lwhalen

Three years and counting here, it's amazing and life-changing!

Just be aware that if you're using any flavor of Comcast in the US (Business or Consumer-class), "Bridging" your cable modem will make it cease to work and require a factory reset. Anecdata from me, from sites in Boston, Seattle, and Portland.

Me as well.

Perhaps folks will wake up to the evils of that pernicious 'drm' stuff the likes of the EFF, Doctorow, and even Stallman have been harping on about for decades now. It's not like people haven't been warned, cautioned, lectured, blogged to, and eventually harangued at, 'hey, giving up control and ownership of your bits is a Terrible Idea (tm)'. This is just step N in a long line of steps where those particular chickens come home to roost.

Oh sweet summer child, on your return to this great land, people mocking the PC Police and the SJW will be the least of your worries. You will have to navigate precious snowflakes, twitter'd trigger warnings, wild Trigglypuffs, and so on. Good luck, and godspeed.

That I did not know, thank you for clueing me in!

Mainly because I'm lazy, and a little bit because I'm hoping LE will figure out how to offer wildcard certs and/or altNames securely.

Yeaahhh, I was a big fan of StartCom until this move. I'll be migrating to LetsEncrypt as soon as my current certs expire.

RSS reader, for days.

A gun database enables mass confiscation, and historically a gun database precedes mass confiscation by a few short years.

Good. The gov't has no more a right to track my guns as they do my book purchases. "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms" should be a convenience store, not a gov't agency.

Good old fashioned dead trees, on my end.

> Sure, it's not dangerous, but it's awfully time consuming if/when things go wrong

Perhaps, but that can be said of most things. Model rocketry, glass blowing, hell even woodworking. That doesn't mean people shouldn't roll up their sleeves and get into it because 'some megaultracorp has perfected the process', for some incredibly generous definition of 'perfected'.

Running your own server does in fact take some time and a little bit of elbow-grease, but scare-articles like this does nothing to further an open internet. As the tech-elite (for the most part), we should be encouraging folks to host their own data, learning how 'those damn computers' work, and do our best to raise the next generation of engineers, sysadmins, devopsen, docker deployers, or even just computer dabblers 'right' so they at least have some concept of How The Internet Works(tm) beyond "oh, send this dict to an API...". If hosting your own email server is too scary for you at this time, suck it up, do it anyway, and figure out what needs to happen to make it better for the NEXT guy. Write down what breaks and when. Publish that data. Let us learn from your fail, as you learn from ours. Holler at your nearest Google or Comcast or Centurylink engineer, suit, or peon to un-fsck their infra. It's not glamorous work, but it is necessary.

Ditto.

Horsepuckey. Hosting your own data services is not dangerous, if you do your homework. Email is not that complex (compared to something like a federated Kerberos environment), and there are several good, concise, HOWTOs, books, etc on the subject. Running your own stack makes you a first-class citizen of the 'net, and more people should do it.

"2b" || "!2b"

always results in 'true'.

Only barely. I supposedly get a /56 up here in Seattle, but prefix delegation will give me a /60 half the time and a "/59" half the time. The latter completely breaks every router I've thrown at it (pfsense, Cisco ASA, and tomatoUSB), and even with a supposedly-open support ticket I cannot get ahold of a Comcast Engineer for love nor money.

My understanding was that Netflix was 100% AWS, and AWS' implementation of IPv6 was very limited and pretty much to the ELB only.

Eat right, exercise, achieve healthiness, die anyway. We're all food for worms, boys, and any action we take now will certainly be found (in the fullness of time) to be deleterious. It's a matter of balancing what set of regrets we can live with the most. At the end of our run we still have to give our atoms back, and the universe will continue to turn.

Message Transfer Agent. Compare with MUA, MDA, etc. Lots of WTF TLAs when trying to build SMTP over TCP/IP, etc. :-)

Half a billion, then. Mang, I'm trying to buy a house right now, $20k is a far-off and scary number to me where I'm at.

And at that price, for me, it might as well be a billion dollars :-)

Check your privilege.

Is it turtles all the way down? Who insures the re-insurance companies?

Don't suppose anyone could link patio11's posts, could they? I've seen them referenced twice now, and would love to check them out :-)

If they are any good at all, yes.

I'll save you some pain and heartache - move to one of the BSDs instead. Linux is quickly losing the flexibility and openness that made it great (cf. systemd, etc)

Troll? "Pot to kettle, pot to kettle - you are black".

So you're literally re-stating that it is in some part my fault, with different words - "You do have a responsibility, even if you really don't want it...".

Because I choose to not shunt what money I may or may not have towards Atlanta, or Gary, I'm deepening 'social and financial inequality' or whatever your babble is. So my question for you is, where does it stop? At what level of removedness can I, in your hilarious and impractical worldview, stop having to feel guilty for any success I may have gained?

If it's not the country, perhaps the continent? Do I still need to have some vestigial guilt over not sending money to the far-flung reaches of Canada? Am I supposed to lay awake nights, beating my chest over inequality in the favelas and how just maybe, if I'd sent half my paycheck to a random orphan (which orphan though?), it would've fixed all the things?

So by that logic, my choice of not-moving to Atlanta, Gary, or any other economically-disadvantaged area contributes to those places' continued slide into a lawless hellhole too, right?