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insomniacity··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
https://sr.ht/~cloutier/dotmakeup/
insomniacity··on Sun Clock
Did you go to the same elementary school?
insomniacity··on SQLNet A social network that looks like Twitter but you write SQL to do anything
ERROR: timeout exceeded

:(

insomniacity··on Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack
> They have subsidiaries numbering in the dozens, so there is no way to unify IT norms and standards.

That is their choice though - they could setup a technology services subsidiary, and then provide IT services to the other subsidiaries, transparently to the end users in those subsidiaries.

insomniacity··on Googler... ex-Googler
> decent amount of start up funding in the form of a grant

This is fascinating? What was it in absolute terms, or relative to your base salary?

Did you have to have a viable startup idea and it was paid to the incorporated company? Or was it just extra cash in your personal bank account?

Did you do that, or did you just get another job?

insomniacity··on Amazon S3 now supports the ability to append data to an object
Good point - plus the conditional writes recently announced. Did anyone else implement that?
insomniacity··on Ask HN: UK based blogs on freedom and surveillence?
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/
insomniacity··on Ask HN: What is the best software to visualize a graph with a billion nodes?
So the goal would be to eventually move that graph into running code and query it. But it’s never going to be large - easily fit in memory.

Obsidian is PKM right? Does it have the idea of labels on the edges?

insomniacity··on Ask HN: What is the best software to visualize a graph with a billion nodes?
Tacking on a related question - what software should one use to interactively create/update/see a small graph?

Thinking specifically about a graph of knowledge, so will be an iterative process.

Just looking for anything more than a text editor really!

insomniacity··on Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Data Set for Academic Use
Not exactly - https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/8369
insomniacity··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard for devices to determine WiFi network health?
I like this way of putting it. I find a LOT of technology questions and problems can be easily answered once you have a good understanding of the layers of the stack, whether that’s OSI, Kubernetes, or a large enterprise cloud platform on top of AWS.
insomniacity··on Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?
Say you're a small or solopreneur company, and you don't have any enterprise customers yet.

What do you put on a features/pricing page to help you start finding out what your enterprise customers might actually want? (Not the generic stuff like SSO and audits, but specific to your product/market).

Just a generic "Don't see the features you need? Email us!"?

insomniacity··on Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are calling the police
> as a kid it meant going back to school, the sound still makes me sad and melancholy and reflective about whether I achieved what I wanted

When I was a kid Star Trek Voyager broadcast on a Sunday night, and it was the last thing on a weekend before bed. So I had exactly the same issue with the end credits music, just more frequent!

insomniacity··on How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket
And this is why you pad the bucket name with random chars.
insomniacity··on I Ran a Background Check on a Startup
This is Clipboard Health (YC W17), right?
insomniacity··on Amazon's Silent Sacking
What are they going to do - fire you?
insomniacity··on Booking.com users angry at firm's response to hacks
Does Confirmation of Payee even exist outside the UK? Even if it did exist within other countries, I highly doubt there is international integration.
insomniacity··on Compromised Microsoft key: More impactful than we thought
> The old public key’s certificate revealed it was issued on April 5th, 2016, and expired on April 4th, 2021, and its thumbprint matched the thumbprint of the key Microsoft listed in their latest blog post, named “Thumbprint of acquired signing key”

Am I reading this right? The key was expired? And still in use??

insomniacity··on Show HN: I made Hazumi, a modern HN reader for iOS
The AI summary is hard for me to visualise/validate. How about exposing it free for the top story of the day?
insomniacity··on Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
So if anything with OAuth is tied to Google, how would you survive losing your Google account?
insomniacity··on The transition from logins to cryptographic passkeys is getting messy
I’ve wanted to build something very similar for quite a while. Mind dropping me an email?

ic@fastmail-co-uk

insomniacity··on Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
Yep, prices are prices, but switch and bait on the mailboxes is the issue here. Really struggled with the title length limit!
insomniacity··on Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
Are there any reputable registrars with APIs with Terraform providers, outside of Gandi and AWS?

Just not sure I can give that up!

insomniacity··on Tailscale bug allowed a person to share nodes from other tailnets without auth
Do we know that this would be mitigated by https://tailscale.com/blog/tailnet-lock/? My instinct is yes...
insomniacity··on Twitter's API is down?
Uhh, need more details! What happened?
insomniacity··on Ask HN: What tech advice are you giving to those around you for 2023?
De-Google your life. Perhaps Search is fine - but absolutely remove all dependency on Gmail or Google Accounts.
insomniacity··on UK bank fined £49M over IT system meltdown
That makes sense, thanks for the info.
insomniacity··on UK bank fined £49M over IT system meltdown
+1 on the Yubikey. I'm pretty good at moving my savings around and getting the best interest rate possible - the side effect is a ton of accounts, which means I'm drowning in 'secure memorable passcode key PINs' and my SMS inbox is full of SMS 2FA codes, and I'm wondering what it would take to get a bank to offer Webauthn/FIDO.

How about a website where we pledged to open an account and deposit £X into savings, or switch current account, if they offered Webauthn/FIDO?

insomniacity··on Launch HN: Akiflow (YC S20) – Bring your tasks and calendars together
I look at things like this and cry because I know I'll never see it inside the large corporates I tend to work in.

I'd pay for it myself, but I wouldn't be able to integrate with anything - eg our O365 tenant will be fully locked down.

insomniacity··on Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?
Could easily be for testing/development/research.
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