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* Name: Jake Achée

* Location: Pittsburgh, PA

* Web/Résumé: https://jake.achee.com

* Bio: Network-Engineer-turned-Linux-Admin-turned-SRE, Platform agnostic, not-quite-entrepreneurial. Also: I like python and awk.

* I literally grew up between a trailer park and the landfill. I know my privilege got me out. What's yours gotten you?

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jachee··on Ask HN: How do you keep track of “Log in with” accounts
1Password does it automagically.
jachee··on Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles
Panoramic photos also convert nicely into spatial experiences.
jachee··on Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business
A credit union is ultimately owned by its members, and generally serves internal interests over pure profit. As a result, they tend to usually be less cutthroat and have lower fees, but also lower interest rates on the flip side.
jachee··on Show HN: I Made an AI Song Generator
Already seems to be HN Hugged to death.
jachee··on Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules
Killing another human IS never justified. You’re not a judge, jury or executioner. It should never, ever be up to one person to decide if someone else should live or die. Especially not in the heat of the moment.

In your remote area hypothetical, a rifle would be the appropriate tool. I was very specifically talking about handguns, which are most frequently used to kill the person holding it[0][1], and it’s getting worse[2], hence the Red Flag laws that started this entire thread. And that’s the reason there’s a significant difference between a pile of cash and the equivalent value handgun should absolutely not be treated equally.

0: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/05/24/suicides-...

1: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-...

2: https://www.cdc.gov/firearm-violence/php/data-trends/firearm...

jachee··on Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules
> Guns are tools, that can be used to kill people, just like knives, clubs or other weapons

What non killing-or-practicing-killing use do handguns have? Zero.

Surely there must be better ways of “ensuring equity” than threat of death.

Also, if you think a handgun is going to protect you “from a … violent government” you should see what happens (or really, doesn’t happen) when a handgun round hits modern tank plate.

jachee··on Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
I think you’ve run across one of the major, unfortunate reasons US elections are so close, from the …less-progressive… side of things.
jachee··on US Air Force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing Supreme Court's Chevron ruling
> A lifetime appointment does not mean they are not accountable.

Likewise, people getting hired to agency positions doesn’t mean they are not accountable, plus they usually come with domain-specific expertise, and it doesn’t take a literal act of congress to change them.

jachee··on US Air Force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing Supreme Court's Chevron ruling
> because some unelected crusading bureaucrat decided

Like an appointed-for-life judge, perhaps?

jachee··on Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon
If patreon pulls their app, and the former app users still want access to the content they patronized, they’ll go to wherever it is.
jachee··on Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers
Every device on my LAN that responds to Bonjour on `.local` uses link-local IPv6 without me having had to do any configuration or put any thought into it whatsoever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

EDIT - Oh, you’re talking about public IPv6… similarly, my router (a TP-Link Archer 1200) gets assigned a prefix by my ISP, which it then auto-assigns inside devices IPs from, again without any explicit configuration or intervention on my part. Super easy.

jachee··on Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers
Sounds like a premium service someone could build. :)
jachee··on Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers
I know explaining a joke always makes it super funny, but… this is a NetEng joke about IPv6 being overbuilt.
jachee··on Judges suspends FCC net neutrality restoration rule
How expensive is it to simply pass the traffic one’s customers request without fucking with it?

That’s all that’s required to be Neutral. What other kind of expensive “compliance” are you talking about?

jachee··on Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
Eagerly waiting for this to happen in the medication names space. :)
jachee··on Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
Isn’t that why some organizations have a red team and a blue team?
jachee··on A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
Relative Humidity is directly tied to the dew point. Take a look back at the humidity forecast and look right under the humidity percentage. The dew point is there. If you tap a point in the future on the graph of forecast changes, the dew point is also registered there.
jachee··on A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
Why would you need degree-perfect precision in a subjective measurement? Eyeball it. It’ll feel like around 90ish. Or it’ll feel like around 85ish. There’s no reason for an indication that it’ll feel 87.500.
jachee··on Hackers Exploited a PC Driving SIM to Pull Off Disney Data Breach
This was likely vice versa, i.e. the employee installed Slack on their personal computer.
jachee··on My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
None of those are in Pittsburgh proper. Sure their addresses say Pittsburgh, but they’re all outside of the city. As someone who’s also in tahn and has been watching the market, if you want off-street parking and more than one bathroom in a decent neighborhood in the city proper, you better have $450k all-cash within hours.

edit - okay I admit I got Greenfield and Green Tree mixed up, but my point stands for the other two. :)

jachee··on Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage
My company MacBook with the falcon client does not seem to be affected by this.
jachee··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Here's hoping they start from the top.

They won't, but hope springs eternal.

jachee··on How do jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust? (2017)
Assay marks.
jachee··on Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data
After the bell on Friday is an infamous time for releasing news you don’t want to be covered.
jachee··on Show HN: I made a simple Markdown blog creator
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but laziness is definitely the father.

Lot of money to be made catering to the latter.

jachee··on CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40951064
jachee··on Engine Sound Simulator
Deceleration is where you get fuel overrun and backfires, too!

    VrOOOOooomm-pa-pop-pow-ooooom.
jachee··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)
Heads up: you probably want to repost this on the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846426
jachee··on Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command line
One of the reasons I dig it.
jachee··on Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command line
And the easy-to-remember-for-Unix-nerds:

    ifconfig.me/ip
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