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by teddyh 1y ago
Clickbait rescue summary: Apple Wallet has ads now. Actual story: < https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/24/apple-pushed-wallet-notificat... >
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by teddyh 1y ago
Open source software drops hardware support only when there are nobody left who volunteers to support that hardware. When does this happen? It happens when there are not enough users left of that hardware. As long as there are enough user
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by teddyh 1y ago
You might secretly be an elephant.
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by teddyh 1y ago
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. — Jerome K. Jerome
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by teddyh 1y ago
ISTR a discussion in Tog on Interface on the design choices available, with visual examples. This seems to indicate that the choice was made there.
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“except Unicode escape sequences”
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by teddyh 1y ago
> This is completely unsubstantiated speculation on your part. Do you have any support for your assumption that the wildcard record was vital and practically impossible to replace with regular records? > It is indeed reasonably e
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by teddyh 1y ago
It used to show "a recent sharp drop", back when you originally gave the link. It quite soon started to climb again, and the climb has continued, as is now clearly visible. This was pointed out to you, but you acted, and are stil
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by teddyh 1y ago
Articles only need click-bait titles, not pictures, in order to be profitable. Relevant and informative pictures are an unecessary expense. People don’t read articles to be informed, people read articles to feel smart. And to just feel sm
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That last sentence is possibly taken from < https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-... >: “If you have customers, never outsource customer service.”
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Being a free software maintainer, especially for code that you did not yourself write, is in effect a volunteer position in a charity or a non-profit organization. You yourself volunteered to take the position, and when you did, you beca
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by teddyh 1y ago
I will respond with a link you once gave: < https://www.verisign.com/en_US/company-information/verisign-... >
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by teddyh 1y ago
> 1) That would do nothing to fix resolvers that had already cached NSEC responses lacking type maps. The TTL for NSEC records are presumably way lower than the TTL for the DS records. > 2) That presumes the wildcard record was sup
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Fixed two weeks ago (in Debian at least).
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Try nitter.tiekoetter.com.
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I also hear that a rubber band on your wrist is useful for addiction.
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The Valve Steam Deck runs SteamOS, which is Linux.
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They could have done a quick fix by adding an explicit app.slack.com record. But instead they removed the DNSSEC signing from the whole domain, thereby invalidating all records, not just the wildcard ones. > I do care. I will care o
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by teddyh 1y ago
> IBM didn't invent this scheme. Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V isn’t even part of the IBM CUA specification. CUA places the Cut command at Shift-Del, Copy on Ctrl-Insert, and Paste on Shift-Insert.
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by teddyh 1y ago
IIUC, if Slack had done the correct thing, only wildcard DNS records (if any) would have been affected. They would certainly not have had a complete DNS blackout. I would classify that as significant. > The story for implementers is
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by teddyh 1y ago
Clickbait rescue: “Millennium 2.2 (1989) — and possibly its 1991 sequel, Deuteros: The Next Millennium.”. Not released for C64, but (among others) for the Commodore Amiga.
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by teddyh 1y ago
It's funny that you of all people should say that, as I have said the same thing to you a number of times when discussing DNSSEC.
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by teddyh 1y ago
IIRC, Slack backed out of their DNSSEC deployment because of a bug with wildcards and NSEC records (in Route53, not Slack), but the problem Slack subsequently experienced was not caused by that bug, but was instead caused by the boneheade
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by teddyh 1y ago
“Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers
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by teddyh 1y ago
A.k.a. “goals vs. systems”: • < https://web.archive.org/web/20210811125743/https://www.scott... > Alternatively, as a ~5-minute video: • < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwcKTYvupJ
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Canonical link: < https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15491 >
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Human children can’t live on onions. < https://scarygoround.com/badmachinery/index.html?pg=374#show... >
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Yes, but systemd-resolved is only a stub resolver, not a real resolver.
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For offline documentation, I use these in order of preference: • Info¹ documentation, which I read directly in Emacs. (If you have ever used the terminal-based standalone “info” program, please try to forget all about it. Use Emacs to read
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These are resolvers, not authoritative DNS servers.

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