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FlightAware's MiseryMap is pretty cool too https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/

Okay that's neat. It was interesting watching how the misery changes as the storms roll through watching something like DAL which is easy to see the effects. The cascade effect on cities without storms reminds me of how auto traffic slow downs from an accident continue to linger even though the blockage has cleared.

The UX is giving me misery.

Most of the time the red fills in counter-clockwise. Until it is over 50%, then the red fills in clockwise.

Lots of the map circles actually represent MULTIPLE airports. But they still "represent" them with a three letter code. Sometimes by the largest airport (ORD, SFO), sometimes by a non-airport code (NYC), and sometimes by the second largest (DFW is larger that DAL).

Someone's pet project needs some more love.

EDIT: This version looks less like a pet project: https://www.flightaware.com/live/airport/delays


Just as a fun fact, there are IATA airport codes that designate cities instead of airport for purposes like this. NYC is one of them. So is YTO (Toronto) or CHI (Chicago, which should probably replace ORD).

LON = London. Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton, City, Southend.

and Biggin Hill(BQH) - Northolt does have some non RAF flights,

A lot of these are just airport code quirks, like LND being every airport in London. CGPGrey has a great video on the topic

fastmail is awesome


litestream is great. Dead simple and rock solid IME.


> Plexure boasts that it can predict what day a given customer is getting paid on and use that information to raise prices on all the goods the customer shops for on that day, on the assumption that you're willing to pay more when you've got a healthy bank balance.

wow that is so gross


Is there any good alternative to google voice? It's the only google service I haven't been able to replace yet.


I've been using Numberbarn.

I've been liking it so far, no issues to report. However, I've only been using it for two months now.

Also, similar to Google Voice, some businesses won't let you use a VOIP number for your phone number.


I've been using GV for over a decade. It's the last Google service that I still use regularly. I use mailinabox for my email/contacts/calendar/drive. I've looked, and there aren't any drop-in substitutes for GV. I've had a Number Barn account with two phone numbers for a few years. They seem to provide better voice quality than most alternatives, but their SMS integration is poor. I'm not sure if they even do voicemail, but I don't think they do.


I switched to jmp.chat a few months ago and have been impressed.

You can even pay anonymously with crypto and have multiple numbers using a single app and billing account.


Looks interesting. I got as far as where it asked me to pay them $15, which I'm reluctant to do without first trying out the service. How does one receive a Referral code?


Looks like I have 2 referral codes that give new users a free month, I believe without having to pay anything.

If you reply with a way to send it to you privately, you can have one.


Thanks! Please send one to anonymousiam@zeptodata.net.


as Homer Simpson said in the 90s: "if you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmtxUiGYrB0


Kelly Shortridge's post about the DBIR is great https://kellyshortridge.com/blog/posts/shortridge-makes-sens...


I was thoroughly entertained by this read, thanks for the rec


The DBIR is an interesting dataset in that it only covers breaches that have been covered by the media.

It does not include the vast majority of breaches that happen every year and are reported to federal and state regulatory bodies or as posted to cybercrime / ransomware sites.

One of the coolest things is that this process though flawed is transparent and semi-open to the public.

The dataset and the underlying process for which events are selected takes place in the open on GitHub.

Kudos to their commitment to open source.

https://github.com/vz-risk/VCDB


Meanwhile, for the common person, they harvest info. Very open. Laugh track.


This is not an argument... the blogger said he didn't want to engage and the CEO continued to try and engage anyway.


I thought this was a joke, but they really don't: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/virtual...

what the fuck? What is Microsoft doing? ed25519 was added to openssh, what, 7 years ago? This boggles my mind.


Just about exactly 10 years ago, actually: https://lwn.net/Articles/590870/


It actually violates some federal contracting rules to support non-NIST keys. Maybe they don’t bother for that reason?


Azure's gov cloud is a separate API.


With a lot of shared software. Need a strong reason to introduce differences which if accidentally misconfigured could have large contract liabilities.


Maybe they're supporting TLAs abilities to crack Microsoft users when 'necessary'?


snap sucks. nobody wants this.


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