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technimad

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technimad··on Bongo Cat
This is exactly how it should be. Cowbells are loud!
technimad··on Hi-vis clothing for cyclists does not reduce number of crashes
> Ideally you want a bright blinking light

Please don't use blinking lights only. Due to the blinking others cannot estimate your location and speed. We humans can track a continuous light source pretty well, opposed do a blinking one.

technimad··on The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
That standard could be something like CloudABI [1] which already exists, but is too limited (no networking) to replace generic serverless workloads.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/674770/

technimad··on Show HN: DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS
Great. Please consider IAP for these features. I'd pay a few bucks for this.
technimad··on Show HN: DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS
Any plans to include regex support? I used to use a small offline tool (regexhibit?) but that remained unsupported, now moved to regex101.com. Yet something offline would be so much better.
technimad··on Google Apple Contact Tracing (GACT): a wolf in sheep’s clothes?
Who do you trust more to build a complex decentralized anonymous tracing system? Which will be subject to the toughest privacy and security audit ever seen. A random tracing app developer, or an alliance of the biggest competing players in this field?
technimad··on 1Password: Standalone / Local Vault Option Gone?
Obligatory and appropriate: https://xkcd.com/1172/ "Every change breaks someones workflow"
technimad··on Time Series Databases to Watch
I’m really interested how these compare to the Splunk metric store. Which I’ve had very positive experiences with. Anyone with experience in that area?
technimad··on Farewell from Waffle
I’ve never liked the gruesome connotation of getting hit by a bus. I call the same risk the Lottery Risk. What happens when your most valuable employee wins the lottery today and doesn’t show up tomorrow?
technimad··on WireGuard for iOS
Offer an in app purchase as donation. Low friction flow for iOS users, free money for you!
technimad··on What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo?
When I moved to DDG, it took me more than a week to tune my searches for it. I was completely trained to the google interpreter and ddg works different. Now I use slightly different phrases, or ordering and it is great. I only use !g for very specific technical searches, like obscure errors.
technimad··on Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?
“If it looks stupid and it works it ain’t stupid”. On a more serious note. Always share your findings. First with peers, second with managers. Either you’ll learn why it works as it is or you show a risk and opportunity to improve. Nothing to lose in either way.
technimad··on Being the editor of a newspaper in Eve Online
Nice read into a world I've never visited and know very little about. I am really interested in how the economics of the newspaper work. How are they able to obtain the ships they report from? Do people have a subscription, donate? A pity this wasn't addressed in the article.
technimad··on Opa – An open-source, general-purpose policy engine
It also conflicts with the Dutch word for grandfather: https://translate.google.com/#nl/en/opa
technimad··on Event Sourcing made Simple
This is a really interesting concept, which does make sense. The aggregates become pretty important in this kind of setup. I'm pretty familiar with Splunk, and most of these concepts align with the capabilities of Splunk, although Splunk is not usually used in these sorts of use-cases.

Has anyone here here implemented a system like this based on Splunk, and what was your experience while doing this?

technimad··on Tesla Muzzling Model 3 Buyers
Same on iOS safari. Reading mode hides the app nag screen.
technimad··on Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
I mostly agree with this post but the more I type on my new MBP keyboard the more I love it. Was skeptical at first, made a lot of noise, felt weird, but this flipped pretty fast to big appreciation.
technimad··on I Switched Everything to Bitcoin. What Happened Next May Not Surprise You
How do you pay for food and housing? Honest question.
technimad··on Show HN: Dynamic image size generator
Thats exacly how I did it, and than the creation of a new cached file was handled by a PHP script ran as the 404 errorHandler which output the image to both the browser and file system.

Still pretty dangerous stuff i.e. ?size=10000x2000000

technimad··on Show HN: Dynamic image size generator
I've created scripts like these as part of our home-brewed CMS system in the early 2000's.

Nice and easy dos tool. Enumerate the width and height parameters and bring down the server fast.

Better way to do it is to specify, or allow admins to specify, a set of named sizes and only allow these named sizes.

You could also think about adding parameters to determine the crop, or force aspect ratio etc. (with the same risk of dos)

technimad··on Ask HN: What are your favorite podcasts?
No Agenda Show. Media deconstruction, no advertising, listener supported. http://noagendashow.com Or use the excellent web based player https://noagendaplayer.com
technimad··on Explain like I’m 5: Kerberos (2013)
A video explaining kerberos which could be understood by 5yo https://vimeo.com/150247674
technimad··on Kill Google AMP before it kills the web
Correct, but your self compiled app will only work for 7 days on your own device. And than you have to recompile and reinstall. Unless you pay the $100
technimad··on Ask HN: What are some good podcasts?
http://noagendashow.com award winning media assassination. Best news podcast. No advertising, fully listener supported (value for value).
technimad··on Pantsuit: The Hillary Clinton UI Pattern Library
Somehow, based on the link title, I expected to find a library of UI elements based on Hillarys actual pants.
technimad··on Reimagining the future of routers
TRILL. Basically is-is applied at OSI Layer 2
technimad··on Ubuntu on Windows
OMG.
technimad··on Show HN: Sensible Bash: An attempt at saner Bash defaults
In other words: making bash more like zsh
technimad··on XtreemFS – Fault Tolerant Distributed File System
This looks a lot like ceph. Can you give a short overview of the differences?
technimad··on Belgium, Netherlands to exchange territory
The fact that The Netherlands and about half of Belgium share the same language, Dutch, also helps. These two countries separated only about 150 years ago. (The other half of Belgium speaks French, the rest German and Belgium is the biggest mistake in the universe)
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