mato

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by mato 9y ago
To clarify; what I meant is that HTTPS can't be cached by third parties . If I want to run a local cache of anything served over HTTP it's as easy as spinning up a Squid instance. With resources served over HTTPS I can't do
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by mato 9y ago
> It's about cost, too. HTTP can be cached very efficiently, but FTP not at all. It's ironic that you mention cost and caching but lot of services used for software distribution of one kind of another (e.g. Github releases) are
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by mato 10y ago
This is awesome. Hopefully a step towards my dream laptop with an e-paper screen for coding outside.
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by mato 11y ago
Indeed. See Luke Leighton's excellent "Analysis of SSD reliability during power outages" at http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html which came to the same conclusion some years ago.
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by mato 11y ago
telnet?
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7 Unikernel Projects to Take on Docker in 2015(linux.com)
4 points by mato 12y ago|1 comments
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by mato 12y ago
> I suppose an ethernet port might go bad if it gets hit by lightning but I've never had a mobo ethernet go bad in my life. Been there, record thunderstorm centered directly above a client's building. Several switch and mobo po
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by mato 12y ago
I was using rump kernels in an unrelated project for a client. In that project, the application I developed was essentially a Qt GUI for mastering custom UDF filesystem images. You're right that the documentation for the rumprun-* stac
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by mato 12y ago
<future>I'd like to see $CLOUD selling micro-VMs with burstable memory in the tens of MBs, billed by actual CPU time used, similar to what AWS Lambda does.</future> As for lack of VM resizing, that is a hypervisor&#x2F
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by mato 12y ago
Rump kernels ( http://rumpkernel.org/ ) are essentially Unikernels for POSIX. I'm currently working on running unmodified application stacks (base firmware/"not-OS" + rump kernel + userland application) on
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UK will finally allow citizens to legally rip CDs(arstechnica.com)
4 points by mato 13y ago|0 comments
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by mato 13y ago
This tidbit from the DOS 2.0 README.txt (section 5) is fascinating: The user manual contains some significant errors. Most of these are due to last minute changes to achieve a greater degree of compatibility with IBM's implemen
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by mato 13y ago
For crying out loud! What difference has Edward Snowden made to the world (and do remember, the world does include people not connected to the Internet... or roughly 4.5 billion out of 7 billion people... and I'm not even getting into
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Hövding - Airbag for Cyclists(hovding.com)
2 points by mato 13y ago|0 comments
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by mato 13y ago
Boltian ( http://boltian.com/ ), Bratislava, Slovakia - Full-stack Linux Engineer / Embedded Linux Hacker. REMOTE possible for exceptional candidates (timezone is CET). This is a rare opportunity in Central/Eastern
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by mato 13y ago
Boltian ( http://boltian.com/ ), Bratislava, Slovakia - JavaScript, HTML5 and Frontend Guru. REMOTE possible for exceptional candidates (timezone is CET). This is a rare opportunity in Central/Eastern Europe for a fronte
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by mato 13y ago
"Flights from Austria are not supported". Ok, I'll just keep using http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ .
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Open letter and petition for NSA to conduct public rulemaking on surveillance(epic.org)
85 points by mato 13y ago|2 comments
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by mato 15y ago
Specifying the latest SHA as part of the merge would solve the trust problem. As other people have mentioned, allowing a final "review and fixup this patch" step before merging would also be useful for some workflows; this is what happens w
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by mato 15y ago
It does. But to my knowledge, no one submits pull requests as a set of SHA1 hashes.
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by mato 15y ago
If you want more background to what led up to our fork of ZeroMQ, read the flamewar on zeromq-dev from February carefully hidden in a "C++ assertion" thread at http://lists.zeromq.org/pipermail/zeromq-dev/2012-February/0... , or from http
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by mato 15y ago
Link please? I wasn't aware Iceland has passed anything that might put it in the position of a data haven, but then I don't follow Icelandic :-)
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by mato 15y ago
For those HN readers who are interested in original source material to make up their own mind about ACTA straight from the horse's mouth, the following links are a good starting point: Full final treaty text as signed by the EU, including t
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Debunking the EU Commission's Lies About ACTA(laquadrature.net)
4 points by mato 15y ago|1 comments
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by mato 15y ago
IANAL, but it doesn't work that way. See specifically sections 7 and 11 of the Extradition Act 1999 ( http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1999/0055/latest/w... ). Further, the Extradition Treaty between NZ and the US ( http://newzeal
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by mato 15y ago
This article at the NZ herald is a good source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&obj...
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by mato 15y ago
Yes, it's using a TXT record precisely so that we can store any endpoint URL. An alternative using SRV records could of course be easily implemented. The implementation is very much a 1st cut at the moment (no real error handling, no load b
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by mato 17y ago
We're working on the documentation, but don't let that stop you from joining in and helping us improve it! As for detecting that messages aren't being delivered to a particular peer, at the moment that is not possible since zmq_send() is as