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itintheory··on Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
My understanding is that copyright of what's posted is retained by the poster. The Nitter C&D was around a ToS violation for scraping.
itintheory··on Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk
> if it makes me sick, he will hear about it

I think one of the problems of our modern food system is it can be difficult for a consumer to pinpoint the source of an infection. Food-borne illnesses can take 24-48 hrs or more to become apparent, by which time you may not know what you ate. Combined with the fact that we can't know where certain ingredients were sourced (one of the topics of TFA), and you can know you're sick, but not why.

itintheory··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
>the dark web

I prefer the older term "deep web" [1]. It's mentioned in Wikipedia that the terms are used as synonyms now, but I think it's important to differentiate between sites behind login/authentication/etc, and sites that are still openly accessible, albeit over Tor, i2p, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web

itintheory··on Where did all the public bathrooms go?
You're blaming ... the poor?
itintheory··on Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
It's probably common enough to be an accepted meaning nowadays, like what's happened with "beg the question". I think the original meaning also lends itself very well to people believing the phrase is "tow the line" since that makes some sense with conforming to a rule. Who knows, idioms are a moving target.
itintheory··on I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)
Is the presence of an unsubscribe link a useful signal? I presume that just marks your email address as active in the spammer's database.
itintheory··on Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)
On the other hand, it may be worth publicly and unambiguously stating a position even if unenforceable. This seems to be what most modern protest movements are based on. For instance, how many software repos "stand with Ukraine", even though they won't make an impact on frontline military reality?
itintheory··on Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
> toeing the line I'm not sure that phrase means what you intended to say here. From Wikipedia, [1]: "Toe the line" is an idiomatic expression meaning either to conform to a rule or standard, or to stand in formation along a line.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line

It's possible I misinterpreted your statement though, and if so: apologies.

itintheory··on AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
> You could copy-paste the Jenkins job, but unless you have Jabberwocky v2018.3 installed in /home/JabberWock/RELEASE, the script will fail.

In my experience, containerization resolved this issue. Now you just need to be able to "docker run public.ecr.aws/carroll/jabberwocky:v2018.3 [etc]".

itintheory··on At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
Deer ticks are hard to crush too. And I'd say typically closer to the size of a sesame than a poppy seed. I like to pinch them between the tips of two fingernails, but lighting them on fire is also an enjoyable way to end them.
itintheory··on At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
I developed alpha-gal allergy. I've gotten many tick bites over the years, though none from 'lone star' tick afaik. I don't eat meat normally, so it was only a rare chance occasion when I ate something that triggered an allergic reaction: hives all over, tightness in the throat. It wasn't full anaphylaxis though, fortunately. After some research I thought it might be this allergy, but it wasn't until ~12 years later and an encounter with some pork dumplings which led to a similar reaction that I became convinced and got the blood test.
itintheory··on Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP
I think those were release years. More like how we went from Windows 8 to 10.

(I understand that the real reason here is either a) OSX went to version 10, so don't want to be behind, or b) many systems would pattern match on windows version 9*" so Windows 9 would be treated as 95/98.)

itintheory··on We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images
It's the opposite of NIH syndrome. Need to left pad a string? Just import a library from some rando on the internet!
itintheory··on Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations
Does seem like that could be an issue for RWX PVCs, unless those volumes can be mounted to multiple nodes. Depending on the workload, you might be better off using NFS.
itintheory··on Why Addresses Have Numbers
I learned about this when standing at the customs counter in San Jose at two in the morning. I had an address for an AirBnB but the address as given didn't come up in google maps, or the system used by customs. They wanted to know where we were staying, and it was a bit of a sticking point. Eventually we were able to whatsapp the host and got a different way of addressing it that worked. Quite a memorable encounter.
itintheory··on São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest
I read his book Concrete Botany recently. It also mentions the deep mulch trick mentioned elsewhere in this thread. It's an easy read and a refreshing perspective.
itintheory··on Deep-sea vehicles spot 'alien' sharks deep beneath the waves in the Pacific
We sure can do things with nature. for instance, sustain any and all life on our planet. Viewing the natural world purely in an extractive mindset is the very reason we're in the dire mess we're in today.
itintheory··on Cyberscript
I'm guessing it's programming language, but I don't think I've seen it abbreviated that way before.
itintheory··on Google has abandoned Google News?
Sounds interesting, but 8/10 stories at the top are about local hazardous weather conditions. Maybe those could be filtered out somehow, but I feel like the default should be better...
itintheory··on The first watch featuring computer functions
Wearing the new Time 2 right now. It's as good as I remembered. So glad this story came around the way it did.
itintheory··on Worse on Purpose
I have two American Giant hoodies. One was a gift. After around 10 months the zipper broke, so they sent me a new one.

I eventually repaired the zipper (and have done the same for the other since). They are high quality and have respectable service. I think they're worth the price. These are probably 7-8 years old now, so things could have changed since then.

itintheory··on Never Enough
>Everyone is chasing the person ahead of them

This is part of what turns grasshoppers into locusts. They're attempting not only to eat the insect in front of them, but escape the one behind that is attempting to eat them. I'll leave it up to the reader to complete the metaphor.

itintheory··on How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction
> The last time a server was failing to handle the pressure, we decided to temporarily ban IPs from some Asian regions.

This is something we've been forced to do at work, a LOT. Some weeks it's Huawei Cloud, Tencent, and Alibaba. Other weeks it's all China Telecom. We're using Anubis where possible, but a lot of it is just whack-a-mole with residential proxies. I looked at Datadome and HUMAN, but they would be hundreds of thousands a year at our traffic scale, and I suspect may also have false positives. We abandoned CrowdSec for that reason as well.

I'd love to find a decent k8s native solution to this problem.

itintheory··on Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router
Isn't just as illegal as exploiting them for nefarious purposes? That's a pretty big risk to take to help a few dozen strangers on the Internet. What happens if your fix has an unforeseen interaction with some configuration on a remote system and your actions cause outage or worse?
itintheory··on Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For
> the Switch 2 takes carts

I believe the switch 2 carts don't contain the actual game, just a license key. The game is downloaded on first run.

itintheory··on Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it
Somehow not in the wayback machine or archive.ph. Probably just coincidence.
itintheory··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
> blue teamers

Pretty sure you mean red team here. While I've heard people refer to any offensive security (eg including blackhat) as 'red team' , it typically means people you've hired or contracted to try to break into your systems, whereas the blue team are people you've hired to build and operate your security defenses. Red and blue team are both your employees / contractors but perform different functions.

itintheory··on Minimus container images are now free
> nobody deploys `node:latest`

Oh how I wish that were true.

itintheory··on Minimus container images are now free
Pull-through cache the images. Sure, they could decide you can't pull anymore, or impose problematic rate limits, but you shouldn't add a runtime dependency on their registry in any case.
itintheory··on How Alberta Eradicated Rats
Another own goal - eliminate screw worm from north america...
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