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elktea··on TP-Link Archer VR1600V V2 Super User Password Cracked
Surprising amount of distrust of CWMP in this thread. As someone who implemented this and manages it at an ISP we really only use it to configure the WAN or VoIP connections.
elktea··on Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS
no random patches to software from debian maintainers
elktea··on Replacing Ansible with salt-ssh
I like the look of the file.keyvalue. Anything like that in ansible? https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/all/salt.sta...
elktea··on Discord Desktop App RCE
Thanks for the explanation. Would you say security issues are the main reasons you update? I open Discord once or twice a week and I feel like there's always an update or 3 waiting.
elktea··on Something Awful, a Cornerstone of Internet Culture, Is Under New Ownership
Any interesting tidbits about the code? much has been made about how awful it was
elktea··on Something Awful, a Cornerstone of Internet Culture, Is Under New Ownership
Why not tell it now, if you know it?
elktea··on How Normal Am I?
impossible to use on my iphone
elktea··on Say goodbye to hold music
I can't believe there's no standard in SIP to display the 'IVR' on your phone as a menu and have it give you a ring once an agent is available yet
elktea··on Graalphp: An Efficient PHP Implementation Built on GraalVM
as far as I understand, PHP web applications don't benefit from a JIT that much. Each request is like running the entire application from scratch, which is why the opcache can help so much.
elktea··on Frank Gehry started off building cities with his grandma
Gehry is a great example of how architects have lost touch with what normal people consider attractive or useful. I'm yet to meet anyone that hasn't studied architecture that likes his buildings.
elktea··on LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
Does anyone know if there's a firefox extension to show when a site reads your clipboard?
elktea··on Chrome's experimenting with URL display again. Truth is, humans can't read URLs
I'm not really in the habit of watching rambling videos, shame the tweet author won't articulate his position in a thread instead of responding to all commentators "did you watch the video????"
elktea··on NextDNS Is Out of Beta
I had it on my phone for a while, sadly it breaks URLs in the twitter app because it was blocking the analytics redirect. Nice service otherwise
elktea··on Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms
I wish Grafana was this quick
elktea··on How to break everything by fuzz testing
that's a good assignment - extra marks for reporting the bugs?
elktea··on Impossible Pork
Are there laws around imitation foods that would prevent this from being called "Pork" in any countries?
elktea··on Impossible Pork
Humans are primarily meat eaters - we're wired to enjoy and desire meat.
elktea··on Impossible Pork
Corn and soy isn't good for cows either but the resulting meat is a far cry from eating it directly
elktea··on Impossible Pork
Agreed. The health results have been nothing short of a disaster and we're pressing further into unknown territory.
elktea··on E-bikes could be the electric revolution cities need
I don't like this line of thinking. The majority of the population (including children) is not disabled and is capable of riding an electric assisted bike - no one is proposing disabled people must also do the same.

It feels like a "gotcha". "Aha! because I cannot do this, no one can!"

elktea··on Giving every IPv6 address a name
Mobile networks typically use 464XLAT. Deployment is not hard. The main hold up for resi networks is CPE vendors don't typically support CLAT, but most established players can do dual stack for now.

IPv6 is at about 30% of traffic now.

elktea··on CorkScrew: A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies
no, just the client!
elktea··on CorkScrew: A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies
I used this the other day - works very well.
elktea··on Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
The liver processes glucose, which gets in the way of its normal ketone production.
elktea··on Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
The body will preferentially use alcohol before glucose. I recommend a 100% alcohol based diet.
elktea··on Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
I'd like to focus on your assertion: "A plant-based diet with B12 and DHA supplementation is much healthier than an omnivorous one."

I'd not bet my health and my children's development on a novel way of eating without fantastic proof. Have you got any?

elktea··on Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
Our stomach pH is very low, comparable to carrion eaters and some carnivores.

"It is interesting to note that humans, uniquely among the primates so far considered, appear to have stomach pH values more akin to those of carrion feeders than to those of most carnivores and omnivores" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Our requirements for DHA and B12 indicate a diet rich in both - both found almost exclusively in animal foods

Evolution of the Human Brain: the key roles of DHA(omega-3 fatty acid) andD6-desaturase gene https://www.ocl-journal.org/articles/ocl/pdf/2018/04/ocl1700...

We wean our young for a very short amount of time compared to other apes.

"Our model indicates that carnivory has a specific and quantifiable impact on human development and life history and, crucially, explains why Homo weans so much earlier than the great apes." Impact of Carnivory on Human Development and Evolution Revealed by a New Unifying Model of Weaning in Mammals https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

elktea··on Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
If they had the same nutrient content I would be excited as well. They merely look like a bit like meat. The similarities end there.
elktea··on Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
"Combining isotopic evidence from ground surface measurements with the newly calculated fire emissions, the team showed that about 17 teragrams per year of the increase is due to fossil fuels, another 12 is from wetlands or rice farming, while fires are decreasing by about 4 teragrams per year. The three numbers combine to 25 teragrams a year -- the same as the observed increase"[1]

The 'cows farting' story is not a major methane source.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-led-study-solves-a-met...

elktea··on Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet
There's a good case to be made for humans being primarily meat eaters for much of our history and only eating plants as an alternative to starving - we certainly haven't had time to evolve to eat a vegetarian diet. Agriculture has only been around for a small fraction of our history and the skeletal record clearly shows how disasterous it was for our health.

The current 'plant based' fad diet recommendations are backed up by some very poor science and may be seriously unsuitable for humans and for children in particular, nutrition-wise. Animal agriculture is not even a major source of human emissions so to call for changes to our natural diet seems very premature.

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