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nbngeorcjhe··on Addiction Markets
> morality is stupid

least contrarian HN user

> only make your life worse

Unless you have a family with whom your finances are intermingled. This is like saying alcoholism only makes your own life worse, because obviously your actions have no effect on the people around you, right?

nbngeorcjhe··on Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US
what makes you so sure it'll fall? plenty of autocracies last for decades, or generations
nbngeorcjhe··on The International Criminal Court wants to become independent of USA technology
yes we independently decide to invade other countries for no good reason and independently decide to extrajudicially murder people the president doesn't like, I'm so very glad
nbngeorcjhe··on We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
A small fraction of 1, probably? It sounds like a fairly simple service that shouldn't require much ongoing development
nbngeorcjhe··on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
Install Gentoo. Or, if the compile times are too much, Arch.
nbngeorcjhe··on Public trust demands open-source voting systems
democracy is an awful idea, the average person is barely even sentient
nbngeorcjhe··on Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
I _hate_ walking down the block and hearing their dumb "Hi! You are being recorded!" jingle. Ffs if you're going to record me at least do it quiely
nbngeorcjhe··on Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
apparently Ring LLC has their own OUI [0]. I wonder if you could wardrive around and identify cameras by their MAC address

[0] https://maclookup.app/vendors/ring-llc

nbngeorcjhe··on How much revenue is needed to justify the current AI spend?
> We are entering an era where computing capital, intellectual capital, and military capital will dominate

yes, true, but it would probably be better to pour money into shipyards than data centers

nbngeorcjhe··on Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
I don't even get why they would need "ideas" or "growth" tbh. They have most popular desktop operating system, they have one of the most popular office suites, surely they make plenty of profit from those. If they just focused on making their existing products not shit they would remain a profitable company indefinitely. But instead they're enshittifying everything because they want more More MORE
nbngeorcjhe··on It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it
tbh most americans could do with walking more
nbngeorcjhe··on Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant
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nbngeorcjhe··on There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers
I can and will judge anyone who can't write a few paragraphs on their own
nbngeorcjhe··on US Military struggling to deploy AI weapons
> because you don't want it to mistakenly kill civilians

says who? the US military is completely fine with mistakenly killing civilians

nbngeorcjhe··on How to be a leader when the vibes are off
please bro just one more SQS queue bro I swear bro just one more please bro
nbngeorcjhe··on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day (2024)
> conducting deauth attacks so your appliances don't spy on you

ted was right

nbngeorcjhe··on Kevo app shutdown
> stick them with the loans, take out more loans to pay themselves, spin them off, and wind them down

China would probably just imprison the people responsible for things like this

nbngeorcjhe··on Did you read the quarter-million-line license for your Slack app?
well it is rails
nbngeorcjhe··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
Stopping companies from hiring quasi-indentured servants is a good thing
nbngeorcjhe··on Nostr
> Also: don't use ECC signatures as MACs. Signatures are not MACs.

Could you explain more? What are the downsides of a signature vs. a MAC here?

nbngeorcjhe··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
> only if your company has legal or compliance requirements

clearly they need to sue themselves and demand their slack history in discovery

nbngeorcjhe··on What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)
Linux has a few sysctls that allow you to treat 127/8 as normal addresses. probably a Bad Idea to enable them though
nbngeorcjhe··on What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)
> My personal low priority project is to put mac address in DNS

There's the EUI48 rr type, but I don't know how widely supported it is

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7043.html

nbngeorcjhe··on Transmission Grid Mapping in OpenStreetMap
Curiosity
nbngeorcjhe··on De minimis exemption ends
> all because China couldn't resist taking advantage of the program

How is China "taking advantage" of anything? They produce decent products at low prices.

nbngeorcjhe··on De minimis exemption ends
> Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry

I thought you were making a joke but that really is the name of the EO. It's so over for America

nbngeorcjhe··on FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'
He's referring to the norm that only the American government is allowed to conduct unlawful mass surveillance of American citizens. Who do these Chinese think they are???
nbngeorcjhe··on Desktop Linux Keeps Winning the Wrong Battles
tbh I can't see that ever happening, the average person is never going to care whether their software is free or not (or even know what that means)
nbngeorcjhe··on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong
> People who are price insensitive will not invest the time to fix it

This just sounds like a polite way of saying "we're taking peoples' money in exchange for nothing of value, and we can get away with it because they don't know any better".