zifnab06

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software dev working on fly.io infrastructure.

email: waffles at waffles dot fun.

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Comment · 2 years ago
Inbound IPs use anycast - the IP we give you routes to the nearest fly region and then hits a wireguard tunnel to get to the correct region.

Outbound IPs are tied to the individual host your machine is running on (which is located in a single region). These are tied to a single region, and in some cases, these were resolving to the wrong region in a few of the GeoIP databases. We hopefully fixed this part.

Comment · 2 years ago
fwiw - our network folks _should_ have fixed this a few weeks ago. Some of the outbound IPs were incorrectly tagged in some of the geoip databases as being in the US when they were not.
Comment · 6 years ago
Oh, this is good to know I must have missed it.

I assume this is the same Cerberus Capital Management that acquired Safeway and has been running them into the ground?

Comment · 6 years ago
To clarify, Jody Allen took over Paul Allen’s fortune when he passed. I’m unsure what all has been closed since then, I know at least Stratolaunch (a space firm), Vulcan Productions (a small-ish media company), and now Vulcan Entertainment (LCM, Cinerama, and the flying heritage and combat museum) have all closed.

The Museum of Pop Culture (preciously Experience Music Project + Science Fiction Museum) was spared - they’re technically self funded now.

It feels like she’s cleaning house. COVID definitely didn’t help but Cinerama closed for a “remodel” sometime last year and laid off all their staff.

Comment · 6 years ago
The large majority of Android is Apache 2, rich requires attribution but no release of source code.
Comment · 6 years ago
I’ve been working remotely since last June.

I decided to stay in Seattle. Sure, we have our issues (homelessness, high rents) but we also have some perks (close to nature, beautiful weather 8 months of the year, fast internet, cheap power, roughly sane state government).

Comment · 6 years ago
I did the same thing at a previous job. Got signed up for an 8 hour security training because of it - somehow I refused to go and they didn't fire me.
Comment · 6 years ago
Let’s say I have 1000 outstanding shares all worth $10. I need to pay someone a $5000 bonus. I’ll just issue 500 shares of stock to them instead because, well, that’s about $5000.

Hypothetically the per share price goes down by 1/3 here and is now worth $6.67 (but the company’s still worth $10,000 total it’s just 1500 * $6.67 instead of $1000 * $10).

Generally though bonuses like this come out of a pool that’s already been allocated years ago and there’s no change to stock price

Comment · 6 years ago
I’ve looked at a lot of budgeting apps. In order of priority, I want:

1. Don’t be evil (aka don’t be intuit)

2. Web based with some sane security (2fa, encryption at rest, etc)

3. The ability to sync transactions from my bank.

4. Budgeting/reporting.

5. Some sort of sane forecasting. You’ve got N months of data from a customer, why can’t you tell them in 6 months this account is expected to have $x in it?

6. Sane APIs.

No one I’ve been able to find has been able to do all 6 of these.

Comment · 6 years ago
Or they did what I did - spent it. At the peak I would have had $8 million before taxes had I not turned it into cash to pay for the electricity my CPU was burning to mine it.

Oh well. Good thing I actually enjoy my current job.

Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks! I was wrong, look at that :P
Comment · 6 years ago
I have one qualm with /e/: they use LineageOS as their base, add a few apps, and avoid mentioning this to anyone. Most of their repos aren’t special, they’re a 1:1 copy of upstream.

I realize the license allows this but attribution would still be appreciated.

Comment · 7 years ago
I have a few domains I don’t host public-facing websites on - they’re used for either email, or internal things at home, or just hosting txt records.

There’s no sane way to validate a domain isn’t in use.

Comment · 7 years ago
For the payment aspect, charge $5 then refund it once both people say they’ve met?
Comment · 7 years ago
These are still maintained in windows 10 for backward compatibility, oddly enough

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