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devhwrngon Are the BSDs dying? Some security researchers think so

(January 2018)

FreeBSD has always been so far behind in basic security migitations. It is 2020, and FreeBSD still doesn't have ASLR.

devhwrngon Show HN: Get IP Geolocation Data with Confidence

This is your fourth (fifth? sixth?) Show HN for this product. I doubt opinions have changed.

devhwrngon Auth0 Having a Major Outage

Meta: $1B valuation: https://auth0.com/blog/auth0-closes-103m-in-funding-passes-1...

Not notable enough for Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

devhwrngon Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine

The technical details about the E2 instance class are really interesting:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/understanding...

Rather than a guaranteed core and RAM as with N1/N2, resources for the underlying host can be dynamically balanced through live migrations, which GCP has already been using for years. Cool solution, and should work to save money for most workloads.

devhwrngon Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS

The pricing level for the ARM instances should be interesting. If Amazon prices them well below their Intel and AMD instance types, they could really drive adoption and lock-in.

devhwrngon An Overview of Cryptography

Great paper! Given the write-ups of old and broken crypto, perhaps a better title would be History of Cryptography?

devhwrngon Data leak reveals how China 'brainwashes' Uighurs in prison camps

Maybe Tim Cook will show some "courage" now.

[Edit] Sorry for the snark. In a market economy, the only way companies like Apple might act in the same way that compassionate human beings would, is if it were in the interests of their bottom line. Perhaps articles like this will hit critical mass, and Apple will put out a statement, carefully composed to ensure that China doesn't lose face. Perhaps they'll do something tangible.

Come back 12 months later and nothing will have changed.

devhwrngon Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers

I do this personally and it's great. I've even set this up for extended family. But any real solutions to the problem will not be technological, they will have to be legislative...

Given that no reasonable legislation will likely pass against adtech, I'll be stuck buying rpis as gifts again for the next several years.