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Please if you're going to create stuff like this provide some context and answer questions like "What does this actually mean?". Without those things, this is just another scary lo…

An overview of how to stop attacks like MechaFlounder with a zerotrust networking approach. https://vimeo.com/383337193/65c5e52bcd

Yeah, those are the only two peering points in the area. There are tons of other data centers in the area, but these are also exchanges. Fun fact, Markley Group actually owns that …

I wish everyone would stop calling it an analog audio port. Yes it's a 1/8th port, but they haven't been purely analog for quite some time.

Yes, Rio sees many visitors regularly. What Rio does not see is an influx of visitors from nearly every country on earth. It's that spread that is the problem. The financial impact…

It's pretty well known and well documented at this point that the host cities for olympic games see no financial benefit at all, and in fact they lose money. Most recently, look at…

It's important to point out that all the Whisper Systems code is open source ( https://github.com/whispersystems/ ). So if you have concerns, go read their code. Some of the best m…

Thanks for these. Has anyone seen a link from/for CentOS yes?

I don't see an email address in your HN profile, but I'd be interested in chatting.

Even the digital part. There is a thing called the Sails Library Network ( http://www.sailsinc.org ) that offers full digital catalogs for libraries. They have mobile apps and it w…

When a PaaS/Cloud provider says private networking, they mean RFC1918 address space. It's not publicly routed IP space which is private. So saying they offer private networking is …

He was not a performer. He was a songwriter and composer mostly for Broadway and he was a great one. The draw would be something like "an evening with Cole Porter and his music" or…

Above CD quality has been tried many times. Currently, the service with the most to offer in terms of catalog is https://www.hdtracks.com/faq . You do have to re-buy albums you mig…

The linked article is about package management, not configuration management. Whoever set the title of this post didn't understand the point of the article. From the comments, peop…

Yes it is and has been for a long time. What this article really boils down to is a terribly poor understanding of how DNS works and why certain records are use for certain serivce…

Somewhere along the line, this concept of a founder/CEO taking a tiny salary got worked into the way start-ups work. Should a founder be paying themselves a huge salary and living …

Is there some mistake in your NoScript item? Installing the plug-in and then using "allow scripts globally" is the equivalent of never installing the plug-in. It provides almost no…

PagerDuty is a fantastic service. The flexibility in scheduling on-call rotations (they added a custom schedule for my team at my last company), the support for integrating with lo…

Very few protocols fully or properly implement the entire 7 layer OSI stack. Most times you see layers 3-5 lumped together. The way that they are looking at it is that the applicat…

Is working remotely an option for this position?

Okay, so does that mean that the various bugs that have been circulating can still hit as it hasn't hit midnight in EDT yet or can I exhale?

Pardon the ignorance if this is a stupid question. I've been looking at some of my hosts and have noticed a message "Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC" in dmesg output but …

I haven't implemented logstash or graylog2 (yet) but I've implemented Splunk multiple times, at multiple companies since back in 2006 and it's a simply fantastic piece of software.…

There is a fundamental flaw in the argument that v1again is making/supporting. The problem with this argument and the math that's always used to support it, is that it comes from t…