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kdmtctl··on Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
Norton Utils had it. Mind blowing for its time.
kdmtctl··on Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague
He knows his risks.
kdmtctl··on 56k modems relied on digital trunk lines
Not in the US, but we had a country-wide number that each local station simply routed to a local extension. Sometimes, even multi-line wasn’t available at some stations, so it was just a sequential list of extensions to try. Looks like a hack, but it worked flawlessly.
kdmtctl··on Tailscale is pretty useful
Literally a bootleg content)
kdmtctl··on Tailscale is pretty useful
It's easy to block the control plane because Tailscale has endpoints listing all current control and DERP servers. On Linux you can use a SOCKS proxy for control plane traffic, if connections still work. Some firewalls are really restrictive.

I can understand the work network policy, someone could use Tailscale to leak data, but a residential ISP should not block it. I would rather bother their support for an incomplete service.

kdmtctl··on Tailscale is pretty useful
Chinese V2Ray derivatives are indistinguishable from regular traffic and still penetrate the GFW but get detected when used for domestic services, which is not advised. Work best for short lived sessions in restrictive environments.
kdmtctl··on Tailscale is pretty useful
This is ZeroTier territory. Not as polished as Tailscale, but provides L2 like Himachi and has been bulletproof for years already.
kdmtctl··on Tailscale is pretty useful
Wireguard is easy to block. Some VPN providers do implement an obfuscation layer for it, but Tailscale uses plain WG, so if WG is blocked, you will get no connection. Control plane would still work, though.
kdmtctl··on Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protection to European allies
If I remember correctly Trump promised to stop the war in 24 hours. The only way to do negotiate this fast is to totally diminish one side's position. When there no discussion, there is nothing to negotiate. The goal is not long standing peace, it is a plain populism and potential "peacemaker" title, and likely even a Nobel prize, if this wasn't derailed by Zelensky who refuses take words as a guarantee.
kdmtctl··on Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protection to European allies
That is why those models are in high demand. Not only for a doomsday scenario, but as a general convenience to fly non-stop.
kdmtctl··on Why so many children in America have ADHD
Is it possible to develop schizophrenia from sleep deprivation? I always thought it would be acute psychosis.
kdmtctl··on I found a backdoor into my bed
To avoid a litigation? Genuine curious what could happen.
kdmtctl··on Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes
China has a user base that could make any app insanely popular. In the single country. Not to mention that EU has less people, EU is also very diverse culturally and the gap keeps widen.
kdmtctl··on Hyperspace
What will happen when the original file will be deleted? Often this handled by block reference counters, which just would be decreased. How APFS handles this? Is there any master/copy concepts or just block references?
kdmtctl··on Hyperspace
Didn't have time to try it myself, but there is an option for minimal files size to consider clearly seen on the AppStore screenshot. I suppose it was introduced to minimize comparison buffers. It is possible that node modules are sliding under this size and wasn't considered.
kdmtctl··on I found a backdoor into my bed
Why leave the country?
kdmtctl··on Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise
Do you use ECL in QUIC? This combo is outright blocked in most DPI-heavy countries.
kdmtctl··on Reviewing the cryptography used by Signal
Anything and everything depends on the threat model. Often, a popular and trusted VPN is the first and necessary step to hide in the crowd and drop your most logged geo ID, which is the endpoint IP.

Additional measures are certainly required.

kdmtctl··on PHP 8.4.4 Released
Sure, it’s not pure CGI, just CGI on steroids. But frankly, it hasn’t gone too far. I’ve seen a lot of WordPress plugins with spaghetti code being called on every invoked endpoint. File caching is evil—many PHP devs love using the filesystem to store things, which is pretty nasty under K8s.

But it’s not the language itself, as I was advised. True asynchronous handlers are possible, which is promising.

kdmtctl··on PHP 8.4.4 Released
TIL. Thank you!
kdmtctl··on PHP 8.4.4 Released
>> PHP basically runs as CGI. Every time a page is hit, PHP recompiles the whole thing before executing it. Even dev servers for Python toy frameworks don’t act like this.

> Person writing this is not very experienced, because this hasn't been the norm for a long time.

I’m genuinely curious—what is the norm here now? I see a lot of PHP code, and 90% of it is just setting up the environment from the ground up, while only 10% is the real processing. The good side is being stateless, but the performance penalty is enormous. I still see a lot of file caching (please make this dir 777 for production) to mitigate some of it, but Redis has become remarkably visible over the last years.

Not being a PHP expert, I really need some best practices to point devs to.

kdmtctl··on To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't
Reminds of the Google Translate model that eventually invented its own internal intermediate language. Which would be a nice touch in this kind of applications.
kdmtctl··on My Life in Weeks
It will be back later, when you’ve left behind more than you can anticipate ahead. Just give it time.
kdmtctl··on AI is stifling new tech adoption?
Until the AI groks the principle of deviation and starts generating frameworks faster than we do.
kdmtctl··on AI is stifling new tech adoption?
Just a head start. The LLM retraining cycle could probably become shorter and shorter over time.
kdmtctl··on U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawmakers say
Sorry. Didn't get it. So, if iMessages IS e2ee (supposedly) and someone properly makes iCloud backups e2ee (supposedly), how the Feds will break it?

I do understand the counterpart party problem, it is not someone can control. Sent once, it's free to be seen by anyone.

kdmtctl··on U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawmakers say
So, seems that E2E is a total bullshit then?
kdmtctl··on Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO
It’s still possible if the shares’ value covers the interest payments. A shareholder will pay taxes only on the value received, while the rest is returned to the bank. So, the bank risks only the interest amount, which is manageable to assess based on the company’s performance.

P.S. I’m not a lawyer, obviously.

kdmtctl··on The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars
I haven't had many, so I do have a touch screen. But I've tried the rotary input on a rental 2 series that had a dial but no touch screen, and I had to use the GPS.
kdmtctl··on The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars
I barely used the dial while driving, except for track selection. There are lot of different knobs in old models)
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