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Canonical's web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack

status.canonical.com
10 points·by smoyer·hace 2 meses·2 comments

A priest helped her see her drinking problem. Talks with Jesus kept her sober

cnn.com
1 points·by smoyer·hace 4 meses·0 comments

Ancient designs may be the first evidence of humans doing math

cnn.com
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smoyer
·hace 2 meses·discuss
I think I've had this on duckduckgo for several months
smoyer
·hace 3 meses·discuss
You make this corner of the world better dang!
smoyer
·hace 3 meses·discuss
For real concentration I can't have lyrics but that's a great idea for other flow states. Mozart and Brahms are good for me ... Not slow enough to put me to sleep not fast enough or unusual to make me pay attention to the music.
smoyer
·hace 3 meses·discuss
If this site actually provided privacy-preserving recommendations, there are many of us in the U.S. who would (or should?) also be interested in these services. Sadly, this is SPAM.
smoyer
·hace 3 meses·discuss
"At the time, MySQL existed ..."

You had to be careful with MySQL back then as constraints were syntactic sugar but not enforced. PostgreSQL was indeed much tougher to manage but more full-featured.
smoyer
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Too late ...
smoyer
·hace 4 meses·discuss
That is very close to a half-length shipping container.
smoyer
·hace 4 meses·discuss
HN as a tabloid ... After all enquiring minds want to know!
smoyer
·hace 5 meses·discuss
I was part of Omaze and can definitely empathize with the amount of work charitable fund raising takes and the amount of heartache that come from seeing under needs. Thanks for your hard work!
smoyer
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Great article and it really takes me back to my past! I was fortunate enough to always have a VM700 or equivalent to assess the quality of my modulators but one low channel isn't it of reach. One quibble with:

> After realizing that broadcast television uses negative modulation ...

NTSC is actually vestigial side-band so while it's easy to notice the modulation below the carrier, the low frequencies which include the sync information are also present above the carrier with the effect of having twice the modulated power.
smoyer
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Here's the one I use a lot ... And the underlying `glamour` library is great for programmatic markdown display: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow.
smoyer
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Look at ERC-8004
smoyer
·hace 5 meses·discuss
My agents gave to run pre-commit before calling a coding tag done. In this case, it's just a robust set of checks.
smoyer
·hace 5 meses·discuss
I designed a security dongle a long time ago ... Used properly, it did rotations and XORs like a CRC. You could definitely make it hard to defeat but it was still ultimately deterministic.
smoyer
·hace 5 meses·discuss
When I was in high school, we were not allowed to use calculator for most science classes ... And certainly not for math class. I'm ten years, will you want to hire a student who is coming out of college without considerable experience and practice with AI?
smoyer
·hace 5 meses·discuss
This is a pretty clear emergent pattern. An OSS alternative is https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail.
smoyer
·hace 6 meses·discuss
You can also install and run Zoom in FlatPak which secures your computer by running the executable in BubbleWrap. If you know what you're doing, you can also sandbox it directly.
smoyer
·hace 6 meses·discuss
When Zoom took the world by storm due to the pandemic, they're security was known to be horrible. They aquihired the keybase team who are crypto experts and this presumably had some measure of positive effect.
smoyer
·hace 6 meses·discuss
I agree that this probably isn't in their own interests but "because I refuse to do business with a company that takes its customers for granted" should be heavily qualified. My power company is taking advantage of me but so far I haven't had the nerve to fire them.
smoyer
·hace 6 meses·discuss
I wish a couple of those paragraphs were on the home page!