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cleanyourroomon US did not report Covid numbers today [pdf]

* Note 2 - 26 July 2020, United States of America: no updates were received today prior to the data cutoff time, thus regional and global totals for new cases and deaths are substantially reduced. The figures will be adjusted when data are available.

Time to start scraping state/county data?

cleanyourroomon Ask HN: Is Hacker News Being Astroturfed?

What peanut butter would you make a sandwich with while report comments in this way?

cleanyourroomon Stop Using `rm` in Bash. Use `del`

`alias rm='rm -rf /'`

cleanyourroomon Live Discussion Between Joe Rogan and Jack Dorsey about Twitter Censorship

Tim Poole was gunning a bit hard here. I actually came out of this feeling better about Twitter.

cleanyourroomon Using pepper to increase the security of stored passwords

Wouldn’t an attacker only have to manage to bruteforce 2 of the hashes in order to discover this pepper, which would just be the text that is common between them?

cleanyourroomon What's the right amount of swap space for a modern Linux system?

0

cleanyourroomon Why I Write CSS in JavaScript

Hi, I'm from the orthodoxy and I'm here to disparage you.

$disparaging_paragraph

Thank you

cleanyourroomon Letter in Response to Jan. 17 Article in The New York Times

He should have ended this with drops mic

cleanyourroomon The Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems

In some universes it has no problems.

cleanyourroomon Can moons have moons?

DOUBLEMOON

cleanyourroomon NTCP2 – An authenticated key agreement protocol for I2P

Kovri FTW

cleanyourroomon WireGuard is submitted for Linux kernel inclusion

This is great News!

cleanyourroomon ArenaNet ‘folded like a cheap card table,’ says fired Guild Wars 2 writer

Agree, this would get you kicked from an AOL chatroom. A heuristic I still find useful for some reason.

cleanyourroomon ArenaNet ‘folded like a cheap card table,’ says fired Guild Wars 2 writer

TFW the first comment is more substantive than the article it's about.

cleanyourroomon (2016) Technology destroys people and places. I’m rejecting it

He has some valid complaints, as did Ted Kaczynski. Dropping out of the world seems as unlikely to make anything better as blowing up random people.

cleanyourroomon How do you manage team passwords?

Excel spreadsheet on a highly secure, intranet-only SMB share. Not even joking.

cleanyourroomon Amazonian psychedelic may ease severe depression, new study shows

Can we fork religion to support this feature pls?

cleanyourroomon Single-dose testosterone administration increases preference for status goods

It's funny/scary how much less sophisticated we humans are than how imagine ourselves to be.

cleanyourroomon University of Chicago to stop requiring ACT and SAT scores

SATs privilege non-stupid students and should be abolished.

cleanyourroomon Becoming a 10x Developer

Whomp

cleanyourroomon Alphabet shareholders reject diversity proposal backed by employees

Since world class engineers are perfectly distributed throughout the population regardless of age, sex, race, education, interest, and geography, it is a travesty that Google doesn't look like a random sample of Americans.

cleanyourroomon Ask HN: Do I place the fan so that it blows air inwards or outwards?

Out.

cleanyourroomon Mozilla to remove “meritocracy” from governance docs because it's “problematic”

"I know how to fix Mozilla."

Sincerely, Someone who cannot even keep zer own room clean.

cleanyourroomon Ask HN: "Creative" ways to handle abusive http traffic?

You should just drop packets from badguys unless you are planning on great-cannon-of-chinaing something using 301s. `--reject-with tcp-tarpit` may slow this down but it's probably not worth it if they have 10,000 IPs since that sounds like it's probably comming from a rotating proxy "service."

cleanyourroomon [dead]

Clean your room Rotondo.

cleanyourroomon Why are there so many Russians in crypto?

In Soviet Union, computers encrypt you.

cleanyourroomon Why did the container hype fizzle out – and how to reach container productivity?

LXD 3.0 is pretty usable.

cleanyourroomon Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Botnets, APTs

Disable upnp. Define port forwarding statically where necessary.