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vxxzy

880 karma · joined February 18, 2011

Sysadmin, Systems Engineering, Developer.... Generalist

Bridging the Gap between business and tech.

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vxxzy··on Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents
I suspect the distribution is more lumpy, best case. Worst case, the progeny of the affluent are eating up those sweet gains.
vxxzy··on One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
Would these sorts of things happen more often with or without the technology?
vxxzy··on What will our economic future look like?
It would be interesting to know what percentage of global inference is spent on projects/problems that would otherwise "wait"/"decay" (if generative ai wasn't a thing). Or maybe the question is: What percentage of global inference is spent on cleaning up and migrating old systems? "New" vs "Old". The decisions I make today can now incorporate what I once termed as "nice to have" when developing a sytem.
vxxzy··on Stripe acquires Clerky
we will soon be in the last month of q3
vxxzy··on Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
now you have two problems. what happens when your reservation system backs up?
vxxzy··on Show HN: I mapped every US golf course
It appears Four Sister’s golf course in allegany county md is missing.
vxxzy··on Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says
One-dimensional. More people are using the software.
vxxzy··on AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]
Had to read through all the cruft to get:

"If the network is properly secured—meaning it’s protected by a strong password that’s known only to authorized users—AirSnitch may not be of much value to an attacker."

vxxzy··on 175K+ publicly-exposed Ollama AI instances discovered
A feature! Not a bug! Bugs can be undisovered features.
vxxzy··on Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)
I am going to use this story in place of the "Pot Roast Principle" [0]

[0]: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thinking-makes-it-so...

vxxzy··on We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds
i will now no longer press F3 or / instead i will read.
vxxzy··on Emergence of collective oscillations in human crowds
I don’t recall where, but for some reason I remember learning that if people start to bump into you too many times, that’s a warning shot to get out. It was something like “bumps per second”.
vxxzy··on What did Steve Jobs mean by: Dropbox / storage being 'a feature, not a product.'
he probably meant: syncing your files across devices should be a feature not a product. a feature of the os (icloud).
vxxzy··on Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?
Go out into more rural areas.
vxxzy··on Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?
Anyone wanting to get a feel for unintended uses of a product should go look at google map reviews of locations in India. It is fascinating and ingenious.
vxxzy··on Hawai'i-Issued Real IDs Can Be Added to Apple Wallet Beginning August 28
Have this in Maryland. Local sheriff’s office won’t accept it. Bars and Restaurants won’t accept it either. Is this common in other states?
vxxzy··on Malware infiltrates Pidgin messenger's official plugin repository
oh wow. I have become fond of pidgin over the years. There is a slack plugin that makes life a lot better. It seems for plugins, extensions, app stores, and general third-party repositories (pip, npm, crates, etc) risks are increasing. Centralization breeds certain risks that are tough to mitigate. So far, mitigating these risks involve trusting a central steward, cryptographic signing, and contributor reputation.I wonder if we can ever truly mitigate the contributor or steward aspects?
vxxzy··on Logitech has an idea for a "forever mouse" that requires a subscription
Maybe it will have FIDO2/U2F support? There is a use-case here maybe? I’ll stop giving ideas now…
vxxzy··on When Companies Ask for Your Social Security Number, Try Saying No
SSN was never meant to be a form of identification. Now, let’s figure out a way to consistently convert an individual’s DNA to a hash… oh wait. Worldcoin?
vxxzy··on Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends
Despite what criticisms you may receive, you put something into existence. You may not have gotten everything right but, it is admirable. Congratulations. At your age, many of your detractors probably didn’t do something so bold. Keep with it.
vxxzy··on Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content
Well, time to move away from Vultr. Luckily I don't have too much over there other than some small projects.
vxxzy··on PyTincture: Pythonizing Web GUIs via Pyodide
Docker Quick start: docker run -p8070:8070 -i schapman1974/pytincture:example010

Pull up in browser: http://localhost:8070/py_ui

vxxzy··on Retaliation from military claimed after questioning cushy IT contracts
Hopefully doesn’t end up like Franklin W. Smith. You know Abraham Lincoln having to intervene against the military with his “long arm of the law” and all. History Rhymes.
vxxzy··on Minification Is Evil
Given enough request it could add up. Maybe not big savings for a majority of sites though.
vxxzy··on ZeroMQ – Relicense from LGPL3 and exceptions to MPL 2.0
If you look close at the neuralink demo you’ll notice they use zeromq. I suspect the flexibility and the reduced latency makes a difference.
vxxzy··on Show HN: Netmaker – Netmaker Goes Open Source
I’ve been running netmaker now for little over a year in conjunction with keycloak. This was back when tailscale didn’t have support for oicd SSO in their lower-tier offering. I’ve had some difficulty with upgrades and connectivity behind various NAT scenarios. One issue that I found difficult: If a client updated, it would not longer connect until the server side software was updated. This meant I had to exclude netclient from package upgrades. Overall, when it works, it works great. There have been some improvements. I would like to see networks statistics get included in their free/open source offering.
vxxzy··on iPhone 15 Pro with X70 modem offers up to 24% faster 5G speeds
Seeing as how latency did not decrease from the previous generation, is it fair to say that existing latency is inherently tied to 5G (and other) wireless protocol(s)?
vxxzy··on I’m New the Kid
The best way to learn is to have problems.
vxxzy··on Institutionalized Belief in the Greater Fool
Sounds like we each got our very own built-in FPGA!
vxxzy··on A conversation with a newspaper owner raided by cops
The chilling affect has me not even wanting to post this excerpt: “People in this town have been very supportive, but not publicly. And I talked to one person who said, “Oh, are you sure It's ok that I can talk to you because they might come and seize my computer?””
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