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Re:Astronomers Find Star Is a Powerful Magnet on Saturday August 19, 2023 @09:05PM (#37194990)
Positive attraction.
Email me your phone number and I'll call you tomorrow afternoon.
I have been working on building a SaaS that allows you to encrypt files at the client, with unique passwords for each file, allowing you to transfer files to a temporary location for future retrieval.

For example there's a cloud instance and you want to review the logs on your local system. Of course, rsync but that requires VPN and real-time connectivity to the destination.

VM: wget grr ; ./grr write /var/log/* --tag log & (then walk away)

LAPTOP: grr.exe download --tag log --destination c:\temp\ubuntu\logs

The other fun part is you can share an encrypted file with someone - just give them the short url and decryption password that's derived from your master password.

Everything is encrypted locally with the user's key. I am just storing and serving bytes.

Re:How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing? on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:44PM (#37095383)
Considering that being polite when sending prompts has an impact on responses and outcome I am waiting for unfiltered models and inspection and alternative responses.
Re:SQLite Functions for Working with JSON on Thursday August 10, 2023 @11:23PM (#37084767)
Not resolving or responding. Kick it?
Re:The Real Question Behind 'What Do You Want?' on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:42PM (#37044257)
Shane answers this in Primer https://youtu.be/-vD-yj9o664
Re:AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses on Thursday August 03, 2023 @11:25PM (#36995139)
Imagine a cloud transfer utility that made that easily possible?
The majority of software I have come across can be put into three categories:

The first is the 'de facto', which are widely adopted for various reasons, mostly marketing, market share, and marketing.

The second is the "alternative" options that serve as alternatives to the previously mentioned choices.

The remaining software falls into the third category, where the focus is on implementing improvements to the other two categories.

Re:The death of privacy front ends? on Sunday July 30, 2023 @07:37PM (#36937173)
My real friends use group text. Nothing fancy. Real names. Real numbers. No data collection. No cost.

Memes flow. Links get posted.

All is just a setup for the next IRL meeting.

I found the end of the internet in '99.

This is the last few sites that have a low bot ratio.

Re:The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace on Sunday July 30, 2023 @04:56PM (#36935883)
Well I'm sensitive!
Fully autonomous cars would work well if they could all drive at 15mph without stop signs.

Easily enough to dodge, stop, limit damage while not requiring red lights or stop and go allowing passengers and pedestrians to travel.

Re:The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:57PM (#36934036)
Agreed but at what cost?

Get-Process | Out-Host -Paging | Format-List

Case sensitive hyphenated compound word commands?

Re:Your Chromebook, Your Way on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:09PM (#36897817)
Google Pixelbook Go has been great.
Re:Your Chromebook, Your Way on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:01PM (#36897700)
Is the alternative to source every dependency and inspect for any known exploit?

The (current) repo owner perhaps - is https://github.com/QuantumChilipepper

He describes himself as "Spicy Boi"

Wishing is one thing. Hope is the better thing. There is something beyond death. I don't know how anyone can think otherwise. Who else has the words of life?
Re:Google tries internet air-gap for some staff PCs on Saturday July 22, 2023 @12:48PM (#36827716)
I've been 100% ChromeOS for ten years.

All my dev work, personal, and internet while I work. KVM to swap. External screens.

Strict separation of work and life. No key logging like the work system. No fillers.

The ISP president called me at home when it was a teen to tell me "don't do that[0] again".

I looked him up recently. He's a big player in SV now.

[0] little demonstration that their Windows domain shouldn't be on the same subnet as their users.

Re:Mini – The Minimal Language on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @11:29PM (#36796591)
The original human language? Whale and bird songs?
I am excited to read about system recovery in most cases.
We're already saving thousands of human hours with a dozen people from playing with ideas in the last three weeks.

Thanks to data processing, humans going about it manually, we have saved $40MM a month. I am quite certain we can save a few hundred million by the end of the year.

We have not yet even started ingesting our own data yet.

Re:Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Life on Sunday July 16, 2023 @04:03PM (#36750883)
In a practical sense the lock is an indicator of limited access.

The ability to gain entry is trivial given a few minutes and intent.

The locks in my house are there so the glass has to be broken. The glass is there to give me enough time to respond.

If someone is picking my lock they are involved in a hit, not theft.

Re:I don't know how I feel about email on Sunday July 16, 2023 @01:17PM (#36749337)
From my apartment with DSL it wasn't exactly easy. Those TLAs didn't exist twenty years ago.
Re:I don't know how I feel about email on Sunday July 16, 2023 @11:27AM (#36748079)
Twenty some years later I am still on the same domain.

I initially ran my own email server. Spam filtering was easy.

Then things got more complicated.

Now I only use email for corporations to send me bills.

To the person just entering the world and getting exposed to computers and the internet I can almost understand the perspective.

There are a lot of silly things that exist because of necessity and systems being built over time.

Why isn't our mail just routed to a three-word address?

Like every tax system in government and system architecture, if we knew now how it would be implemented in used, we would do things differently.

There is a loss when oral history is removed from a culture. The stories of why are gone.

There is a warning, do not move the ancient landmarks. Do not tear down an old fence. After learning this I now ask, why is it this way?

Re:Life After Coding: Becoming a Mentor on Saturday July 15, 2023 @11:32PM (#36743299)
I've heard this called "pushing a rope".
Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning on Friday July 14, 2023 @01:01PM (#36726656)
I am always curious why one continues to believe the beliefs that lead to pain, suffering, and unhappiness.

Even if correct is being miserable worth it?

I have used and currently recommend this method with all kinds of conflict. Restate the disagreement in terms the other party will agree with. When you have done this, to their satisfaction, additional conversations can happen.
Teaching.

Odd because I hated school, teachers, and public speaking.

Spent money to learn public speaking.

That was one hurdle that I couldn't figure out without help.

Re:Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down on Thursday July 13, 2023 @01:22PM (#36712755)
Having been homeless I know the chasm between living on the street in a tent and a suburban home is about a ten thousand decisions over the course of several years.

I would argue the life we will have is very predictable, on a 5-year timeline, based upon decisions between today and the next year. Small things, like showing up to work on time, has a compounding impact upon one's life.

The ability to afford a mortgage has a dependency of a few thousand good decisions resulting from several years of positive actions.

Re:Passwordless Authentication on Github.com on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @08:23PM (#36703508)
Here's what I want:

I'm a remote worker. My house is more secure than most thanks to my proximity to bad guys.

I have a yubi that I push that puts in 80% of my password. I type the rest.

This saves me time, adds complexity required by corporate.

Why can't I incorporate the key and Chrome password manage?

My cell could be easily lost or compromised (cloned or stolen) so using it as a 2FA always feels silly.

Re:How to Do Great Work on Saturday July 08, 2023 @06:24PM (#36649381)
Thank you. I didn't know that was the correct spelling.

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