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tomschlick commented on Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy   thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/anarbadalov
neilv · 7 months ago
> There is no reason to believe you are getting good information this way.

Spot checks checked out. And it was a perfectly fine way to do it.

You are correct that Tor exit nodes often get special handling (at the moment, including by Cloudflare, and by Google Recaptcha). And the idea of poisoning of data is starting to propagate, due do anti-AI-scraper sentiment.

tomschlick · 7 months ago
Poisoning the data has been around for at least a decade now. I used to work for a very large pricing analytics company that would track product pricing for Fortune 500 manufacturers.

We found on several occasions that some shady retailers would find the CIDR of the manufacturers corp networks and comply with the MAP policies on pricing if traffic came from them. Then when our bot went through with obviously generic AWS / Proxy ips we would see a much lower price that broke their agreement. That one was a fun realization for the manufacturers as to the level of shadiness some retailers would go through.

tomschlick commented on US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/master_crab
tomschlick · 10 months ago
Then change it through amendments.

However you likely wont be able to because not enough people agree with you to do so. Our constitution was made to be specifically hard to change unless a vast majority agreed. That's a feature, not a bug. If a change can't be agreed upon at the national level it should stay at the state / local level.

> It should, however, cause people who voted for this (hypothetically dead or disabled or otherwise incapacitated) politician to see themselves as the piles of shit they are.

Case in point, it protects us from reactionary changes based on vitriol like this instead of substance.

tomschlick commented on Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]   twitter.com/SpaceX/status... · Posted by u/alecco
dawnerd · a year ago
No, launching big heavy explosive things into space shouldn’t have fewer regulations. That’s insane to think they should be able to just do it without much oversight.
tomschlick · a year ago
Sure the safety part of it is something that should be verified before launch. But when they are launching multiple of these things and the variables are all mostly the same you don't need to do the same analysis over and over again.

A prime example is the environmental impact stuff. They have already done that multiple times. Nothing really changed. If it succeed and doesn't blow up the impact is X, if it blows up the impact is Y. Yet these approvals take weeks and months.

There are also multiple agencies that put their foot down. Famously fish and wildlife was worried starship would crash in the water and hit a shark/whale. No seriously. https://youtu.be/kS8G5D9fg3g?t=21

Then there is the story that at Vandenburg air base, they had to strap a seal to a board and play rocket noises through headphones to see if it was distressed. Keep in mind Vandenburg has been a military rocket launch site for decades. But only now when its SpaceX do these agencies put up road blocks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SvJP5wfN4k

tomschlick commented on US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward   reuters.com/technology/us... · Posted by u/christhecaribou
saltymug76 · a year ago
I dont think anyone's arguing against generic alternatives of name brand items. The issue here is Amazon using up-and-coming and popular products as fodder for them to generic-ize and push to the top of results, essentially knee capping the original seller.
tomschlick · a year ago
Does Walmart/CostCo/BestBuy/Kroger/etc not do this exact thing?
tomschlick commented on Laravel has raised a $57M Series A in partnership with Accel   twitter.com/taylorotwell/... · Posted by u/davidgomes
lolinder · 2 years ago
I haven't used Laravel, but I'm curious to know from those who have if Laravel Cloud [0] brings enough to the table to get excited about. The marketing on that wait-list page is... fluffy to say the least ("With Laravel Cloud, you’re not just deploying code, you’re embracing a future where infrastructure works for you, not the other way around"), and the benefits it lays out seem to be pretty standard fare serverless stuff already provided by any of the big clouds.

I've run PHP apps (but not Laravel apps) in production and the infrastructure and config never really occupied that much of my time. Is Laravel different in this way than running bare PHP? Is there a gap to fill here where existing cloud providers aren't?

[0] https://cloud.laravel.com/

tomschlick · 2 years ago
Laravel already has multiple ways to deploy (other than rolling your own):

Laravel Forge - Deploys a VPS on your own AWS/DigitalOcean/Hetzner/etc - https://forge.laravel.com/

Laravel Vapor - Deploys a serverless function on your AWS account to run your app/cron/queues https://vapor.laravel.com

Laravel Cloud - Differs because it doesn't run on your infrastructure, so less time to setup/configure.

tomschlick commented on The Harmless Pi-Hole Bug   kiyell.com/The-Harmless-P... · Posted by u/kiyell
jeroenhd · 2 years ago
This stuff is why CVE numbers are meaningless. "Someone can see the temperature of your server if they can get into your home network" is barely a bug, let alone a security bug.

This is just generating CVE numbers for the sake of it.

tomschlick · 2 years ago
Yeah this is generating CVE numbers for resume clout.
tomschlick commented on US chip factory workers say a struggle to survive on wages as industry booms   theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
talldayo · 2 years ago
This is what happens when you try to on-shore a business that's been optimized for low standards of living. Everyone begs for these jobs to come back to America, until some bean counter with a calculator reminds them that domestic microcontrollers will cost 15,000% more than their Chinese counterparts.
tomschlick · 2 years ago
Unrelated to this specific plant, but it doesn't help that the government put all kinds of stipulations and pork into the CHIPS act that requires certain demographics of people hired, investments in unrelated things, etc. https://thehill.com/opinion/4517470-dei-killed-the-chips-act...

If we want to get serious about ramping up domestically produced chips for critical applications, we need to cut that crap out and focus on efficiency and quality.

tomschlick commented on Free DDNS with Cloudflare and a cronjob   github.com/devrim/cloudfl... · Posted by u/aesopsfable
noname120 · 2 years ago
Does Cloudflare have a history of sunsetting products they've bought? Acquisitions by Google, Apple, Meta, etc. are yellow flags that the product may cease to exist soon. I wonder if Cloudflare has a better track record in that regard.
tomschlick · 2 years ago
Not that I'm aware of and this is likely now just a cloudflare worker that returns the IP they already have. I would imagine maintenance is basically zero as its feature complete.
tomschlick commented on Microsoft laid off a DEI team, DEI is 'no longer business critical'   businessinsider.com/micro... · Posted by u/eamag
zpeti · 2 years ago
It depends, yes ESG was pushing these agendas, but I’m not sure how much influence blackrock and vanguard have in the tech sector.

Although it seems many in the tech sector agreed with ESG and implemented it anyway.

tomschlick · 2 years ago
Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street collectively own almost 20% of MSFT shares so they probably had a very large influence.

https://www.techopedia.com/largest-microsoft-shareholders

tomschlick commented on Cloudflare adds option to block AI scrapers and crawlers   front-end.social/@chrisco... · Posted by u/cdme
ipaddr · 2 years ago
Cloudflare is great at blocking users legitimate or not.
tomschlick · 2 years ago
There is always going to be false positives. Even more so with a tech/privacy minded userbase which uses ad blockers, disables JS, etc.

u/tomschlick

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