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encno1s3on American Cities May Have Hit 'Peak Office'

Company I work for has offices all over the place. Every time I go to one of these places for meetings, the offices are usually empty.

Most everyone I work with is telecommuting. I do sometimes miss goofing around with folks in the office, but working in boxers is the best perk ever.

encno1s3on Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop

This is in no way a bashing of Linux. I love linux, I use it daily, but it's the desktop that I have issues with..

I've used Linux as a Desktop exclusively from 1999 to circa 2008. When I finally gave up. I think it was Ubuntu releasing buggy PulseAudio which broke the sound for me that was the last straw.

I still use Linux as a desktop occasionally but I just don't have the patience to deal with the weird quirks anymore. And there were plenty of quirks over the years.

I never understood why Linux went with Windows inspired ctr-c and ctr-v. For me especially since I do most of my work in a terminal window it was always counter intuitive. Shift-Ins is problematic on laptop keyboards and even on full size keyboards it requires both hands.

Each year (or so it seems) Bryan Lunduke does a "Why Linux Sucks <year>"(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSxX8a_TC7I) and I love it.

encno1s3on reCAPTCHAs are finally readable by normal humans

Google knows your searches, and I am pretty sure google knows every site you visit, via google analytics, which most sites run.

Combine this with browser fingerprinting (your browser's fingerprint is incredibly unique), and the fact that you probably have a google account. There is a high probability they know who you are. From your history they can determine if you're human or not.

encno1s3on Hadi Esmaeilzadeh on Dark Silicon

However fab process shrink is a very expensive endeavor and the article argues that: "We may stop scaling not because of the physical limitations, but because of the economics."

So while for awhile now we knew we were going to hit the physical limitation of silicon at some point, the reality might actually be even worse because due to dark silicon and the economical constraints it imposes, there may not be enough incentive to keep shrinking.

encno1s3on Why putting SSH on another port than 22 is bad idea

Moving ssh to a different port and using something like port-sentry could make it much harder. It will not increase your security per se, but it can make you less vulnerable to zero day exploits against random general internet scans.