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kl4m··on A new Oracle Solaris Common Build Environment (CBE) release
"You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s

Start at 33:02 for full rant.

kl4m··on Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
Many products using the Cloud APIs auto-create projects. I know of AI Studio and Google Script (including scripts embedded in Docs, Sheets, etc)

So many organizations have the IAM "Project creator" role assigned to everyone at the org level. I think it's even a default.

kl4m··on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
He did not like the Canadian prime minister's speech about "great powers" weaponizing economic integration, so he decided to prove him right.
kl4m··on Dépanneurs
Yes, it "dépannes" nearby, instead of making a trip to the grocery store.
kl4m··on I'm done with social media – Or: why I have a blog now
They want control over the post content (in case it's deleted, edited, etc) and also track your interaction ASAP, so they link it instead of embed.

You will be asked to authenticate if you try to do anything.

kl4m··on Exploding Head Syndrome: What We Know About This Mysterious Disorder
I have this. About once a month, in the early morning hours, I hear a hard to describe, "internal" sound, as if a hard object hit my cranium. Extremely loud, but painless. 20 years ago it was distressing but now it barely wakes me up.

Stress does seem to increase occurrences for me.

kl4m··on Serverless Horrors
Many don't accept prepaid cards.
kl4m··on Moving our Encrypted DNS servers to run in RAM
It becomes way more straightforward if it's a server with redundant power supplies.
kl4m··on Experts fear crooks are cracking keys stolen in LastPass breach
Why oh why haven't they pushed an update that made it easy to identify and change passwords that were leaked. They have the feature to identify weak or compromised passwords ALREADY.

Instead a user still has to create a folder for compromised secrets, change them and move them out of the folder one by one. Best of all, users would hit a bug where moving entries to/from shared folders would destroy the entry.

Edit: at least let the user (or entreprise admin) mark a vault as compromised. Must have been an absolute nightmare to get corp users to rotate their passwords.

kl4m··on Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe
Go in any app, highlight a word, "Search on the Web"
kl4m··on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
Yes, since 2021 Youtube serves ads regardless if the user is signed up for monetization or not.
kl4m··on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
Partners are everyone with monetization (revenue sharing) [1]. It's available in many many countries [2]. The countries you are listing are the early access to newer features like superchats, merch store, etc [3]

It's all there, no need for rumors and hearsay.

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2475463

[2] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7101720

[3] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13429240?sjid=1824...

kl4m··on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
It's right there on Google support https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72902?hl=en#zippy=...
kl4m··on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
Creator gets 55% of ad revenue, and 70% of direct contributions like superchats. Premium revenue is shared as well. Ad-blocked views count for analytics but not in ad impressions.
kl4m··on The Rise and Fall of CORBA (2006)
Sealioning.
kl4m··on Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
What about rebuilding the caches for all those years old threads?
kl4m··on Giving the finger is a ‘God-given right’, Canadian judge rules
For those wondering, the Laval reference is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laval_daycare_bus_crash
kl4m··on Twilio is laying off 17% of workforce
1 - Create a Twilio account.

2 - You need to add a phone number and receive a SMS challenge, before setting up any other 2FA method

3 - With the Authy app installed on your phone, the token is instead instantly added to your account upon reception of the SMS. This cannot be disabled. Use a very particular combination of steps in the account settings to convince it to let you use a simple offline TOTP app instead.

4 - Use your recovery code every month and repeat the whole thing because somehow all other 2FA methods break simultaneously for all Twilio accounts set up with that phone number.

The experience was so awful I had to delete the App and the account.

kl4m··on Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them?
My personal trick: as long as I'm confident that I will be able to refactor in the abstraction, I don't bother. I may or may not ever revisit that code.
kl4m··on First make the change easy, then make the easy change (2021)
Also discussed at length in the book Work Clean by Dan Charnas
kl4m··on Google Drive users stung by macOS '.DS_Store' copyright infringement issue
So what's the actual impact? You can't set sharing on your .DS_Store file as "Anyone on the Internet with the link"?
kl4m··on AWS down again?
https://console.aws.amazon.com up.
kl4m··on Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
It's bad enough that Google Drive/Docs notifications are treated as "external senders" so you have to open up your internal Google Groups to the world; then Google Groups flags them as spam anyway!

I'm guessing spammers may use Google Docs comments as a platform, but have never seen actual unsolicited Docs comments.

kl4m··on Google Compute Engine VM takeover via DHCP flood
The usual configuration is 1 or many subnets per VPC, and one or many VPC per project. a Shared VPC setup between projects is also possible but requires prior agreement from both projects.
kl4m··on Astronomers have created the largest ever map of dark matter
Here's an expanded explanation of the "lots of black holes" hypothesis, posted this week by PBS Space Time.

"What If (Tiny) Black Holes Are Everywhere?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srVKjWn26AQ

Dark Matter is just a placeholder name, don't read too much into the "Matter" part. There are no assumptions there and plenty of alternate explanations are proposed, like Modified Gravity (MOND)

kl4m··on Google Cloud SQL Experiencing Issues
Any information on how it would be linked?
kl4m··on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums 2003 vs. 2012 vs. 2020
One of the rare hip-hop albums I come back to regularly.
kl4m··on Use long flags when scripting (2013)
Downside: forgetting a \ will truncate the flags list, leading to unexpected behaviour followed by an error.
kl4m··on Why Johnny Won't Upgrade
I had to replace the default Apple Podcasts app (went with overcast). An update made it completely unusable for me, particularly when I had one hand available to hold the phone and press buttons.
kl4m··on Why Johnny Won't Upgrade
> should never be used to install telemetry or spyware or to re-enable it if it was previously switched off

I lost track of the number of times a friendly Windows 10 (and 7) update has re-enabled telemetry. Either that or there is yet another, completely different post-update Wizard for advertisement, telemetry, default applications, and other privacy stuff (There sure is a lot of effort put in moving settings around each update!)

As usual in Microsoft wizards, you have to check/uncheck the exact opposite of all the defaults for a good experience.

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