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New comment by theonealtair in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

theonealtair — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:44:43 +0000

I think the surge in people wanting to reduce taxes is because it rose at an unexpected rate that no one was or could prepare for. So I almost blame the speed of increase for the recent conversations, rather than the idea of people wanting their house to rise and others to fall; yes that is part, but I don’t think it is the majority.

New comment by theonealtair in "Warning: DNS encryption in Little Snitch 6.1 may occasionally fail"

theonealtair — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:14:21 +0000

This is why I firewall egress port 53 at the router level.

New comment by theonealtair in "Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500"

theonealtair — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 14:02:53 +0000

I wish I could just buy one team's games for a season "à la carte", especially for a team I might live 1000 miles away from now.

New comment by theonealtair in "The history of Alt+number sequences"

theonealtair — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:34:16 +0000

I learned about the Alt characters a long time ago when I wanted to type “Pokémon” in the gamefaqs message boards. I never knew until now why higher numbers didn’t do anything different.

New comment by theonealtair in "Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO"

theonealtair — Wed, 15 May 2024 14:38:34 +0000

Raspberry Pi did a lot to revolutionize the micro board/pc market, they truly had an amazing influence on the industry that I’m grateful for. Now a days they feel overpriced and underpowered, and their influence spurred a new market that has produced much better alternatives. This IPO just confirms this perspective for me. Thank you raspberry pi for what you did. But I doubt I’ll ever want to buy one again.

New comment by theonealtair in "How PlanetScale Boost serves SQL queries faster"

theonealtair — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 01:28:31 +0000

Everything about their product is overstated and/or not relevant for most apps. Easy to get 1000x query performance improvement by starting with an extremely slow query. By that standard I could say that I've used create index statements to get 1,000,000x performance. The language is so over-the-top it makes me not even want to read the article through. I work in a real world with real database problems everyday. I would love to have real discussions and solutions to performance improvements. Making irrelevant claims just shuts that down.

New comment by theonealtair in "Making a DNS query in Ruby from scratch"

theonealtair — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 01:36:15 +0000

I love that Ruby’s main goal is developer happiness. I feel like Matz has really delivered on that promise, even after 30 years.

New comment by theonealtair in "Enclave: An Unpickable Lock"

theonealtair — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 05:43:44 +0000

Isn’t this just a Medeco X4?

New comment by theonealtair in "GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven without connecting to WiFi"

theonealtair — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 20:34:39 +0000

The temp said 20° (which is impossible in my climate). Good thing I didn’t crank the heat up.

New comment by theonealtair in "GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven without connecting to WiFi"

theonealtair — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 19:48:07 +0000

I went to use the app for my hot tub and put in the 6 digit pin, except the last number I put in was a 4 instead of a 3. It logged me in, but the temperature looked off, then I realized I wasn’t connected to my hot tub, it was someone else. Turns out the 6-digit pins are sequential. And this is from a billion dollar pool company.

New comment by theonealtair in "Credit Karma glitch exposed users to other people’s accounts"

theonealtair — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:09:10 +0000

I agree, that honorific was strongly prejudiced against women.

New comment by theonealtair in "Rental car companies have been waging a quiet legislative war against start-ups"

theonealtair — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 11:38:00 +0000

Taking on a CARtel will never be an easy process.

New comment by theonealtair in "I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines"

theonealtair — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:35:56 +0000

I also was never interested in Puppet, however I was only interested in Ansible, and only use it as sort of an automated check list when setting up my server, in case I need to rebuild the server, the tedious steps can be automated. But I've never used it for multiple server management.

New comment by theonealtair in "Being Frugal is for the Rich"

theonealtair — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 23:37:24 +0000

I totally agree. Reducing their monetary outgo is only a part of their story. If someone makes minimum wage, there’s a sharp limit as to how “frugal” they can be.

New comment by theonealtair in "Flat-Earther's rocket lofts him 1,875 feet up"

theonealtair — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 19:06:21 +0000

Can't really fault him for literally studying "the natural world through observation and experiment" as opposed to blindly taking some else's word. But, he should probably spend his time understanding what others did to "study the natural world through observation and experiments" and realize it's not so blind to look at their conclusions.

New comment by theonealtair in "Private Internet Access Goes Open Source"

theonealtair — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:13:28 +0000

Offering the OpenVPN gateway has increased my confidence in their pro-privacy motives. I would rather trust them over Comcast.

New comment by theonealtair in "Amazon's policies promote counterfeiting"

theonealtair — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 02:18:58 +0000

This is why I only buy Apple products from Apple, Amazon is flooded with counterfeits.