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dfeojm-zlibon HBO Ending Its Nightly Newscast Produced by Vice Media

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dfeojm-zlibon Silicon Valley's Van-Dwellers [audio]

Most people who live in SF are either insane aspirationally rich (spending all of their money, saving nothing) or actually rich.

$25k USD/month rent for a 2BR/2.5BA is ridiculous https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/d/san-francisco-the-mil...

dfeojm-zlibon Court: Arresting a Driver for Shouting 'Fuck You' to a Cop Is Unconstitutional

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (not François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume: Voltaire)

dfeojm-zlibon Always Own Your Platform

Former enterprise AWS consultant here. Renting and leasing tech (AWS, GCP, Azure) is $$$$. At scale, a little cloud is okay for limited uses, but going down to EBGP and floor-up is cheaper. If a shop can't handle that, rent actual hardware (co-lo), not virtual servers because they cheat you with over-subscription.

dfeojm-zlibon Ask HN: Is the Linux From Scratch project still relevant?

It's useful. I looked at it last night for a refresher.

Also, look at other major distros. And, for building packages and patches, look at LFS, Free/Open/NetBSD ports, homebrew, macports, linuxbrew, habitat, NixOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Arch. For security advisories, be sure to check the multitude of sources... note that more than few released packages ship vulns that need patching and some packages are essentially abandonded. Have a look at the old RHEL 5 NSA hardening guide and other major guides for Linux hardening too (be sure to compile things using modern toolchain hardening flags, and test them thoroughly and relentlessly to suss out gotchas).

The big things with distros is package updates and system upgrade securely delivered (Debian flavors are good at this), don't break a system and don't interrupt users unexpectedly. Most distros' packaging systems are flexible but confusing and under-documented packaging descriptions. Habitat and Arch are cleaner.

dfeojm-zlibon Boeing Knew the AOA Disagree Alert on the 737 Max Didn’t Work

Still wondering about why 737 NGs (-600,-700,-800,-900) are still deemed "airworthy" despite the 2010 investigative report on Boeing's intentional deception and cover-up of Ducommun's absurdly dangerous and substandard critical structural fuselage components. Several passengers have already died from fuselage breakups from hard landings and runway overruns when previous aircraft have survived similar situations intact; plus the possibility of aircraft catastrophically breaking up in heavy turbulence.

dfeojm-zlibon Battle testing data integrity verification with ZFS and Btrfs

The thing about ECC vs. non-ECC. If you don't have ECC, you don't know silent bit corruption is happening, and when it's finally (if it's ever) discovered, there's nothing that can be done. ECC (SECDED) keeps data safer than it would be otherwise.

ECC is necessary for anything real or important based on the financial cost of losing data. For everything else, it can be optional.

Plus, don't forget the security issues of bitsquatting and other attacks that are the real results of silent bitflips.

DEF CON 19 - Artem Dinaburg - Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation https://youtu.be/9WcHsT97suU

dfeojm-zlibon A mentalist’s guide to being happy

Yep. Some call the affliction "being a fool," but there is nuance in whether the cognitive dissonance is dishonest about things one can reasonably attempt to change or not seeing things far beyond anyone's power.

dfeojm-zlibon California utility to cut power to 27k customers to reduce wildfire risk

I am currently in a mostly burned-out, warzone-looking Paradise (nearly all other houses around burned, and many tall trees have been resource-exploited removed without recompensing property owners) when PG&E cut the power at 9 pm last night and only restored it around 3 pm today. It seems like safety virtue-signaling because ground foilage is still green, humidity isn't low, wind isn't high and the temperature will be hotter in the next few days. If anything, it will happen again.

As an aside, all hardware stores in Chico were out of generators; we had to go to Red Bluff to pick one up. Should've done it sooner, proactively but I'm having to care for a disabled family member.

dfeojm-zlibon Traffic-busting $100B Bay Area tax plan taking shape

All of said money should be spent on public transport. Spending on single-occupant personal transport, mostly SUVs, commuters act like a gas: it will expand to fill the container: more traffic, more commuters, and more climate change. It won't do any net good to waste money on more highways.

dfeojm-zlibon Google CEO Defends YouTube Practices

Axios seems to me relatively new. How clickbaity do they seem?

dfeojm-zlibon John McAfee Releasing Data on Corrupt US Officials

Exactly. He's in almost the same bucket as Roger Stone: a one man MSM troll machine.

Maybe he's out of viagra too... gofundme required.

dfeojm-zlibon The Backlash to Plastic Has Oil Companies Worried

It was depressing when a plastic bag was found in the Mariana Trench.

dfeojm-zlibon The USDA just descheduled tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)

Supposedly, there's progress in the Second Circuit to compel the DEA to deschedule all cannabinoids. Irrespective of the outcome of that, the handwriting is on the wall but it will take some time regardless.

dfeojm-zlibon Dressers keep killing kids. So IKEA is finally redesigning them

Nice. About time. I think I've seen this feature in some filing cabinets.

When I was a kid, I had a heavy metal dresser that was prone to being top-heavy and falling over with just any second drawer barely out of place (the drawers were difficult to move).

dfeojm-zlibon That Bombshell Evidence in the Census Case? The Supreme Court Might Ignore It

Cognitive dissonance, Upton Sinclair effect and corporate capture of OTUS politics. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, ..."