xanaxagoras (u/xanaxagoras)

xanaxagoras commented on Beeper vs. Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation androidauthority.com/beep... · Posted by u/mendyberger

richwater · 2 years ago

> public utility

Can we stop labeling everything that people like a "public utility"? What is ridiculous phrase. At any point in time I can open 10 chat apps and talk to my friends.

There are _existing_ public utilities that have way more, _actual_ monopoly power than iMessage and federal, state and local governments do nothing - nay - support it.

xanaxagoras · 2 years ago

But public utilities are a human right!

xanaxagoras commented on Tell HN: HP printers force you into agreement · Posted by u/bryanlarsen

yencabulator · 3 years ago

I have a Brother HL3075CW color laser and scanner combo that's just under 10 years old. I've replaced the toner only once. I may not print much, but color is nice to have and not that expensive unless you print a lot.

Tangentially, can we talk about old printers being too scary to connect to the network? No firmware upgrades ever. I've been thinking of setting up a RPi or something as a bastion host and print&scan server, preventing direct traffic.

xanaxagoras · 3 years ago

I do this to give a HL-2270DW air print capabilities. Tiny VM on my home server, works great.

xanaxagoras commented on 3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror annas-blog.org/blog-3x-ne... · Posted by u/pilimi_anna

frontman1988 · 3 years ago

While this effort is hugely appreciated someone needs to make an open source alternative to Zlibrary where books can be freely searched without rate limitation. Right now I don't know how to even download and sort through 31TB of this data.

xanaxagoras · 3 years ago

The first torrent has a 2gb SQL database called index

xanaxagoras commented on Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce cnbc.com/2022/09/14/twili... · Posted by u/melvinmelih

crackercrews · 3 years ago

This creates three problems. The first is that some white people who were affected will believe it was because of their race. The second is that minorities who were not affected may be assumed to have been kept because of their minority status.

But the most harmful is for minorities who were laid off. That signals that they were really subpar, even more than the average laid off person.

It seems like this policy has two negative impacts on minorities and only one on white people. Some would say that's a disparate effect on minorities, and the policy is therefore racist. /s

edit: these are just the perception problems. There's also the fact that it is possibly illegal and unethical.

xanaxagoras · 3 years ago

> The first is that some white people who were affected will believe it was because of their race.

It literally was because of their race.

> But the most harmful is for minorities who were laid off

srs?

xanaxagoras commented on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel cfenollosa.com/blog/after... · Posted by u/carlesfe

Animats · 3 years ago

> Host your own MX servers but use someone else's SMTP servers.

Yes. My outgoing email goes out via Sonic's SMTP server, with the SPF records to allow it to have a source address of my own domain. Incoming email goes to my own domains and gets forwarded.

This seems to be trouble-free. The domain is on a cheap shared hosting account. I'm not running a server. I own the domain, and not though the hosting company, so I can switch to another provider if necessary. In 27 years, I've had to do that twice, because the hosting provider went out of business.

This is easy to do, and I don't have to deal with Google. I don't even get much spam. All the spammers seem to be targeting the big services now.

I just looked at my spam folder. I'm regularly being offered dental supplies, large hydraulic sheet metal bending presses, and ammonium sulfate fertilizer. It seems that having your own domain now means you get mostly business-to-business spam. I subscribe to Machine Design, which gets me some heavy industrial marketing, but I have no idea why I get dental supply ads. The fertilizer spams, from China, look like a scam - there's a fertilizer shortage, so that's a spam which might get replies.

xanaxagoras · 3 years ago

I do this too with a different provider whose whole business is relaying for self hosters. I have had exactly 0 problems since I started a couple of years ago. Its kind of perfect.

xanaxagoras commented on Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting theverge.com/2022/8/17/23... · Posted by u/doener

KerrAvon · 3 years ago

OK, I did. He told people they could legally vote by posting hashtags to twitter for specific candidates. That's an unethical thing to do even if you aren't a Nazi. Should it be against the law? Well, you might look up the reason these laws exist. Hint: probably won't make Nazis too happy.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1360816/downl...

> conspired to injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate persons in the free exercise of a right and privilege secured to them by the Constitution and laws of the United States, to wit, the right to vote, in violation of…

xanaxagoras · 3 years ago

Setting aside the fact that 100% of the air has been let out of that accusation and nobody takes it seriously anymore and that's probably dangerous, whether or not he's a Nazi, which I doubt very much that he is, is immaterial. Disinformation is basically the stock-in-trade for politicians, it is not illegal. This will likely be and certainly should be an acquittal on first amendment grounds. It is political persecution, just like Saudi Arabia imprisoning someone advocating for women's rights.

How people don't see where this kind of thing is leading is beyond me.

xanaxagoras commented on Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting theverge.com/2022/8/17/23... · Posted by u/doener

xanaxagoras · 3 years ago

Coming to America as well - look up Ricky Vaughn. Trial run on a deplorable, your ticket will get called eventually.

xanaxagoras commented on SSH tips and tricks carlosbecker.dev/posts/ss... · Posted by u/feross

francislavoie · 3 years ago

I think that's what RemoteCommand would do for you, as mentioned in the post, no?

xanaxagoras · 3 years ago

I did try that but it just runs 'set -o vi' and exits. He shows using it to launch a multiplexer... I suppose it's an alternative to 'ssh -c command'. I tried to figure out a way to invoke 'set' followed by the remote user's $SHELL but couldn't figure it out. I'll keep fiddling; thanks for your reply

xanaxagoras commented on SSH tips and tricks carlosbecker.dev/posts/ss... · Posted by u/feross

xanaxagoras · 3 years ago

Is there a way I can rig it so every machine I ssh into has already had 'set -o vi' run for my session, without having to change anything on machine I'm logging into?