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msk20on NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government

Just FYI, On my Firefox its saying "Connection Secure (upgraded to https)", its actually using ECDHE CHACHA20 SHA256.

Note: I have "Enable HTTPS-Only Mode in all windows" on by default.

msk20on Important PostgreSQL 14 update to avoid silent corruption of indexes

Looking at the file with changes https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend... , I have to say this source code repository is so well documented/commented and structured, I really gives you a huge trust in postgres to be used in your stack.

msk20on Ask HN: How are pull requests integrated in a repo with high commit frequency?

There is ZUUL Gating[0] CI it is actually the perfect solution for this. It works with Github or Git based repository system.

It automatically tests the changes with a simulated merge on master together. So it orders PR1 -> PR2 -> PR3 -> .... -> PR-100 by order of approval. If PR1 -> PR2 (Fails) -> PR3 -> .... -> PR-100

It restarts -> PR3 -> .... -> PR-100 and Up after removing PR2. This behavior is even customizable.

Video of it in action: https://zuul-ci.org/media/simulation.webm

Links: [0]:https://zuul-ci.org/

msk20on Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?

I don't really know much about optimizing storage costs, But You could learn from storage giants.

Example is Blackblaze storage pod 6.0 according to them it holds 0.5PB with a cost of 10k$, you will need about 20*10K$ = 200K$ + Maintenance(They also publish failure rates) , The schematics and everything is in their website and according to them they have already a supplier who provides them with such devices which you could probably buy from. Note: This was published 2016, they probably have Pod 7.0 by now so cost may be better.

Reference: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv...

msk20on Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture

Is there any privacy benifit to use containers now with the new isolations built into firefox? I'm using cookie autodelete + Containers, So now its either isolate and keep them or Isolate and delete them. I quite like this.