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They speak of "QR-style" barcodes, but it's very unclear to me whether GS1 is actively pushing QR or DataMatrix as the preferred 2D barcode style. In medical devices and pharmaceut…

I like the invalid. TLD. Naming things is hard and that's a good one to use when you need to provide a FQDN that serves no actual purpose. Case in point: Amazon CloudFront always r…

Which one did you get? I was looking at Linux laptops with this CPU, but the line-up is very limited.

Meta doesn't operate in China though, for not wanting to comply with their requirements of state-controlled censorship. I could see them applying similar reasoning here on principl…

I totally agree that it's probably worthwhile to implement some country specific logic for a user base of that size and ad revenue per user. But specifically with regards to this, …

Wouldn't a company such as WhatsApp (Facebook) drop the Belgian user base in a heartbeat if they would actually be confronted with a law like this? My guess is they would much rath…

Just picked up a mint condition E7470 (i5) with 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD and a new battery for €230. Decent Linux-friendly machine that should last quite a few more years normally. Dell…

I'm really bad at keeping up with podcasts and On The Metal is the only one that managed to have me listen to all of the episodes.

FYI, the intermediate CA's signed by their new Root X2 certificate won't have OCSP URLs anymore. Source: https://letsencrypt.org/2020/09/17/new-root-and-intermediate...

I bookmarked this once when stumbling across it: https://librehealth.io/ . It's an open source Electronic Health Record keeping system, so sounds like it might suit your needs.

I also read this book a few weeks ago after having stumbled upon it in a HN reading list somewhere. Though enjoyable, I have to agree wholeheartedly with your statement about it be…

I've always enjoyed reading Bryan Cantrill's stuff and watching his talks. That goes for this first episode of their new podcast as well. Interesting tidbits of computing history.

Just open the article in a private tab.

I see, thanks for the info.

Interesting. I only have experience with the occasional simple (manual) purge and I could verify the object was invalidated quickly. Can you elaborate on an example config where th…

Disclaimer: I work at a company that is both an Akamai and a Fastly client. I worked with Fastly first, then Akamai after. Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer. The…

> Not anywhere close. Your cache invalidation takes forever. Ability to assign tag objects does not exist. Engaging "professional services" to make a config change like it is 2002?…