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m348e912··on A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding
>ssh -J user1@bastion1,user2@bastion2 targetuser@targethost

Are you using SSH key auth or password authenticating three times when you do this?

m348e912··on AI Boom Hits Labor Market Reality Check
https://fivetakes.news/articles/workers-are-emerging-as-the-...
m348e912··on South Georgia Student Develops Method to Control Kudzu [video]
This video is about the 15+ year old method of treating invasive kudzu at its roots with helium gas to kill it without killing other nearby plants.

Jacob patented his method 12 years ago. https://patents.google.com/patent/US8904703B2/en

m348e912··on 10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module
> Ethernet is dead for home usage.

If you need internet for work related audio/video conferencing, and you share your screen, wired is the way to go. Over time you can tell which colleagues are on wireless and those that are wired in.

Perhaps you're making the case that wifi7 is as good or better than wired but I would argue that depends on your physical setup and possible interference issues.

m348e912··on Never talk to the police
> instead of an incomplete list of one-off rules (that are apparently not even easy to interpret, as demonstrated by the other replies to your comment).

Looking at the comments, I will agree that there are different interpretations of the case law I cited. But the only thing that matters is can this case law be used against you to convict you for not complying with an officer, my understanding is it can, but I am not a lawyer.

I'd love to see civil rights lawyers tackle traffic stop etiquette head on and come up with clear guidance for drivers and passengers in common situations. "Keeping your mouth shut" is a good start.

m348e912··on Never talk to the police
This is so true, and it's surprising how many people don't know what they are obligated to do when asked by an officer. It's even fuzzy for me at times.

It should be well known that you are required to show ID if pulled over [Whren v. United States (1996)], your passenger is required to show his or her ID [Brendlin v. California (2007) & Arizona v. Johnson (2009)] , and you must exist the vehicle if asked to do so [Pennsylvania v. Mimms (1977) (for drivers) & Maryland v. Wilson (1997) (for passengers)].

All of these requirements have been litigated to the supreme court. You should also know the difference between probably cause and reasonable suspicion. We should add these topics to high school civics or something.

m348e912··on [dead]
Good to know, thanks!
m348e912··on [dead]
> Let's play this silly articles game if we are actually going to do this then.

> Was The Weather Channel lying?

> https://x.com/i/status/2066159583085940897

> I'm not sure how you'd check.

> Have they ever done this before for a outdoor sports event like a marathon?

> Obviously you have less mosquitoes in a storm... So they were being assholes.

I don't know why you were downvoted (maybe for being off topic), but while the weather channel wasn't lying, they ended up being incorrect. I along with many others thought it was silly to hold the event outside, but weather-wise it went off without a hitch.

It is true though, the fighters were paid bonuses from some Trump crypto fund which raised eyebrows. Also there is an unverified and disputed story of Eric Trump asking UFC announcer Daniel Cormier for inside info on the fight card, presumably to make bets.

I actually watch UFC but I am not thrilled about its close ties to the executive branch. It feels very "bread & circus" like.

m348e912··on Techno-libertarians are flocking to the Caribbean
https://archive.is/gWfRv

This article is about a project called "Destiny" (https://destiny.com), an economic zone to be created in an undeveloped region of Nevis (of St. Kitts & Nevis)

The project goal is to become like Dubai with a 50m dollar investment, which I don't think is an admirable goal btw.

St Kitts & Nevis has had a history of being friendly to crypto and there was an initiative to make bitcoin cash legal tender, although don't think it ever actually happened.

https://www.investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/bitcoin-c...

m348e912··on Your ePub Is fine
Love or hate Steve Jobs, his insistence of not supporting Flash on the iPhone (in favor of HTML5) accelerated Flash's demise dramatically.
m348e912··on A PDF that changes based on how its read
I don't even know how to export as PDF/A. Seems like we'd be better off saving the PDFs as gifs and uploading them to LLMs at this point.
m348e912··on FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home
There might be a mix up on the details.

The FBI raided the home of John Bolton who was a former National Security Advisor for the first Trump administration. (not directly part of the NSA and definitely not the director of the NSA). Bolton has become a vocal critic of Trump since he was fired in Sept 2019.

Trump's DOJ has a track record of prosecuting Trump's vocal critics. eg. Former FBI director James Comey and New York attorney general Letitia James

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

There has been no legal action taken against current NSA director General Joshua M. Rudd or his recent predecessor, William J. Hartman

m348e912··on Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely
You're not wrong, but exorbitant deficit spending has its own dire consequences. (eventually) Not that I am telling you anything you don't already know.
m348e912··on The social contract between the user and the OS is broken
>With Tesla cars, "Full" Self Driving does not include a crash; when the system determines a crash to be unavoidable it takes its hands off and "returns control to the driver" in the moment of impact, such that Tesla can deny liability in the episode.

I didn't know about this one, interesting

m348e912··on Do teachers need advanced degrees?
Teaching salaries start at $48,112 on average. If schools want advanced degrees the industry needs to pay more, and that's beyond whatever adjustment the provide for holding an advanced degree.
m348e912··on eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible
You guys might not have seen the recent interviews (last week) with gamestop CEO Ryan Cohen. Gamestop has already pivoted, game and console sales are cyclical and hard to base a business upon. They have leaned hard into collectables as a way to expand their business and retail model.

I am unsure how a Gamestop/eBay storefront would do. Physical manifestations of "eBay stores" have existed in the past and none of them did very well long term.

m348e912··on Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria
Cabbage juice is very promising in helping with number of gut related issues due to it's anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-inflammatory properties. Organic green cabbage, freshly juiced seems to be the most effective, but wow does it create a stink and doesn't taste great. I am not sure how someone take it regularly without crashing out and giving up.
m348e912··on The One Dollar Counterfeiter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuDTEbR8CE. Mr 880, a movie loosely based on the case.
m348e912··on You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)
You're kind of making my point. Perhaps we will see a trend where support for many things are not available by default and need to be installed as needed. Linux doesn't need to come with support for this and that (like AX.25) when it can be installed in seconds if truly needed. Doesn't OpenBSD already take this approach?
m348e912··on Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement
Not when they have TSMC they don't.
m348e912··on You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)
I was reading similar comments about AF_ALG which lead to the copy-fail exploit. Could we see a trend of moving away from less used tools/modules that expand the vulnerability footprint?
m348e912··on Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement
I was surprised to read this. Apple has managed to develop chips that run faster, cooler, and with less power. I can’t figure out why they need Intel.
m348e912··on Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
I have no evidence of this at all. I did thing it was interesting the demeanor of Sebastian Sawe and second place finisher Yomif Kejelcha, both of whom finished under 2 hours.

If you watch Kelvin Kiptum break the world record at the 2023 Chicago Marathon and Eluid Kipchoge break the world record in the 2022 Berlin Marathon, you see the joy and exasperation of their achievement.

That joy was missing in the winners of the London marathon. It's not evidence, but it's an interesting data point. Another data point: Not only did the first two finishers break two hours, the third place finisher, Jacob Kiplimo, broke the world record.

m348e912··on How Short-Form Clips Took over the Internet
It's interesting how Youtube decided to push shorts to their user base without the ability to turn it off without the use of a browser plugin. They did add an option on the mobile app to block them, which is a step in the right direction.
m348e912··on Bring Your Agent to Teams
>> Your users live in Teams.

> No, I assure you, we do not

This absolutism is tiring. I can assure you there are plenty of companies who use teams as their sole messaging platform. My company uses slack, teams, and zoom. Which one you use the most depends on the person or the team they are on. (Although zoom is being phased out to the chagrin of some folks).

Teams isn't without it's issues, it's annoyingly slow, and startup takes so long I have missed a meeting or two because of it. But, the conferencing experience is pretty decent, and I think you're just being contrarian for the sake of it.

m348e912··on I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI
AI models like gemma4 are available in different quant "sizes", think about it as an image available in various compression levels.

The best image is the largest, takes up the most memory when loading, and while it is large and looks the best, it uses up much of your system resources.

On the other end of the spectrum there is a smaller much more compressed version of that same image. It loads quickly, uses less resources, but is lacking detail and clarity of the original image.

AI models are similar in that fashion, and the parent poster is suggesting you use the largest version of the AI model your system can support, even if it runs a little slower than you like.

m348e912··on TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters
My understanding is that flight security protocols and cockpit hardening introduced after 9/11 made it significantly harder to replicate what happened that day.
m348e912··on TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters
I'm not the first to suggest this, but I think "fly at your own risk" airlines would be popular with some people. Keep the cockpit door reinforced, and maintain a gentleman's agreement among travellers on what to do if a passenger threatens a flight. Airport security is now reduced to 10 seconds.
m348e912··on TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters
I'm going to go out on a limb and say the 5.60 per person per flight doesn't cover the cost of TSA airport security operations leaving congress responsible for the gap.

If you are wondering how that could happen, it starts with no-bid contracts and ends with inefficiency and has been heavily influenced by a guy whose name sounds a lot like Schmical Schmertoff.

m348e912··on Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago
Not inherently, but it can introduce risk. Such as a bad actor using an old expired certificate it was able to acquire to play man-in-the-middle. But if that is happening you have bigger problems.
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