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Oh my, two posts where Google Dorking and #OSINT have found their way into posts. :) Love it!!! DefCon funzies abound on HN today.

https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/cyber-security-tutoria...

Search Engine - "Google Dorking" like inurl: intitle: intext: etc.

Also, google dorking has its "darkweb" side in forensics too. Enjoy.

https://www.exploit-db.com/

In summary "San Francisco ended up waiving the fines after the couple agreed to stop parking on the pavement. If the Craines build a cover for the paved property or a garage, officials said they can resume parking on it — in compliance with city code."

I'd say also if this interests you - checkout #OSINTION #blackbadge training from Joe Gray! https://www.theosintion.com/courses/ (also, I am not Joe Gray - just lots to be learned from this category of investigation)

Banks. Period.

Unfortunately, email is not a business process. I'll leave it at that. I may be on my own little island over here in the middle of the sea of internets - but, going to hold that opinion till I die.

Maybe to hot a topic in recent climate observations, but surprised nobody has really commented on this. Noting that my personal belief constructs / persuasions of the world are are not the usual on HN, comedy is something of a passive obsession both in litmus test of how healthy we may be as a culture, and also a student of the craft myself (again, in passing - but sharp wit, helps me avoid coming off snarky in my day to day interactions).

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel comes to mind and with the main character and Lenny Bruce modeling after Joan Rivers in real life - the offensive joke, is often one of just brutality with words that cuts like a tectonic start-up's disruption - deep, narrow, and disruptive to the very industry they are pointed at.

I guess without adding much beyond that - comedy is being eroded by a lot of things, without regard for its importance to all of us. I wish it wasn't that way, and maybe that's why I'm even on this post.

Like excellent tech that doesn't survive the eons by brilliant engineers in their craft, so are the comedians / pundits of just one generation behind us.

In most recent memory if anyone want's a YouTube watch - go checkout the roasting / celebration of John Stewart and his receipt of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain prize for American Humor. Last of his kind, we may never see someone like John Stewart in the circles of comedy in the future - much like we don't see great politicians of yesterday.

MPPT controller has a better communication set of commands and you'll notice the ethernet port that can send TX/RX out to a monitor or connect to a network. That's where the general $15-100 charge controller falls off the map - think Horror Freight.

Mind you there are some spectacular Chinese PCB designs / implementations out there for cheap, but off the shelf this is a fairly inexpensive / future proof / expandable unit should more power come off that.

I use something similar and have a wifi module that reports out to a dashboard in the house and can take remote commands from a phone if within bluetooth range.

Looking at the hardware document in the GitHub repo - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hdcTf9xUmsjRPd3waJEkQf1B...

Is that really a RS245 or RS485?

https://www.makerfabs.com/usb-rs485-convertor.html#!/back

I am in the mix for doing this over the next week or so. Totally love the hardware documentation and after tearing down a 900w solar array experiment, and having most if not all the materials (in Buffalo no less) we have a new shed w/ the materials to get online and on it.

Pergola lighting, internet web server, and plant hydroponics .. fun fun! (sorry, really love this particular type of stuff, so nerding out like - go home right now from the day job and just get after it).

Maybe a lot of light, pending if you are in the dark of course.

Birth of the buy-out win. :) Yes .. indeed they would.

What's awesome, is that there is always room for another. Common economics that real keeps folks from even trying to enter a space, is because they don't think they can contribute. What's great about that, is you can do exceedingly well just being a B-level player in a field of A's and do the distributed model of B-level effort, but in many spaces, the economics can out-perform A-level effort in one-space.

There is ALWAYS enough room for one more contributor here. Often it's how innovation truly occurs and drives a particular thing further than it otherwise would have gone.

:)

The growing pains of silicon development date back to the Intel line of Pentium FDIV bug issues. Not surprised it occurred, just surprised it took so long to come to fruition. I can only think its the lack of hardware engineers savvy enough to exploit such an issue, since the abstractions from hardware are so far removed from us general populous software developers.

Any thoughts on the above?

Time for a Teams / Zoom plugin

Modesty and all. :) Just picked up my webOS tablet from HP .. off we go for a long weekend of fun, my friend. THANK YOU .. for the rehashed fun.

Had to update wikipedia.org :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS

Eh, see I don't agree with this in particular. Moving from savings to a house, can be a slow growth equation that COULD or COULD NOT be compounding (given our current market, in reflection of my own home up 200% from 2008 in our cost) depending on your expectations of that.

Paying off a home may have 2-3% yield, where as normal index is like 4-6% and the rest of the world can operate from 6%-?? in more traditional (but fee laden) vehicles. As far as I can see, a home is SAFE investment by not a progressive one, in choice.

If you are risk averse, then fine. However, we want 6-10% with compounded / low-fee returns over the course of 30+ years if starting around age 30 - which is I bet the average saving age start (thinking first kid, first house, marriage etc) when you get out of that 20's fun-house zone.

I'd say, 401K/IRA (to keep the tax burden off you), then hit up local start-ups in the industry you know the most about, then start working towards passive income. If you are the start-up TYPE, then start like Adam Houghton and do the 6-Starups in 6-Months adventure. (https://medium.com/@adam_c_houghton/6-startups-in-6-months-8...).

I honestly think its investing in yourself until you can be yourself - aka. fake it till you make it in investing by traditional path until you can eject from it .

Investing is a game of self-confidence and getting on with it. Me -> following that 6-mo/6-starups plan as of 6/1. Wish me luck!!!

I'm in Buffalo, so in my very backyard is Hotel Henry (https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/bufhyqq-hotel-henry-buffalo...) - locally known as Richardson Complex (https://richardson-olmsted.com/). Bit boushy for me, to be honest and the experience never lived up to what it was supposed to be. Probably because well .. it's a mental institution, after all with a rather interesting past.

Currently our local celebrity billionaire, Jemal Douglas is continuing his storied Daddy Warbucks spending spree with the old Hotel Henry ( https://buffalonews.com/news/local/douglas-jemal-hoping-to-o... ). I work in his Seneca One Tower as part of the 43N (https://www.43north.org/) cohorts in startup land (my sole reason for being attached at the hip to YC news).

I've also had the distinct pleasure of being in MANY of the Kirkbrides over the years through a past hobby of Urbex (https://www.uer.ca - some may know it, but mostly dead community now). I think I've been to 6-7 of them over the last 10-15 years of doing that, and as a photographer and a history dork, they are astounding to see in person (and on occasion from the inside).

Now, back to a psychology degree and wandering into tech ... the obvious departure of the federal system after Pennhurst discoveries (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194153/ <- truly worth watching to gain a perspective on our failed mental health system) to the states, I know a lot about this stuff from the front end of photography to the backend of its history.

Being from Buffalo, and here for at least 25 years (most of my adult life) unique place to be on this particular topic.

Hoping this information helps this post alone, since it touches on so much of what I enjoy talking about when living here.

Also check out Henry Hobson Richardson and Fred Olmsted is a pretty interesting one.

Here are some more creepy things, for the more total black wardrobe folks out there (me included) - https://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/abandoned-psychiatric-hos...

Enjoy!

Is this adjusted to inflation? I think the world was spending a lot of dough WWI to WWII.

This is exactly the experience you get with a military recruiter, but on some other deep level of cohesion and intimidation. It's like the used car dealer of legend that your dad (or mom, to be fair) told you about and never to trust them much like the class of mechanics that were (and some if not most?) dishonest about what you were being sold as a service or job detail.

I remember going through the Air Force wanted para-rescue CC (specifically the path to get there, not the direct application into) and man was a sold a bill of goods. Grades amazing, physically (at that time not an software developer [slowly slouching fat sloth profile in 2022]) fit, and ready for a career in the service.

The promises that dude that recruited me were legendary. My pops was a military and the whole family basically, and even he was amazed at what I was offered. He eventually said to go to college and if you wanted it go to OCS school.

Point being, this is not new in times of great demand on talent - in my case, it was retention of and callbacks that active duty members trying to retire were experiencing during the first decade of our involvement in the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts.

Its insane, how some talent is scouted in this way. But .. if its on paper, through the process its grounds for legal action. Will it ever happen? depends, but most likely not.

Just walk into the interviews with open eyes and be authentic, and most importantly honest on some level about this in specific going forward. I'd say use it for all relationships you want professionally, because well - "it's just business" in the end.

Ya broke on the main site links. Thanks for sharing.

One need only look in my own backyard and the ongoing struggle between the Pegula's (https://www.psentertainment.com/) billions and the post Ralph Wilson era in ownership of the NFL team in Buffalo, NY - the Buffalo Bills. They are located out in Orchard Park ("OP" in these parts), NY and before Wilson died, he negotiated a long term non-move clause in the Bills from OP to keep his legacy intact for as long as he could.

Fast forward 10 (ish) years to 2022 the floated value of a new stadium is looking to be between 1.4-1.8B to mirror the other stadiums build in the state in NYC (can't off hand remember which ones are new). The average is about 1.6% paid out of local / state taxes, while it seems (perception) that the state is willing to pay an unprecedented 25-50% of the new stadium from local coffers.

I'm not sure if anyone has looked around, but in the last two years I think the population dropped by 300K in NYS and Upstate (everything East of Rochester) and Western New York (everything Rochester and west) has been dying slowly.

I think Buffalo has seen a mediocre rise back to glory under the "Billion to Buffalo" under Cuomo's governance, but tons of that left the state with Tesla's Riverbend plant and honestly real failure to deliver on its promises. The rest went to our startup and industrial technology companies with sprinkles into our medical institutions (our real meat and po-tats around these parts).

The problem is - we have no money. Taxes are high (without blaming a party, but a culture problem in NYS) and social programs are abused. Billions in the pocket of the wealthy need to be spent and the local pockets need to contribute to their profits vs. being blead for them.

Really hate living in a state that just hates business like we do here, but .. this what you get. Detroit, Cleveland, and Buffalo will all eventually fail on some level because of the continued regime's need to keep the status going.

Someone really needs to speak truth to power, or its going to crush our country economically as capitalism is more oligarch feeling than Representative Democracy.

So, I'm going to be more pragmatic than most to say there are differences in pay based on a huge number of factors, but I'm going to use my example based where I live, my history in IT (clinical research, energy sectors), cost-of-living, and technical schools in my area and how it all plays out on pay in my general area vs. the large metro in NY -> New York City.

1. Location - location dictates above all else, what you can earn. The local economy, and what it produces and how much income / wealth the area can support is what I see is the biggest factor. With remote work being a BIG COVID outgrowth driving up homes in rural towns with great internet connectivity, being the exception in recent memory (housing process are blowing up in crazy areas, because tech workers are moving out of big cities - real deal, ya'll). If an economy can support a tech force and pay them well, then that's a huge reason why pay can be unusually high in some areas. I call this this cyclone catalyst, because diversified industries of skilled knowledge workers make it rich with talent. Think Charlotte is a good example of this. Keeping it short, and sweet because we have more ground to cover.

2. I have 20+ years in tech, and not seeking management I am often yearly compensated accordingly, so my prospects for 150k+ are promising. Now, Junior engineers / developers in my general region will make between 60-100K depending on experience (in a stack), degree (industrial players in the area) and who you know (small town politics). But my economy in Buffalo doesn't attract the proper amount of talent it should despite being diversified in industrial and start-ups (but that's changing with 43N in the last 5 years), because of the taxes business have to pay in a pro-employee environment like our state [not a bad thing, but staying out of the politics naturally]. We are healthy though, because of #3.

3. Cost-of-Living - it's still very cheap to live in Buffalo. Much like any of the Rust Belt (aka any manufacturing city in the Great Lakes region from the 1900-2000s that lost industry to China, etc), we have seen revitalization by necessity and since attracting big industry players w/o billion-dollar tax breaks for what seems forever (think Riverbend project for Tesla/Panasonic) we are a multi-industry city, but we have an ever expanding older population and top-notch medical / healthcare industry that is slaying it between Cleveland and Buffalo (not to mention Toronto's influence). However, much like the rest of the country its starting to become unbearable to buy a house, with recent outbids in my own experience on our 2nd house by 30-50K (houses such as $300K can easily fetch $375K in a bidding war - VERY OFTEN!). I can't see this being sustainable, however. COVID really did a number on our housing market, but its gotta crater at some point.

Lastly ...

4. Technical degree programs in the area are just insanely high for the Rochester / Syracuse / Buffalo area and with deep ethnical roots with family, I find a lot of people really yearn to return to the area. As 43N and other industries like banking and clinical research, and in a smaller part energy (hydro, solar, geothermal, and the like) keep putting deeper stakes in the ground (almost doubling down), we'll continue to retain more and more of our never ending supply of computer science grads from University at Buffalo in particular.

Bottom like, there are like 100 factors, but for me, these 4 seem to drive pay around here. We can't support the $150-200K jobs in tech, no matter how you spin it. However, we have more than our share of 80-100K jobs to go around. I think Buffalo's play is quantity over scarcity because of the 4 major factors in our area.

This is different for different people, but I think its fairly accurate for our town.

Right to repair is about to see a new chapter.

Serious question, more out of curiosity on the state of PHP in 2021. Because of the advent of such things as Python (which I see a lot of comments in this thread about) - is it still relevant as a tool? I use it for minor projects internally to prop up a website on a Pi here and there, for ease of use - but curious what the state of the language is.

Anyone have stats on this?

I'll dare to ask this, but what defines a "journalist" in the data points here? The Clark Kent types are the only ones I really understand that can live under that title - but with the advent of syndication and micro-journalism (to use a term I just made up) for regional markets that have no real local presence of classic journalism, interested to know what it means now.

Here in Buffalo, could go many directions.

Hopefully this isn't viewed as blissfully ignorant, but what is the current environment's definition to what makes up a "journalist"?

There are certain sub-domains that block certain things that keep most of the bad guys at bay, but to some extent yes. This is a fringe case of those activities, but being paranoid is not a bad thing these days, considering the level of red team activity and bad actors probing your network / computer / devices.

Short of putting on the tin foil hat, mind you.

With that said, one can simply filter out these analytics with a c:\Windows\Systems32\Drivers\etc\hosts -> pointing to 0.0.0.0 or PiHole solution (https://pi-hole.net/), yes?

I mean, this is probably not the holistic solution, but this is why we have a firewall, vpn, antivirus, filters to just keep DNS in check, yes?