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Titan2189

551 karma · joined October 16, 2018

Wellington-based DevOps Engineer
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Titan2189··on Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act
Sure, if you offer to pay the bill for the Image generation, I'm sure they would love to implement this feature
Titan2189··on LetsEncrypt Outage
It's not DNS

There's no way it's DNS

It was DNS

Titan2189··on Would You Like an IDOR With That? Leaking 64m McDonald's Job Applications
Hats off to Paradox for remediating this within 30 hours of reporting.
Titan2189··on Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser
Here the Video telling the story behind the port

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUNdWnI5BTk

Titan2189··on TI to invest $60B to manufacture foundational semiconductors in the U.S.
tell us more
Titan2189··on Worldwide power grid with glass insulated HVDC cables
Couldn't find the "downvote"-button, so I clicked "reply" instead.

Nearly every argument you made is covered and explained in the article. Your points would get more traction if you would refer to the existing arguments made.

Titan2189··on Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation
Great Summary of how messed up Airport Codes are by CGP Grey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfOUVYQnuhw

including (attempts at) a few in-depth reasons for why these quirks exists

Titan2189··on Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Messages
TeleMessage is an Israeli software company based in Petah Tikva, Israel. Founded in 1999 by Guy Levit and Gil Shapira, it provides secure enterprise messaging, mobile communications archiving and high-volume text messaging services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleMessage
Titan2189··on The missteps that led to a fatal plane crash at Reagan National Airport
That helicopter route is available to anyone, not just army helicopters
Titan2189··on Worldwide City Nature Challenge coming up this weekend
My city (Wellington, New Zealand) has organized heaps of activities around the, throughout the whole weekend. I'm really looking forward to going out & about!

https://wellington.govt.nz/climate-change-sustainability-env...

Titan2189··on Worldwide City Nature Challenge coming up this weekend
Join in the 2025 City Nature Challenge! Make observations of wild plants and animals 25-28 April, and take part in one of the largest community science events in the world while helping us better understand – and therefore, take care of – nature that lives in and around urban areas.
Titan2189··on Offgrid Electric Car
So you're saying it's cheaper to e.g. buy 2x 100 Watt panels and mount them vertically, than 1x 100 Watt panel + extra hardware to tilt it to it's optimum orientation?
Titan2189··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
"porn forums" is a thing?
Titan2189··on Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts
I've switched all my scripts to include their own dependencies, and it works like a charm.

Only problem I haven't been able to solve is how to convince my IDE (PyCharm) to run all scripts through uv before executing them / debugging them.

PyCharm does have uv support, but from what I can see only for uv managed projects, not for individual scripts with embedded requirements.

Titan2189··on The Prospero Challenge
It's been 4 hours already. How are you doing? Didn't forget to eat and drink? Just checking in on you :)
Titan2189··on Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
JEE-rah, not GY-rah
Titan2189··on Home Loss File System
You have to remove "/htmlview" from the URL, otherwise the "File > Make a copy" interface is not available
Titan2189··on 42 - Spacecraft Simulation
Can I see it in action?

Would love to see it model the optimal suicide burn from Lunar Lander http://moonlander.seb.ly/

Titan2189··on Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?
I recall the author identifying female somewhere in all of their posts, but couldn't find the source when I had a quick look. Might be misremembering...
Titan2189··on [dead]
Prompted by the awesome investigation by MegaLag https://youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk
Titan2189··on "This is not a joke, Funko just called my mom"
Finnish speeding ticket fine calculator

https://poliisi.fi/en/fine-counter

Titan2189··on Show HN: Replace CAPTCHAs with WebAuthn passkeys for bot prevention
All shown in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)
Titan2189··on Doxx/Darkflare: DarkFlare TCPoCDN (TCP over CDN)
> I don’t get why headers and requests need to be spoofed if all traffic is over https?

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

Titan2189··on SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing
This https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Titan2189··on SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing
Yes: https://youtu.be/oTH3mq7SsK4?t=14
Titan2189··on This morning for no obvious reason, I remembered the Fuel Rats
Great lesson for life if anyone ever gives you "sure thing" financial advice :)
Titan2189··on This morning for no obvious reason, I remembered the Fuel Rats
I had never heard of them. What a great re-telling.
Titan2189··on Windows 2022 Servers Unexpectedly Upgrading to 2025
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Titan2189··on Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?
I really hope this is just a thought experiment and not a 'hint hint' by someone who knows more about what will happen in 2 days after the US 2024 presidential election.

We were discussing in my office today how there might be widespread protests about the election result soon.

Who knows how crazy people get, a few dedicated pissed people in a few key places could be quite disastrous.

Titan2189··on Tō Reo – A Māori Spellchecker
https://www.maoridictionary.co.nz/ This is the dictionary I use most often
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