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I use tailscale and dns authorized letsencrypt certs for "internal" services and it has worked pretty well.

Neat tool. Couldn't find anything in the docs on mapping file sources to resource needs on the host, how much is too much data to dump into the tool on a single workstation?

Mozilla has a moment being presented to them right now and I fear they are going to totally blow it. With manifestv3 and inaction on tracking cookies google is obviously acting in …

As a long time thinkpad user the first thing that stood out to me from looking at this is wondering if there is a bios option to correct the flipped Fn and Ctrl buttons.

There are people exploring pushing more computation down to the device layer to avoid shuffling the bits around: https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast23/presentation/yang-z... DPU…

Another paper showing the open office is garbage for any work that requires focus, another paper business people will roundly ignore because they don't actually care about producti…

The quadratic resource usage on data loading for their infinite scroll and breaking going back to the same place in the feed when hitting the back button the upstream devs are pret…

I saw this when my wifi was spotty in my bedroom and it spent all night switching between wifi and cellular, suspect handshake is expensive on connection change.

From some browsing through the patches they apply to the packages it appears they are making extensive use of function multi versioning. Instead of compiling for the lowest common …

This guy's argument is basically good coders should be allowed to be garbage people and require others to put up with them because they open source the code he relies on. To be fai…

Every time I see one of his posts on facebook.com I cringe and think wistfully about the .plan days.

Please tell me this is a mis-timed april fools joke

I rather like the changes made by spacemacs https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

I go for walks and let my mind wander aimlessly for an hour or so, heading back when the thoughts in my head finally start turning towards work related stuff and I want to engage w…

It looks like their help site is a skinned version of zendesk and imgur hasn't given them a cert to host instead of serving their default *.zendesk.com cert. Not compromised, just …

The I have too much time on my hands approach is to self-publish a short story to this person on how to get in touch with you and buy it from their amazon account.

Kinda like doing SSL on GPUs, the need for large batches makes it useless for most workloads.

Akamai has more bandwidth at AMS-IX than this entire attack.

There is a partial_search available with chef server 11 that makes this problem much less painful. Search returns the entire node object for each match, which can be a ton of data …

We've been doing this with mikrotik boxes with either wifi or usb gsm modems depending on the what is available in the location.

Having done lots of this type of work I see it more as a triumph of paperwork and scheduling skills than techincal acumen.

mpm_event can do wonders for memory use. Sad that it falls back to mpm_thread for ssl.

I do find it a little amusing that he thinks that the engineers had any real say in the working of a system like this.

Wikia was in San Mateo for a few years before moving to SF. Cheap place to bootstrap, easy access to SF and the valley. Not convenient for people in the east bay, but otherwise not…

us-east is at least partially in Equinix facilities not far from Dulles airport in Ashburn, VA.