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edsouza

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Ellery D'Souza

Wanna be Code Monkey

Firewalls, VM (hypervisors - Xen, ESXi, Hyper-V, KVM), Baremetal / SmartOS, GO, Stocks, whatever.

email: edsouza99 at gmail dot com

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edsouza··on GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion
Please look up the license in the source code that Tim Davis points too, it just mentions it's LGPL, but doesn't include the full license text. And none of the C code mentions a license or Tim Davis.

And if you dig further, the whole repo is mixed with BSD and LGPL "licensed" packages together. It's probably best that CoPilot does not suggest from code that does not have an explicit license stated.

I think originally Tim Davis was complaining about the non public sources for suggestions which Github CoPilot ignored.

edsouza··on Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones
Not sure why you are webscraping, there is a Whatsapp business API you can use to gather a lot more information.

Here is a github repo that implements it, including generating text QR code.

https://github.com/Rhymen/go-whatsapp

edsouza··on Apple Card Disabled My iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID Accounts
Suggest you research cloud backup solutions.

Myself I pay for Backblaze's Personal backup solution.

There also is Backblaze's B2 Cloud Storage (free 10GB tier) if you want something similar to S3.

edsouza··on BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux
The board has 16GB DDR4 memory on board, that's probably one of the most costly components.
edsouza··on U.S. Marshals Service online auction – Fyre festival fraud scheme
Fyre Festival information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival
edsouza··on Vagaband: Safety Wristband for Travellers
More information post by inventor here: https://imgur.com/gallery/Y8mvCfr
edsouza··on 1.1.1.1 Cloudflare DNS Resolver Soon to Be Announced?
The certificate "Common Name" is: dns.cloudflare.com.

There is a certificate extension - Certificate Subject Alternative Name that lists the following:

  DNS Name: *.dns.cloudflare.com
  DNS Name: dns.cloudflare.com
  IP Address: 1.1.1.1
  IP Address: 1.0.0.1
Most likely the extension was included as part of the certificate signing request.
edsouza··on Show HN: Tech Companies That Won't Delete Your Information
I didn't see LinkedIn in this list?

A while ago I deleted my account, then recreated my account after a year, and requested a full backup history, this backup had my old contacts from the original Linkedin android app gathered from my old phone without my permission.

edsouza··on Prepared for Bumps, the Met Starts Charging Non-New Yorkers
Article shows Children under 12 are free (even for non-residents of NY state).
edsouza··on Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking
I have done that before, but on the first anniversary update, they all come back. I will try it again, and wait for the next anniversary update to see if they come back again.
edsouza··on Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown
ARM Ltd has a list of vulnerable cores [1], the above are not listed.

[1] https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update

edsouza··on The Soviet Union’s Flawed Rival to Concorde
Not sure if you know about Boom ?

https://boomsupersonic.com/

edsouza··on Quitting Caffeine
I have been doing that since last November, saved a lot of money from buying coffee without all the side affects of having coffee. My focus is the same or more than having coffee daily.

Lookup nootropics, there's a reddit forum for it. I take a combination of caffeine, l-theanine, bacopa, and magnesium in the morning, and one caffeine pill in the afternoon.

I'm in Canada, you can get caffeine pills cheap: 100x 200mg pills for <$10.

Visit your local fitness health store, and asked them for stuff for focus. I am sure they can help you.

edsouza··on Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta
The WSL converts the Linux system calls to Windows calls with additional wrappers to implement the system calls correctly.
edsouza··on Azure Stack Running in an Azure VM
I am currently working for a product to work with Azure Stack, but can't purchase and receive the hardware to run the devkit requirements in time for release.

Currently I am RDP'ing into an ASDK instance setup by a 3rd party, and this might be setup as a nested VM, but it does not matter as it is not noticeable.

Most likely this type of installation I will use more frequenting instead of keep dedicated hardware around just to run the Azure Stack Development Kit when it will not be used 24/7.

edsouza··on Frustrated with Tesla and GM, David Einhorn Amps Up Pressure
I can't remember where source, but the model 3 will have sensors, unfortunately you need to pay extra for autopilot software to be enabled. Not sure if the pricing will be higher that the other models.
edsouza··on SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year
The two private citizens will need a support team in capsule unless they are experienced astronauts and have the technical skills to learn all the systems on the dragon crew capsule.
edsouza··on Zerocoin implementation bug
I rather actually see a real comment if there is no time to create a unit test.

Why does changing ZQ_PEDERSEN to ZQ_WILLIAMSON fix the bug?

Having meaningful named constants would make much more sense.

Edit: On full view of the code, the bug could be avoid if they broke out the if <demoninationX> blocks into their own function, and to prevent "typo" errors, it would be good to have a local variable named current_demoniation = demoniationX, and then reference that local variable instead of referencing the constant everytime.

edsouza··on Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWS
Also upload the a hash of the userid and accountid. Hashed with non-random salt so it's not really anonymous as the function says.

userid and accountid stored in database here: https://github.com/wallix/awless/blob/e2bf4f2cad37b011c5b3b6...

retrieved by stats here: https://github.com/wallix/awless/blob/e2bf4f2cad37b011c5b3b6...

Added to stats payload here: https://github.com/wallix/awless/blob/e2bf4f2cad37b011c5b3b6...

edsouza··on MongoDB 3.4.0-rc3
Call Me Maybe post here (updated in Jan 2017): https://aphyr.com/posts/322-call-me-maybe-mongodb-stale-read...

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9417773

edsouza··on Solaris 12 removed from Oracle roadmap, Solaris 11.next planned as next release
SmartOS can run under Xen.

The version I am running doesn't work with more than one CPU (SmartOS Live Image v0.147+ build: 20160622T220759Z), and I think the network interface defaults to using the realtek 8139 driver.

This was enough for my situation, but not optimal for heavy use.

edsouza··on Spirograph Simulator (2014)
My daughter (7 years old) still plays with one, but not that often. She still enjoys it.

We have the "Spiral Draw" by Klutz.

edsouza··on My journey from high school to a feature in Forbes (thanks to you)
i have same problem. android chrome
edsouza··on Show HN: Pixibot – Slack bot that makes text in posted images searchable
is there more information? mobile version of website shows a giant logo, and if you scroll down it shows a static image of a slack channel [1]

Using Android/Chrome

[1] http://imgur.com/n5f6bAG

edsouza··on Kontena 1.0 Released: Developer Friendly Container and Microservices Platform
I would like to learn more too, but their learn page 404s [1] for me.

Click "learn more" on main website: https://www.kontena.io

[1]: https://www.kontena.io/learn

edsouza··on US launches next-gen weather satellite that will revolutionize forecasting
Thanks for the link to that site. GOES weather satellites use a different format.

Found the beginning article to the series here:

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/setting-up-a-goes-weather-satellite-a...

edsouza··on US launches next-gen weather satellite that will revolutionize forecasting
This is actually pretty cool. I last worked with satellite data from GOES 8 and 9 in '98. I remember satellite images were sent sent every 3 hours and full disk images were 12 hours. I worked in a weather office where they had one pc running DOS that received the data from Satellite and saved the data where various HP-UX servers manipulated the data.

Last i remember, all data transmitted by these satellites are not encrypted, anyone can build a receiver to gather the data to generate satellite images.

One day I hope to have time to do this myself.

edsouza··on US launches next-gen weather satellite that will revolutionize forecasting
no problems reading it myself, never seen paywall on Washington Post articles
edsouza··on Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than a minute
The original seller did [0]:

  This summer, Ruckel tried a new approach: He put his own product on eBay and titled it “All other eBay sellers are fake.” A few weeks later, he stumbled upon an eBay listing with a familiar title. “All other eBay sellers are fake,” it said. It wasn’t his, of course.
[0] https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/278622
edsouza··on Docker in Production: A History of Failure
Excuse my ignorance on docker, but why did the OP not use a proxy cache for the registry? [0]

If they were running this on a single machine with backups they could restore to a time before the incident.

Also querying and downloading from the public registry everytime time seems like a waste of bandwidth.

[0] https://blog.docker.com/2015/10/registry-proxy-cache-docker-...

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