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tomschlick

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Creator of ZoneWatcher - https://zonewatcher.com - Monitor your DNS zones and be alerted of any changes

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tomschlick··on Hundreds of millions of stars turned into a map of GitHub projects
Vue is a pretty big deal in the PHP/Laravel community. Evan the creator even gave a talk at Laracon a few months in, showing the hockey stick growth after it started to get traction in the community.
tomschlick··on Go with PHP
Mohamed Said, a longtime Laravel community member and former Laravel employee

https://twitter.com/themsaid/status/1656336205523320840

tomschlick··on The European Commission is considering new rules on how networks interconnect
Its more like telcos want to be paid from both ends for the same data. They want subscriptions from their customers every month and then want tech companies to pay to send data.
tomschlick··on Let's make sure GitHub doesn't become the only option
Which is always a funny criticism of Github because I'd wager the people who are against ICE want the immigration system to be faster and more streamlined. I'm guessing custom software is a big part of managing encounters, asylum claims, court appearances, and of course deportations. Removing tools from that Agency would make that system worse, and therefore slower for the people the complainants seem to support (immigrants).
tomschlick··on The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos
Why do Californians keep re-electing her?
tomschlick··on No DNS address record found for repo.maven.apache.org
Obligatory link to CloudFlare's IsBGPSafeYet? page: https://isbgpsafeyet.com/
tomschlick··on GitHub Desktop 3.2: Preview your pull request
It does, but github desktop is way better looking and has deeper integration into github prs, status checks, etc.
tomschlick··on GitHub Desktop 3.2: Preview your pull request
You can commit line by line within Github Desktop and its a much nicer experience IMO than doing so via CLI. Its much easier to jump around to different files and commit related line changes in a bigger PR than jumping in and out of the patch command.
tomschlick··on Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me
The disable isn't a disable of notifications. It disables the airtag from reporting its status as an anti-stalking measure. So it wouldn't work for anyone.
tomschlick··on California AG and state senators introduce bill to ban hidden fees
It has way less to do with any "awareness campaign" and more to do with how tax rates are different in many municipalities that are very close to each other and how hard that makes advertising.

For instance, the famous "$5 footlong" from Subway couldn't be advertised that way nationally, or even within a single state or metro area due to different taxes on prepared food.

tomschlick··on Amazon acquires 400 acres near new Intel development in Ohio
Most likely its just that the county officials there are willing to clear red-tape and expedite zoning/permitting/inspection for large corps looking to place high tech jobs there. Possibly negotiate property tax breaks too.
tomschlick··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell
Yeah that would definitely be a bug if that’s the case. Thanks for the report, I’ll put it on my todo list to look into over the next day or so.
tomschlick··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell
https://zonewatcher.com is an audit trail and changelog for your DNS records.

It began in 2016 out of some frustration I was having with consulting clients who would modify their DNS records incorrectly, breaking their email and/or website until I was able to get them back online. It was frustrating digging through emails or old technical documents to find the original values before they had made their changes. I wanted a tool that could automatically backup those records to make reverting easy while at the same time notifying me of any changes so issues could be proactively fixed before their business was impacted.

So with that, ZoneWatcher was born. Depending on your plan, we check multiple times per hour and take a snapshot of each zone's records. When a change happens, we record the change and send you a notification so you can review and have the necessary data to revert if it was in error.

Making close to $500/mo now since a major relaunch / feature update back in December with a decent stream of new users every month. No major marketing done yet other than just word of mouth and the occasional reddit post on /r/msp's vendor threads.

tomschlick··on The Cloud Conundrum: S3 Encryption
Welcome to security certifications
tomschlick··on Pi-hole: Network-wide ad blocking
Now they are starting to use Dns over Https to get around those restrictions. Super scummy
tomschlick··on Philadelphia Phreakers installing free payphone
Around the time Obama became president is when they started giving cell phones from the program instead of just subsidizing landline phones. It happened before he was president but given the recession that took place while he was president it was regarded as the Obama phone because he was president when the majority of people got them.
tomschlick··on Show HN: Tweek Calendar – A minimal weekly planner and to-do list
Nice! Seems like a beefed up version of https://teuxdeux.com/
tomschlick··on Open-source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act
I mean thats the whole point of federalism and is why we have a Senate which represents states equally (no matter their size) at the same time the House represents people.

If something isn't popular enough to pass muster for the majority of people and the majority of states, it should stay a state law instead of a federal one.

tomschlick··on Open-source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act
So it sounds like there is no point to comply ahead of time as if they do come after you they would just get future payments in which case you can close up sales in that region.
tomschlick··on Tesla rival Rivian posts losses of $1.7B, with worse to come
Because at the time (2009 ish) auto companies were all getting bailout "loans" and many of them from the major auto corps were not paid back. Tesla got a fraction of what they did, and paid it back 9 years early and with interest.
tomschlick··on Open-source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act
> if you have no clients in the EU and don‘t market or sell to the EU, you can mostly just ignore this

If you're not located in the EU, what can they really do even if you do have paying clients in the EU?

tomschlick··on Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
Whats to say those engineers aren't taking PTO time or a leave of absence and getting paid a consulting rate by Elon/Twitter?
tomschlick··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
Whos to say that these TSLA engineers didnt take PTO time and Musk is paying them a consulting rate?
tomschlick··on 5 Years of Pop _OS
> or just making generic integrations which work on any Linux distribution

Thats how you make something that doesnt look good or function that well because you're focusing on too much.

They are taking the Apple path with linux. Make the hardware and make the software tailored for the hardware for a great experience. Yes they support people installing on stuff other than their hardware, but they make sure their hardware is supported and runs well.

tomschlick··on Identity management for WireGuard
I agree. It probably helps make the decision because of how easy it would be to fall back on the FOSS version if needed, but for now its worth offloading the setup/hosting for the relatively small fee.
tomschlick··on Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants
> Who in their right mind

Activist politicians who value their cause more than the well being of their citizens.

tomschlick··on Pittsburgh Airport installs an algae air purifier
Trains are only viable regionally in the US, unless you want to spend 72 hours traveling for greater cost than a plane ticket that would have taken you 4ish hours to go from NY to LA. Even if we did build high speed rail the whole way, the number of stops along the way would only cut that to 24ish hours. Most people would choose the plane.
tomschlick··on San Francisco police can now watch private surveillance cameras in real time
If the person they are arresting isn't being prosecuted because the DA releases them for petty crime/breaking into cars/stealing/etc, then there is zero point to actually arresting them if the cop is going to see them on the street again in 4 hours doing the same shit again. This is a political problem, not a police problem.
tomschlick··on San Francisco police can now watch private surveillance cameras in real time
Nope. Just have been following the /r/ProtectAndServe subreddit the past few years to get a better understanding about their profession and the reasoning behind their decisions and tactics.

What I described above is a very common recurring trend from verified officers that work in major cities like SF that have gone soft on crime over the past few years.

tomschlick··on San Francisco police can now watch private surveillance cameras in real time
> Now the police can watch in real time from afar, so they aren't at risk of spilling their donuts and coffee in the car while watching close by as residents packages are stolen, car windows broken, and petty theft runs rampant through no enforcement of the law.

This is a direct result of the politicians that the residents elected. When you have a DA that doesn't prosecute offenders and releases them after police go through the work of arresting, gathering evidence, writing reports, booking, etc over and over again you'll start to get police that wont do those things because its simply a waste of their time.

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