smw

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Comment · 22 hours ago
It's less common now, but for many years one of the more popular ways to DDOS someone was to trick a third party into sending them lots of data.
Comment · 17 days ago
What are you talking about, I use the bitwarden extension in chrome and chrome never asks me to store a passkey, bitwarden does.
Comment · 17 days ago
The overwhelming evidence is that this isn't true for the majority of users.
Comment · 17 days ago
Just want to say thank you!! Screenhero was invaluable. Pop is pretty good, but open source is a game changer!
Comment · 18 days ago
Russia has a permanent seat and an absolute veto on all UN Security Council actions.
Comment · 21 days ago
I'm not sure I understand why? If you hosted plex on a vps, you'd still call it self-hosted. I don't see why using (a) fargate or (b) lambda or (c) cf workers changes the calculus here?
Comment · 22 days ago
1984 is a tiny paperback that's very accessible and probably takes a couple hours to read?
Comment · 23 days ago
What's rabl?
Comment · 27 days ago
use cloudflare's r2, no egress fees
Comment · 1 month ago
I guess the real question here is what happens if my service _does_ get attacked by a volumetric DDoS? Do you immediately stop advertising?
Comment · 1 month ago
He runs a systemd-nspawnd container in a "small vm", so neither really?
Comment · 1 month ago
Are there any competitive fabs in the US now? My understanding was no.
Comment · 1 month ago
I feel like you can't describe something as m:n when it the m uses async/await and doesn't actually have a green thread?
Comment · 1 month ago
Can you explain how you think Java does it more elegantly? That's a very surprising statement. Java didn't even do m:n threading until "Project Loom".
Comment · 1 month ago
This guy is obviously long SpaceX

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