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rwbhn··on Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law
Using a staff provided VPN sounds iffy.
rwbhn··on Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
Part of disclaimer at irs.gov for their interactive assistant: "Answers do not constitute written advice in response to a specific written request of the taxpayer within the meaning of section 6404(f) of the Internal Revenue Code."
rwbhn··on GitMounter: A FUSE filesystem for Git repositories
TIL. Thx!
rwbhn··on Podman Desktop: Same functionality as Docker Desktop but open source
Looks like there is compose support - https://podman-desktop.io/docs/compose/podman-compose
rwbhn··on Atlassian Exceeds 99.9999% of Availability Using Sidecars, Fault-Tolerant Design
Actual title: Here’s how one of Atlassian’s critical services consistently gets above 99.9999% of availability
rwbhn··on Highscalability.com Redirect Loop
Home page and a few deep links I've tried.
rwbhn··on Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta
The article does a good job of explaining why the list is small - and in my opinion quite useful in that regard. Agree that it would be interesting to know what perceived costs/benefits of various options considered were. I suspect accidents of history, before the need for a list like this was recognized, play a large part.
rwbhn··on An autonomous car in SF blocked a fire truck responding to an emergency
Literally doing the job they are paid to do (by the city I presume), in the expected manner.
rwbhn··on Java 15 introduced a cryptographic vulnerability
This referenced article is better: https://neilmadden.blog/2022/04/19/psychic-signatures-in-jav...
rwbhn··on US Missile Defense System no match for a Russian attack
"many Americans don't realize the US has little protection against a nuclear attack".

That's surprising to me.

rwbhn··on Data races in Python, despite the Global Interpreter Lock
Yes. A comment in the referenced commit says "when returning from a call or on the back edges of loops."
rwbhn··on Data races in Python, despite the Global Interpreter Lock
Your statement about your sample code is incorrect - just confirmed it for myself (cpython 3.8.3 is what was handy). Just add those print statements to the example in the article (before/after labels make analysis easier) and also add a set of threads that just do 'x = 0'.
rwbhn··on Facebook staff now to be known as “Metamates”
I immediately went to rhymes with kubernetes
rwbhn··on How PostgreSQL stores rows
Under some conditions they do [0]. How useful it ends up being depends on your data - pretty effective in my experience.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-toast.html

rwbhn··on Why can't you reverse a string with a flag emoji?
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/927/
rwbhn··on My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated
Tailscale isn't using UPnP. See https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
rwbhn··on Mess with DNS
Relevant: https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/12/06/dns-doesn-t-propagate/
rwbhn··on German Court Rules Against Internet Security Non-Profit Quad9
So, if I'm reading this right, Quad9 is just a recursive dns resolver here. Why are they being enjoined rather than whoever runs the authoritative server?
rwbhn··on Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
Hear, hear!

Happy Thanksgiving, all. Hope you are able to spend time with family and friends.

rwbhn··on Email from FBI Looks Odd
Misdirection? Loud noise here - actual attack somewhere else?
rwbhn··on Demonopolizing the Internet with Interoperability
> need to start charging for the core product

I think you've misunderstood what their core product is. They charge good money to their customers - companies placing ads.

rwbhn··on The Lab-Leak Debate Just Got Even Messier
"Vaughn Cooper, who studies pathogen evolution at the University of Pittsburgh, told us that he hasn’t changed his view that SARS-CoV-2 is extremely unlikely to have been created in a lab—but the lack of candor is “really concerning.” The DARPA proposal doesn’t “mean that much for our understanding of the origins of the pandemic,” he said, “but it does diminish the trustworthiness of the research groups involved.”"

This. Documents will get out. Why hide them and feed the conspiracy theorists?

rwbhn··on The Air Force Has Been Trying to Kill the A-10 Warthog for 14 Years
Ee ER no f urf
rwbhn··on Covid hospitalization numbers can be misleading
ER is also provider of choice for many people w/out insurance - for the same reason.
rwbhn··on Alabama man dies after being turned away from 43 hospitals as Covid packs ICUs
> it's rather widespread

Source?

rwbhn··on Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson
Maybe the operator was on the ridge?
rwbhn··on Noted study in psychology fails to replicate, crumbles with evidence of fraud
If the results are not replicable, how can they be actionable?
rwbhn··on Unix shell programming: the next 50 years
> Wouldn't it be nice to write shell scripts with objects and data structures?

That's PowerShell - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...

rwbhn··on Tesla’s new patent involves using table salt to mine lithium
It is. https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO20...
rwbhn··on Email Self-Defense Guide
https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted....
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