Better yet, if you're connecting two devices that have PCI ports -- an eBay Mellanox ConnectX3 is great. Solarflare also works, but Mellanox has had better driver support in my experience (though we'll see now that they are owned by Nvidia).
Haha that picture both hurts and seems normal. I've buried a splice in a Frozen themed tupperware that's still going 4 years later. Take that $120 underground splice closures.
FS is one of my favorite websites for design, service, and quality of product. I prefer a cheap fusion splicer ($1500) as I find they work as well as a Sumimoto ($15k), but for one off home projects a mechanical splice with a FS pigtail works great. A 10km SFP ran in home (what, 1km tops?) can handle a fair amount of db loss.
It's actually rather difficult to break cladded G.657 fiber, and it's much cheaper than copper. Now, at the splice point where you must strip the cladding you are correct it is very fragile. At that point you heat shrink on a splint with a steel rod in it which protects it (and typically place that in a splice case).
I started the network forensics security contest at DEFCON (separate from the wall of sheep contest that I believe is still running) and one of my favorite challenges was recovering printer traffic. The contest was a race to see who could finish X number of challenges first with each round getting harder. The last puzzle was a TCP dump of MiTM’d printer traffic. I intended for them to carve out the document data and feed it into Gutenprint, but in the name of speed they speed over to Fry’s, shoved a piece of promo paper into a printer and powered it on, then replayed the TCP traffic to the printer. Probably one of my favorite solutions. About an hour later they also did it via Gutenprint just to show they could.
I'm not sure it counts as enterprise software, but Fiberstore is one of the best websites I've ever interacted with. It's clearly laid out, gives recommendations, and is quick and simple. I make weekly purchases and it's always easy.
We had a few customers using Microsoft O360 who said they didn't receive our emails. After troubleshooting we discovered them in spam. For reference we were using Gsuite at a .xyz address. We checked with other customers who received our emails -- perhaps it was the domain, I attributed it to being an odd tld.
I agree with this; the only downside is aggressive spam filtering often sinkholes XYZ domains. After having 3-4 important emails get sent to a customer's spam inbox in a month we moved to a .com
This article fits nicely with the recent post discussing how Linus spends the majority of his time writing emails. For projects with n+1 contributors, inter-contributor communication is just as important as what code is being written. Emails, commit messages, code comments, docs, are all just different ways to communicate.
I always think of the Underhanded C Contest[^1] as my favorite example of readable code that doesn't act as expected after a quick read.
I was going to move to Singapore in June. Rather than re-singing my lease, I bought a pickup and a camper. I only plan on doing RV life until October-ish, and then if the world is still on lockdown I'll find somewhere for the winter. Annoyingly all leases seem to be 1-year, and anything less has a crazy markup. I'm inclined to purchase some land, put up a steel kit building, and make it a home/shop space for the winter.
This is 100% accurate. Add in hostile/lazy city utility offices, litigious competitors with infinite pockets, and people who just hate change and you're starting to understand the uphill battle that is bettering internet infrastructure.
In the US I've found Charter, after 6 months, either A. Forgets I own my own modem and start to charge me a rental fee. Or B. Decided that my first 12 month discount is expired after 3-8 months.
With Centurylink they seem to just add random services once a year, and I only catch it after 2-3 months of it being on my bill.
I ran an ISP. Most people max their bandwidth for: backups, downloading Steam games, torrenting, and then about a week later their usage drops to about 5-8mbps sustained for Streaming and Videoconferencing.
This comment really hits the nail on the head. Want to write code that never hits the L2 cache? Write packet headers before you even know what's going inside? Do the math to see if Starlink provides a better latency based on distance between markets? The questions and answers are endless, difficult, and rewarding to solve.
The other replies have valuable points, I can only offer my own. I design low latency fiber routes (not wireless like sniper) and find HFT's are willing to spend a large amount of money for infrastructure (AKA will let me trench 100 miles of fiber if it pencils out). This then translates to better connectivity for regular internet users and lower costs for average internet users, as the primary infra providers are recouping their profits on the high margin customers.
I'd suspect this is jumping the gun a lot bit. Keybase was running a free service for years and has matured a lot in the last year (post crypto debacle). There's nothing stopping them from 1. Letting Keybase go into maintenance mode. 2. Donating the server to a foundation. 3. Open sourcing there server.
In all these scenarios Zoom gets better security which is a win for the world :)
This poem was the catalyst stopping me from purchasing the newest tech every year. New phone, new laptop, new devices....the magic of modern capitalism is that it hides the human cost of manufacturing. That said, perhaps having a job creates a better lifestyle in many parts of the world, but consumerism doesn't need to go at such an accelerated pace (IMHO).
Agreed, if I could have Sailfish on a Huawei P40 I'd be ecstatic. As it stands using Here maps, built in browser, and basic phone tools get me 90% of the way. I'm cheating a little in my transition -- I've moved my must use apps over to my iPad pro. 2FA, Instagram (a drug habit I hope to kick later in the summer), Keybase, mobile check deposit, etc.
I need to find a replacement for Google Keep (love how easy it is to move text/urls/photos between devices, jot down ideas / record thoughts) and Hangouts Dialer still.
I'm actually in the slow process of this as well. Moving to DDG is the easiest starting point; in the beginning it's tempting to type g! with every search until you start trusting the results. Next I changed from my Pixel 2 to a SailfishX on a Sony phone. I'm planning on moving to Owncloud for contacts/storage/docs next. It's surprising how I've paid for Google to deeply invade my life.
This is perfect timing as I've just moved to Sailfish in my journey away from Google. Moving past Gmail is next, and contacts was something I wanted to self host.
I'm torn between a keep calm and carry on attitude towards April first this year, or a more somber one. The title certainly did get a reaction from me.
A number of great Keybase features have only appeared recently which may be why there's a mismatch between the blog post and Keybase's current features. In the last few months there's now: