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bdd

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About bdd

days: cryptography at meta. evenings & weekends: computers, electronics, radios (NG6E)

https://bdd.fi

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    Comment #46932648

    Works on this Postgres 17.7: postgres=# show server_version; server_version ------------------------------- 17.7 (Debian 17.7-3.pgdg13+1) (1 row) postgres=# SELECT sum(blks_hit)/nu…

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    Comment #45392992

    IPv6 adoption visualizations from others: - Meta: https://www.facebook.com/ipv6/ - Akamai: https://www.akamai.com/security-research/ipv6-adoption-visua... - Cloudflare: https://rad…

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    Comment #42766140

    > Indeed where the DRM error message comes from https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ffd294d346d185b70e28b ... That's for compact flash cards. Based on the kernel message from th…

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    Comment #42766055

    I don't think in this very case it has anything to do with digital rights management. It detects an Intel SATA SSD, SSDSCKJF360A5L a disk that supports ATA Trusted Send/Receive com…

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    Comment #42705628

    I believe https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/pull/372196 fixes this if you are using systemd-networkd. It was merged to master last week and made it to unstable branches ( https://ni…

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    Comment #42324076

    If you want to read more about cryptographic key wear out, Soatok wrote an excellent explainer on this a few years ago https://soatok.blog/2020/12/24/cryptographic-wear-out-for-sy.…

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    Comment #41276810

    > if you want a non-Python runtime for some reason [...] Magic Wormhole project has its own alternate implementation https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole.rs , which is …

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    Comment #39556953

    Yes. And that was 4 years ago. Must add that figure does NOT include static asset serving path.

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    Comment #37486058

    > I'm not sure if KVM switching can be controlled over DDC but it's likely. They do. Here's my shell function that helps me switch between DisplayPort-1 + USB uplink cable to the h…

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    Comment #37168919

    Dunno. This works for me without damaging the parts, pads, or traces. Your link is for PCBA reflow ovens. Talks about minutes long of exposure. I'm using a Atten ST-862D hot air st…

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    Comment #37166194

    Reflowing the controller worked for me twice for now. Once with an Intel Optane drive that worked without issues for 3 years and started overheating one day. And another one from a…

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    Comment #36872853

    Katriel Cohn-Gordon is also a Meta employee.

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    Comment #36580566

    Seems like only available in certain locations. You can play with the `gl` query parameter in the URL. Yours is for Italy ("it"). It's available in other continental Europe locatio…

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    Comment #34090300

    Tangent: U.FL connectors. Gawd, they suck. I was pleasantly surprised to see U.FL removal tool in the write up. The female connectors have at best 10 mating cycles in my experience…

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    Comment #32040390

    Metrics scope is the logical grouping of assets you are monitoring. Explained in detail here https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/settings along with a video. Web console allows che…

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    Comment #32038383

    Google's uptime monitoring also allows writing JSONPath checks, so one can monitor HTTP 200 JSON responses semantically.

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    Comment #32037880

    You can get free uptime monitoring from Google Cloud. The limit is 100 uptime checks per monitoring scope, which may mean either a project or an organization based on how you confi…

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    Comment #30716267

    You can find old logo, obscure internal project or team name t-shirts of Google and Facebook with little to no effort if you can visit thrift stores in Bay Area or Seattle. Every s…

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    Comment #29754907

    FWIW as a content provider to mobile heavy eyeball networks, Facebook has been clocking US v6 adoption consistently over 50% since Sep 2018. Traffic stats encompass all Facebook pr…

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    Comment #29517656

    no. it wasn't a "bad bgp update". bgp withdrawal of anycast addresses was a desired outcome of a region (serving location) getting disconnected from the backbone. if you'd like to …

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    Comment #28954031

    Does Fastmail actually have multiple providers? One of their mail exchangers, web site, SMTP, POP, and IMAP servers are all on the same /24, that belongs to NYI (AS11403) and accor…

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    Comment #26716179

    These jobs had their allotted quotas, per team, giving them above >70% utilization in their logical slice of the cluster. E.g. video processing team gets 20,000 nodes globally. The…

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    Comment #26714855

    Twitter. From generic caches to ad serving; from stream processing to video encoding, all high utilization applications of either one or multiple schedulable resources.

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    Comment #26708372

    If "Who can look you up using the phone number you provided?" setting wasn't set to "Everyone" in your privacy settings, then your phone number wouldn't be visible to the scraping …

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    Comment #26421130

    Facebook has an IPv6 adoption dashboard as well. https://www.facebook.com/ipv6 We clock India at 66.06% and US at 59.37%