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hackbinary··on Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers
Hot patching (kpatch) wasn't GE until earlier this year on Ubuntu.
hackbinary··on Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers
While having a long uptime sounds cool it is a signal that you don't patch that often. Maybe you patch your other stuff, but I would bet on even odds that you don't. So then that is the rest of the stack, eg systemd which has some mega flaws IIRC.

You're leaving yourself open to having something exploited. Have a look at your ssh logs where "people" are constantly trying to get in.

https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/resources/blog/top-10-li...

hackbinary··on Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers
I don't thing that is true.

The client obtains the network prefix from the RA, and then the client tries to generate unique host address.

"" The IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration mechanism requires no manual configuration of hosts, minimal (if any) configuration of routers, and no additional servers. The stateless mechanism allows a host to generate its own addresses using a combination of locally available information and information advertised by routers. Routers advertise prefixes that identify the subnet(s) associated with a link, while hosts generate an "interface identifier" that uniquely identifies an interface on a subnet. An address is formed by combining the two. In the absence of routers, a host can only generate link-local addresses. However, link-local addresses are sufficient for allowing communication among nodes attached to the same link. ""

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4862

hackbinary··on Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers
Are you on hyperoptic?
hackbinary··on Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers
Do you not patch your kernel?
hackbinary··on Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs
I would counter that this software was created and maintained on your own time, in which case that at the very least you are entitled for consideration for your work and efforts.

Employment tribunals and courts take a dim view of wage theft, and that is exactly what this is if your employer is trying to enforce that clause.

Get advice from an employment lawyer.

hackbinary··on I resigned from Twitter
He quit so he could have better management run the company he owns and so he can enjoy his money.

His move is the ultimate founder/rich playboy move. Maybe he will buy that magazine.

hackbinary··on Goodbye, Clean Code (2020)
>> We could remove all duplication by grouping the code like this instead:

1. It seems to me that you refactored the code in the wrong dimension. I would have abstracted out a template shape object.

2. Are you not using a pull request/peer review process to accept changes into the prod branch?

3. I don't think you quite arrived at the right conclusion. While you conceed that your original conclusion was incorrect, I do think your original criticism has merit, and while your solution may provide a different set of problems, that doesn't mean that a different solution based upon the collaboration between yourself and your colleague might have been yet even better.

hackbinary··on I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
It seems to me that many of the problems associated with spaces in filenames are due the OS assuming that a space signals the end of a command or filename.

Maybe we ought have to a different character signify the end of a name? Or signfiy a option section, or the next option section of a command?

hackbinary··on If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying
>> It reminds me of British customer service. If you haven't lived in the UK you might not be familiar with the phenomenon of a checkout person being surly. They clearly don't want to be scanning your groceries or engaging in inane chit-chat with you. And they have almost no pretence about that fact.

How have you arrived at this conclusion?

I'm guessing by "British" you mean English. I've lived in Scotland for almost 15 years, and I can certainly tell you that "British" customer service is not Scots customer service. For a starter, most Scots do not identify as "British", so then to use your broad brush is a bad look.

If your experience was in England, please just say so.

In anycase, my experience shopping in Scotland is vastly different from shopping in the home counties.

hackbinary··on Lesser-known Postgres features
>> I'll stop short of giving a recommendation or using the word "should" ...

I beleive the word you are looking for is "ought". :)

hackbinary··on Bash functions are better than I thought
Or Python, or tcl, or (eeek) Perl, or JavaScript.

Or anything that can handle integers and floating point calculations natively.

hackbinary··on 55 GiB/s FizzBuzz
This is what we call shifting the the goalposts and tu quoque fallacious attacks.

Just because I have erred in the past does not mean I cannot suggest to you to improve your outputs.

Or, I have had learnings previously, and I am simply trying to pass them along to you.

Here is another protip: dinae be so defensive. I was not attacking you personally, but your reply clearly was an attempt to attack me.

hackbinary··on 55 GiB/s FizzBuzz
Protip:

while you made a great comment, ND people like me, and even most NT people have diffivulty ingesting walls of text like what you just wrote.

Please, therefore, breakup your text into paragraphs every 3 sentences. It does wonders for readability for just about everyone. :)

hackbinary··on Meta
We used to call "reactionary" content sensationalism, and that type of content has always been predicated on fallacious arguments, but especially appeals to emotion.

Facebook's algorithms seems very good at dectecting and pushing content that makes users have an emotional response.

They now have developed a feature where is someone or a page posts a comment to a page or group that I am not subscribed to, Facebook will push that content on to my feed.

It is just about the most annoying thing ever. I am profoundly not interested in people who I follow on what they post on Ted Cruz's Facebook page. Why is Facebook pushing Ted Cruz on to my feed if I am not subscribed to him? I want to see my friends posts, but not their responses to Ted.

Facebook sucks ass now, and I am going to convert over to mastidon or something.

hackbinary··on Windows 11: Microsoft's pointless update
Well, 2021 might be the year of the Linux Desktop afterall.
hackbinary··on Stop Equating “Science” with Truth (2017)
This article sets up a strawman argument and then attempts whataboutry to prove her thesis.

She is neither an expert in the philosophy of science, philosophy, or any of the fields she is critiquing.

She also fails represent what science actually is: a way to organise the best set of information we have collected thus far.

Science has never claimed to be the absolute truth on anything, and that an implied assertion the author is attempting to make.

In the end, the author is only able to prove that science, like all human endeavours, is imperfect. She let all of us down by failing to say what she would replace it with, or simply articulate reasonable boundaries through which science ought to be seen.

hackbinary··on OpenBSD 7.0
If you are looking to dip your toe in and have a tinker with BSD, FreeBSD is probably the best place to start because it has spread of compatibility.

But if you are looking for more focused projects, then Dragonfly for best out of box desktop experience, openbsd for security and firewall, and netbsd for compatibility and portability across loads of devices.

hackbinary··on What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
The proper term is "conspiracy fantasy".
hackbinary··on What Happened to Treehouse?
I remember coming across Treehouse a year or two ago. It just seemed a bit desperate, and I moved on. I am not surprised they are having troubles.
hackbinary··on Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
Almost no vaccines are sterilising and that is a very high threshold to meet.

Polio and measles vaccines are not even sterilising. It is much more realistic to achieve herd immunity with vaccines than it is to create a sterilising vaccine.

hackbinary··on The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
Highway are a poor analogy for information broadcast systems in general. Highways are closer to a one to one transmission system rathe than a broadcast system of one to many.
hackbinary··on OpenBSD Router Guide (2020)
FreeBSD underpins a fair number of commercial producers. Junos from Juniper perhaps being the most famous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Fr...

hackbinary··on The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
If Google, or CF, or whoever are fronting illegal activity with their services, they are absolutely responsible for damages the party they are proxying.

Platforms must be responsible for the content they are hosting, broadcasting, and publishing.

One to one communications between two people exchanging ideas and having a private discussion is different from mass broadcasting.

hackbinary··on Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors
There is a difference between dehumanising people and making them feel worthless and negotiating in good faith, and then reneging on agreements.
hackbinary··on Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors
Yeah, I get that. But also, there is no end in the claim of how hard the Range Rover driving, fee (private) school paying, huge farm house owning farmers in the UK have it.

The vitriol that was extended by a couple of the associates (middle managers) to one of my programmers who was vegan was absolutely amazing. He just would ask if there was any dairy in something a they would go off on him. Around that time I also stopped having dairy for health reasons, but that was okay. I had previously been sympathetic to farmers and the dairy community, but after that, I was appalled. Farmers are getting what they deserve.

hackbinary··on Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors
Yes, I think so. I believe it is Cat and Rio Tinto have some form of arrangement at one of RT's mines in Aus. The dump trucks are driverless and run from RT's HQ elsewhere.

Cutting out intermediataries is what cloud computing is all about. I don't really see this as any different.

hackbinary··on Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors
Farmers do not want to pay for anything. My dealings with people in the farming community is that completely devalue everything around as a négociation tactic. They do not want to pay anymore than they have to for anything. In general, I don't work for or with them anymore because of the horrible way I have been treated by them. (bit generalised, but I spend 10 years working in the community)

JD is moving to a Tractor as a Service model. JD does not want to open up their systems because before not long, you just hire a robotic service to come and plow or harvest your fields. JD sees this coming and wants to be in the best possible position to market its services to land owners.

hackbinary··on The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming
Pentobarbital, aka Euthasol, aka bluejuice, is a barbiturate and is what is commonly used for small animal euthanasia.

Europe imposed strict export controls on it and other drugs in 2014, but I don't think vetinary supply has been affected.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16281016

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenytoin/pentobarbital

hackbinary··on Has UML died without anyone noticing?
And now we have MS Flow. And other "codeless" programming tools.
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