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Bracing a body part weakens that body part in the long run.
Anybody who has ever had a cast on their arm knows this firsthand.
Exterior designs.
The interior has no design - design and UI were given over to a touchscreen. Go look at the interior renderings to see for yourself ...
At least they kept the stalks on the steering column ...
... and further, you can do it in an open, standard fashion over SSH:
I don't know if anyone should use a URL shortener or not ... but if you do ...
"Oh By"[1] will be around in thirty years.
Links will not be "purged". Users won't be tracked. Ads won't be served.
[1] https://0x.co
Canon City in the house.
If you change the schedule of a WiFi network your entire network (wired and everything) goes down for two minutes.
Just a simple admin policy change… full network outage.
Clown. College.
SSH into a UNIX host and 'talk'.
KISS.
I would just find a simple SSH application and give it to all of the chat participants.
Then I would establish a 1U server that I own and control, or even a raspi in my own house, and have everyone log in to run some simple (and old) version of 'talk' - presumably one that has a "wall" feature.
Very simple and very low trust.
Further, the exploit(s) required to infiltrate this are extremely valuable and also hyper specific.
I would have to be an extremely valuable and urgent target for any actor to burn an honest-to-god OpenSSH 0day on ... or a remote root FreeBSD exploit of a system running nothing but OpenSSH.
Bonus points if no ports are open and you have to knock ... which suggests a threat model of remote root vuln on a system with no ports open.
FWIW I have no use for such an edifice.
Actual banks (not fintech barnacles) enjoy a very privileged position in terms of verifying identity and legal mechanisms afforded to them.
If a non-bank actor can verify against an actual bank, that should be enough…
It is absurd that, for instance, a small saas/iaas provider should perform any form of KYC when we can match a successful payment against a bank.
https://www.rsync.net/resources/notes/2021-q3-rsync.net_tech...
This is a quick and easy way to add thousands of iops to even something very slow like a raidz3 zpool.
As always:
"Let's repeat, and emphasize: unlike an SLOG or L2ARC which are merely inconvenient to lose, if you lose your metadata vdev (your "special" vdev) you will lose your entire zpool just as surely as if you lost one of the other full vdevs ..."
Unlike the google URL shortener, you can count on "Oh By" existing in 20 years.
[1] https://0x.co
It's not at all the same thing.
Twitter could have said no.
There are things that work with a very high percentage ...and there are things that are enormously satisfying and exciting to do.
If you're interested in winning you will methodically do the "correct" things.
The problem is it's just so much fun to do a firemans carry ...
In the Moneyball narrative, the non-analytical scouts are branded as "stupid" or "thick" or even "bigoted". I see them as more human and less robotic. I bet they have more fun than Billy Beane (and the book suggests they do).
The issue is not how complicated and difficult such an endeavor is (and you rightly identify it as such).
The issue is, if we're going to do this heavy lifting anyway, might we do it in a way that doesn't involve theft ?
Infantile developer behaviors like disabling paste in the password field? Or bona fide on page text that cannot be selected in the browser window?
There is no reason for Firefox to enable or honor these requests.
“Call-for-pricing”-as-a-service.
To whatever degree this is, indeed, a technical problem. There’s a simple choke point that is being intentionally unutilized.
A much milder, and more sensible, expression of your underlying sentiment is:
If an activity becomes this essential, the government should provide a competitive entrant in the same field.
Now the incumbent provider has competition, and there is a market participant tied to other incentives, etc.
No theft necessary.
These are items you receive along with your insurance.
They are not insurable events and they are not “covered” like an insurable event.
Predictable, regularly occurring events cannot be covered by insurance by definition. You can’t adjust it, you can’t assemble a risk pool, etc.
We use the word “insurance” to mean “nice things that I like” but I think we’d have more enthusiasm for socialized medicine if we knew how much of “insurance” was nothing of the sort.
Agreed.
An environment of increasing interest rates exacerbates this.
I am disappointed at the hostile reaction it provoked in some others ... as if you, or your anecdote, reminded them of something that angered them and they lost track of the difference.
May I suggest this minor hygienic practice ?
When you wake up in the morning, immediately go on a walk.
Just 5 minutes. Walk around the block. Whatever.
The first thing your eyes see in the morning should not be print/screen and the first thing your body does should not be sitting.
Not only does my mail usage not generate any outbound network traffic, nor follow any links, but I can also inspect and edit URLs without following them.
In your example, they still own all the gold and would eventually pay taxes on any liquidation.
I bring this up because I, too, am as interested in your parent to know the original inspiration for these parts of the tax code…
Further: I have a suspicion that this should be applied differently to C-corps vs. pass through entities in the same way that corporate taxes and retained earnings are…
https://www.mysortimo.us/en_US/Storage-Bins-%26-Boxes/T-BOXX...
... and although the insert colors changed, the architecture and sizing has been constant for more than 15 years ...
Which would be of no value.
There is no mechanism - no pathway - for ingested or applied "antioxidant" delivery into the cell where we believe we see oxidation or damage due to free radicals, etc.
... and even if there were it would probably have a terrible impact because it appears that the oxidation and free-radicals are an essential cell signaling mechanism which triggers apoptosis.
Which is a fancy way of saying: cells use these tools to kill themselves when they are performing badly. You would not want to interrupt this process.[1]
It's not that much of a problem because it doesn't cost that much money.
A full rack and 1gb at he.net costs something like $350/mo. I think it's $500 if you get the entire 10gb. Very fast servers are available for, basically, shipping charges on ebay.
The cost that seems prohibitive is all of the flashing lights and fancy imagery and reactive design, etc.
Further, the frameworks and scaffolding that enable all of the tracking and ads ... are themselves expensive and this complexity becomes self-reinforcing.
A final unnecessary set of costs is the neurotic compulsion for 5-9s reliability and perfect, instantaneous responsiveness from every geography.
What does it cost to run lobste.rs ? Metafilter ? HN ?
I think any reasonably resourced individual could do it as a hobby in their spare time - especially if you strip away the CDNs and the load balancers and the expensive frameworks, etc.
I agree with this.
There was a (brief) period when website advertisements were simple, first party hosted image files. IIRC, the first text ads on metafilter (2001 ?) were just strings in the same HTML file.
You may like or dislike these things but they were not a privacy concern.