mgbmtl

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1. 661.▲
   by mgbmtl 11y ago

   I'm an old white man.. and it's punching up, not punching down.
2. 662.▲
   by mgbmtl 11y ago

   Well, the initial article speaks about an incident in a university, and it's not surprising that "safe spaces" would be popular there. University councils are infamous for being dominated by old white men who are used to shou
3. 663.▲
   by mgbmtl 11y ago

   Well it's similar to US and UK English. c.f. how confused people in the US can be when they hear UK English for the first time if they were not exposed to it when growing up. On the other hand, while Quebec French has its regional expr
4. 664.▲
   by mgbmtl 11y ago

   tl;dr: it's an article about a couple who bought a motel to spy on their guests, and did pseudo-documentation about their guests habits. There are no photos or anything inappropriate. Says a lot about sexual taboos in the US.
5. 665.▲
   by mgbmtl 11y ago

   Some of my work VMs which are not intended to be generally accessible to the public are IPv6-only. It's not that I need to restrict access to them, just that they don't need IPv6, since anyone accessing them usually already has IP
6. 666.▲
   by mgbmtl 11y ago

   Hmm, realized this after posting: my comment on /64 to /48 is rather off-topic, and the reason why the ISP allocates dynamically might be that they are using 6rd [1]. From what little I understand of it, 6rd calculates an IPv6 sub
7. 667.▲
   by mgbmtl 11y ago

   Since there seems to be a lot of Ayn Rand articles lately, you might be interested in the excellent 3 part series by Adam Curtis called "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace". It includes a segment on Ayn Rand, including s
8. 668.▲
   by mgbmtl 11y ago

   That's odd. What ISP is it? This goes against RFC recommendations (ex: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6177 - assign between /64 to /48) My ISP (DSL with teksavvy.com in Canada) offers a dynamic-ish &#x2F
9. 669.▲
   by mgbmtl 11y ago

   And for those few times, you can still enter an IP directly. :) For those who like to memorise IP addresses, my favorite ping in ipv4 is 8.8.8.8, but in IPv6 I like using 2600::1. Shorter, and more fun! (2600 as in the Hacker Quarterly&#x2F
10. 670.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    This is what GMail is doing: making sure that sending an email is like sending a letter (instead of a postcard). TLS email is not 100% secure (private, authenticated, etc), but not 100% insecure either. Verifying TLS for email is an easy st
11. 671.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    I understand your point of view, but I feel like we often underestimate the level of harm that some types of misconduct can cause. A workplace should never tolerate any type of harassment (and few workplaces do). It's not just the act
12. 672.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    I think he meant an ideological attack on our choice of tools. The website displays a message asking us to disable our ad/tracking blocker to view the article.
13. 673.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    Why give a monopoly on drugs to the black market? Drugs are a public health safety issue. They should be sold by the state, in a controlled way. Sure, black market will continue to exist, but they won't have a monopoly, and we will hav
14. 674.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    Many cities have local gas taxes that are used to subsidize public transport. In Quebec for example, there is a tax applied only in Montreal (where the public transport system is almost usable, compared to other North American cities), so g
15. 675.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    While I understand that gigabit Internet needs to be useful to the average consumer in order to be sustainable economically, having more bandwidth (and IPv6) at home allowed me to do things I would have never thought of doing before. As som
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    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    I don't know.. this presentation is pretty discouraging: https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6243_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412292... The track record for PHP in recent years has been pretty good.
17. 677.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    To some extent, this is similar to SSL/TLS certificates that can be used to authenticate the user (not just the server). If I recall correctly, http://startssl.com/ does that. It's not a very intuitive mode of aut
18. 678.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    If your infrastructure has less than 5 years projected life-span, maybe you don't need to make it a #1 priority. Otherwise, if you don't start planning IPv6 now, in 5 years your infra is likely to be seen as an aging infra with to
19. 679.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    Organizations/companies with more resources should lead the way (ex: Google/Youtube, Netflix, Facebook).
20. 680.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    The per-country stats are interesting. US passed the 20% mark some time ago. Seems like some Canadian ISPs have started deploying IPv6 (other than beta), since it's now at 6% (it was around 1% for a long time). UK, Spain and Sweden are
21. 681.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    "Hello" (videochat) is pretty neat, imho. You can share tabs, video/voice and chat. It's great for training users. All you have to do is send an URL, and it works in Chrome too. It's based on HTML5, but because of h
22. 682.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    I used one as my primary device for 2 years. It worked fine. All I needed was voice, sms, a browser, mail reader and a modem (wifi tethering). I had bought a dev device for $75. Somewhere in the FF OS 2.x series, an upgrade seriously made t
23. 683.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    Fair point. The web UI and (iirc) imap/pop daemons are Java based. The smtpd is postfix. It also uses MySQL for some of its storage, and OpenLDAP for authentication. On the other hand, it scales well.
24. 684.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    Zimbra has packages for Ubuntu and CentOS which are really easy to install and upgrade. Pros: It provides a good enough webmail, a good (collaborative) calendar, LDAP integration, etc. Configuring SPF, DKIM and https/smtps/imaps w
25. 685.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    I'm more tempted to say that systemd does well what previously you needed a dozen half-broken tools to implement. For example, isolating the /tmp of an application, monitoring the process and restarting if necessary, more logging
26. 686.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    The article links to Java web start, which is what Oracle seems to recommend: https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/java_web_... But yes, VM sounds like a better solution. Why risk the security of you
27. 687.▲
    by mgbmtl 11y ago

    Rather unlikely and no source...
28. 688.▲
    by mgbmtl 12y ago

    Here are the stats: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/81-604-x/2014001/t/tbld.2.1-eng... Notice how the lower and maximum salaries are not very different, but how it takes much longer in Québec to get a decen
29. 689.▲
    by mgbmtl 12y ago

    Nice UI. Is the code available? How does it compare to https://crypto.cat/ ?
30. 690.▲
    by mgbmtl 12y ago

    I think most research on the topic is pretty vague, but from personal experience, after learning my 3 languages, adding more isn't much of a hassle (although, to be fair, I live in a bilingual city). The 3rd language was Bulgarian, spo