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peteretep

19,492 karma · joined May 1, 2011

Email: catbirdmouse@ml1.net

"... and the record will show that I kicked him repeatedly long before he went down. I beat him like a mad dog with mange every time I got a chance, and I am proud of it. He was scum”

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peteretep··on Never mind the 1 percent: Let's talk about the 0.01 percent (2017)
Why bother sending it to the UK first when you can send it directly to IOM, the Channel Islands, etc?
peteretep··on Stuffed Dormouse and Fish Gut Sauce: The Flavors of Pompeii (2019)
Maybe I'm just too "in it" from having eaten Thai fish-sauce almost every day for many many years, but I'm not convinced that fish sauce tastes of fish any more than soy sauce tastes of soy or red wine vinegar tastes of red wine. It tastes of salt and umami and ... tastes like fish sauce.
peteretep··on Protasevich Street? Bucharest mulls changing address of Belarusian embassy
I suspect most embassy staff are -- like the ones from Western nations -- generally pretty liberal, and probably secretly fairly supportive of this.
peteretep··on Protasevich Street? Bucharest mulls changing address of Belarusian embassy
> Should the street be renamed, the Belarusian embassy's correspondence and its staff's business cards would [change]

Doubt it. I have to imagine "Ambasada Belarusului, București 011411" is going to be pretty deliverable.

peteretep··on M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability
> So what's the real danger?

> If you already have malware on your computer, that malware can communicate with other malware on your computer in an unexpected way.

> Chances are it could communicate in plenty of expected ways anyway.

peteretep··on M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability
"So you're telling me I shouldn't worry? Yes."
peteretep··on Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
> Dienbienphu was in 1954, just for starters.

Yes, that's the reason the French were out in 1954.

peteretep··on Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
> It was always a war of independence, first from France and then from the US.

The Vietnam War is largely considered to be 1955-1975. The French were out by 1954, and American troops in any number were there from 1965 to 1973.

> 20 years of fighting primarily western troops with a fig leaf of local rule.

5x to 7x as many South Vietnamese troops died compared to Americans, who had combat troops there for less than half of those 20 years.

peteretep··on Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
> the problems with a Western burning-villages class

"Murder, kidnapping, torture and intimidation were a routine part of Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) operations during the Vietnam War. They were intended to cow the populace, liquidate opponents, erode the morale of South Vietnamese government employees, and boost tax collection and propaganda efforts. Estimates of the total number of South Vietnamese civilians killed by the VC/PAVN between 1954 and 1975 range from 106,000 to 227,000."

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Cong_and_People%27s_Army_...

peteretep··on Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
It wasn’t a war of independence from the US, it was a civil war the US was dumb enough to get involved in.
peteretep··on Italian seaside residents hit with bygone feudal tax
Could have been worse... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane
peteretep··on EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies
I don’t think the equivalence really holds:

“while flying over Austria ... they were told by France, Spain and Italy that their permission to fly over those countries’ air space had been rescinded”

peteretep··on EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies
> What if Big Brother Putin now says all EU planes are banned from flying over Russia

For what gain?

peteretep··on France is testing free public transport
People sleeping on public transport, reduced walking/cycling for short distances, kids using buses to hang out on
peteretep··on France is testing free public transport
I’d worry that “free” creates some weird incentives that don’t exist at €0.50, but it’ll be interesting to see how it pans out
peteretep··on One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks
https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=iphone+repla...

the only way you'd get the plod even vaguely interested would be if these arrived in boxes that claimed they were genuine parts, and even then...

peteretep··on Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak disclosed
It's quoting an American Intelligence Report, which doesn't necessarily make it more credible, but definitely makes it more newsworthy.
peteretep··on Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand security force
As much as ‘queue’ looks like it would make sense, the word is actually ‘cue’
peteretep··on U.S. Treasury seeks reporting of cryptocurrency transfers
This article describes a mitigation to the problem in the article you have linked, and you have instead described it an aggravation of that problem.
peteretep··on Sublime Text 4
My workflow at the moment is VS Code for TS/JS but Sublime Merge for when I need to interact with git, ignoring the built-in VS Code stuff.
peteretep··on U.S. Treasury seeks reporting of cryptocurrency transfers
You've replied to this story about a doubling of IRS headcount with an article that complains about how the IRS is too starved of resources to go after the rich, and somehow come to the conclusion that it's more of the same.
peteretep··on WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser
VS Code seems to allow this with Dev Containers. I can download a repo with a `.devcontainer.json` and be up and running in virtually no time, in a container.
peteretep··on Red Cross honors Igiugig woman for helping light runway during nighttime medevac
I have some dealings with the Isle of Man. It is only a slight exageration to say I have conversations with my accountant there where he says "I don't know the answer to that, but my mate Paddy is Finance Minister this year, so I'll check with him later"
peteretep··on Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?
Air fryer, Fuse Reel, Leatherman
peteretep··on The data model behind Notion's flexibility
https://twitter.com/notionhq/status/1257455482031276033?lang...
peteretep··on Bitcoin Plummets Below 40K
The Japanese court documents are absolutely beautifully designed
peteretep··on The data model behind Notion's flexibility
Those are lists of pages and attributes and of little use for a table of numbers
peteretep··on I am sick and tired of hearing tech companies complain about developer shortages
I own an agency. Yes there are shitty agencies, but there are also _plenty_ of shitty companies hiring directly. We have shared our developers' bafflement at how poorly they get treated by Internal Recruiters at the hiring company several times (and generally never worked with the hiring company again).
peteretep··on The data model behind Notion's flexibility
The product also desperately needs simple tables
peteretep··on How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
> The accidental lab leak theory proven would actually be great news

For humanity, yes, for the CCP, not so much.

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