CarbonatedPastaSauce
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- Comment on Stop using ridiculously low DNS TTLs | APNIC Blog 3 days ago:
There are lots of reasons to use really low TTLs, but most are a temporary need. Most of the times I had to set low TTLs for records were for hardware migration projects where services were getting new IP addresses. But in a well managed shop this should always be temporary. The TTL would be set low the day before the change, then set back to a normal value the day after the change. I feel the author is correct in that permanently setting low TTLs just covers up a lack of proper planning and change management.
The only thing off the top of my head that I can think absolutely requires a permanently low TTL is DNS based global load balancing for high uptime applications. But I’m sure there are other uses. I agree that the vast majority of things do not need a low TTL on their DNS record.
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 1 week ago:
Looks like they allow it, but only if you’re an enterprise customer.
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 1 week ago:
Cloudflare has been excellent for me since I switched away from (puke) GoDaddy years ago. They don’t try to upsell you bullshit like most of the other places, either. I have three domains with them.
I do not use any other Cloudflare services. There are no additional costs or services required (beyond the domain fees) to use them as your registrar.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
This is not true. There are several tools to create a bootable USB that uses a local account.
They just made it hard for Joe Schmoe to avoid it.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 1 week ago:
I thought I was the only one…. 🥲
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 1 week ago:
Be nice. This is No Stupid Questions.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 week ago:
Sure but that’s even harder!
- Comment on Captain, masking is highly illogical 1 week ago:
“Act more like this fictional character” said no decent therapist, ever.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 week ago:
We do not. We can’t even move solar energy from earth orbit down to earth at any scale that would be economically viable or really even useful.
We lack the material science to build something that large but still light enough to be physically stable AND somehow collect and transmit energy.
We also lack the technology to stop it from being destroyed by space debris even if we could somehow build it.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 1 week ago:
If you figure that out give NASA a call, they’d be real interested.
- Comment on At this point, should we form an alternative government of the United States as a micronation? 2 weeks ago:
They don’t care what you call it, they’ll kill you anyway. Violence is typically the only way for any nation to get new land, and nobody is currently more equipped for violence than the US Government.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux's final game Masters of Albion will release in April - "it's the culmination of my life’s work" 3 weeks ago:
Since Fable his life’s work has been blowing smoke up peoples asses. Color me unenthused.
- Comment on X pulls Grok images after UK ban threat over undress tool 3 weeks ago:
You would get thrown in jail, rightfully, for doing this once.
Corporation does it by the truckload and they are politely told to please stop, if they don’t mind.
Not even the trivial, meaningless fines we’re used to reading about.
This world is broken.
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 3 weeks ago:
Your phone company is selling this data. Your tax dollars are then used to spy on you. But let’s place the blame with the enablers. If the data wasn’t being sold, ICE couldn’t buy it with your money.
Privacy is a myth in the United States.
- Comment on Are hierarchies inherently bad in all aspects? or are there domains where heirarchies are good to have? 4 weeks ago:
So, when humans are involved they are inherently bad due to the reality of human nature. Got it.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for your hypothetical but I’m speaking from first hand experience. When you have the same type of experience and aren’t just speaking off a statistics sheet you might change your tune. Most people do.
Personally I think we need massive gun control reform. But I don’t live in that world, or a world where that’s going to happen in my lifetime even. So I’ll continue to do what’s most practical for the reality I live in.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 4 weeks ago:
Some of us have been victims and may have a different opinion.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
In Subnautica VR
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 4 weeks ago:
Buoyancy, farting, or manatees?
- Comment on Should I get the Measles and/or Mpox vaccines if I had them as a child? 4 weeks ago:
Your doctor can do a blood test and tell you if you should get a booster. I got a booster at age 50 because that test showed my antibody level for measles had fallen below their acceptable minimum.
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 4 weeks ago:
Most people are perfectly fine with the way things are.
I don’t think that’s true, but I’m constantly disappointed in humanity and overestimating people’s will to make things better, so who knows.
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 4 weeks ago:
God damn I hate this bullshit argument.
People are looking for leadership in a time of crisis. Saying “well why don’t YOU do it instead of complaining” is just mind numbingly oblivious to how societal change actually works.
You build the movement, then you act. If you act too soon you’re just another revolutionary lined up against the wall and shot. Leadership is required to succeed and very few are capable of that level of leadership.
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 4 weeks ago:
That’s how the world works and always has to varying degrees. It’s just more obvious at the moment than it usually is.
Btw, “they get to rape kids and I just wanna go to the whorehouse” isn’t the BEST argument, but I guess you’re sorta aiming in the right direction.
- Comment on The highest-rated games and what the people say 4 weeks ago:
Congratulations, you are now an art critic!
Seriously… that’s basically what you’re doing, curating your own list based on what you think is important. And it’s great! I’m the next step down on the food chain, the guy who devours the curated lists that people like you spend time putting together. Thanks!
- Comment on What are therapists allow to share about their clients? 4 weeks ago:
I really don’t know, but I’ve read several books by psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists where they shared client stories, without PII. I would think it’s ok to share generic stories as long as the client can’t be identified, only because I doubt from some of the stories I’ve read that all those clients consented to having their stories told, but who knows. Hopefully somebody with expertise can chime in!
- Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ? 5 weeks ago:
I have literally never seen someone wipe down an arcade machine in the 5 decades I’ve spent playing video games in public. You just have to assume a kid touched it and it’s covered in snot. But it’s like owning a cat. You just have to not think about it too much.
But yeah…. You’re actually both right. Money is really gross. So is everything else in public, or the world for that matter. It’s why we have immune systems. Can’t just accept that everything has to be gross though, we also need to keep things sanitary. But we can’t clean everything all the time! So how clean is clean enough? Everyone draws that line in a slightly different place.
And so here we are.
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 5 weeks ago:
You are not the only person that hates those scents! But we are rare. I usually get deer in headlights look when I explain it to someone.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 5 weeks ago:
Because that kind of shift in mindset (going backwards, basically) will require far more pressure than a 1-2 year RAM shortage.
Enterprise developers are basically unaffected by this. And anyone writing software for mom & pop was already targeting 8gb because that’s what Office Depot is selling them.
This mostly hurts the enthusiast parts of tech. Most people won’t notice, because they don’t know the difference between 8, 16, or over 9000 gb of RAM. I’ve had this discussion with ‘users’ so many times when they ask for pc recommendations, and they just don’t really get it, or care.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 5 weeks ago:
Found the silver lining guy.
Love the optimism but yeah, the impact on software dev will be minimal, if there even is one.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been using Photoshop for over 30 years. Even when the time comes
It’s not coming. Not for you, anyway.