Hacker News: notwedtm

New comment by notwedtm in "Ethernet over HTTPS Protocol"

notwedtm — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 13:48:18 +0000

Do you realize that rfc1149 was a joke?

It was written on April Fools Day.

New comment by notwedtm in "Ask HN: Who’s using Ruby for web development, without Ruby on Rails?"

notwedtm — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 15:09:32 +0000

Sinatra is my go to for barebones pages-style server side rendering.

New comment by notwedtm in "Ask HN: Why isn't JSON-RPC more widely adopted?"

notwedtm — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 13:57:07 +0000

What are you going on about? This feels like someone who's just read their first compsci book and now thinks they can build New Internet.

Surely this is a troll...

New comment by notwedtm in "Eli Lilly stock fell by $20B because of a fake tweet about free insulin"

notwedtm — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 13:33:39 +0000

What a weird take.

Are you saying that if these for-profit corporations didn't charge absurd amounts to US citizens, then the drug would be unattainable for Canadians?

New comment by notwedtm in "Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16"

notwedtm — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 13:38:52 +0000

Nah, get another bank. Any FI that has to encourage users not to upgrade to the latest iOS because of engineering problems has significant other issues that they are able to still hide.

New comment by notwedtm in "Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16"

notwedtm — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 13:37:16 +0000

The disclaimer at the bottom is the icing:

"A smartphone or tablet with a recent version of iOS or Android is required to access our digital service. Read-only access will be provided to users age 11 to 16. Access to our digital service is at our discretion. To activate the service, we’ll need to hold an email address and mobile phone number. Face ID and fingerprint recognition available on selected devices. Payments made to new payees over a certain value will need to be made on the desktop version as an additional layer of security."

New comment by notwedtm in "San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics"

notwedtm — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 14:12:24 +0000

I wouldn't say that this has been going well recently.

New comment by notwedtm in "'Zero trust’ security is a poor choice of words"

notwedtm — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 23:13:37 +0000

If I didn’t have Zero Trust, I wouldn’t have no trust at all.

New comment by notwedtm in "Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare?"

notwedtm — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 14:43:11 +0000

not necessarily a router you don't control, but MetalLB does provide some nice LoadBalancer constructs for a bare-metal deployment. Putting Vyos infront of it is magical!

https://metallb.universe.tf/

New comment by notwedtm in "Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?"

notwedtm — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 14:03:32 +0000

How do you know it's your name? Maybe it's someone else with the same name as you?

New comment by notwedtm in "Cloudflare had a partial outage"

notwedtm — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:28:41 +0000

What?

New comment by notwedtm in "Credit Card Fraud and an Algorithm"

notwedtm — Fri, 20 May 2022 22:16:40 +0000

From my understanding CVV/CVCs are a function of the PAN, expiry, and some DES encryption. Does this mean that the target bank had a weak DES key or was some other vulnerability discovered?

New comment by notwedtm in "A Tesla vehicle using ‘Smart Summon’ appears to crash into a $3.5mm private jet"

notwedtm — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 11:18:37 +0000

You're probably thinking of SpaceX. While it's not Tesla, it is another multi-billion dollar company pioneering an industry so I can see how you might get them confused.

Musk is eccentric sure, but at the end of the day the two companies are building emmission-free vehicles and trying to make humanity an interplanetary species. Both of these are pretty worth-while goals, imho.

I would love to see a CEO who doesn't have flaws.

New comment by notwedtm in "Vampire Attack Twitter"

notwedtm — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 14:17:17 +0000

What if it was $20 billion? Maybe the idea is feasible if you go bigger? Still less than half of the current strategy of a hostile takeover.

New comment by notwedtm in "HTTP Feeds"

notwedtm — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 11:32:09 +0000

Less this and more that one should be cognizant of their own inherent communication biases.

New comment by notwedtm in "FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign"

notwedtm — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 22:22:32 +0000

Every single tax payer when they get paid, or when they pay their tax bill each year.

New comment by notwedtm in "[dead]"

notwedtm — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 19:05:53 +0000

This shouldn't be made into a public spectacle. You should be getting a lawyer to help explain why those governmental bodies felt so secure in not answering you the way you had hoped, and if there is any other recourse you can take.

Regardless of your actual "rightness" on this issue, potential future employers will only see this as a liability. The willingness to air dirty laundry against a previous employer is not seen as a positive attribute in most hiring processes I've seen.

Lawyer up, delete the post, hit the gym. (or something like that)

New comment by notwedtm in "Problems with “graceful shutdown” in Kubernetes (2019)"

notwedtm — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 22:39:21 +0000

I think K8S secrets get a bad wrap. They are not intended to be secret in the sense that they are "kept from prying eyes by default". The secret object is simply a first-class citizen that differentiates it from a ConfigMap in a way that allows distinct ACL's.

Most organizations I know will still use something like ExternalSecret for source control and then populate the Secret with the values once in cluster and to an object with very few access points.

New comment by notwedtm in "I discovered thousands of open databases on AWS"

notwedtm — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 11:27:27 +0000

I think the word "managed" is the clear differentiator here. There is a huge difference between setting up ElasticSearch on some EC2 instances yourself, and paying ElasticCo for a managed cluster.

I would expect the latter to be sure by default.

New comment by notwedtm in "Show HN: Justyourip.com"

notwedtm — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 01:24:21 +0000

You'll love https://curlmyip.net