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(Replying to my own post). Also, it’s gotta be mentally draining to be told by the president they have to win but also always let Russian attacks though. https://www.nbcnews.com/po…

I suspect the Cold War of cyber warfare that is happening is orders of magnitude bigger than the public knows. Imagine knowing this and not being able to get emotional support from…

That turned out to be false. Normal attrition / vacation time.

SPF flattening is difficult to get correct and then you have to check it every so often to update it. DNSControl automates this. https://docs.dnscontrol.org/language-reference/doma…

"The best way to teach something new is to compare it to something the audience already understands." Could someone take the example, reduce it to a non-generic version for two typ…

He was also executive director of both the USENIX Association in its very early years.

“Dictators stay in power until there are food riots” is what every sociologist I know tells me. I hope the “riots” are in the form of voting.

Ada was also ignored because the typical compiler cost tens of thousands of dollars. No open source or free compiler existed during the decades where popular languages could be had…

I’m old enough to remember when the FSF said that blocking spam was censorship. Good to see them wake up.

Whatbmakes you say that? Devs use stacked PRs in small and large repos today.

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I will speculate the DDOS attacks are funded by companies and governments that benefit from not being held accountable for their past deeds. I suspect X, Google, China, PRNK, Hunga…

If Dijkstra blamed Knuth it would have been the best recursive joke ever.

I hear you, friend! While you were seeing those problems with Java at Google, I saw seeing it with Python. So many levels of indirection. Holy cow! So many unneeded superclasses an…

This is the way.

Oh, damn! I should have picked a name that references "you'll poke your eye out!"

Poking values into your YAML or JSON files has benefits over building them with templates.

So how many angels can you fit on the head of a pin?

Here we see Go haters in their natural habitat, the HN comment section. Watch as they stand at the watering hole, bored and listless. A sad look on their faces, knowing that now th…

I said this in 2015... just not as well! "Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron" https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2841313

I can’t find where in the article the author claims it is new (as in original). In fact, the author shows that this is an evolution of go vet and others. What’s new, however, is th…

DNS changes propagate. They just do-so in a pull, not push, way. It’s accurate to say that a user is waiting for the change to propagate if they are sitting there clicking re-try a…

Shhh! Don’t tell anyone. Years ago MS depended on Windows. It was the profit center. Everything MS did was a moat to sell more seats. Even MS-Exchange was just a ploy to force ente…