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This practice was confirmed by Elections Alberta: > Each electoral list legitimately released by Elections Alberta includes a certain number of fictitious — or "seeded" — names. Th…

Yeah, the Canadian telco was Rogers. Total recovery took multiple days. From the Wikipedia writeup: > In a letter to the CRTC, Rogers stated that the deletion of a routing filter o…

Datapacket has a number of dedicated server configurations in various locations and offers unmetered connections: https://www.datapacket.com/pricing

Yes, I registered as an individual (but was reimbursed through my employer's training budget), and did so a few months in advance as the previous session seemed to fill up pretty q…

I was lucky enough to take David Beazley's "Rafting Trip," a five-day training course that guides each student through building their own Raft implementation from scratch: https://…

A prior employer shipped a lot of systems based on Lanner and Portwell equipment: https://www.lannerinc.com/products/network-appliances https://portwell.com/products/ca-b.php

Consul’s autopilot feature makes life a little easier by automatically reaping failed instances: https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/tutorials/datacenter-... Paired with cloud d…

You can do this below ground level, but it loses some other useful properties (catching more sunlight, improved drainage, ergonomics). Depending on where you live, one approach may…

The permaculture community emphasizes the concept of “appropriate technology,” which depends on context but generally means “seek simple/low-impact approaches.” If you’re building …

packagecloud's in-depth writeups on the Linux networking stack are a great read: https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/06/22/monitoring-tunin... https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/20…

A recent Canadian example: > The data being broadcast includes the patients name, age, gender marker, diagnosis, their attending doctor and room number. Other broadcasts regarding …

It’s possible to raise chickens as part of a broader regenerative system where much of the feed is an output from elsewhere in that system. This has been done profitably by folks l…

A surge from a lightning strike near my home travelled over the cable line to kill a network switch and the WAN port on a firewall. (Strangely, the cable modem was spared.) Everyth…

Another vote for the HiFiBerry. I’ve used their Digi+ board (which includes optical-out) with a Pi3B running Volumio for a couple years and it’s been fantastic.

Nope - silly assumption on my part.

Is hundreds of acres of solar an option in South Korea?

My layperson's understanding of the furnaces producing silicon ingots is that they can't power down in-process; best case, they take weeks to bring back into service, while the wor…

Was any reasoning made public for this decision? It seems bizarre to have left the *BSD projects in the dark.

Typical portable water filters do remove bacteria, but not viruses.

Not yet - keep an eye on their wiki page for Meltdown/Spectre: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAn...

Ubuntu’s kernel package updates are pending. This Ubuntu Wiki page is being updated with relevant information and package updates as they become available: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/…

It’s also worth noting Lambda still lacks a formal SLA.

I’m a layperson, but these sample sizes seem small. Is this a legitimate concern?

I didn't realize he wrote this after Hurricane Katrina. He posted a follow-up in 2015: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/09/03/being-poor-ten-years-o...

TIL there's quite a few countries that use the decimal point as a thousands separator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Examples_of_use