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blueduck

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  • Trump calls for NBC’s Kristen Welker to face ‘rebuke or punishment’ from the FCC

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  • Odd to link to a Salon article complaining that Silver’s model wasn’t favoring Harris in an election she lost and when Silver’s model exactly predicted the winning map

  • Trump calls for NBC’s Kristen Welker to face ‘rebuke or punishment’ from the FCC

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  • Nate Silver has in depth models for the whole midterms. I would trust his judgment over this random site. They’re a polling aggregator and you’re dependent on their weighting of the underlying polls. Silver spends a lot of time explaining his modeling and decisions, I didn’t see that on a (cursory) glance of your link

  • You've just won a competition and now a major game developer has to make whatever game you want for free. No compromises. Your vision. Period. What game do you make?

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  • Incidentally, have you read the Bobiverse series?

  • UK/EU homelabbers: would you host a hardened Pi so I can watch baseball I already pay for?

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  • That doesn’t unlock the long tail of MLB games. IPTV groups really only unlock 2-3 MLB network channels that don’t cover all games

  • UK/EU homelabbers: would you host a hardened Pi so I can watch baseball I already pay for?

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  • The content host blocks IPs based on reputation (VPN exits are well-known) but so many people have done the exit through a VPS that those IP blocks are poisoned and could go at any moment. A true residential IP can't be blocked because those are legitimate customers

  • UK/EU homelabbers: would you host a hardened Pi so I can watch baseball I already pay for?

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  • TorGuard's exit nodes are only in the US, so doesn't solve the problem OxyLabs seems to block Streaming in their TOS BrightData doesn't block streaming, so I'll dig into that one. Thanks for the suggestion!

  • UK/EU homelabbers: would you host a hardened Pi so I can watch baseball I already pay for?

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  • IMO, Tor should be reserved for escaping repressive regimes and avoiding nation-state level content blocks. Plugging up the network with baseball streaming doesn't seem like a fair or reasonable use of public resources

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    UK/EU homelabbers: would you host a hardened Pi so I can watch baseball I already pay for?

  • What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server.

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  • Did you try turning the faucet off first to stop the water from rising while you were working?

  • Kansas Schools Now Collect Phones at the Door – Spends $180K On Smartphone Lockers

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  • It’s also 180K for a 15-20 year refresh cycle. These are commercial units that are used in harsh environments… not a cabinet you buy once and it sits in your bedroom.

    Add in wiring plus the install costs and $180K seems like a good deal

  • What skill did you learn that was not worth the effort?

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  • What’s expensive about breaking into the realtor business? Advertising for a customer base?

  • What's your entirely unimportant and inconsequential hot take?

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  • Put the sign in binary. Now you’re driving 100000 and that feels cool

  • A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets.

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  • Distributed decision making, and these are all systems that are transactional or regulatory and not necessarily driving revenue / customer value.

    The IT / Systems team was told “stand up an SMTP server so we can send emails” and there’s no more discussion of capturing / trapping / dead boxes. And as an engineer if you start to add that scope, “why are you taking so long? I just need to send emails.”

    And then the delete account project is “GDRP says we need to delete accounts. So delete them in the least expensive way possible.” Which means, as an engineer, don’t spend a ton of time on this. In my previous company, we were still manually deleting accounts. As in SRE connected to the DB and ran a SQL command, by hand, with a piped in user ID.

    The notifications team is responsible for sending messages. Why do they care, or should be responsible for, identifying if a user is deleted? They’re responsible for maintaining the SPAM/unsubscribe list but not the user accounts.

    it’s distributed decision making, no one cross-cutting or thinking about these edge cases that impact multiple systems

  • A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets.

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  • The @deleteduser.com example is the easiest to explain

    A user, Bob, has an account and has attached his email address. Later, Bob says he wants to delete the account. For legitimate reasons, the company doesn’t want to delete all associated records (think, user generated content or user to user interactions that shouldn’t simply disappear. Or maybe audited transactions.)

    The company also doesn’t want to have those associated records pointing to nothing … maybe the schema doesn’t support that (eg required foreign key constraints) so it has to point to something

    So the company changes Bob’s account details. They delete his profile picture, his phone number, etc. but Name and Email are required by the database. Their deletion process changes Bob’s name to deleted_user and they change his email to deleted@deleteduser.com thinking that’s a dead domain that’ll never be valid to receive emails.

    Later, another process triggers an email. Someone sends Bob’s account a message, replies to a thread, etc. this process doesn’t know / care that Bob’s account was deleted so it fires the email to deleted@deleteduser.com

    There are a lot of problems with the decision making here, and there are better ways to handle all of this. But these are all rational decisions in the moment that can cause an email to be sent to an “invalid” email address

  • Adapted my keyboard set up for a broken arm

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  • Relevant xkcd. Why did my brain remember that blog post from 20 years ago?

  • Selfhosting as a Linux newbie - Ubuntu Server LTS or Debian 13?

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  • I’ve got one Jammy box and one Resolute… I don’t love Canonical, but not enough hate to migrate my hosts to another distribution

  • What books are your favourite and what are you reading now?

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  • The Border Trilogy is fantastic. The first two books are about young men discovering themselves in the west. Book three is a nice coda, bringing them together and closing some threads. Not nearly as violent or bloody as The Road or Blood Meridian.

    No Country for Old Men is also fantastic. The movie was very faithful, the book is better but in a different way

  • What books are your favourite and what are you reading now?

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  • I always came down on the Hornblower side. Have you read that series? How do they compare?

  • Are there any websites from the 90s that you can remember but can find no trace of now?

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  • Xiao Xiao 1-4 on newgrounds

  • When typing took that long, you had to prioritize what was important to say.

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  • R u srs?