Yeah Hamas won the election in 2006. The majority of people living in Gaza are under 20.

I think that ZeroSSL are owned by an American company.

I worked on the Yeti Project a while ago, which showed that an independent group of operators can run root servers.

Managing the contents of the root zone was out of scope… we used the ICANN root.

That sounds like terrible reliability. If my home lab had an outage like that I would shut it down as I clearly don’t know how to run a dependable system. 😅

I don’t know of any resolvers that simply fail after not getting responses from a single name server. Please name and shame!

Isn’t he rich? Surely he always cared more about corporations than about people.

I use restic to:

1. A Raspberry Pi with an external 4 TB SSD at a friend’s house a few hours drive away
2. Jottacloud

Also, any non-trivial system has failure modes that are not binary. Like, if your convertible car has the roof stuck down you can drive it, but you will be sad if it rains. So, is the car “up” or not? Similarly, if your site has writes offline for a database upgrade, but reads work fine, is it “up”?

The concept is just advertising and something that makes sense to senior management, but provides no actual useful metrics.

Europeans often ask me how Americans know when they should use sick leave. Like, how do I know if I’m going to be more suck later and need it more then? And what if I am sick more than I have leave?

I don’t really know what to tell them. My glib answer is, “you lose your job, your insurance, get kicked out of your home, and probably die”.

There are only two states with ranked choice voting, I think: Maine and Alaska. A number of smaller municipalities also have it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States

a core basket of everyday groceries will be 30 percent cheaper at the five new municipal grocery stores. The basket will include all fresh produce, meat and seafood, along with roughly 20 additional categories of pantry staples, dairy and refrigerated goods

It’s right there in the link.

I don’t understand. Do you not consider the literal coup attempt on the US government to be important?

I use MoCA at home, 1 GBit. It works pretty well, and I get almost full speed.

Every now and then I have some blip and have to power cycle on one of the coax-to-Ethernet connector, so that’s annoying. It’s like twice a year, so not a huge problem.

The biggest drawback is high latency. It’s milliseconds instead of microseconds in the house. I guess it’s buffering and framing, so maybe unavoidable.

I also do see some small packet loss. Less than WiFi, but not zero like you’d see from a proper Cat6 cable.

Maybe just but a pair of MoCA adapters to try in your setup?

I see. However the threat was against people (Democrats all, apparently) working against ICE. None of their actions are even civil offences.

Yeah, I was trying to think of another democracy that rooted out leftwing parties …

What’s a civil infraction? Protesting ICE? Letting people know about their rights? 🤔

The fine article says that low testosterone occurs in like 2% of men, and screening is not recommended (as opposed to testing due to some symptoms).

We were so close to a phone usable by non-enthusiasts with the Nokia N1. The Nokia Linux phones were killed when Nokia hired a former VP at Microsoft to be their CEO. I’m still bitter.

I thought vaporware was announced or promised code that never materializes, or shows up much later than claimed. Often used by big companies to squash competition, who typically have very real solutions available.

Are all Huffington Post articles a bunch of Twitter links?