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New comment by downwithbgp in "When Kierkegaard Got Cancelled"

downwithbgp — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:40:12 +0000

Why spend money on tokens to process linked text when you can comment off the headline?

New comment by downwithbgp in "Likely cause of mystery child hepatitis outbreak found"

downwithbgp — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:12:29 +0000

Scottish study (Adeno-associated virus 2 infection in children with non-A-E hepatitis): https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.19.22277425

I was unable to find the UCL (London) study, but the above DOI references UCL faculty.

New comment by downwithbgp in "Take more screenshots"

downwithbgp — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 22:24:00 +0000

Depending on how much one's willing to stretch that argument, they can also point out that all known life is digital.

Human genome is, effectively, a historical digital record (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature10231).

New comment by downwithbgp in "Bunny DNS – A scriptable DNS platform"

downwithbgp — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:46:08 +0000

Makes me question what else they are incompetent in.

New comment by downwithbgp in "In Japan, digicams are the new film"

downwithbgp — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 23:11:02 +0000

Your mileage may vary, I have an anecdote to tell.

About a decade ago, I went to North Wales for vacation and obtained a 70's Soviet camera in pristine condition (Zorki-4K) at a car boot sale, along with the original case and strap.

A couple days later, it came to my attention there was a carnival nearby. And, frankly, I'm not sure if "carnival" is what it's called, but they had a Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, stuffy prizes, that kind of thing.

All I had with me was my Zorki and a couple rolls of b&w 35mm film. By the time I got there, it was dark, I had to push the exposure quite a bit, and I was so focused in trying to understand the gear I had, a couple of local policemen came to me and start asking why I was taking pictures.

Even after hearing my thick accent, seeing my vintage camera, examining my Russian passport, they weren't satisfied and wasted almost half an hour of my time checking some sex offender database for my name.

I didn't even bother to process the roll, none of those pictures had enough light.

New comment by downwithbgp in "Albanian prosecutors probe huge suspected leak of personal data"

downwithbgp — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 17:37:37 +0000

I worked for a public university in America, therefore being a public employee. Any of my neighbors could easily go to the state website and look up my income.

Frankly, I never felt that to be an issue. It was also nice to have that transparency in the workplace, all of my colleagues knew exactly how much any of us made.

New comment by downwithbgp in "Tools to Explore BGP"

downwithbgp — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 16:22:33 +0000

dn42 [0] also has, effectively, a playground for BGP. While I don't have experience with it personally, it seems to be just a VPN network with private addressing where you can find other folks to form neighbors with.

That being said, you don't need to be online to play with routing protocols. A couple VMs with your favourite flavour of Cisco/Juniper virtualised switches do just as well. Some of the most popular projects to simplify VM spin-up and interconnections are GNS3 [1] and EVE-NG [2].

[0] https://dn42.eu

[1] https://gns3.com

[2] https://eve-ng.net

edit: link formatting

New comment by downwithbgp in "Show HN: Resume maker with no sign-up or subscription"

downwithbgp — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 19:03:52 +0000

To add, it's common to see a headshot in an acting resume.

New comment by downwithbgp in "New Kalashnikov comes with WiFi, Bluetooth and phone sync"

downwithbgp — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 21:33:34 +0000

any chance you could help find a source for that?