grobbie

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When the bits hit the fan – a ransomware survival guide(theregister.com)
2 points by grobbie 5y ago|0 comments
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by grobbie 5y ago
I'm assuming that there's a communications lockdown and freeze ahead of an IPO, and that extends even to reviewing pull requests. But I know jack and perhaps I'm just seeing ghosts.
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by grobbie 5y ago
CockroachDB is getting a lot of interest these days. It has broad PGSQL language (and also wire I think) compatibility yet has a clustered peer architecture well suited to running in a dynamic environment like cloud or k8s. Nodes can join d
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by grobbie 5y ago
There's an adage that when there's a shakedown, and the tree is being rocked wildly by management, all the best folks quickly leave. Only the people who aren't good at their jobs cling to the tree. If I was in your shoes I&#x
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by grobbie 5y ago
If the past is something you cannot have back, and the future is something that has not yet been given to you, then you are now - nothing more, and nothing less. You should therefore, not allow the past to discolour your now any more than
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by grobbie 5y ago
Could you elaborate please. Personally I think snaps are great. The solution sandboxes the application with AppArmor and seccomp mandatory access policies, and the application's dependencies are bundled into cgroups namespace, meaning
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by grobbie 5y ago
I can remember one called Code Red causing a bit of mayhem at work not that long after. Interesting to read on Wikipedia that work on Sub7 resumed in June this year.
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by grobbie 5y ago
IANAL and my understanding is quite limited. But I can direct you to Hercules which is an IBM Mainframe emulator. It is open source under an OSI approved license (not GPL but rather QPL). Their problem appears not so much that they emulate
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by grobbie 5y ago
I would say mindfulness is perhaps the biggest empathy amplifier, but it is reading that has the biggest empathy growth impact for me. Reading feeds my empathy by helping me to build and maintain a broad perspective; practising mindfulness
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by grobbie 5y ago
Reading - lots of philosophy, sociology, economics, even some theology - anything that triggers my neurons HIIT, 10ks, resistance training, Yoga Mindfulness and meditation Painting and drawing, visiting art galleries Weekend travel Playing
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New wind turbine design, claims 5x efficiency gain versus classic “Dutch” design(fastcompany.com)
8 points by grobbie 5y ago|0 comments
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by grobbie 5y ago
https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/ Still going strong.
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by grobbie 5y ago
https://signal.org/docs/specifications/x3dh/ The Signal protocol, which is the one all the big service providers are licensing for the instant messaging encryption part of their service offering, is actually
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PGP Is Dead? (2018)(wired.co.uk)
31 points by grobbie 5y ago|50 comments
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by grobbie 5y ago
Just because it's quicker and easier to pop it in the microwave, doesn't mean that it's healthier than a home cooked meal.
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DataOps: Keeping the data flowing with Model-driven Operations(ubuntu.com)
5 points by grobbie 5y ago|0 comments
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Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux(ubuntu.com)
296 points by grobbie 5y ago|91 comments
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How to Run Apache Spark on MicroK8s and Ubuntu Core, in the Cloud: Part 1(ubuntu.com)
2 points by grobbie 5y ago|0 comments