Hacker News: therealx

New comment by therealx in "Elon Musk, master promoter"

therealx — Sun, 09 May 2021 17:22:25 +0000

To be fair, that’s one of the worst tunnels in any city. I’d rather drive into NYC.

New comment by therealx in "A “deepfake” is at the center of a harassment case, but what if it’s not faked?"

therealx — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 20:58:23 +0000

Yes, this is standard in the forgery business - dust and speckle filter, drop the res, ensure the light is balanced, and maybe blur if you can get away with it.

New comment by therealx in "Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities"

therealx — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 01:02:25 +0000

The thing that changes this is good public transport. Not buses - buses have a mindset issue. Subways, light rail, and bikes for the last mile.

New comment by therealx in "Modern CI is too complex and misdirected"

therealx — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 23:21:26 +0000

I would think the build system would only build the binaries or other compiled source. The CI pipeline would build and test.

New comment by therealx in "iOS 14 and Facebook Pixel causing increase in PSL inclusion requests"

therealx — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 23:14:38 +0000

BGP and DNS survive due to relative obscurity, despite everyone using it in some way. Web devs do not give a shit about BGP (sadly.)

New comment by therealx in "Screw it, I’ll host it myself"

therealx — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 22:41:29 +0000

It's not "hopeless to manage", learn some networking and be forever rewarded. Same with learning to manage devices, servers, etc. I develop now but I'd be much less valiable without that background.

New comment by therealx in "Screw it, I’ll host it myself"

therealx — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 22:34:28 +0000

Amen. I find generic scripts to be way more mangemaable. You can still use them with docker, but you can also just buy any Linux VM and go.

Also, easy to backup.

New comment by therealx in "Screw it, I’ll host it myself"

therealx — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 22:32:56 +0000

It's 1000% worth it. The skills bleed over onto Mac, and now Windows. Best skills of my tech life, almost.

New comment by therealx in "Screw it, I’ll host it myself"

therealx — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 22:32:15 +0000

Just firewall off all management interfaces and allow via IP as needed. It's still possible your webserver will get become vulnerable, but you'll prob here about it here if it is.

New comment by therealx in "SPAs Are Dead?"

therealx — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:07:16 +0000

Isn't it so relieving now that the pendulum is swinging back?

I'm so glad I moved into C# and non-web dev/management and got out of that rat race. Tech always swings back and forth, but I'm so very happy to have made it past SPAs being the end all be all.

New comment by therealx in "GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its server infrastructure"

therealx — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 14:23:59 +0000

It seems fairly obvious once you trace the funding on a lot of nodes. Plus that court case that got dropped with the child porn guy - they dropped it because they refused to show how they found him. 0day most likely.

New comment by therealx in "Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up"

therealx — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 04:33:51 +0000

So envious of your username :)

New comment by therealx in "WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source"

therealx — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:34:27 +0000

Thanks for connecting those dots for me.

New comment by therealx in "Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard"

therealx — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:19:18 +0000

Here:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/59808919/1660678

Then you still get a FAILED: meson-install Permission denied: '/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2' error, so change INSTALL_DIR_MAC in install.sh to~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2 and install via the github page

New comment by therealx in "Money laundering via author impersonation on Amazon?"

therealx — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:22:25 +0000

It's not too confusing to me. It gets the IRS off the trail of the actual person getting the money - they don't care that the IRS still wants money - they are confident that it wont get traced. It's truely obfuscation.

New comment by therealx in "Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps"

therealx — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 19:36:06 +0000

People remember HIPAA poorly? Ive worked very closly in the industry, and I think it was a net positive. It could have been better, but it sure beat what was there.

New comment by therealx in "Zynga shuts down FarmVille after 11 years"

therealx — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 09:33:00 +0000

Last I saw her, she had transitioned to WoW and was scraping by running conventions. I wish I remembered her last name, I'm curious what her daughter made of herself.

New comment by therealx in "Zynga shuts down FarmVille after 11 years"

therealx — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:58:11 +0000

My favorite story: growing up, I was really good friends with this girl who's Mom was an Everquest dev (like, the first one.)

Post-launch, she became so addicted to her own game, she had to quit her job and lived in a small apt, forgoing clothes and only eaing the easiest of food.

At the time it was funny...

New comment by therealx in "Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior"

therealx — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 05:50:39 +0000

Yeah, they totally are. You aren't able to, in detail, say, operate on someone while they write in pain. Or, slowly cut up someone with a swored and watch their organs fall out as you laugh and kick salt in it. You can't try and force an abortion by kicking a pregnant NPC down the stairs over and over. These are just items off the top of my head.

I am not saying I WANT or would play said game, but that level does not exist in these games.

New comment by therealx in "New coronavirus variant: What do we know?"

therealx — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 02:16:09 +0000

The US is on target to have everyone that wants one jab'ed by June.