red-iron-pine's comments

On: Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

[red-iron-pine]

* NDA, non-compete, and other legal protections

* same timezone

* easy to verify who is actually working on your system -- on the other side of a B2B VPN you never really know...

On: Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

[red-iron-pine]

bots, autists, idiots, and possibly people who don't speak english as a first language and miss the in-joke

On: Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

[red-iron-pine]

absolutely. whole walls of old movies, music, whatever.

the really good stuff eventually goes, but there is often a lot of pretty dang good media there too.

check for scratches, tho

On: Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

[red-iron-pine]

but you trust a random torrent upload more?

at least with the library DVDs I can be reasonably certain the weird artifact is not embedded malware, just scratches

On: Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

[red-iron-pine]

arguably that's the entire point of tailscale -- ain't gotta worry about the logistics

On: Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

[red-iron-pine]

that murderous robo-dog will be happening shortly

On: Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

[red-iron-pine]

there is no way they can't, tho.

330M people in the country, you can run that entirely though a remote FBI office.

and the people using the data are gonna be the local cops; FBI ain't flying out to chase a couple of basic-ass assault charges or thefts.

email snooping, hand full of highway cameras at known bottlenecks, border crossings -- these are abstractions to most people. the flock cameras in their neighborhood are not, and cannot be absractions.

On: Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

[red-iron-pine]

the black mirror please look at the ads patent

On: Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

[red-iron-pine]

old reddit requires a login :/

[chucksmash → red-iron-pine]

As of today, I've also started getting a non-dismissable nag modal on the www subdomain as well. It disappears on refresh, but pops up again after a period of time or engaging with the content (clicking "Show More" on a comment or scrolling) a la Twitter.

Reddit seems hell bent on making me not use Reddit.

[otherme123 → red-iron-pine]

I have this installed, and it works reasonably well: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect

[aleph_minus_one → red-iron-pine]

Thanks for the information about this change. :-(

On: House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

[red-iron-pine]

there is a lot of "primitive life" videos that are blatantly scams. you can see the tracks of the excavators, etc.

maybe shes swapping nails and hair for overalls and a pickaxe, but given just how much fake BS is on the 'gram or 'tok, it's safer to just assume fake