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I just tried the exploit on a fresh Debian 13 droplet on digitalocean and it worked.

VTI just tracks the CRSP US total stock index, see https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profi... The CRSP index itself adds new companies within 5 days of their I…

Yep, seeing the same for a bunch of my clients.

Freakonomics interviewed Dan Wang about his book Breakneck back in September, see episode #647. It's a very interesting lens through which to view both societies, worth a listen!

NPR Planet Money did a segment on pig butchering scams back in May. They played along with one to get a first hand perspective of the process. It’s a fascinating listen, way more c…

He's mentioned (on twitter, and his Lex Fridman interview) relying on https://replicate.com/ and https://fal.ai/ as the workhorses for his AI stuff.

I was at a Drupal workshop years ago and the guy running it referred to .tpl.php template files as "tipple fipps". Not as absurd as "pup", but still made my skin crawl. I also reca…

Indeed, faa.gov doesn't have an A record in DNS at the moment. https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/#A/faa.gov

Ditto, I took his discrete math course at NCSU in 1998. It was mainly taught by Tiffany Barnes day to day (who was also nice and a great explainer), but Bitzer was often present an…

I'm very interested to see this alongside MySQL 9 ( https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/9.0/en/vector-functions.htm... ), and MariaDB ( https://mariadb.com/kb/en/vector-overview/ ). W…

"uBO" is an abbreviation of "uBlock Origin".

It is only available in the Vector Preview release, for source download only, or through the the pre-built docker image on quay.io. In this initial preview, there is not yet a dedi…

mod_php does give you better response times for individual requests, but at the expense of being able to handle a higher load of traffic; you'll run out of memory and/or experience…

Very cool! What does the changing color of the fluid indicate, particle velocity?

Yes, but MariaDB, mostly DIY on localhost (various test & live VMs I manage). Most painful? Replication with automatic failover could be easier to setup. Considering switching to M…

Scribd has a PDF of "Vietnam Magazine" from February 2016 ( https://www.scribd.com/document/325931427/Vietnam-February-2... ). Page 40 of this PDF has the following quote that supp…

Another reason why SMS-based 2FA is a bad idea.

GlusterFS support looks to be permanently ending later this year. https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhs Note that the Red Hat Gluster Storage product has a defined s…

What is the pricing like, e.g., per-template created, per-PDF rendered, or per-API call? I don't see any pricing info on the public site.

Drush (drupal shell) is just a command line interface to any given Drupal site, similar to Laravel's Artisan console, or Django's django-admin & manage.py, or Wordpress's wp-cli. M…

If you have a lot of hosts listed in your ~/.ssh/config file, you can keep the file from getting too cluttered by using the Include directive, which supports wildcards... # in ~/.s…

I don't follow Berkshire Hathaway much, so I'm not aware of what Warren Buffet has said on this topic, but it sounds super interesting. After a bit of digging, I found this Q&A fro…

The fourth question is in a later blog post, "The Neon God" - https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-neon-god

I had a Master System as well, but my glasses broke early on in my ownership, so I played Maze Hunter, Blade Eagle, and Missile Defnce without them. Eventually, I got accustomed to…