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Brave has built in adblocking and I think Firefox Focus does as well. No ads on YouTube.

Jeff Snider from Alhambra Partners routinely makes this distinction: https://alhambrapartners.com/2021/10/13/perfect-time-to-revi... They have a great podcast: https://podcasts.app…

I used to work for a startup that quickly grew to become one of the biggest Lambda users in my country (according to AWS). The entire business was serverless, not just Lambda but b…

Yeah, seems dumb "economist" thinking. The idea that "if someone gives up and walks away, everyone behind them benefits" is a absurd on two fronts.The stall owner clearly doesn't b…

You shouldn't pass unescaped/untrusted input into a subshell but your suggestion doesn't solve for every case. It protects against ";" but not path traversal with "../../../../../f…

This issue with the backups happened to me as well. I managed to solve it by disabling iCloud Backup which deletes all the backups, then re-enabling it. I think essentially what ha…

network namespaces and any reverse proxy :)

It's not the inflation component which is killing real personal income (ex transfer receipts)...it's the bad modelling which is used to generate current estimates that are subject …

When I had to do some pf work, googling around rendered this project which uses pf to provide network segmentation for jails and edge firewalling. Was quite useful learning referen…

I grew up using Debian and later Ubuntu, longer than 10 years on those distros as a kid and into my career as a sysadmin/operations person. Ubuntu LTS was my main workhorse form ab…

This looks SO cool! Kind of like Erlang but at a different level, so you can model both inter-node systems (like Erlang) but also intra-node systems (like USB3 drivers)! As someone…

Spotify should consider implementing Consul :P

Even though there were two patches submitted in 2013 and 2014 to switch to ChaCha: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2013-Octobe... https://lists.freebsd.org/piperma…

I was a team lead for an IBM operations team for 6 months in 2016. Aside from my first two days, I worked from home the entire duration of the role, based in Sydney. Most of my sta…

I am a big fan of grsec, RBAC and sandboxing stuff. But let's be real here people! Those are good features on servers where there isn't a giant security black-hole called X, where …

> I don't think, or get the impression, that this would be used for full-system virtualization. It seems to be more targeted toward an AWS Lambda sort of usage pattern; a micro-VM …

I have been following ZeroVM since it's inception and often go to the website and stare longingly at my screen thinking of amazing things it could do (when coupled with OpenStack S…

It doesn't matter whether you use WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger "Secret Conversations" or even Signal app (or PGP or any public key based communications system)!. If you are not ver…

Confirm, it's just a DNS block like previous attempts by the AU Gov to block stuff. If you're on a Apple device you probably need to use VPN to specify an alternate DNS and either …

> First off, the replication thing. It is true that ES, C*, and Mongo replicate within their cluster mostly automatically. However, this is not without cost. It takes non-trivial a…

This doesn't really make much sense to me. If your systems support software level replication (Elasticsearch, Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB all do) then why do you need persistent stor…

This is some serious FUD, pretty standard for Newsweeks bitcoin reporting, which included harassment of Dorian Nakomoto. This is probably an unpopular opinion on HN, but let's face…

Coming from OpenStack land where Ceph is used heavily, it's well known that you shouldn't run production Ceph on VMs and that CephFS (which is like an NFS endpoint for Ceph itself)…