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maxclark

390 karma · joined February 14, 2019

Founder, ITBroker.com
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maxclark··on Everyone Wants Your Email Address. Think Twice Before Sharing It
How do you burn generated emails?
maxclark··on Spotify CEO Daniel Ek tells investors Apple's DMA rules are a 'farce'
I wonder - assuming an alternate App Store or payment mechanisms what is the appropriate billing from Apple?

Things like:

- Developer onboarding and review (Legal and KYC) - App submission and review (standard, priority, exposure, etc) - App distribution (origin storage and download) - Push notifications

I believe that Apple should be forced to change, I just don’t know what we all should expect

maxclark··on After self-hosting email for 23 years I have thrown in the towel (2022)
I empathize with the author's viewpoint - maybe it's just my personal experience of running email for large corporations and ISPs but there's a reason why these systems have ended up with zero tolerance policies for spam sources.

It's just not worth the overhead in people and hardware to try to be surgical in your approach - you don't win anything. It's the closest thing to working at the DMV for tech.

Notes, cc:Mail, Groupwise, Exchange, Sendmail, Exim, qmail, postfix, etc... I have no interest in running my own email ever again.

maxclark··on From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity
R2 and Sippy solve a specific pipeline issue: Storage -> CDN -> Eyeball

The real issue is how that data get's into S3 in the first place and what else you need to do with it.

S3 and DynamoDB are the real moats for AWS.

maxclark··on Apple Sep 2023 Event: “Wonderlust”
We’re in the same boat. USB-C mandatory going forward.

I kinda hate that the new MacBook Air went back to a MagSafe charger for this reason.

maxclark··on What's wrong with enterprise Linux
I have a customer with systems so old they weren’t at risk for heartbleed. He was excited about that.
maxclark··on Twitter’s legal letter to Meta: a guided tour of a weak litigation letter
People seem to forget this is ordinary course of business for big tech.

Internal Tech Emails is a goldmine of letters, threats, and lawsuits back and forth.

maxclark··on Big Update to OpenBSD's pfsync
Incredible the innovation that OpenBSD keeps pushing
maxclark··on Blocked from Amazon Alexa for a week after racism accusation by delivery driver
“I am seriously considering discontinuing my use of Amazon Echo devices and will caution others about this incident”

And learned nothing from the experience

maxclark··on U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022
Past results don't guarantee future performance ;)
maxclark··on Twitter Sued for Nonpayment of Rent on San Francisco Office
Enforced how?

Sure you have a contract but you need to enforce it. So you have to sue which takes time - a lot of time.

Then you “win” but the other party can still not pay, or they could appeal - back to court and even more time.

The landlord has an iron clad contract sure - but Twitter has what they want ($) and the leverage as a result.

maxclark··on Use one big server
Going back 20 years with Oracle DB it was common to use "triple mirror" on storage to make a block level copy of the database. Lock the DB for changes, flush the logs, break the mirror. You now have a point in time copy of the database that could be mounted by a second system to create a tape backup, or as a recovery point to restore.

It was the way to do it, and very easy to manage.

maxclark··on Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else
I hate this headline
maxclark··on Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign
Always happy when a founder exits on their terms - so congrats!

As a postmark and dmarc digest customer I hope the services don’t see drastic changes to our detriment.

maxclark··on Workers at Apple's NYC store have started collecting signatures to form a union
I was wondering this exact thing

Unionization at a single store seems extremely risky for labor

Especially when the company is going to be weighing the potential of more following

maxclark··on Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
Predictably stupid. They're going to come back and say the company is worth >$70B.
maxclark··on Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox (2012)
"One technique we repeatedly used was creating artificial extra load in the live site. For example, we would do a lot more memcached reads than necessary. Then when memcached broke, we could quickly switch off the duplicate queries and have time to come up with a solution."

As much as I want to hate this, it's actually genius and elegant in its simplicity.

maxclark··on Friday.app is shutting down
Failure is hard, it sucks, I’m sorry you ended up here

Kudos to the team for doing this the best way possible. Making a public announcement, refunding money, providing ample time to migrate is amazing.

Keep your heads up

maxclark··on The Personal Security Checklist
I've only had time to skim through this - looks like it's comprehensive.

Also depressing how this is so far beyond what the majority of people are aware of / are willing to do. I worry what this means for Cybersecurity in general.

maxclark··on Omega Swatch Speedmaster
I don’t get why Omega would do this - my initial reaction is it’s dilutive to their brand and I’m happy I’ve never bought one.
maxclark··on Ask HN: How many 2FA tokens do you have?
1395 logins saved. Don’t see how to filter/search for 2FA
maxclark··on Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people
Dial in numbers are an additional $4/month cost for Teams - it's not that the person didn't include it, company likely didn't pay for it.
maxclark··on This app does not support the App Store’s private and secure payment system
There’s so many potential pitfalls with side loading and alternate app stores

Apple’s behavior is BS and they need to be forced to allow competition

They’ve done it to themselves

maxclark··on Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation
I don’t understand the “want privacy” but “use android” combo.
maxclark··on UBS Acquires Wealthfront for $1.4B
I started with and was a Wealthfront customer for many years. I'm appreciative and credit them with starting my education and understanding on investing.

What caused me to leave?

- They aren't global portfolio aware. Bonds belong in tax advantaged accounts, then taxable. If you've maxed out your 401k/IRAs in Bonds that $ as an absolute percentage should be accounted for in your taxable portfolio construction.

- They don't let you opt out of asset classes. Aka I don't want additional REITs because I have RE exposure already.

- They overly hype tax loss harvesting. It's good to have, but a byproduct of portfolio management not the goal.

- They launched and pushed risky products as a way to increase their fees.

Once you understand what's going on under the hood this isn't complicated to manage yourself with a few ETFs/MFs.

(The direct indexing is awesome and would love to have that back)

maxclark··on Mozilla Rally
Umm stop taking money from big tech?
maxclark··on Roblox October Outage Postmortem
No surprised at all. Multi AZ is a PITA. You'd be surprised how many 7fig+/month infra is single region/az
maxclark··on Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps
What’s the fix here?

Maintainers should be able to do whatever they want either their code

But if they vandalize their modules that should be a lifetime ban from the registry

It’s pretty obvious that node needs a better method for dealing with this by now

maxclark··on We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
The important thing here is caching/static delivery

I've had this argument too many times to count. Every page view does not need to be dynamic per user request. Creating a sane cache policy reduces origin resources, servers, cost, etc... and surprise gives a better user experience at the same time.

maxclark··on Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants
Nuclear power is an amazing energy source.

It doesn’t look like we’ll ever get beyond the politics that would make small scale <10MW installations economically feasible.

It’s really a shame.

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