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by oxymoron 8y ago
”This is why I’m already on board for Barack Obama 2008.” But the tech industry is a key contributor for any democratic contender, so I don’t expect much progress here. Might still be the right choice though, but I don’t think this is the i
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I think Stockholm does have more startups than the rest of Sweden, though, so there is probably more to it. The article understates the size of Stockholm a bit though. As measured by urban area it’s a city of 2.5 million.
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by oxymoron 8y ago
It’s not about TCP per se. RDMS connections are usually highly stateful and resource consuming on the server end. That’s why they are usually pooled.
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Remember the Toyota uncontrolled acceleration bug and the report that came as a result of the trial. It seems like software is a bit of a second thought for some incumbents too.
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b) use ssh, but control access with a firewall or vpn. c) fair enough, although you should probably be using keypairs and a vpn for test and dev envs too.
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by oxymoron 8y ago
Ah, my bad. I got the impression that it was introduced in the commit on the 31st of July.
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by oxymoron 8y ago
I think he’s saying: a) Why are you using bleeding edge software in production, and especially so unreleased versions of OpenSSH? b) Why are your SSH servers exposed to public traffic? c) User enumeration is useful for finding accounts with
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by oxymoron 8y ago
Very good book. It’s astounding that the heritage of Bell Labs is so great that Unix only gets a mention in passing. It starts out with an overview of the American telecom monopoly in order to put Bell Labs into context, explains how they p
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by oxymoron 8y ago
Your point rings true even in this case. There was another Therac (50? 100? It’s been a while since I read about it) machine which had the same bug, but where noone got hurt due to hardware safeguards.
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by oxymoron 8y ago
The feature is opt-in. Firefox will use your system configured DNS servers unless you explicitly enable DOH. In that case you can still change Cloudfare for some other server if you’d like.
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That’s simply not true. Mozilla is not sharing DNS queries with Cloudfare by default, nor are they overriding your configured DNS servers per default. This is an experimental opt-in feature, and they are also running an opt-in study. There
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Harder to distinguish between DNS queries and other traffic. Since a lot of censorship is DNS based that’s significant.
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To be fair, GDPR stipulates only that it should be available in a common machine-readable format. It doesn’t require the most convenient format conceivable. Also, CSV can’t easily handle nested objects. If the data model is even slightly mo
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by oxymoron 8y ago
These are to a large extent the same observations as the ones made by Thomas Piketty in _Capital in the 21st Century_. I’m a classic liberal in the Smith/Mill sense, but nevertheless found it to be a thoughtful criticism of the capital
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by oxymoron 8y ago
_The Fate of Africa_ is a comprehensive post-colonial history of the whole continent which does a great job with identifying overarching developments and spinning them into a narrative. It’s also very readable. I thoroghly recommend it.
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by oxymoron 8y ago
I recommend ”A short history of nearly everything” to everyone, regardless of background. It covers a range of scientific fields and their history. My favorite part is his description of biological taxonomy. I also rememver enjoying his cha
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by oxymoron 8y ago
It makes sense to pick a timezone that aligns winter daylight with working hours. Daylight is abundant during summer though, so switching is pure stupidity.
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Which coincidentally is when Sweden adopted it (1980, to be strict.)
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It’s like this with almost all crops. In their natural habitat there are also pests which has evolved to parasite the plant. This usually makes large scale agriculture difficult or even impossible. By moving a crop to some place far away yo
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by oxymoron 8y ago
If you are curious about the low level details of DNS, you might want to check out an article I wrote about how to build a DNS server from first principles: https://github.com/EmilHernvall/dnsguide
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by oxymoron 8y ago
I compared them yesterday. There seems to be more development activity and more contributors for Gitea (check the pulse tool on github for the last month). I haven’t got a stake in this whatsoever, but I recall the rationale for the fork be
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by oxymoron 8y ago
Ten years ago everyone had a Windows PC, even if they only did light word processing and web browsing. That’s just not true anymore. Windows remains the only viable platform for PC gaming, but the difference is that it used to be the only v
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by oxymoron 8y ago
Possibly Fault Tree Analysis. It’s commonly used in the aerospace industry, and SpaceX explicitly mentioned it while searching for the Amos 5 problem. Probably only one of several methods, though.
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by oxymoron 8y ago
I looked it up, since I got downvoted (see sibling comment). Since he’s talking about the Gini coeffecient, I’d presume he’s referring to income inequality, although it’s not explicit.
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Quoting from _Better angels of our nature_ p119: ”Among economic measures, inequality is generally a better predictor of violence than unemployment. But The Gini coefficient, the standard index of inequality, actually rose in the United Sta
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According to Stephen Pinker, the correlation between inequality and violence is weak. It really surprised me, because I always assumed that they’d be linked.
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Building a DNS server in Rust(github.com)
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by oxymoron 9y ago
Rob Dunn also tells the story of Fordlandia in Never out of Season ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/031626072X ). It’s a quick and interesting read of why we need crop diversity, and has a couple of really inte
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by oxymoron 9y ago
There’s some discussion of the Botulism claim in the article. Apparently Italian ham producers dropped nitrates in 1993, and there hasn’t been a case of Botulism since. The article also mentions that Danish organic bacon is supposedly nitra
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It may also mean that they’ve expanded the user base in countries that have lower purchasing power than western europe, and thus probably lower pricing. That’s surely a good thing?

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