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Give me 10 years and hind-sight and I'll have your answer.

Fair point, but then plenty of people were using hosted solutions for their naive PHP apps too. Managed solutions don't prevent poor/improper configuration in either case. The mana…

I get the feeling K8 is the modern PHP. Software that's easy to pick up and use without complete understanding and get something usable. Even if its not efficient and results in lo…

So inversely, it is the right solution for police to permit lots of crime in well-off areas. “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges,…

Stuff like this seems so... masturbatory. Your writing something in python so speed is right out the window. Fine, I've written stuff in python too and it gets the job done. I like…

“[t]he more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rig…

Yes, but no. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/pet2004-fpd.pdf tl;dr The signal from a DVI cable can be detected but at much more reduced ranges. See also; RAGEMASTER (Snowden leak) …

On the subject of email verification; Why not split the difference. Verify but give a 24 or 48 hours grace? I noticed you said "meaningful" impact and not "no impact". If your opti…

Increasing user productivity and usability by any % doesn't directly translate to revenue. Steering users to premium features or ad click-throughs does directly translate to revenu…

I know. Lets move it all that annoying complexity to yaml/json/XML config files! Now look at this app I can write in 30 lines of code with this framework! Oh and 500 lines of yaml …

“But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” -- George Orwell, 1984

This is pretty much it. Let's frame the proposition differently to get people to consider it from a new perspective. I can verify the OS install media with trusted publishes using …

Not exactly. That's why those same vendors work so hard at disabling root access for exactly the reasons outlined by the article; root can wreck it or maybe read out keys, or a mil…

Not "Best Practice" according to whom? Cloud vendors selling lock-in services? From an architectural perspective how is a bare VM at a remote data center worse than indeterminate/u…

From what I remember, each disk was roughly a single "island". I think they tried to keep it semi-logical but I doubt it was as effective as they would have liked.

Point of fact; A touch interface digitizer and the LCD screen are two separate components just often glued and sold as a single unit. Replacing a digitizer, or a screen should be n…

I had CL fiber. VLAN tagging; The vlan tagging value was so high, OpenWRT didn't support it so I was left with the useless middle box. Your mileage may very.

You have the privileged position of having something to lose. To a significant portion of our population, fighting over scraps is already the reality. What exactly is irrational ab…

> The math states something much more general, and often much deeper, than some mundane for-loop Eh? Code can be just as generalized and "deep". The code may (probably) not be usef…

DuoBango https://github.com/DoubangoTelecom/doubango Use with any standard SIP client. It can be stand alone or part of a PBX... It can be crabby to build and as others have pointe…

TL;DR S. Korea traded privacy and freedom for security.

It's one of the most powerful weapons authorities can swing at anyone at anytime . It's dead simple to poison some website, insert a thumb drive, or just flat out lie and put it on…

No. The difference is those with means can accept the risk of asking for more. It's not simply that they ask, its that they survive when/if it fails.

"Where do you have the greatest degree in equality?" The answer to that looks very different in 2020 than it did in 1970. "Look at the wage rate between the foreman and the worker …

Can you? What does China tell us about Republics, given that it is the Peoples Republic of China? What does North Korea tell us about democracy and repulbics, given that it is "The…