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This has nothing to do with transport. Iranian drone strikes disabled a Qatari helium _production_ facility.

Interesting bit from that article wrt to transport infrastructure: "most distributors simply stick to the industry standard transport of Grade 5. That is why for and [sic] end user…

Well-designed sitemaps and use of something like https://www.indexnow.org/ helps. Cloudflare has Crawler Hints which works well IME: https://blog.cloudflare.com/crawler-hints-how-c…

Just out of curiosity, what adblocker? I read the Guardian a lot with uBlock Origin turned on, and I've never had issues.

I've got the Android app and love it, as well as Knots 3D. Most knot enthusiasts will already know about it, but in the analog world The Ashley Book of Knots is fantastic. Beautifu…

I use them both. I like Knots 3D better, but it's missing some knots that I use. No EStar stopper or Matthew Walker in Knots 3D, for example.

I can't tell much about your infrastructure, but memcached would probably increase that by several orders of magnitude. The NGINX module is pretty simple: https://nginx.org/en/docs…

112 and 911 (US) work on almost every mobile phone anywhere in the world. It's part of the GSM/UMTS standard. 999 is supported with either no SIM card or a UK SIM card. See §7.1 he…

TIL, I always thought IP:ASN mappings were 1:1.

It's not good as a first line of defense for failover, but with some client software and/or failure mechanisms there aren't any better approachs I'm aware of. Some of the software …

I have mine set low on some records because I want to be able to change the IP associated with specific RTMP endpoints if a provider goes down. The client software doesn't use mult…

Maybe, but I don't think TTL matters for speed of initial propagation. I do set it low when I first configure a website so I don't have to wait hours to correct a mistake I might n…

Agreed; I have no idea how you'd implement that across multiple ASNs, which is definitely a requirement for multi-cloud or geo-redundant architectures. Seems like you'd be trying t…

> basically no attempt by anyone in government to stop them. No one in the _US_ government. Note that European governments and China haven't approved it in the first place.

They're the CDN in front of ~19% of websites [1] and the DNS provider for ~16% [2]. Doesn't that mean your staff can't access any of those sites? [1]: https://w3techs.com/technolog…

This seems... deeply idiotic on GitHub's part. Consider the following scenario: 1. A script/CI/etc is pulling the latest releases from the repository. 2. Ownership of the account i…

This Reddit thread has a script with a workaround: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/15ysxgs/applicati... There are comments saying it's worked on several Quickbooks integ…

I've also had great experiences with Tumbleweed for the most part, but be careful using ZFS, as it frequently breaks with updates. Probably not something most people use, but it do…

> open access "allows for manipulation of systems on a vehicle, including safety-critical functions such as steering, acceleration, or braking." I assume this is just FUD, but if t…

On a related note, my favorite easter egg header: http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/

The linked paper towards the end is pretty interesting: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ddi.13489 (open access) Figures 3 and 4 show the estimated increase in rang…

While that might be true of Phoenix (if the cars aren't electric, and gas station pumps continue to work during this hypothetical blackout), US car ownership rates are _insanely_ h…

You're right, a temperature rise without a corresponding increase in water vapor content does reduce RH (relative humidity). It does not, however, remove any water from the air in …

The novel "Ministry For The Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson starts out in a similar fashion, with 12 million people dying in a heat wave. It's a great read, albeit disturbingly pla…

My rule of thumb for evaluating laws: what could the most malicious person you can imagine do with that power? 'Hate speech' is a highly subjective category, and most proposals for…