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k-ian··on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
yeah turns out Dynadot enforces a 7 day wait on deleting the domain and it's only been 6 days. should be free for registration on June 18 (i assume in 3 hrs if they mean UTC)
k-ian··on Morphology and temporal evolution of ground-nesting bee burrows
https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S00167061230033...
k-ian··on Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet
It's strange to hear the author isn't a fan of cryptocurrency. There are a lot of dubious use-cases for crypto, but facilitating donations for sketchy services is an obvious one.
k-ian··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
https://kianbradley.com
k-ian··on Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design (2018)
I'm a big fan of https://brutalist.report for this

"The day's headlines delivered to you without bullshit."

k-ian··on Show HN: PoetGPT: Generate poems and lyrics with GPT-4
Lol this is cool... it even made an acrostic for some reason

Prompt: "Spit about the oppression of cats by dogs!"

> Lives of cats, constantly threatened

> Oppression by dogs, never ended

> Victims of their brutality and hate

> Excluded, mistreated, and dominated, their fate.

> — PoetGPT, https://poetgpt.koll.ai

k-ian··on Bitcoin paper wallet generator bitcoinwalletpaper.com leaks private key
One of the more popular paper wallet generators is https://www.bitaddress.org/. But because i'm paranoid of situations like this, I've downloaded a release from their github and copied it to an airgapped laptop, and generated keys that way- https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org/releases
k-ian··on iOS now requires Sign On with Apple alongside other auth providers
Sign in with Apple is not required if:

- Your app exclusively uses your company’s own account setup and sign-in systems.

- Your app is an education, enterprise, or business app that requires the user to sign in with an existing education or enterprise account.

- Your app uses a government or industry-backed citizen identification system or electronic ID to authenticate users.

- Your app is a client for a specific third-party service and users are required to sign in to their mail, social media, or other third-party account directly to access their content.

k-ian··on I have seen things
ok boomer
k-ian··on The ominous opacity of the AWS bill – a cautionary tale
AWS is great about dogfooding, most all their services run on top of native AWS (ec2, lambda, dynamo)... but they don't do that for billing. It's all just fake money being thrown around internally.
k-ian··on Is anyone else getting errors retrieving AWS IAM policies?
us-east-1 is having issues, and IAM is run out of us-east-1

https://status.aws.amazon.com/

k-ian··on I'm a Google SWE that's coached 50 through the FAANG interview process. AMA
Which major tech company has the most difficult interview process?
k-ian··on Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
That would be difficult to pull off. bitcoin code merges are highly scrutinized, and disagreements in blockchain projects just result in forks and new networks.

A better way would be a global ban coordinated among every nation, and even then that would be difficult to pull off.

k-ian··on Bugs That Became Features
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_transfer_agent
k-ian··on Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer
That's basically it. You have normal vacation time, then "personal time", which is what is used as sick leave. It doesn't roll over and you're encouraged to use that by the end of the year.
k-ian··on He Says He Invented Bitcoin and Is Suing Those Who Doubt Him
Creator of anarchist cryptographic money resorts to using the law against his enemies? hmmmmm...
k-ian··on The ideal DevOps team structure
At AWS there is rarely a distinction between dev and ops. Developers manage their service and join the oncall rotation for their own team. We also write all our own tests and manage deployments ourselves (albeit with the help of other AWS teams who maintain test frameworks and deployment tools.)

This seems a lot cleaner than the alternative. Sure the devs have greater responsibility, but there's no dev/ops disconnect here.

k-ian··on Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
TorGuard is great, I get excellent speed and very low ping from east coast.

the only thing I like is how they aren't actually associated with Tor in any way... lol...

k-ian··on Tasks That Can Be Done with Pure HTML and CSS
404 pages use pure html, actually
k-ian··on Kyoto Tycoon in 2019
I was really hoping that this was a videogame
k-ian··on Bitcoin Cash Litigation “Response to Complaint” Countdown Timer
uh. what? what exactly is the crime here? from the presentation:

"The lawsuit moves against multiple defendants: Bitcoin.com, Roger Ver, Bitmain Inc. Bitmain Technologies LTD. Bitmain Technologies Holding Company, Jihan Wu, The Kraken LLC, Jesse Powell, Amaury Sechet, Shammah Chancelor and Jason Cox. This legal action will seek to prove that specific key actors, including some of the biggest US-based and international names and entities in the digital currency world, have been operating with the support of the Chinese government to centralize the Bitcoin cash network resulting in Chinese entities now having established dominance over this important segment of the cryptocurrency market with proprietary software checkpoints and instituting other means of control over the system."

The lawsuit is almost equally vague, talking about "hijacking the Bitcoin Cash network, centralizing the market, and violating all accepted standards...". Later on the lawsuit document goes into the ABC/SV split and how this has led to a lower value for both chains.

The plantiff is apparently some company behind "the development of a low cost, rapid deployment solution for operation of cryptocurrency mining – the BlockchainDome. The BlockchainDome is a passive “cooling ground-coupled heat-exchanger"..." basically sounds like they use excess energy from chimneys to mine bitcoin (and bitcoin cash)

k-ian··on Systematic Parsing of X.509: Eradicating Security Issues with a Parse Tree
[comment about x509 being bad]
k-ian··on Ask HN: Best 19“ rack for home use?
the ol' ikea "Lack Rack" https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack
k-ian··on A Soviet-era airport, once the height of luxury, faces demolition in Armenia
If Yerevan is going to spend a bunch of money on something architectural, it would be nice to see the Yerevan Cascade finished... it's beautiful, til you get to the top, and see a 200 foot pit...
k-ian··on Ask HN: Best robust laptop for everyday software development
If you want something dirt-cheap and easy to repair, go with one of the earlier thinkpad x-series, x200, x201, x220, x230...

They're underpowered, but if you're just SSHing into a remote box it's a good choice.

k-ian··on Lawsuit brings $289M verdict against maker of Roundup weed killer
The chemical in question is glyphosphate, which is quite controversial. Regulatory agencies have argued that it's generally safe as an herbicide but the jury here has decided otherwise.

The fact that Monsanto (roundup maker) is incredibly unpopular doesn't help their case either...

k-ian··on Anatomy of Tik Tok, the Viral Video App from China's Bytedance
oh hey, I can download this app in the US app store now. that's a pretty recent change
k-ian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)
I don't see any DC positions on that page
k-ian··on IRS reminds taxpayers to report virtual currency transactions
yes.

then when you sell the btc for usd, you pay the capital gains tax (probably 15%, it depends) on the difference from the price it was accepted at, and the price it was sold at

k-ian··on IRS reminds taxpayers to report virtual currency transactions
why don't we just... link directly to the memo... https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-reminds-taxpayers-to-report...
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