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sofaofthedamned··on WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources
I got 2 nice Aeron chairs for £100 from the Government agency in the UK I used to work for. They had tonnes of them.
sofaofthedamned··on NY Payroll Company Vanishes with $35M
Bollocks. Once a crypto exchange is gone your money is gone.
sofaofthedamned··on Maturity
I've just read all the comments here, it's a roller-coaster ride but is exactly what I saw with my self-hosted GL.

Each new release there'd be a new release with great new features - yay! - followed by 3-4 patch releases to fix the bugs. You eventually get worn down by it and don't bother using these things.

I see the same with other dual licensed stuff. Kong is a good example - bugs that actually stop routing traffic are eventually acknowledged, but with no feedback unless I keep chasing them. However i'll get regular emails with new products. They've got a new Service Mesh they announced recently. There's not a chance in hell i'll use it until they fix the bugs/issues i've reported in the core product.

sofaofthedamned··on South African authorities admit to mass surveillance
Wasn't it 6 years ago when Snowden made public his revelations and Google said 'nope' and encrypted the lot? Who now sends traffic over these links and doesn't encrypt them?

So, what value do the SA government have in intercepting these links now?

sofaofthedamned··on Useless Windows 10 Features
Wikipedia in this situation always uses Edge as the browser. I wonder if this helps inflate their user stats?
sofaofthedamned··on Apple Card can be damaged by wallets and jeans
No, people have a reason to mock, quite rightly, because you're supposed to take care of a credit card.
sofaofthedamned··on Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth audio always so bad?
Also LDAC on the Sony headsets
sofaofthedamned··on CentOS 8.0 is almost ready
So they charge for their software but deploy it on centos instead of rhel?
sofaofthedamned··on Credit Karma glitch exposed users to other people’s accounts
Does this apply to the UK version of CK too?
sofaofthedamned··on Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn?
Yup. To me LI is a necessary evil, a online CV. Anything like that is an instant unfollow.
sofaofthedamned··on TV detector van
As a child in the 80s I remember my family being scared of this van even though it probably never existed. Because of this my mum got a pay TV instead which we had to put 50p coins in periodically that paid for both the TV rental and the license fee.
sofaofthedamned··on Some new cars at risk of theft by exploiting weaknesses in keyless entry systems
Yeah I know the attack model, it was just amusing they took the cars that were worth less (at market value) over the newer car that was less cool but worth more.

We put our car keys in a metal tin near the door now which stops all this anyway.

sofaofthedamned··on Some new cars at risk of theft by exploiting weaknesses in keyless entry systems
Both my neighbours either side of my house had their cars stolen by this on the same night. One was a Jaguar, think the other was an Audi.

They didn't touch my car even though it was newer, probably because it was a Kia. I am happy with my choice.

sofaofthedamned··on Facebook revenue beats estimates; discloses antitrust probe
I assume that's the case, but is it true? Does it include people who have a FB cookie?
sofaofthedamned··on Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext
Exactly. They've got Kibana or similar setup with uri traces, tonnes of companies have been caught up with this same issue.
sofaofthedamned··on How can phone companies detect tethering?
One thing others haven't mentioned is DNS. If your phone is trying to lookup Windows Update it's a surefire way of knowing this didn't originate in the phone.
sofaofthedamned··on Google Cloud networking issues in us-east1
Yeah, you can now provision multiple instance types in an ASG which mitigates this somewhat.

I think people sometimes forget that the cloud isn't magic, and a sudden burst of requests for new instances needs somebody to actually rack up some servers.

sofaofthedamned··on Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline
I do love that the CEO of Cloudflare is throwing technical shade at Verizon and others here and on Twitter for being useless.
sofaofthedamned··on Raspberry Pi 4
Nope, it's completely unfettered by USB this time.
sofaofthedamned··on Ask HN: Why is .NET not popular with startups?
Yeah. I look at my company and their AWS bill which is huge - deploying .net core on Linux will save them so much money. I'd prefer golang but the difference is in the realms of noise.
sofaofthedamned··on Ask HN: Why is .NET not popular with startups?
I'm a Linux guy - but have to say .net core has impressed me.

Going back to the question - certainly in the UK it is massively popular. The company i'm at now is mainly .net, but moving to .net core, probably a majority of jobs in my area are using some flavour.

To some extent I think old school .net is holding it back. Core however will get a lot of traction, nobody wants to pay the Windows tax when they don't need to.

sofaofthedamned··on How LinkedIn exfiltrates extension data from the browser
Maybe you were underpaid to start with? Unless each job you get 40% extra at which point i'll call you Bill Gates.

LI is awful.

sofaofthedamned··on The NSA has tried to backdoor Linux three times (2016)
Don't think it matters, though I was wondering the same. SEL is kernel, nothing to do with userland.
sofaofthedamned··on SIM swap horror story: I've lost decades of data and Google won't help
Which is the problem...
sofaofthedamned··on Drones piloted by climate-change activists target Heathrow
Eh? Lots of things are part of the national infrastructure - the power grid (private), other utilities (private), energy generation plants (private).

Used to work on the same industrial park as a critical part of the national grid. Boy racers near there learned very quickly that you'll have a gun pointed at you for being there, and that's in the UK.

sofaofthedamned··on Google Cloud Is Down
Internet isn't the issue, it's the endpoint (Google)

It's reasonably easy to run a router/gateway that has a 4G backup to get the ping out. Whether the ping works...

sofaofthedamned··on Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
I'd rather they took on Jira.
sofaofthedamned··on MitM'ing my STB (2016)
This is a bit content light, and there's no MITM of any content. Anything valuable will be secured with a secret client key. All this will do is show encrypted data flowing as well as some signalling in the clear.
sofaofthedamned··on Google suspends some business with Huawei
How does this affect Huawei's base station business? They are massive in Europe.
sofaofthedamned··on Italy opens antitrust probe into Google because of a rejected Android Auto app
Awesome, thank you!
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