Brian Reiter / is on Nostr

Co-founder and co-owner of WolfeReiter software engineering and technology consulting.

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2024-08-15 09:16:37

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@npub178r…qekt If you cannot afford insurance then you almost certainly do not have $2000 cash for a sick expense.

2024-07-23 09:07:01

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@npub188q…3jlx the CrowdStrike Falcon kernel module was crashing Debian and RHEL servers a few months ago.
If you are running in the kernel process, you can panic the system.

2024-07-07 17:05:04

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@npub15ml…2w4s
I still don’t understand why your son doesn’t have is code in ~/src or ~/Developer which are paths not tracked by iCloud Drive and use git with a node_modules in .gitignore rather than icloud sync.

2024-06-26 13:08:06

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 if FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD are “Linux” distributions then macOS is missing from your list.

2024-04-21 12:58:17

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@npub178r…qekt An actual Leica M11 P?
FWIW, I think using M lenses on Sony alpha is a thing in general for travel photography because the lenses are so good and portable.

2024-04-21 12:07:34

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@npub178r…qekt the problem with an alpha (and mirrorless in general) in this scenario is the battery life isn’t very good.

2024-03-22 14:48:43

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@npub1v2s…mqq5 “TMTG reported a $49 million net loss on $3.38 million in revenue for the first nine months of 2023.”
This is a company that spends more than $10 to make $1. The fundamentals are terrible. Twitter is a much better proposition but also makes no money and has never made money.
Why would anyone invest in this trash or make a paper valuation in the billions of dollars? It should have a negative valuation.

2024-01-10 01:12:48

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https://www.wikihouse.cc is real life straight out of @npub1hyk…3p33 The Lost Cause.

2023-12-08 23:41:31

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@npub1hyk…3p33 beeper mini didn’t last long. Apple has pulled the plug on them.
Remains to be seen if Beeper can bring it back up and sustain a cat-and-mouse game with Apple to keep it up.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/08/apple-cuts-off-beeper-minis-access-after-launch-of-service-that-brought-imessage-to-android/

2023-12-08 17:15:30

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@npub1hyk…3p33 a related shitty practice is pulling programming from a streaming service even when it was native and original programming for that service. In the case of Paramount+ for example one of the main selling points is that you get all of Star Trek ever made always. Except they decided to remove Prodigy and sell distribution rights to Netflix.
I’m sure there are many other examples.

2023-11-16 18:51:33

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@npub1src…fms4 my kids middle school and high school in Africa was all WhatsApp, WhatsApp, WhatsApp and then Snapchat in the British school in Washington DC. But in college in the US it’s apparently iMessage / FaceTime. The messaging culture seems highly regionalized and intractable once established.
It’s almost impossible to get anyone to use Signal.

2023-10-03 23:02:24

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@npub15ml…2w4s If it happens with all these mouse models there is something wrong with the OS. Does it have to be a USB mouse? Apple has been using only Bluetooth 1st party implementations for 10 or 15 years — not USB. What about the current Magic Mouse?

2023-05-27 17:49:40

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@npub178r…qekt how do you get furniture down such a narrow hallway?

2023-04-21 14:01:57

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#[0] “Normally, major launch sites are engineered with a trench or water system that helps to divert the rocket’s flame away from the ground and to dampen the impact”
Elon cut corners.
And apparently SpaceX impact modelling was either inadequate or not properly disclosed.
Elon cut corners.