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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> If you look at the old scripts-and-daemons hairball that systemd replaces, it has a lot of security warts too. Not even close. Scripts were always memory safe and limitations of shell didn't allow to go crazy with things and int
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
While systemd is a significant downgrade in security compared to init systems written in shell, which is memory safe, this particular hole can be attributed to many things, but systemd is barely one of them. Linux networking stack is pretty
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Russia was ruined by Yeltsin This is just propaganda. Another way to look at it: Putin, as a head of FSB, sabotaged Yeltsin to get into power.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Yeah, the map is a bit weird and biased, maybe just uninformed or influence of governments is spilling over to the map. I see examples of repressed status given to closed countries, obstructed and narrowed to more open than narrowed countri
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> I mention this because it's sometimes easy to dismiss until you're in the situation and the realities of what you have control over are vastly different from technically feasible. I understand, but you are still talking abo
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Say you have a few nodes behind a few different ISPs sharded to clients. Once one node becomes unavailable it gets replaced by another node and back when it becomes available again. This means either all nodes at once can get attacked, but
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
It was far from the only effective solution. Probably just an easy path for someone who has no idea about DDoS attacks, but influenced by advertisement and propaganda. Volumetric attacks don't actually require centralized global interm
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
It's just easy to implement constant rate, hence why it's best practice. But adaptive rate might be ok, like, for example, if you only pick from 4 different rates and adapt exactly every second, you only leak 2 bits of information
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
You are assuming that high resolution details of a face have value in a world where surveillance doesn't capture faces in high resolution.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
No need to be a state actor, private companies do that too and sell data to law enforcement. There is no realistic threat, just propaganda.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
It's not better to have your face or other data in a database within reach of your own government. Your government has power over you, other governments do not.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
No, cloud stuff in a box kind of product, i.e. software, hardware is obviously secondary to it. People are confused because of the comedic level of bullshit (reminds me of "the box" from a Silicon Valley tv show episode).
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> "a true cloud-like on-prem experience" I'm afraid what people mean by that statement and what the startup is going to try to do are completely different things. As in people mean AWS-like cloud services running on mult
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Related to the post, some disk and filesystem reliability research in chronological order, including things from the author. Disks: An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives (2007) https://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl&
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
It's not that easy to come up with a decent filesystem API. Consider that filesystem data cannot be synced to underlying storage in a such way that it can be reliably read later and backups by definition are asynchronous and provide ev
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Only Belarus from your list didn't "liberalize" its economy and retained central planning.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
K8s is not an advancement in orchestration and is very much on the AWS side in this, deeply integrating with proprietary cloud services that do their own operations and infrastructure, not even considering open sourcing those services and t
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Right, this is another side of things that makes even slow ancient microkernel designs viable.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
No amount of transistors can make shared memory monoliths fast on multicore systems, because the problem is in architecture unfriendly to such systems, not in hardware. Monoliths can be fast if they drop shared memory and use actor model, n
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Performance is a myth too, performance of shared memory monoliths became uncompetitive long ago when they had to adopt to multi core systems, where locality, batching and asynchrony play very significant role. High performance research in n
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Like half of the country are speaking Russian at home and at work too by the way. That doesn't mean they don't know Ukrainian.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Most Crimeans don't speak any Ukrainian. No, most Crimeans do speak both Russian and Ukrainian, just like everyone else in Ukraine, since Ukrainian is the only official language and it's pretty much impossible to not be exp
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> The vast majority of people in Crimea are Russian speakers (as well as being ethnically Russian), not Ukrainian. It's been that way since the Russian Empire conquered the peninsula from the Ottomans in 1783. In fact, there's
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Presumably sitting typing an e-mail on your PC with screen on is where most of the energy consumption comes from.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Even if estimates were true, not sending an email still produces the same amount of CO2, or even worse, as people go waste this free time on entertainment, like watching videos, playing games.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Dark mode looks like shit on CRTs and even older flat panels with poor contrast. I think you got it backwards. I remember using black backgrounds and things like "mc -b" specifically because CRTs I used sucked at light colo
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> I am talking about people with multiple years of full-time experience in the field and a relevant degree who cannot even implement a basic FizzBuzz. I'm sure all of them can implement FizzBuzz, just not on the interview under pr
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> We can't find anyone __worth__ interviewing right now There is enough research in job markets showing that companies get more picky and advertise more demanding and complicated job requirements as more candidates are available.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Novelty he talks about is one thing, but economics is a policy driven political system, not rooted in science and hence forced on people and supported with propaganda. The difference is between fighting opinions of powerless people and figh
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Not all countries are equal at this. Some push police country level obedience, like with "detentions" modeling jails.

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