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I know this, and was speaking in generalities. Of course there are a plethora of ways any of these technologies can be used. I laid out examples of how I see them all used most frequently.

The term “VPN” has become a bit overloaded. It can mean, among other things:

1) a corporate VPN you connect to in order to gain access to corporate resources. Cisco AnyConnect, OpenVPN, IPsec/L2TP are examples of this type.

2) An overlay network that allows seamless (and secure) access to systems on disparate networks. Wireguard (and thus Tailscale), ZeroTier are examples of this type.

3) A way for individuals to obscure their internet traffic by tunneling it to a VPN provider. Mullvad, PIA, Nord are examples of this type.

All of the sponsorships you see are from companies in category #3. It is my opinion that there are very few circumstances where using a VPN (#3) is useful or needed. HTTPS is ubiquitous, and browsers have various mechanisms for MitM prevention and other anti-spoofing/anti-tampering mechanisms. Taken together, these provide a high degree of protection that wasn’t necessarily as widely-deployed just a handful of years ago - a time when using a VPN was more useful.

Are there situations where using a VPN (#3) is warranted? Yes, for sure. However, these content creators who are taking sponsor money from VPN providers are doing their viewers a disservice by making them think they need a VPN. 99% of the public does not, and should not waste their money on it.

Being that they're all using ECS, yes containerizing using Docker is a prerequisite.

> If one is at that level already, I don't think there's anything better than AWS ECS out there.

100%. To answer the OP's question: my nightmare is having to use it at all. I work with small, very early-stage companies whose applications by and large are not complicated. Perhaps at some level of scale and/or complexity, k8s makes sense. For the vast majority of the cases I see, something like ECS does everything they need, while being significantly more simple to understand, develop for, and debug.

You’re absolutely right. Thanks for the correction!

DSL uses a single pair, yes.

These are fantastic. Thank you! I can't imagine how in the world that person in Trio Mocoto played the melody on that instrument. Mind-blowing.

As an aside, I recently heard on the radio a cover of this by Art Garfunkel, which may be one of the worst things I've heard. As you may expect, he mananged to strip all of the life out of the song, which made me sad.

Same. Shepard's Tone can refer to either perceptually-rising or falling tones.

I have always seen Tom Jobim’s “Águas de Março” as a beautifully-conceived usage of Shepard’s Tone in a song:

https://youtu.be/wBEesrdaRog

10-year business customer of https://voip.ms/ here. I have nothing but great things to say about their service itself, its reliability, and their support. It's also very inexpensive for what you get.

This is true. I will give the caveat, though, that some of these are vendor-locked. Meaning: you can't easily use them with 3rd party SIP providers.

So, just be aware of this and do your homework on specific brands/models before purchasing to ensure you'll get something that will work for you.

There are tons of SIP-compatible phones out there. If all you need is access to a single SIP account, the Grandstream GXP1610 is very inexpensive (~$40 US) and will do the trick. They also have more expensive models that support SIP accounts.

FWIW, Tailscale's ACL functionality[0] enables exactly this.

[0] https://tailscale.com/kb/1018/acls/

Yeah, as long as I was removing the seasoning I figured I might as well also get them as smooth as possible, as they were all modern Lodge pans.

I've experienced this firsthand, and can corroborate Kenji's recommendation against using flaxseed oil.

I drank the flaxseed Kool-aid (courtesy of this article) when I first started purchasing cast iron ~6 years ago. The flaxseed seasoning is incredibly hard, which is great, until its brittleness causes it to flake off. I was constantly losing bits of seasoning nearly every time I used a pan. (my working theory is that thermal expansion/contraction causes parts of the polymerized coating to lose bond with the steel over time).

I finally got sick of dealing with it, going at all my pans with an angle grinder and flap disk to remove the old seasoning and started over using bog standard vegetable oil. I've not had a flaking problem since. I do need to re-season more frequently, but that is easy and quick to do.

Agreed!

I've been "harvesting" their playlist (via their published RSS feed) for ~5 years now, storing an entry for each played song in a MySQL db table. I'm not doing anything with this data right now, but at some point in the future when Bill & Rebecca retire, I take comfort in knowing I'll be able to munge together a lot of RP-quality playlists. :)

It is not, currently using it to manage a fleet of ~75 macOS devices.

It’s $6/user/month. So yes, you’d be paying that for each.

I sell CIEMs hard when I hear friends and colleagues starting asking about ANC headphones.

Between the superior isolation, lack of need for batteries, longevity, and excellent audio quality, there’s really no contest.

I’ve had a pair of Alclair Audio Quad-driver studio reference CIEMs for nearly 7 years, and other than needing to replace the cable once, they’re as good as new.

If you can afford them, I highly recommend giving a pair a try.

Note: if you live in Minneapolis or Nashville (where Alciair’s offices are), you can go in and they’ll do your impressions for free - no need to visit an audiologist.

CIEMs completely solved this problem for me. Like you, I could only stand foam plugs for a short period. Nearly 7 years ago now I got a pair of 4-driver CIEMs from Alclair, and they are still going strong today. I can literally wear them for 8 or more hours at a time without discomfort - this is a godsend for air travel. I put them in before boarding and they stay in until I’m back in the terminal.

It’s a built-in conduit to be used for future cable runs.

As a life-long Minnesotan who didn’t know about Jamie’s newsletter, thank you!

The author has a page dedicated to this question. :)

https://www.brandonsanderson.com/where-do-i-start/

I started with the Mistborn series, which I found to be fantastic. I'll be diving into the Stormlight Archive in the coming weeks.

If you are using it to back up data that is not easily compressible then yes, it can be.

Tarsnap - https://www.tarsnap.com/

(I cannot recommend this service enough.)

"You are not charged for expiration or the storage time associated with an object that has expired."

From: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/lifecy...

Set a lifecycle rule to delete your objects. Come back a day later and AWS will have taken care of this for you.

These are all likely LAG-style circuits, bonding multiple physical circuits into a single circuit. This increases the overall bandwidth available without increasing management and routing overhead needlessly, as individual circuits may do.

Thanks! IMHO "cool" is often overrated. :)

I’ve not had the chance to try this personally, but have seen ArchiveBox [0] mentioned frequently as a nice bookmark/history archive system.

[0] https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox