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thinkmassiveon Nintendo leak:employee accessing private YouTube videos

Title is difficult to decipher, here’s what it’s about:

> A new report on old privacy incidents [2017] suggests that at least one Nintendo leak came from a Google employee showing off private YouTube videos to a friend.

thinkmassiveon Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers

Caddy is primarily a web server like nginx and apache httpd. Traefik and HAproxy are primarily reverse proxies.

thinkmassiveon How to Use JSON Path

kubectl has JSON Path support built in, it’s very useful

https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/jsonpath/

thinkmassiveon IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal

https://opentofu.org/

https://openbao.org/

Backed by the Linux Foundation

thinkmassiveon h5ai – modern HTTP web server index

> Initially h5ai was an acronym for HTML5 Apache Index but now it supports other web servers too.

The project was last updated 3 years ago. Seems like an unintentional naming collision.

thinkmassiveon Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011

Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency

by Finn Brunton

thinkmassiveon Ask HN: Should open-source projects allow disabling telemetry?

Digger collects Github user and repository names. No attempt is made to obfuscate the data, these are sent in the clear.

This level of incompetence borders on malice, regardless of intent.

thinkmassiveon Home Assistant: Three years later

Have you ever used a three-way light switch?

Plus the momentary switches are always centered, they look fine next to traditional switches in either position.

thinkmassiveon Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)

The Tesla app is horrible about this.

What does a greyish padlock icon indicate? Let me tap it twice to cycle through states, then I’ll click once more if the original state needed to be toggled. If there’s any delay in the car’s response, prepare to complete another lock/unlock cycle, more slowly this time to be certain.

thinkmassiveon What happened with the Web Monetization API?

The Lightning Network is a layer on top of Bitcoin, which allows users to aggregate a huge number of transactions into a payment channel that’s tracked off-ledger. The only transactions that need to be settled on the base layer (broadcast to the public Bitcoin blockchain) are channel open and close events.

There are already APIs protected by an L402 paywall that charges tiny fractions of a cent for access to protected resources.

http://l402.tech

thinkmassiveon Bitcoin is dead, but it was a good try

> if you make a transaction with someone, that person now knows your account and can easily find out your bitcoin balance

What’s an "account" in the context of Bitcoin?

thinkmassiveon Proposed top-level domain string for private use: ".internal"

Kinda weird to blame the people who made an RFC, instead of the industry leader who recommended using .local completely on their own, without support from the wider industry. This is explained in the next couple paragraphs, where you stopped copying.

thinkmassiveon Dungeons and Dragons turns 50 today

Ah, lack of availability makes a lot of sense given these community remakes are now two decades old. Improving the content layout also sounds great. I will check them out, thanks!

Kinda weird to differentiate between B/X and BECMI, considering Companion/Master/Immortals are extensions for higher level characters using the same Basic/Expert rules.

Edit: the distinction still seems pedantic to me, but these helped to understand the differences in the context of OSR:

https://leyline.press/blogs/leyline-press-blog/a-comparative...

thinkmassiveon Dungeons and Dragons turns 50 today

I found some useful links below for answering my questions, ironically in a dead (but very informative) comment from johnvak01.

tl;dr: old school versions apply clarifications and enhancements to the original B/X rules for smoother gameplay, some add additional content, and many people want to avoid paying anything to WotC

thinkmassiveon Dungeons and Dragons turns 50 today

How do these community versions, like Old School Essentials, differ from using the real BECMI rules? What would motivate a group to pick up one of these, rather than say a reprint of the Rules Cyclopedia (or using a free digital copy from archive.org)?

thinkmassiveon Backdoors and Breaches, an Incident Response Card Game

Black Hills Infosec produces a physical card game and expansion sets. Also available to play online:

Web: https://play.backdoorsandbreaches.com/

VTT: https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/backdoors-breaches-tableto...

thinkmassiveon Why are we templating YAML? (2019)

> I have definitely done some terrible things like "sed -e s/$FOO/foo/g" to implement templating

Next time you reach for this, check out envsubst for a slightly improved solution that’s somewhat standard (at least common).

On the topic of templating or modifying helm charts using jsonnet, you might find Tanka helpful:

https://tanka.dev/helm

thinkmassiveon Tesla Cybertruck owners who drove 10k miles say range is 164 to 206 miles

The weight of the battery is related to the amount of friction.

thinkmassiveon Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale

> Unless you're a criminal, nobody's looking inside your VM.

> Heck, AWS can't access VMs (of course it's Internet cool to not believe this).

Do the VMs only let someone in if they’re running a criminal workload, or how does it work?

thinkmassiveon Fifty Years of Dungeons and Dragons

Why keep using 5th edition rather than 2nd edition?

thinkmassiveon ChatGPT for Teams

Pricing:

$25 per user/month billed annually

$30 per user/month billed monthly

thinkmassiveon Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC

> If you need an L2 transaction layer to solve an issue inherent to an L1 chain, you're kinda just admitting that the base layer is flawed.

On a similar note, TCP is an admission that IP is flawed. And HTTP is proof that the entire networking stack is a scam.

Clearly, any decent networking protocol would handle any and all information interchange anyone could ever need.

The fact that HTTP is on its third iteration, and it’s still built in top of the same Internet Protocol from 1974, proves that _nothing_ has changed. /s

thinkmassiveon Music streaming service SoundCloud tunes up for sale

It was great for a time. At least Prometheus lives on!

https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/prometheus-monitoring...

thinkmassiveon Google podcasts is shutting down

Oh wow, this is a subscription through Apple… I didn’t realize the Apple Tax was so high!

thinkmassiveon Google podcasts is shutting down

YouTube Music is $15/mo

YouTube Premium is $19/mo

thinkmassiveon Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase

Well the tweet is from Sept 2022, so hopefully the roof has been patched for a while now.

thinkmassiveon Write your own retro compiler

https://web.archive.org/web/20231210141834/http://t3x.org/t3...

thinkmassiveon Switchboard: An Open Source High-Performance Communication Platform by Zero ASIC

> Zero ASIC is thrilled to announce the release of Switchboard, a high-performance open-source framework for communication between RTL simulations, FPGA emulations, Python, and C++.

thinkmassiveon Skyfield: Elegant Astronomy for Python

Cool, it sounds like Skyfield is intentionally made interoperable with AstroPy:

> While Skyfield itself has no dependency on the AstroPy library, it’s willing to accept AstroPy time objects as input and return results in native AstroPy units