IphtashuFitz
@IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 1 day ago:
How do you decide which open source projects are worthy of taxpayer money, and how much does a given project get?
I have a couple projects I’ve put up in GitHub as open source. Would they qualify? Or are you just talking about well known open source projects like Linux?
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 2 days ago:
You would do well to go read up on the 1990 AT&T long distance network collapse. A single line of changed code, rolled out months earlier, ultimately triggered what you might call these days a DDoS attack that took down all 114 long distance telephone switches in their global network. Over 50 million long distance calls were blocked in the 9 hours it took them to identify the cause and roll out a fix.
AT&T prided itself on the thoroughness of their testing & rollout strategy for any code changes. The bug that took them down was both timing-dependent and load-dependent, making it extremely difficult to test for, and required fairly specific real world conditions to trigger. That’s how it went unnoticed for months before it triggered.
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 3 days ago:
I’m guessing it was actually something internal. If you look at their status page you’ll notice the outage occurred smack in between some sort of maintenance work they seem to be rolling out to most/all of their edge locations. As soon as they resolved the outage they continued with the regional maintenance updates.
- Comment on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something 2 weeks ago:
The article says nothing about emergency exits being locked. If that was the only exit available to me then I’d use it and let the store employees deal with the alarm.
- Comment on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something 2 weeks ago:
My wife and I just yesterday stopped at a Target while on a 5 hour drive. We were looking for a specific pharmacy item. They didn’t have it at that store. We didn’t need anything else so we didn’t buy anything. That might not be as common in a grocery store, but it’s not unheard of.
And then there’s always the chance of “I just got an emergency phone call” and need to forget about shopping…
- Comment on People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all. 2 weeks ago:
A number of years ago my wife and I visited Lubec, Maine, which is about the northeastern point of the state. Lubec has a bridge that connects to Campobello Island, which is Canadian. For whatever reason, Campobello is in a different time zone despite being physically only one or two hundred yards from the mainland.
I learned the hard way that the closest cell tower in the area was on Campobello, and since it’s in a different time zone it caused my phone to change time to an hour earlier. Luckily it resulted in us being an hour early for a harbor tour instead of an hour late.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 weeks ago:
When I was a kid it was shaving cream. Take a can, put a needle in the nozzle, then melt the nozzle with a cigarette lighter. Once it’s cooled pull the pin out so you have a pinhole nozzle. It’ll spray the shaving cream ten feet or more.
I honestly forget how I learned that trick…
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 3 weeks ago:
You too will soon be able to buy an abandoned datacenter for just $1,000.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 3 weeks ago:
Back when the capacitor plague hit I had to manage locating & replacing over 500 motherboards in the datacenter of my then-employer. Imagine if a hardware glitch like that happened in one of these.
- Comment on How do people get rid of or sell stolen jewelry? I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known? 4 weeks ago:
I was going to mention this as well. I doubt it’s the case with this theft given how it was done, but my wife recently finished reading a book about Stéphane Breitwieser who admitted to stealing over 200 works of art from smaller museums throughout Europe in the late 90s. He kept pretty much everything he stole for his personal collection.
- Comment on Why don't police use rubber bullets instead of live rounds? I get if someone is holding a loaded weapon. But wouldn't a rubber bullet have the same effect with out putting holes in another person? 4 weeks ago:
So called “less than lethal” weapons can and do still kill people:
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I remember that scene in the Nat Geo one. Hearing that sound was truly surreal. I think it was Rush’s wife working the radio. I wonder how long it took her and the others to truly comprehend what it was they had just heard…
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 4 weeks ago:
The article doesn’t make it clear (it could be better written) but my guess is that the card was actually found intact in the wreckage that they recovered back when the sub went down.
The various documentaries by Netflix, Nat Geo, etc. only came out a few months ago as the USCG investigation wrapped up. Those revealed that they had recovered personal belongings from the pockets of one or two of the victims. I don’t think those details were publicly known (or at least reported on) until the documentaries came out. This is likely just a similar case of more evidence coming to light.
- Comment on Is airtags really useful? 4 weeks ago:
My wife has a dog boarding business, and a good number of the dogs have air tags attached to their collars. Most of the owners geofence around our home/boarding facility so that we don’t get constantly nagged by them. But when we drive one of these dogs somewhere (usually to walk/exercise them on a hiking trail etc) we often get alerts on our iPhones about unrecognized air tags that have been nearby us for a prolonged time. If will include a map showing our track and where/when the air tag was detected each time along the way.
So while I don’t use them personally I’ve seen that they do indeed work quite well. Maybe next time I travel I’ll get one for my luggage.
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 4 weeks ago:
The kid that was killed didn’t want to be there. He was terrified. He only went because rich daddy insisted & paid for him to come along. That’s tragic.
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 5 weeks ago:
Biometrics are not usernames. They are physical identifiers and unlike usernames you can’t change them.
I used to work in a datacenter that required you to go through a mantrap to access. It required three things:
- Something you have (a card key)
- Something you know (a PIN)
- Something you are (biometrics)
To get to the datacenter floor you use a card key to open the door to the mantrap. It’s a small vestibule about the size of a phone booth. Once inside the door closes. You then enter your PIN on a keypad and place your hand on a biometric scanner. Once your hand is recognized the inner door opens and lets you into the datacenter. I was told the mantrap also weighed you and compared that with previous trips through to make sure somebody else didn’t sneak through with you.
- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 1 month ago:
But they didn’t tell bozo, apparently.
Since when do billionaires listen to anybody other than the sycophants they surround themselves with?
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 1 month ago:
Our house is still powered by the panels and/or battery as well. We typically use 1 to 5 kWh, and during these events the batteries are discharging up to 10 kWh. Whatever we don’t use goes to the grid. Last year we received a payout of $1450 for 45 hours worth of energy, probably in the neighborhood of 300-350 kWh.
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 1 month ago:
Even home battery solutions. We have solar panels & a Powerwall. Were part of a Virtual Power Plant along with around 1500 other Powerwall owners in the region. During peak usage in the summer all our PowerWalls feed back to the grid so that our utility provider doesn’t have to spin up expensive (and dirty) peaker plants. We get paid a premium for the power we provide during these events.
I saw articles here on Lenny just a month or two ago that Tesla successfully tested a VPP in California that consisted of 100,000 PowerWalls.
- Comment on Gen Z job crisis: Maybe there are just too many college graduates now 1 month ago:
Why hire expensive college grads when cheap AI is just as good, works 24/7, and doesn’t complain about long working hours and terrible working conditions?
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 1 month ago:
Exactly. My employer uses Akamai, which is larger than Cloudflare. Akamai provides the ability to block traffic from Tor, traffic from VPNs, traffic from any countries you desire, and so on. They also provide managed lists of countries listed in thing like ITAR so you can easily block them if you want.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 1 month ago:
They are pro forced birth under all circumstances.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 1 month ago:
Anybody who claims to be pro fife I just refer to as pro forced birth. After birth they really don’t care what happens to the mother or the baby. If they did care then they’d be pushing for healthcare, food, housing, etc.
- Comment on Never steal a hacker’s girlfriend’s phone: How an expert exposed a global network of thieves 2 months ago:
Unpaywalled: archive.ph/REGoa
- Comment on Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads 2 months ago:
I still use a Roku that was gifted to me, but only thanks to also having a pihole. The amount of logging & ads it blocks on the Roku is insane. If that ever stopped working I would ditch the Roku in a heartbeat.
- Comment on Atlassian goes cloud-only, customers face integration issues 2 months ago:
I used to be on a team of 10 people that installed & managed roughly 3,000 servers and associated networking gear. We got hit hard in the early 2000’s by the Capacitor Plague and it fell on me to identify around 700 faulty motherboards and manage their replacement.
I don’t miss that at all…
- Comment on Flipper Zero, Car Thieves, and a Brewing Security Crisis: What’s Really Going On? 2 months ago:
Part of the problem is how insanely complex modern cars are. Modern cars can have 30+ different ECUs, and knowing which ECU does what can be difficult to figure out. Programming ECUs is also a bit of a dark art, and a model line of cars can go through a number of ECU versions over time.
I used to own a car that the battery regularly died on. Eventually, after multiple dealer visits, a couple replaced batteries, and hours of internet research, I found two service recalls that described my cars symptoms perfectly. The problem for me was my cars VIN fell outside both recall notices. But I took printouts of both recall notices to a dealer and they agreed to look into it. They confirmed my car had buggy firmware, annd ended up installing updated firmware on two different ECUs. I never had a battery problem again after that. I’ve worked in tech for 30+ years and I wouldn’t have wanted to tackle that on my own…
- Comment on Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn 2 months ago:
Bluetooth? I got mine from a dial-up BBS via a 1200 baud modem.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 months ago:
This. I’ll happily buy an 8k TV only if it’s a dumb TV/monitor.
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 2 months ago:
In some states an obscured/unreadable license plate is all a cop needs to pull you over…