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https://mosh.org/#faq:~:text=Q%3A%20What%20is%20Mosh%27s%20s... The cryptography is standard AES-128 in OCB3 mode. It's been around long enough, and has had enough security scrutin…

It's client-side, so works even if the remote system is totally hung and did not clearly disconnect. For example, running `systemctl suspend` will not terminate active SSH connecti…

DNS servers listen on port 53 :)

The vast minority of utilities in the United States, by number of customers served, are investor-owned; publicly-owned and co-operative utilities only cover 50m people.[1] Theoreti…

Written so hastily they misquoted the "discount" offered (57%, when the clickthru clearly says 51%).

Note that Shaw's and Star Market are both Albertsons :)

Surprised to not see gmail.com in the list[1]. [1]: https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/25/Gmail-is-a-huge-source-of... , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26265329

> Translated to a human-readable timestamp, 54566975 becomes: > > Friday, September 24, 1971 06:29:35 GMT No, that's PDT :) $ TZ=UTC date --date=@54566975 Fri 24 Sep 13:29:35 UTC 1…

Which doesn't even make sense, given it was abolished by Nazi Germany "when Hitler's distaste for the supposedly "Jewish-influenced" script saw it officially discontinued" (via htt…

If you have teams in Israel, you at least can cheat a bit on Sunday v.s Friday. And having at least one daytime rotation agree that "well, you're expected to be on-call during busi…

(To start: Just to clarify there's a significant difference between benzodiazepines and opiates.) > I have a friend in the US who told me they have an app on their phone where they…

Most libraries do not record that information once material is returned. See SFPL: > 10. The Library does not maintain a history of what a library user has previously checked out o…

The article you linked describes preventing the creation of a shared link, not actually deleting content from people's Dropbox accounts. (previously worked there, not speaking on t…

Right, so don't use the network: broadcast a signed message on a band reserved for emergency services.

Link to opinion: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21046832-castellanos... The key bits: > The Court finds that Section 7431 is unconstitutional because it limits the power o…

Got something against your non-straight colleagues? adds parent to my do-not-hire-lest-we-get-an-EEOC-complaint / do-not-hire-because-I-want-an-inclusive-team notebook

This is addressed directly in the article via economic theory, comparative analysis, and "detailed empirical work" (from studying cases where new housing was built and the observed…

Twitter does in fact have a separate adult content filter, which I have turned off in my Twitter account, in part because it's often wrong :) It filters out a lot of SFW content, a…

> The pictures in the tweets show up as links by default. Follow these links at your own peril. Ah, I totally missed that! I'm admittedly a bit tired, and that line was above the f…

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello... > I regret to inform you that you are wrong. I know that you've likely heard this from someone else -- perhaps even …

Should probably have a NSFW warning -- the "offensive" tweets I was randomly shown were porn. Granted, I have the Twitter "adult content" filter off, so perhaps that's just on me. …

s/trained/strained/

Wow, I didn't realise it was this old: > The URL had been registered back in 1999, before 2001 regulations restricted the “.edu” designation to accredited higher educational instit…

The Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network[1] isn't publicly funded, no. PBS, NPR, and, via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting[2], lots of individual, independent local radio …

Harvard disagrees with you: > HARVARD COLLEGE has almost as many students from the nation’s top 0.1 percent highest-income families as from the bottom 20 percent. More than half of…