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hitpointdrew··on Ask HN: Recommendation for company badge IT system
You need legit badges (with photos and names on them, etc.)? Or just a FOB door access system?

If you just need FOBs then Ubiquiti pretty decent https://ui.com/us/en/door-access

hitpointdrew··on Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?
Serious question, why not just use kubernetes instead of Nomad?

The only “kinda cool”, thing I saw with Nomad is that it can “orchestrate” binary files, not just containers.

That said, putting binaries in containers isn’t very difficult.

hitpointdrew··on YouTube's Legal Team sent me a letter [video]
No, his response was far from childish.

Now, how I would have responded, THAT would have been childish.

“Dear Sir or Madam, Your company policy’s aren’t law, kindly go fuck yourselves.”

hitpointdrew··on Do You Need IPv4 Anymore?
This patently false, you should do more research before you make comments to inflate your ego.

For your education:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT64

hitpointdrew··on Fast, Declarative, Reproduble and Composable Developer Environments Using Nix
The idea of Nix is great, implementation not so much. If everything you need is within their package/ecosystem then things will go fine. But God help you if you want to run some binary that isn't in their package manger, the amount of time in effort and struggle to get a simply binary to run is absolutely insane.
hitpointdrew··on Do You Need IPv4 Anymore?
> I worked for used ipv6 to successfully deal with huge number of ephemeral VMs.

I find it hard to believe that "huge" exceeds 65,536, which is how many addresses you get with a /16.

hitpointdrew··on Do You Need IPv4 Anymore?
No one will ever convince me that running a local IPv6 network is a good idea.

IPv6 from your ISP, fine, but once internal IPv6 is overly complex and unnecessary. Despite the claim to the contrary NAT is a feature, not bug.

The future for IPv6 is that Firewalls/Routers will handle IPv6 for the public addressees, then NAT to internal IPv4's.

hitpointdrew··on Ask HN: Alternative to Putty for Multiple Sites?
Been awhile since I had Windows as a daily driver for work, but years ago I used to use mRemoteNG https://mremoteng.org/. It was awesome, as I could bookmark SSH and RDP connections in one place and organize them in a folder structure. It also had tabs for multiple active connections.
hitpointdrew··on Ask HN: Do you have a manager who will negotiate contracts for you?
Some places I worked, yes, others no, depends on the organization.

Some places have purchasing/procurement departments.

In my experience even if you have a purchasing/procurement department they generally do very little in terms of negotiating IT deals, they are just gate keepers because someone decided they should oversee all purchasing. They really only negotiate on products needed to make the product your company makes or resells.

Edit: I think I miss interpreted your question. I personally don’t take “contracts”. I’m just full-time at a company, I negotiated my salary myself when I was hired.

hitpointdrew··on [dead]
Glad the athletes are starting to speak up, hopefully this encourages others to do the same.
hitpointdrew··on [dead]
This is a poorly phased question without any real details. What kind of system? Linux? Windows? BSD? Amiga? OS2?

Generally people use ssh for Linux systems and RDP for Windows. But your question lacks so much detail, I have to assume with Linux you want command line only and with windows you want a gui.

hitpointdrew··on mRNA vaccines: let's eradicate herpes, cure cancer, and be sick a whole lot less
> The mRNA vaccine mostly stays near the site of injection: your arm.

This patently false, and medical disinformation. It is proven with the Covid vaccines that it spreads to the entire body.

hitpointdrew··on Is This Desire? On the Intersection of Human Sexuality and Pornography
> that was not once considered a normal, moral

You seem to not comprehend the words normal, or moral.

Let’s just stick to normal since it’s easier. Normal means “the majority of society approves of this behavior”.

In no point in documented history, for any culture, has fucking pigs been “normal”.

It doesn’t matter if one person thought “this should be normal”, the fact the majority of society rejected that idea necessitates that it is indeed not normal.

hitpointdrew··on Ask HN: Why does it seem hard to buy an ONT for fiber?
I don’t know what privacy you think you are gaining with your own modem.

They already have your name, address, and payment info.

If you are concerned about them seeing your traffic, well they are going to see that regardless if you use their modem or your own. They own the public IP you get assigned, all traffic is going through their route tables and equipment and is logged before it hits your home router.

Use DNS over https (not the ISPs DNS), or a VPN if you want to hide your activity from them.

Your own modem gains you little in privacy. At worst they could be tracking a count of your devices and their MAC address, but they probably don’t care to collect that.

hitpointdrew··on It's Official: We Can Pretty Much Treat Covid Like the Flu Now
This article is about 3 years too late.
hitpointdrew··on [dead]
I don't think HN is the appropriate forum for such a discussion.
hitpointdrew··on Ask HN: Why hasn't anyone tried building an AI wearable wristband?
> I'm envisioning a wristband with no screen that is used as a device that passively listens to your conversations

Yikes...

> but doesn't store your recordings

Still, yikes!

hitpointdrew··on You Don't Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes
> there’s limited evidence that a phone has ever interfered with a plane’s electrical systems.

Very much expected. Not sure why anyone ever bought into the idea that a phone could interfere with the plane. You really think the airlines would risk some random asshole not following directions that could fuck up their electrical systems? If that was possible they wouldn't have allow phones on the plane at all. No airline would have taken that risk.

hitpointdrew··on Ask HN: How does open source work?
> how does the open source community attract ideas from non-developers

They don’t. I don’t know a single dev that is sitting around just waiting for someone else to give them an idea that they can start working on for no payment whatsoever.

Open source is driven by developers, they have idea, they put in the work and they open the code.

Developers aren’t itching to start open source projects. Developers are skilled laborers, and generally don’t have much desire to work for free. If a dev is going to work for free it generally is going to be, again, a passion project and maybe they can convince a few close dev friends to join them.

If it isn’t a passion project, then it’s generally not unpaid. Large open source projects have foundations, or large corporations that have paid employees contribute. For example Google open sourced the Go programming language. The devs that started that collected a pay check from Google while they were working on it.

If you have an idea for something, you will have to learn to code and do it yourself, you can open it up and hope to get some interest from the open source community. Or you can pony up and pay someone to develop it.

hitpointdrew··on Ask HN: How does open source work?
Seems like you asking if you just throw out an idea on a GitHub page and then someone will come along and hand you a finished product.

Yeah, no, that won’t happen and isn’t at all how open source works.

There are two types of open source projects, small ones, and large ones.

Small ones have one, or maybe a few core contributors. These people do the bulk of the work and open the code up for a variety of reasons but often these are passion projects. The contributors work in their spare time, and generally the project has no or very little funding.

Then there are large open source projects, these typically have a foundation behind them. The foundation usually has big corporate donors and will have full-time paid contributors.

hitpointdrew··on We banned single-use plastic bags. Now we're tossing more plastic. What gives?
>We banned single-use plastic bags

No, you sat on your ivory tower and in your infinite wisdom declared plastic shopping bags "single use". Because your ego is too big and you are too infatuated with stroking it by "saving the planet" you didn't apply common sense.

Plastic shopping bags, for everyone I know, were never "single use". You bring groceries home in them, then you use them in small trashes as trash bags, or use them in your gym bag for your sweaty gross clothes.

Now you are forcing me to purchase what are truly single use plastic bags, because you took the free ones away. Additionally we have now added a paper bag, a second single use bag into the equation.

Thanks smarty pants.

hitpointdrew··on Ask HN: Where do you save your API keys?
Looks like you are SOC 2 Type II compliant, which is better than nothing. However, it is very difficult for my organization to work with 3rd parties that are not ISO 27001 certified. Is Doppler working on ISO 27001 certification?
hitpointdrew··on Ask HN: Advice for a new father?
Try to enjoy it, even when you’re exhausted. Spend as much time as you can with them, work can wait, house chores those can wait too.

It won’t be long when you won’t rock them to sleep.

It won’t be long when they won’t ask you to play with them.

hitpointdrew··on Weaveworks is shutting down
It has been 100% fine for me, was easiest to deploy, very easy to encrypt all network communication. Has been anything but a dumpster fire, will likely wait it out a see what happens with the plugin, rather than switch to something else.
hitpointdrew··on A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts
Seems cumbersome…I’d rather run a script locally
hitpointdrew··on A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts
Dockerizing a shell script????

Unless your tool is converted to a service how would anyone ever use this? Do you expect them to run their project inside of your container?

This is very bizarre.

hitpointdrew··on Republicans in Congress try to kill FCC's broadband discrimination rules
> There is a documented 30-year history of ISPs not expanding their network

Yeah, which has nothing to do with race at all, and everything to do with population density. ISP’s don’t want to invest to expand to rural areas with few customers for obvious reasons, none of which have anything to do with discrimination of any kind.

hitpointdrew··on Joe Rogan Gets New Spotify Deal Worth Up to $250M
I wish I could get podcast only Spotify subscription. I don't want to open the app then have to click around to get the podcasts, podcasts should come up by default.
hitpointdrew··on The video game industry is in trouble. Here's why
Caution, Business Insider was founded by Henry Blodget, who before founding the publication:

> was charged with civil securities fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.[8] and settled the charges with a payment of $4 million without admitting or denying the allegations and their underlying facts and findings. He was permanently barred from the securities industry and censured by the SEC, NASD, and NYSE.[9]

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

Blodget is currently the Editor of Business Insider.

IMO businessinsider is less about reporting economic news, and more about attempting to shift investments for their own self-serving interests.

hitpointdrew··on Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch
>How would you distribute that over the Switch

I wouldn't, I don't. The game is a PC game.

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