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iszomer··on New York could become first state with a ‘Right to Repair’ law
I think he emphasized his leaving for other reasons (eg: NYC being not "small business friendly" or becoming). Why else had he travelled up and down the eastern sea board in his quest to bringing awareness of his own R2R ethos?
iszomer··on New York could become first state with a ‘Right to Repair’ law
Reminds of Scotty of Strange Parts doing his series of building iPhones from scratch (as well as enhancing them), from all the "spare" parts he found in the back alleys of the Shenzhen electronics district.

His bio [1] may be a little dated though.

1 -- https://www.strangeparts.com/about/

iszomer··on Disabling the Intel Management Engine
How is Intel ME any different in functionality than the Baseboard Management Controller usually found on servers (eg: Aspeed)? And what of those whom extend these feature sets with boards like the Raspberry Pi?
iszomer··on A DRAM Failure
I'm surprised no one has mentioned yet what could possibly be causing ECC errors or the trivial troubleshooting pathways you can take before replacing a DIMM or entire banks.
iszomer··on I am fine without a smartwatch
Pocket electronic dictionaries have been around and not strictly in Casio's wheelhouse but an "era": I used to carry around one made by Besta, a Taiwanese company. What's interesting was their integration with PCMCIA cards for language and dictionary expansion.
iszomer··on Testing a Cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD Adapter on My ThinkPad T430
I had a PCMCIA card as a 33.6Kbps modem.
iszomer··on Integrating with Fastmail
To put it into greater (debateable?) context, Australia is part of the Five Eyes too. Food for thought I guess.

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

iszomer··on Integrating with Fastmail
Based/headquartered in Australia yet have servers hosted in multiple locations around the world? IIRC, some are in New Jersey and don't know how accurate it still is [1].

- https://fastmail.blog/company/nyi-datacentre-move/

iszomer··on The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition
> I’m racking my brains to think of what else might be exposed to other users on my machine.

Including root?

iszomer··on Pcmcia Pico W Card
The fun days of using the ExpressCard slot to play AAA titles on a beat up Thinkpad or back when EVDO was the new hotness in mobile productivity..
iszomer··on p0f: TCP Packet Fingerprinting
iirc, one of lcamtuf's works. His book Silence on the Wire is still one of my favorite reads of all time.
iszomer··on FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig workers
In California it might but I was thinking more in generalities of all the other startups we have had when Uber came to be.

For example, GigWalk.

iszomer··on FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig workers
Gotcha? No.

I'm referring to people whom are given the same legal benefits of being able to work besides me when they haven't gone through the proper channels of legalities nor sought to do so. I remember my parents immigrating to the US and not have to cross a river at night with just the clothes on their back or pay off a "coyote" to do so.

iszomer··on FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig workers
You meant *illegal immigrants right?
iszomer··on FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig workers
Maybe it's better to think on it in terms of the flexibility of Uber's services when they were a mere startup and their evolution over time (business strategy, finances, app development and deployment, etc) and the myriad of ways so-called consumers, according to the article, took advantage of them and now, more government regulation.

I knew of someone who made it his full time occupation to drive for Uber (and still does today) despite the hurdles of being involved in that structure. I also know of another who drove to supplement his existing income stream (during covid19) to make his ends meet.

iszomer··on US moving closer to letting Americans file taxes free online
If those crazy conspiracists thought mass ballot harvesting was bad, imagine doing that with pre-determined tax forms that only requires a signature.

Shall we continue giving our government ideas to incentivize the gaming of their system?

iszomer··on Plastic might be making us obese
Or it could simply be explained as the Japanese culture of eating conservatively; portions tend not be "supersized" unlike in America.
iszomer··on Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out for public use and that's considered “OK”
> The statement "P doesn't Q people, people Q people" is absolutely devoid of any useful information or novel insight, and doesn't take the conversation in a new direction that is useful. In fact, it can kick the conversation into an anti-productive quagmire.

Are you presuming everyone reading and responding to this thread are on your level of interpretation or analytical superiority? This is the first time reading about "P doesn't Q people, people Q people" on HN and I imagine won't be the last. There is no "In fact," here and it already rubbed off as a completely pretentious statement, which given the circumstances is not unusual in a place like this.

(I didn't downvote you but am expecting a downvote)

iszomer··on US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia
That wasn't my point.

We build servers, test them, and ship them (in the US). No fucks given on the technical superiority of the `A100/H100` than parts that may be a generation older.

iszomer··on US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia
No surprise. I imagine they'll just buy older and/or more stable stock.

Worked on a three 50U rack recently with quad T4's per 2U and we're not even through 10% of that order yet.

iszomer··on AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of stealing from luggage
The culture of "I could afford a hundred more!"
iszomer··on Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash
I wonder how contrarians would argue against this..

"Oh, because this blockchain isn't anonymous enough I must use a mixer!"

iszomer··on An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter
I have yet to add my phone number to my account. My guess is that it isn't applicable for legacy accounts circa 2008.
iszomer··on Sending spammers to password purgatory
The real fun starts with IDNs -- internationalized domain names.

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_nam...

iszomer··on What ever happened to xmms.org? (2010)
...

TIL.

iszomer··on Meshtastic: A Review
18650s are quite pervasive in large capacity external battery packs and there are a plethora of battery chemistry varieties too, all depending on specific use case.
iszomer··on SSD drives’ 40k-hour “death bug” continues to catch enterprises unawares
Not so. Intel is the highest rated for failure from a QC point of view. We've been having a rash of such problems with our last batch that it's making everyone in our department nervous before shipment.
iszomer··on Ask HN: Is there a bubble in the tech market? Is it about to explode?
Then what would the generation in between be called? Groomers? Pushing their children to places with higher class expectations with minimal effort?
iszomer··on Casio F91 smart watch reboot
The GBDH1000 is worth looking into as well, packing not only the MIP display but a suite of sensors as well as being powered by a solar element.
iszomer··on Twitter lays off 30% of its talent acquisition team
The return of the Peek Messenger?
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