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nulbyte··on He Sold His Likeness. Now His Avatar Is Shilling Supplements on TikTok
> ...you really don’t know the ramifications of this.

You might not fully anticipate all the potential ramifications of a given action, but in this case, I think anyone who spent a minute thinking about this could anticipate exactly what happened.

nulbyte··on PuTTY has a new website
It is. The very first news item on the original page mentions it. It's plain as 1993.
nulbyte··on Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
Do most of them let you add an NS record?
nulbyte··on Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship
Banks are happy to de-bank risky customers all on their own; they don't wait for court orders.
nulbyte··on Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship
This reasoning never made sense to me, given merchants have always been liable for card not present chargebacks. Processors, card networks, and even issuers don't lose a cent, because fees aren't refunded. Meanwhile, the merchant is out the charge and, nowadays, an additional fee. Even if the merchant wins and gets the charge, they still pay an additional fee.

It feels like this is one of those things that card networks say because they know folks who hear it won't think about it more than a few seconds to realize how much sense it doesn't make.

nulbyte··on Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
No they aren't. Fraudulent card not present transactions are fully on the backs of merchants. The networks and banks don't lose a dime of them. In fact, they make more money now, charging additional fees when disputes are filed, and additional fees when they are challenged.
nulbyte··on A 1960s schools experiment that created a new alphabet
The pronunciation of C in Spanish is context dependent. Before I or E, it shares the same sound as S. Before A, O, or U, the same sound as QU.

Or how about G? It makes one sound before I or E, another before A, O, UE, or UI, and yet another before UA.

Lots of folks think their language is simpler, but it's only because they can follow the rules so well they don't need to actually know them.

nulbyte··on Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP
Depends on your network, router configuration. But in any case, if you install it on a router where the upstream uses CGNAT yes, you would.
nulbyte··on Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP
Tailscale uses the same range as CGNAT.

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/12829

nulbyte··on Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP
> Outside of the major cities, Internet service falls off extremely quickly.

Saline is less than 10 miles from Ann Arbor.

> The people who attempt to fill these gaps are commonly rural telephone companies, electric cooperatives, tribal entities, or mom and pop shops...

That's fair, but at some point, you need to recognize you are competing with a major ISP. No one appreciates it when you come in, tear up the roads, and then pull out once the incumbent ISPs bump up their speeds ever so slightly. (Looking at you, Google.)

> They are very, very unlikely to decide to run an IPv6 network just because.

No one deploys IPv6 "just because," and yet more than half of the traffic to major sites is IPv6.

nulbyte··on Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP
I don't think GP meant static addressing but literally, how many ask for IPv4 service? None, because you just provide it; it's an unstated expectation.

Now apply that to IPv6 and you can see the point that (I think) GP is making.

Side note: The claim it is not widely used doesn't track. How many people use Google or Facebook? More than half of that traffic is over IPv6.

https://circleid.com/posts/ipv6-usage-in-the-u.s-surpasses-5...

nulbyte··on JPMorgan Tells Fintechs They Have to Pay Up for Customer Data
Full disclosure, I work for one of their competitors, comments are my own, yadda, yadda.

This makes no sense. The people wanting these FinTech companies to have this data are already customers of JPMorgan (well, them and other banks). So they want to hold their customers' money and take it too? Oh, right. Now it makes sense.

nulbyte··on Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app
I'll never understand this. I am not a fingerprint.
nulbyte··on Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)
Use a screen reader. Tab through the links. All you hear is, "click here." That's not helpful.

Build a search engine. What information does "click here" offer your index?

I agree with you that verbs don't seem all that problematic. Except when the verb is click and the object is here. I can stomach a link whose text is "Click Here to download Amaya," but if the link is literally just the two words, "click here," it is indistinguishable from others in many different contexts.

nulbyte··on Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers
Except that developers are forced to use Apple's distribution and payment systems to reach users with a native experience on Apple devices. This ability to limit or control competition within a market is called market capture, a key consideration of antitrust.
nulbyte··on LetsEncrypt – Expiration Notification Service Has Ended
I think the key part is what you didn't emphasize: "connected with issuance records." A list of email addresses is just a list of email addresses. A list of email addresses with domains over which the recipient has control is far more interesting data.
nulbyte··on Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)
This is objective, but ai find TLS rolls more easily off the tongue.
nulbyte··on Show HN: I built a tool to use my homelab apps remotely without a full VPN
Can you elaborate more on what problem this is solving? I am confused about what this provides that isn't already available with WireGuard.

WireGuard natively supports split tunneling. This same feature is exploited by Tailscale, but is easily configured without needing Tailscale or any other software.

This would seem more useful without WireGuard, but even then, most homelabs already have a gateway or bastion host running SSH, which can already proxy and tunnel connections.

nulbyte··on IRS Direct File on GitHub
It took me about that long to do both fed and state with Free File Fillable Forms. I was so surprised, I wondered why I didn't check it out sooner. I think most Americans can do this just as easily.

I know folks outside the U.S. like to riff on us for our complicated taxes and the pay-for filing lobbies, and yes, they have reason to. But, I really think the issue is that we folk in the U.S. are just too scared to try what really is a simpler method.

nulbyte··on How to Store Data on Paper?
Thank you for this. I had never heard of this book, but it sounds intriguing, and my local bookstore happens to have a copy.
nulbyte··on Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots
Making the visitor put up with your bot because you don't like someone else's is just bizarre to me. I disable js by default, so Ive been seeing this more and more. It's all rubbish these days.
nulbyte··on Dotless Domains
> According to ICANN's SSAC,[1] SMTP requires at least two labels...

ICANN does not define SMTP, and the "relevant quote" from SSAC in the article footnotes mentions nothing about it, either.

In fact, RFC5321 makes explicit reference to the possibility of an email address using a TLD as the domain in section 2.3.5.

nulbyte··on I use zip bombs to protect my server
Drupal has been around for a while, but I've never heard of "Drupal CMS" as a separate product until now.

It appears Drupal CMS is a customized version of Drupal that is easier for less tech-savvy folks to get up and running. At least, that's the impression I got reading through the marketing hype that "explains" it with nothing but buzzwords.

nulbyte··on DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower
I think the question is whether employees of an advisory group that is not an actual department of the government are on the list of people to whom can he authorize access to this type of sensitive data.
nulbyte··on Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water
I've seen this retort elsewhere. It's not true. It's why corporations are persons with first amendment and other freedoms.
nulbyte··on Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water
Why is the city required to provide water in the first place?
nulbyte··on Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water
> Freedom applies to individuals, not collectives.

In the US, it most certainly does. We have freedom to associate, and associations also have freedoms. Were it not so, we wouldn't have even been able to arrive at the conclusion we have with regard to corporate money in politics.

nulbyte··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
> I use LLMs. They're somewhat useful if you're on a non niche problem. They're also useful instead of search engines...

The problem for me is that I could use that type of assistance precisely when I hit that "niche problem" zone. Non-niche problems are usually already solved.

Like search. Popular search engines like Google and Bing are mostly garbage because they keep trying to shove gen AI in my face with made up answers. I have no such problems with my SearxNG instance.

nulbyte··on Tailscale is pretty useful
> So I can't just make a conditional in my config to go through TS instead of local network based on that

Tailscale can do hairpinning, so you may find you don't need a conditional config.

nulbyte··on Man from uncontacted tribe emerges in Amazon, villagers demonstrate a lighter
At the bottom, under related coverage, I found a link to a subsequent article mentioning his return to the tribe. There is a video at the top of that article.
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