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notwedtm··on Ethernet over HTTPS Protocol
Do you realize that rfc1149 was a joke?

It was written on April Fools Day.

notwedtm··on Ask HN: Who’s using Ruby for web development, without Ruby on Rails?
Sinatra is my go to for barebones pages-style server side rendering.
notwedtm··on Ask HN: Why isn't JSON-RPC more widely adopted?
What are you going on about? This feels like someone who's just read their first compsci book and now thinks they can build New Internet.

Surely this is a troll...

notwedtm··on Eli Lilly stock fell by $20B because of a fake tweet about free insulin
What a weird take.

Are you saying that if these for-profit corporations didn't charge absurd amounts to US citizens, then the drug would be unattainable for Canadians?

notwedtm··on Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16
Nah, get another bank. Any FI that has to encourage users not to upgrade to the latest iOS because of engineering problems has significant other issues that they are able to still hide.
notwedtm··on Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16
The disclaimer at the bottom is the icing:

"A smartphone or tablet with a recent version of iOS or Android is required to access our digital service. Read-only access will be provided to users age 11 to 16. Access to our digital service is at our discretion. To activate the service, we’ll need to hold an email address and mobile phone number. Face ID and fingerprint recognition available on selected devices. Payments made to new payees over a certain value will need to be made on the desktop version as an additional layer of security."

notwedtm··on San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics
I wouldn't say that this has been going well recently.
notwedtm··on 'Zero trust’ security is a poor choice of words
If I didn’t have Zero Trust, I wouldn’t have no trust at all.
notwedtm··on Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare?
not necessarily a router you don't control, but MetalLB does provide some nice LoadBalancer constructs for a bare-metal deployment. Putting Vyos infront of it is magical!

https://metallb.universe.tf/

notwedtm··on Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?
How do you know it's your name? Maybe it's someone else with the same name as you?
notwedtm··on Cloudflare had a partial outage
What?
notwedtm··on Credit Card Fraud and an Algorithm
From my understanding CVV/CVCs are a function of the PAN, expiry, and some DES encryption. Does this mean that the target bank had a weak DES key or was some other vulnerability discovered?
notwedtm··on A Tesla vehicle using ‘Smart Summon’ appears to crash into a $3.5mm private jet
You're probably thinking of SpaceX. While it's not Tesla, it is another multi-billion dollar company pioneering an industry so I can see how you might get them confused.

Musk is eccentric sure, but at the end of the day the two companies are building emmission-free vehicles and trying to make humanity an interplanetary species. Both of these are pretty worth-while goals, imho.

I would love to see a CEO who doesn't have flaws.

notwedtm··on Vampire Attack Twitter
What if it was $20 billion? Maybe the idea is feasible if you go bigger? Still less than half of the current strategy of a hostile takeover.
notwedtm··on HTTP Feeds
Less this and more that one should be cognizant of their own inherent communication biases.
notwedtm··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
Every single tax payer when they get paid, or when they pay their tax bill each year.
notwedtm··on [dead]
This shouldn't be made into a public spectacle. You should be getting a lawyer to help explain why those governmental bodies felt so secure in not answering you the way you had hoped, and if there is any other recourse you can take.

Regardless of your actual "rightness" on this issue, potential future employers will only see this as a liability. The willingness to air dirty laundry against a previous employer is not seen as a positive attribute in most hiring processes I've seen.

Lawyer up, delete the post, hit the gym. (or something like that)

notwedtm··on Problems with “graceful shutdown” in Kubernetes (2019)
I think K8S secrets get a bad wrap. They are not intended to be secret in the sense that they are "kept from prying eyes by default". The secret object is simply a first-class citizen that differentiates it from a ConfigMap in a way that allows distinct ACL's.

Most organizations I know will still use something like ExternalSecret for source control and then populate the Secret with the values once in cluster and to an object with very few access points.

notwedtm··on I discovered thousands of open databases on AWS
I think the word "managed" is the clear differentiator here. There is a huge difference between setting up ElasticSearch on some EC2 instances yourself, and paying ElasticCo for a managed cluster.

I would expect the latter to be sure by default.

notwedtm··on Show HN: Justyourip.com
You'll love https://curlmyip.net
notwedtm··on Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps
The article names Marak Squires, and the colors.js repo has 'Marak Squires' as the author.

The author's twitter also commented about loosing their possessions in a house fire in October 2020.

notwedtm··on When Your Fiber ISP's 'Dumb' Device Screws Your TCP Sessions
I think that's the crux here. "But I need to run an open Tor proxy!" is going to get some weird looks, especially on residential connections.
notwedtm··on AWS us-east-1 outage
Because "services down" also means SLA credits.
notwedtm··on Anthem Blue Cross breach notification [pdf]
Yeah, I don't follow this line either. My doctors portal has my providers notes readily available to me without me asking.

Are you sure you aren't just expecting to have to request it, and are being surprised by the fact that you don't?

notwedtm··on Iraqi Prime Minister survives exploding drone assassination attempt
Here's a TLS version: https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_c828f6152428a05569ddfc66bd...

Not sure why CNN even serves non-TLS these days?

notwedtm··on IPv4 addresses are silly, inet_aton(3) doubly so
I believe IP does this because it's anticipating a CIDR range of `10.138/16` here.
notwedtm··on IPv4 addresses are silly, inet_aton(3) doubly so
I wish more corrections were taken this way. Kudos.
notwedtm··on An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles
You have idle trucks unable to increase the truck-loadings-per-hour because they can't complete a single job due to the lack of storage space for their empty containers.

Providing that storage space will allow the trucks to complete their circuit.

notwedtm··on Cue: A new language for data validation
Why? What does Cue have that older, more production-tested systems do not?

I'm curious as to what problems I'm missing today that may come up in the future that Cue is solving.

notwedtm··on Why doesn't HTTPS://hackerne.ws/ work?
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I realize the port isn't open. I'm wondering what design decision led to this, and why it's continued when it's a trivial fix.
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