sciurus

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by sciurus 7y ago
Vitess was created by Youtube. But they're hardly the only places scaling out MySQL. Facebook and Slack are two other prominent examples.
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by sciurus 7y ago
The job posts are available now at https://careers.mozilla.org/position/gh/1728740/ and https://careers.mozilla.org/position/gh/1788495/ .
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by sciurus 7y ago
When a security engineer I know learned about this, they described it as "the next heartbleed" and it's hard not to concur. The scope and impact of this class of attack is much bigger than anyone realized prior to this rese
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Computer Science Could Learn a Lot from Library and Information Science(forbes.com)
1 points by sciurus 7y ago|0 comments
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by sciurus 7y ago
Unfortunately it's the nature of a wiki to get out of date. There's plenty of opportunity to contribute to services used by Firefox users or developers whether you write python, rust, JavaScript, golang, or something else. Take a
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After Trump cites Amazon concerns, Pentagon reexamines Jedi cloud contract(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by sciurus 7y ago|0 comments
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by sciurus 7y ago
Mozilla | Operations Engineer | Remote The team I'm on at Mozilla is preparing to hire more junior/mid and senior engineers in the USA, Canada, and Germany. We build and maintain the infrastructure that supports Firefox’s many fea
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by sciurus 7y ago
Ticketmaster is a successful example of the emulation strategy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9808995
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by sciurus 7y ago
It's way less mature than vanilla MySQL or postgresql.
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by sciurus 7y ago
What's even more bizarre is that for me, when using bluetooth audio I get part of the prompts, but other parts are missing. I I remember correctly, it leaves out important words like "left" amd "right". It works fin
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by sciurus 7y ago
I don't look at the well-architected framework as "the AWS way is the best way of doing things" but rather "this is the best way of doing things on AWS".
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by sciurus 7y ago
While I was at Eventbrite we were using Solr and started moving to Elasticsearch. I know one of the main people I worked with on that recently left for Github, which also uses Elasticsearch. At Mozilla I work one project with a search compo
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by sciurus 7y ago
"FF only validates the End-entity is within date range" No, this was disabled back in 2016. The technical report briefly had this worded wrong, sorry if you read it before it was corrected. "what is the point of the signing s
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by sciurus 7y ago
How does Dark handle code review? Even if I was willing to accept the other tradeoffs that come with Dark, I'd want another human to approve my changes before that 50ms deploy to production kicks off.
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by sciurus 7y ago
Filestore is basically a single google-managed instance running NFS. It's much less sophisticated and resilient than EFS, but also can be much faster since it doesn't have the overhead of a distributed system. Don't try runni
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by sciurus 7y ago
Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_wave_propagation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywave
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California Earthquakes Disrupted HF Propagation on West Coast(arrl.org)
218 points by sciurus 7y ago|95 comments
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by sciurus 7y ago
Sailmail does not use the amateur bands, so it wouldn't be affected; it is licensed under https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/mobility-divis...
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by sciurus 7y ago
The concern with winlink is twofold: 1) It transmits without checking if the frequency is already in use, and is thus a source of interference to other users 2) It uses a proprietary protocol that requires purchasing expensive hardware from
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by sciurus 7y ago
The petition doesn't say they shouldn't be allowed. It just suggests the people developing such modes must provide the means to decode them.
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by sciurus 7y ago
It's not about all digital modes. It's about proprietary digital modes. As the petition says: > Almost all digital modes in common amateur radio use are capable of being monitored by third parties, either through an integrated
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by sciurus 7y ago
I wouldn't be sure sure that a decade old Intel ATOM CPU would compare favorably to a modern ARM CPU. Also, the optiplex would use more power, which might eventually negate the savings from buying a power supply and case for the pi. h
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by sciurus 7y ago
Agreed. I came here to say overclocking a raspberry pi seems like it misses the point of the pi relative to other computers.
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by sciurus 7y ago
Hindsight isn't exactly heka in C; it's useful for data processing but not as a general-purpose log shipper. Currently we're using fluentd for the latter. (Disclosure: I work for Mozilla on the team that runs services used by
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by sciurus 7y ago
They linked it. Service Fabric. > Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform for packaging, deploying, and managing stateless and stateful distributed applications and containers at large scale. https://github.com/M
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by sciurus 7y ago
There's an issue for this at https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/2286
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by sciurus 7y ago
I think the better comparison than SafeBrowsing for uBlock would be Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection, which is on by default. This uses data maintained by Disconnect. (Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla)
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by sciurus 7y ago
Out of curiosity, what orgs are you comparing us to? When you install Firefox Preview, tracking protection is enabled by default. This is recently true for Firefox Desktop as well. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019&#x2
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by sciurus 7y ago
You can learn more about Geckoview, the reusable heart of Firefox Preview, at https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/06/geckoview-in-2019/ (Disclosure: I work for Mozilla)
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by sciurus 7y ago
No, it's either one-way or two-way. One-way is usually prohibited except in a few case, two-way is usually fine unless it violates one of the prohibitions like encryption. Your two-way communications using ham radio are public, not pri

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