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feld··on USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful pesticides
Nothing. Don't listen to this guy. Glyphosate is not a pesticide, it's an herbicide. Anyone using the wrong terminology is a conspiracy theorist you can safely ignore.
feld··on USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful pesticides
Microplastics do not wash out of your body...

edit: also glyphosate is not a pesticide

feld··on Why aren’t more companies remote-first?
Yes

edit: in some scenarios, of course

feld··on Roundup’s Risks Could Go Well Beyond Cancer
They were probably exposed to 2,4D, not glyphosate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic_acid

If they're using undocumented workers do you think they're going to prevent them from being exposed to a key ingredient in Agent Orange?

feld··on Roundup’s Risks Could Go Well Beyond Cancer
If glyphosate is banned we will all starve.

There is no strong evidence of its harm yet. It may be an EDC, but we don't have the data to prove it.

The fearmongering has got to stop. Why wasn't Bayer/Monsanto allowed to provide expert witness testimony? Are we going to continue to throw scientific methods out the window?

feld··on Why aren’t more companies remote-first?
Compensate your employees well, have them be independent contractors. That's what my employer does.
feld··on mTCP: A high-performance user-level TCP stack for multicore systems
The mTCP stack is based on the FreeBSD network stack, not the Linux stack. And it has recent activity on GitHub.
feld··on Why is chicken so cheap? [video]
They eat bones. Raw bones are safe, cooked bones are not.
feld··on Why is chicken so cheap? [video]
I feed my dogs almost exclusively chicken leg quarters and can get them for as low as 39 cents per pound (USD).

Chicken is insanely cheap.

feld··on iOS Safari and Memory Management
Yes
feld··on iOS Safari and Memory Management
"VM == swap" is an indicator for me to not hire that candidate
feld··on Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack
legally you can write a check on anything: post-it note, napkin, etc.
feld··on .IO domain name reliability issues and how we’re working around them
my .me domain is my primary domain and won't expire for 10 years.

Also I've never observed an outage for it like this.

feld··on ZFSin: A Windows kernel-mode ZFS driver
APFS doesn't checksum the data. You've been deceived.

BTRFS still cannot be trusted for various reasons. It was deprecated as of RHEL 7.4

feld··on ZFSin: A Windows kernel-mode ZFS driver
Other filesystems will lose your data or write corrupted data
feld··on Android getting “DNS over TLS” support
Alternatively install OpenDNS Umbrella which will do this with DNSCrypt to the OpenDNS servers
feld··on Android getting “DNS over TLS” support
DNSCrypt finally wins
feld··on Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail
Qubes has a nice fat attack surface known as the hypervisor. I'm skeptical when people point to this as the panacea of computing security.
feld··on iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad for User Security
Because they are. Step out of your IT bubble.
feld··on Behind the Masq: Yet More DNS and DHCP Vulnerabilities
What are they? I've certainly never heard of them or used them. Are they used in production or are they toys?

DHCP: isc-dhcp or dnsmasq

DNS recursor: dnsmasq, unbound, bind, djb's dnscache, maradns

None of these are written in memory safe languages, but they're the only ones I would trust because they have YEARS of testing and getting the RFCs right.

feld··on Behind the Masq: Yet More DNS and DHCP Vulnerabilities
Vendor? This is open source software. It's not proprietary. There is no "vendor".

The reason these devices are cheap/affordable is because of the open source community. The reason the internet has made it to this current state is because of the open source community. If you want the internet to be better and safer you have to roll up your shirt sleeves and contribute in any way you can.

feld··on Behind the Masq: Yet More DNS and DHCP Vulnerabilities
Write a better replacement in your magic language of choice then.
feld··on New Apple File System Coming in MacOS High Sierra Won't Work with Fusion Drives
So the new APFS filesystem doesn't work on factory configured iMac 5Ks which are quite new still. Disgusting.

(Currently helping a friend recover data from his APFS fusion drive which started to panic on the last beta before learning it's not going to be supported)

feld··on Death of NFL “inevitable” as middle class abandons the game
The problems you complain about in the African American communities can be traced back nearly 100 years to when we created these African American communities.

The Reconstruction era following the Civil War saw African Americans distribute themselves across the entire country. We have census data to prove this. They lived and worked in every county and nearly every city. They owned homes and they worked hard for their living. Now 15 years earlier whites were pissed off at the Chinese for taking railroad jobs so they violently expelled them from their homes and jobs causing them to aggregate into cities which now have Chinatowns. This was considered socially acceptable because they were mostly illegal immigrants.

After those 15 years had passed whites started blaming blacks for their problems, the economy, etc and with the rise of the KKK into powerful cultural force and worming their way into politics unchallenged by the extremely racist Presidents Harding and Coolidge, the whites were emboldened to do the same to blacks. The whites expelled them from entire classes of jobs. They were lynched, their houses burned, and they were run out of towns. Municipalities created ordinances to prevent any blacks from living there to "protect their culture and way of life". The African Americans congregated in large cities encompassing entire neighborhoods/districts and that's where they stayed because whites were too afraid to go on their violent rampages where they may be outnumbered. This behavior however was largely absent in the old South.

In 1921 in Tulsa OK whites went on a rampage to eradicate blacks from their city. They even took airplanes and dropped dynamite on their communities. It's the only recorded air raid on lower 48 US soil. The whites failed as there were too many. The black community persisted there and still exists.

Whites caused this problem. They forced them to huddle together in ghettos. They kept them poor by taking away from their jobs and creating unions that wouldn't permit their membership (fun fact: blacks were allowed in the NFL until 1933).

This is the result 100 years later. Stop rewriting history. Read a book.

feld··on MacOS 10.12.6 Source
I don't think they've ever released code with version history, so it would provide little benefit other than a famliar UX.
feld··on Systemd-resolved does not keep the order of the DNS servers
Considering that the concept is breaking the Unix tradition of a tool having a single purpose and utilizing this fantastic feature we call "pipes"... journalctl is the wrong way to do it.
feld··on Systemd-resolved does not keep the order of the DNS servers
Confirmed in Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 as well.
feld··on EasyDNS refuses to host The DailyStormer domain
Of course I'm talking about the first amendment, the only protection of free speech that exists in the USA. Any time someone brings up free speech and it's involving non-government entitites is just kidding themselves that they believe they have a "right" to express their views however they want.
feld··on EasyDNS refuses to host The DailyStormer domain
*always refers to government interference to speech
feld··on The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
If there was something better than Unix it would be taking over the world by storm.
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