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by tolien 8y ago
> There is a longstanding firmware issue that introduces packet loss for routed packets Interesting, do you have any more about this? Got an ER-PoE that intermittently loses packets and have never got to the bottom of why (I gave up and
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by tolien 8y ago
His colleague on dialysis would probably be happier with full insurance rather than relying on Medicare though (or could maybe have got preventative treatment before needing dialysis, who knows). The focus on take-home pay misses the other
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by tolien 8y ago
Mandatory for cars type-approved after the 7th of February 2011 [1], not all new cars. Some manufacturers were selling models that were type-approved before that date for years later (the Peugeot 3008 is one example), and therefore weren’
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by tolien 8y ago
It’s non-linear for most of those things though - a class of 20 kids or a class of 30 kids still need a teacher (although there’s evidence that the former’s going to have better outcomes), books aren’t bought new every year so are amortised
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Beware of your next glibc upgrade(postgresql.verite.pro)
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Firefox Identity Project(hicksdesign.co.uk)
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by tolien 8y ago
I didn't mean that middleboxes are incompatible with corporate networks, but that TLS's design of "your traffic is encrypted and nobody between Alice and Bob can read what they say" is. Middleboxes are a workaround for
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by tolien 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlebox The nature of TLS is that nobody in the middle is supposed to be able to read what's encrypted, and that either end can detect if traffic they receive has been modified in t
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by tolien 8y ago
Got some bad news on that front: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/piper-dead-dog-airport-mi...
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by tolien 8y ago
> i say this is the exact reason running your own mail server in 2018 is problematic. It's a reason why allowing these fairly core services to be provided by a shrinking group of organisations is equally problematic. Maybe one day G
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by tolien 8y ago
The UK security apparatus is nervous about Huawei's involvement in national infrastructure too - to the point that there's a Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) [1]. 1: https://www.gov.uk/government&#x2
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by tolien 8y ago
It’s implied that the Arrow was destroyed quite so completely to stop the Soviets getting their hands on any useful knowledge. Olympus was being used in the Vulcan and the 593 project started in order to produce engines for Concorde a year
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by tolien 8y ago
The UK's equivalent was probably the cancellation of the TSR 2 [1] that nearly put BAC (predecessor to the current BAE Systems 800lb gorilla) out of business, with the same argument as for the Avro Arrow that manned aircraft wouldn&#x2
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Remembering Gerv Markham(benjaminkerensa.com)
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Snoopware installed by 11M+ iOS, Android, Chrome, and Firefox users(arstechnica.com)
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The Shipping Forecast(99percentinvisible.org)
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US Department of Commerce considering tariffs on uranium(arstechnica.com)
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by tolien 8y ago
While it’s a good point that the “quality” of click should be a proxy (i.e. you care that RoI might be low because of bot visits, not about the bot visits in themselves) rather than an actual measurable, is it not reasonable to assume that
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KVM (nested virtualization): privilege escalation in L1 guest(bugs.chromium.org)
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Japanese worker punished for starting lunch three minutes early(theguardian.com)
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by tolien 8y ago
Speaking of the Netherlands, it's worth pointing out that Abellio, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Dutch national rail operator, runs the Scottish, West Midlands, Merseyside and Greater/East Anglia rail franchises. 1: https:&#x2
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by tolien 8y ago
It wasn't my intention to imply that it was expensive - within an order of magnitude of current prices shows how relatively cheap it was, given that electronics and sheer scale will have driven down the cost of parts (if not necessaril
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Pokémon’s first Switch game launches in November, connects to Pokémon Go(arstechnica.com)
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by tolien 8y ago
Inflating by CPI, the option cost $805 at today’s prices [1]. For comparison, the brochure for a model year 2016 Audi A3 reckons cruise control was a £225 and ACC a £575 option i.e. $300 and $763 at current exchange rates. 1: http:/&#
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Twitter finally details new API, screws third-party apps – again(imore.com)
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by tolien 8y ago
If the engine’s off because of stop/start the warning noise should already be much louder and accompanied by dashboard warnings. See also what happens when you leave the lights on. That’s what doesn’t make a lot of sense here before we
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by tolien 8y ago
My point, I suppose, was that one of those cables should be in the box. The charger's neither here nor there for the sake of my argument: as things stand, you can plug your phone into the charger and the connection between the two can
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by tolien 8y ago
There's no real reason that Apple couldn't have had USB-C and some sort of magnetic detachment, like MagSafe - a bunch of third parties sell cables that do exactly that [1]. 1: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbre
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by tolien 8y ago
> As for me, I'm fine with Lightning I'd have expected Lightning to remain but the other end of the cable should've either switched to USB-C or some sort of adapter been included in the box. As things stand you could walk
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Alan Turing’s chemistry hypothesis turned into a desalination filter(arstechnica.com)
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