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This practice was confirmed by Elections Alberta:

> Each electoral list legitimately released by Elections Alberta includes a certain number of fictitious — or "seeded" — names. These unique entries on each electoral list allow investigators to trace each dataset back to their source in the event of a breach.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/elections-alberta-vo...

Yeah, the Canadian telco was Rogers. Total recovery took multiple days. From the Wikipedia writeup:

> In a letter to the CRTC, Rogers stated that the deletion of a routing filter on its distribution routers caused all possible routes to the internet to pass through the routers, exceeding the capacity of the routers on its core network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rogers_Communications_out...

Datapacket has a number of dedicated server configurations in various locations and offers unmetered connections:

https://www.datapacket.com/pricing

Yes, I registered as an individual (but was reimbursed through my employer's training budget), and did so a few months in advance as the previous session seemed to fill up pretty quickly. It was USD$1500 for the week. I'm keeping an eye on his course listing too - I'd love to take more.

I was lucky enough to take David Beazley's "Rafting Trip," a five-day training course that guides each student through building their own Raft implementation from scratch:

https://www.dabeaz.com/raft.html

I'd recommend the course to anyone with development experience working with or near distributed systems. David is a fantastic instructor and facilitator, and the blend of student backgrounds led to some great learning and discussion.

(I have no financial or personal interest here; I just loved the course.)

A prior employer shipped a lot of systems based on Lanner and Portwell equipment:

https://www.lannerinc.com/products/network-appliances

https://portwell.com/products/ca-b.php

Consul’s autopilot feature makes life a little easier by automatically reaping failed instances:

https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/tutorials/datacenter-...

Paired with cloud discovery, it makes for a tolerable operational experience when instances are expected to occasionally disappear.

You can do this below ground level, but it loses some other useful properties (catching more sunlight, improved drainage, ergonomics). Depending on where you live, one approach may work better than the other.

The permaculture community emphasizes the concept of “appropriate technology,” which depends on context but generally means “seek simple/low-impact approaches.”

If you’re building large low-input beds that could last for a decade or more, a tractor might be an appropriate tool given your local constraints vs. a crew of horses/humans and a great deal of time/energy.

packagecloud's in-depth writeups on the Linux networking stack are a great read:

https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/06/22/monitoring-tunin...

https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2017/02/06/monitoring-tunin...

The illustrated guide to receiving data is also solid:

https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/10/11/monitoring-tunin...

A recent Canadian example:

> The data being broadcast includes the patients name, age, gender marker, diagnosis, their attending doctor and room number. Other broadcasts regarding medical tests such as x-rays are often associated with a patients last name or medical number, exposing their progression through hospital departments.

https://openprivacy.ca/blog/2019/09/09/open-privacy-discover...

It’s possible to raise chickens as part of a broader regenerative system where much of the feed is an output from elsewhere in that system. This has been done profitably by folks like Joel Salatin, but it has its own constraints (for example, availability of pasture land).

A surge from a lightning strike near my home travelled over the cable line to kill a network switch and the WAN port on a firewall. (Strangely, the cable modem was spared.)

Everything was on a decent UPS... but I’d completely forgotten the cable line.

Another vote for the HiFiBerry. I’ve used their Digi+ board (which includes optical-out) with a Pi3B running Volumio for a couple years and it’s been fantastic.

Nope - silly assumption on my part.

Is hundreds of acres of solar an option in South Korea?

My layperson's understanding of the furnaces producing silicon ingots is that they can't power down in-process; best case, they take weeks to bring back into service, while the worst case is serious damage to the equipment as the silicon inside recrystallizes.

I wonder if it's even possible to ramp down this single process without a similar hit to productivity as an uncontrolled power loss, never mind the other stages in the fab process. If not, fabs can consume tens of megawatts, so what does it cost to build and maintain the necessary backup generation capacity to weather a 30-minute outage?

One interesting example: USD $1.5 million for 10MW of flywheel-based backup capacity (http://ir.p10industries.com/news-releases/news-release-detai...) - but these will last ~15 seconds under full load.

Was any reasoning made public for this decision? It seems bizarre to have left the *BSD projects in the dark.

Typical portable water filters do remove bacteria, but not viruses.

Not yet - keep an eye on their wiki page for Meltdown/Spectre:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAn...

Ubuntu’s kernel package updates are pending.

This Ubuntu Wiki page is being updated with relevant information and package updates as they become available:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAn...

It’s also worth noting Lambda still lacks a formal SLA.

I’m a layperson, but these sample sizes seem small. Is this a legitimate concern?

I didn't realize he wrote this after Hurricane Katrina. He posted a follow-up in 2015: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/09/03/being-poor-ten-years-o...

TIL there's quite a few countries that use the decimal point as a thousands separator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Examples_of_use

Interesting! As much as I loathe the woo around the audiophile industry, I need to learn more about this.

Due to physical limitations of the medium, mastering the vinyl release of an album is often (usually?) a separate process than mastering the digital version.

One of the consequences is less compression/clipping, better dynamic range, etc. for the vinyl version. This can have a huge positive impact on sound quality.

You don't have to be a nutbar audiophile to appreciate it, either - you can even hear the difference between old rock albums and their heavily compressed re-releases.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/q-how-does-masterin...

http://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/end-loudness-war

Yes, but it's (reasonably) excluded from their threat model: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/issues/1446#issuecomment-...

Chances are that every system this script runs on has "mktemp," and trapping exit makes it easy to clean up when things are finished.

https://www.mktemp.org/manual.html

http://redsymbol.net/articles/bash-exit-traps/

Are there public-facing data on the total energy footprint of an Amazon/Google/etc datacenter, including the lifecycle of the hardware hosted there?