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New comment by SaggyDoomSr in "Images over DNS"

SaggyDoomSr — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:35:57 +0000

I worked in the networking group for a cloud computing company. You've heard of them. We didn't charge for (some) DNS traffic, so some customers figured out how to use DNS as a transport mechanism to skirt around paying data transfer fees. It would essentially be a DoS attack which affected EVERY customer, so a few could save tiny fractions of their overall spend. A peer team of mine had to deal with the mess. That team had > 100% annual staff turnover, because they just made the oncall staff deal with the problem every time it showed up rather than ever solve the core issue of having a DoS vector masquerading as a feature.

New comment by SaggyDoomSr in "Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel"

SaggyDoomSr — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:06:37 +0000

fwiw, i always make my first PR to an open source as simple / uncomplicated as possible. Something like a spelling or grammar fix in documentation. It's a litmus test for how much drama I will need to face on the more complicated code issues to follow. When the project owners ignore or reject simple stuff, I generally wander off somewhere else.

New comment by SaggyDoomSr in "Stimulation Clicker"

SaggyDoomSr — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:06:19 +0000

OMG. I wanted to get the end, but I was doing it on mobile. I upswiped once, and leftswiped once, so it took THREE tries. The first two tries were each more than 10 minutes in. When I was finally, done, I realized I had skipped my planned workout.

Then it hit me: Point. made. dammit.

New comment by SaggyDoomSr in "Researchers discover new ocean predator in the Atacama Trench"

SaggyDoomSr — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:05:06 +0000

blue whales eat krill, almost exclusively. so... yeah, definitely carnivores. i don't think there are any herbivore whales.

New comment by SaggyDoomSr in "Amazon Nova"

SaggyDoomSr — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:14:35 +0000

Nice! FWIW, The only nova model I see on the HuggingFace user space page is us.amazon.nova-pro-v1:0. I cloned the repo and added the other nova options in my clone, but you might want to add them to yours. (I would do a PR, but... I'm lazy and it's a trivial PR :-)).

New comment by SaggyDoomSr in "Appalachian Trail Hiker Photo Archive"

SaggyDoomSr — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 02:33:33 +0000

He was a legend, for sure. I hiked with him a bit during my 2001 thruhike. By that point he was already... uhhhmm... not really "hiking" the trail as much as "hanging out on the trail, walking a bit, sometimes".

I didn't realized until earlier this year that he passed away back in 2016. https://appalachiantrail.org/leadership/jack-tarlin/

New comment by SaggyDoomSr in "Appalachian Trail Hiker Photo Archive"

SaggyDoomSr — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 01:28:21 +0000

I thruhiked in 2001. Stayed for a few days at Rusty's. That place was amazing!