I wonder why DNSSEC was used instead of DoH DNS over HTTPS?
emptybottle··on Police in tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’
I used the term 'law enforcement' and not the term 'police' intentionally as law enforcement is an umbrella while police are a specific group within it.

The way I see it the police subgroup could be defunded with new approaches deployed to maintain peace and safety, without needing to cease law enforcement as a whole.

emptybottle··on Police in tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’
> When people talk about defunding or abolishing the police, they refer to razing systems like this (or parts like this in larger departments) to the ground, rethinking and rebuilding based on the needs of the community.

All too often arguments against this interpret 'defund' at the farthest possible extreme, but no one is calling for an end of law enforcement.

The reality is that providing constant budget increases for better weapons, faster cars, additional staff, etc. is causing the police to become more militarized. The Military are a defense against enemies. As police become more militarized their enemy becomes the civilians who they are meant to protect and serve.

The actual idea is to defund police departments as they are structured today, and allocate that money instead to social and mental health programs as well as law enforcement with a foundation in de-escalation and transparency.

Of course there would still be law enforcement to maintain peace and safety, and it would be based on transparency and accountability.

emptybottle··on Is old music killing new music?
I think this is just one component of the general information overload that exists today.

There used to be a few genere based radio stations. It was easy to find new music, because there weren't many places to look.

Today we have an infinite number of places to find new music. Far more than any person could ever hope to actually listen to.

And to complicate that, music creation as a whole has become something that anyone can do with a laptop and distribute into the mainstream platforms (e.g. spotify, etc.)

SO, the hours of music that exists keeps increasing exponentially, while the number of hours in a persons lifetime stay the same.

emptybottle··on Live Code Music with Tidal Cycles
Same here. I didn’t submit the link as doc.tidalcycles.org either, it should have been the root of the domain which does work.
emptybottle··on Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
We make physical photo albums and keep a few copies of our favorites, and send some to family.

Digitally I keep a few different backups but they are raw and would take a while to sort through.

emptybottle··on Workers are calling out sick in droves
Part of it must be the new relaxed measures that have been put in place at schools, and phasing out of contact tracing.

Aside from people who are sick themselves, kids are getting sick causing parents to use sick leave to care for them at home (and exposing themselves to illness in the process)

Complicate that by sick teachers and carers interrupting normal child care routines, also causing parents to miss work.

emptybottle··on Venmo, PayPal and Zelle must report $600 in transactions to IRS
The title in both article and HN should reflect that.
emptybottle··on Venmo, PayPal and Zelle must report $600 in transactions to IRS
I'm more concerned with being double-taxed for splitting bills, then seeing small businesses receive 1099s for payments received through one of these systems.

What bothers me is cases where people are taxed when being paid back for things like dinner out, or splitting a vacation rental. That income was already taxed. Using e.g. venmo to split the bill should not result in that money being double taxed as it changes hands.

emptybottle··on Becoming a Synth Dynamo
Have a look into supercollider and tidalcycles
emptybottle··on Becoming a Synth Dynamo
Loopy pro on iPad with an optional midi pad controller
emptybottle··on Ask HN: How do I know if im a slow developer?
It depends on the project and the team/environment, but I’ve always found the old saying “slow and steady wins the race” to be true.

Better to work slowly and take the time to communicate, collab on reviews and write decent documentation than just slap things into production as quickly as possible.

Of course the company has to value that kind of approach.

emptybottle··on Ready for an N95? Here's how to find a high-quality one that fits you well
How are the popular N95s with glasses?

I’ve settled on classic nurse masks for now because they seal well around the nose and dont cause my glasses to fog.

emptybottle··on Ask HN: Just bought a new domain “linkedrecords.com”. What should I build?
My boy
emptybottle··on Ask HN: Just bought a new domain “linkedrecords.com”. What should I build?
A record label
emptybottle··on Life at 800 MHz
The article is written to be read back in Gollum's voice
emptybottle··on Heartfuck
There's even a handy brainfuck to heartfuck converter https://burgravian.github.io/heartfuck/
emptybottle··on About the security content of iOS 15.2.1 and iPadOS 15.2.1
It's a shame there isn't an alternate software path for iOS devices that have aged out of security updates.

I have an iPad whose hardware has life left in it, but as time goes on it's more and more it's worrisome to run a connected device without security updates.

emptybottle··on Ask HN: Is the quality of Google Maps going downhill?
Google maps sometimes gives strange routes, like routing onto a frontage road and then back onto the highway for seemingly no reason. I guess it's trying to avoid perceived traffic or something?

The only feature that has me staying is "search along route" and support for multiple hops. It's quite nice to ad-hoc add a stop for a coffee or restroom to my longer route, or to plan out a multiple stop drive.

Do any other maps apps for iOS have that implemented well now?

emptybottle··on Ask HN: Video On or Off?
A mixture of both. I'll typically join with video to wave hi. If there are more than ~5 attendees I'll typically mute audio and video to use chat and hand raise queueing.

If it's a quick question I'll use voice only. For longer discussions I'll turn on video. Sometimes I'll unmute video when I raise my hand. Other times difficult questions are proxied via text to be read anonymously by a co-worker.

It all depends on the size and the vibe of the meeting.

emptybottle··on Ask HN: Why isn't there a backlash around charging for security features?
This could be viewed as shortcoming in open source licenses too.

Many companies take an open core approach but license some features (maybe security related, management, scalability, etc.) with proprietary licenses and charge for them.

Part of this is because traditional open source licenses tend to assume all time and resources are donated freely. It’s hard to sustain one or more people in terms of money, and some run the risk of another company reusing your source in their product.

I think some viable alternate approaches to earn money through open source would go a long way towards avoiding open core approaches. But until that happens companies will do what they need to in order to keep revenue flowing.

emptybottle··on CSVCHAIN - NFTs backed by CSV technology
I know this is a gag, but it misses the point.

NFTs are interesting because they support smart contracts, use a cryptocurrency wallet system to manage value and ownership, can be minted in quantities > 1, support unlockable content, etc.

emptybottle··on I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012
What's hilarious to me is that Apple considers their own computers of this era to be "vintage"

No joke, that's the real term https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624 "About vintage products. -- Products are considered vintage when Apple stopped distributing them for sale more than 5 and less than 7 years ago."

Well, not much has changed on the intel side in that timeframe. My 2013 laptop is still getting OS updates and performs fine for my needs. And now I can brag that I'm running a vintage computer as my daily driver.

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