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Let's define unikernels as running under a hypervisor. If it's not, it's more likely to be called an embedded operating system.

I don't think unikernels are worth it unless you're running at massive scale. A realistic target audience is providers of serverless-style services, in which case you're taking a vanilla application someone else wrote and compiling it against a unikernel.

I also fall in the category of parler "was a haven for people who want mass executions for people like me."

I still think it's wrong to leak the data.

Many of these people use twitter and gmail too - does that justify a leak from those services? If not, why not?

There were and are legal means for law enforcement to access that data if they need to.

Public figures need to be sensitive to motivated reasoning https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/motivated-reasonin... by the general public when they post. Looking at:

https://twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013/status/130176837049748275...

What if he had ended this tweet with "But: I will take any FDA approved vaccine." ?

Except - he was at exactly 280 characters, so he couldn't have added this without removing other text, or doing a multi-tweet message.

https://academic.oup.com/joc/article-abstract/69/4/345/55470... says "We show that doubling the permissible length of a tweet led to less uncivil, more polite, and more constructive discussions online."

Maybe the character limits inherent in platforms like twitter cause many of the problems we're seeing right now, because people literally don't have the words to explain themselves.

I don't believe you clicked on any of the articles.

They "harvest facts," but also provide references to the source material.

See for example:

https://www.allsides.com/story/pennsylvania-and-nevada-certi...

https://www.allsides.com/about is trying to combat exactly this issue. I'm surprised they weren't referenced in the original article.

This media bias chart may be of interest: https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart-2...

Reuters and AP are rated similarly there.

Granted that you need to read the websites methodology to determine whether you think those ratings are credible.

Not a bad idea. When do you plan to add a privacy policy?

We repartition it because we're adding partitions.

We have one kickstart file that we use regardless of medium type. For SSDs, we overprovision and leave unused space at the end. Some brands of SSDs were failing before we did that. We don't need to overprovision hard drives.

You could remove the repartitioning and it would do the right thing for your use case.

The sfdisk is because as part of our kickstart file we only create the first partition. After removing the disk from the raid we repartition it.

I don't see why this couldn't fix up a RAID device generated by the debian installer. The device name could be parameterized if it's not always the same.

We run this script before there's any real data on the device so loss of redundancy for a brief moment is not a huge deal - md0 is a very small device so it doesn't take long to resync.

Brave appears to be currently ad based, so no not the same.

I guess the micropayment model failed, maybe because it used bitcoin?

https://brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/

There is another discussion which may be worth having: why was this feature enabled by default without considering how the software is used? What process was missing? Is this still a problem, and if so is it pervasive to Linux kernel development or is it specific to md?

I added

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prgmrcom/ansible-role-mdad...

for you.

Apologies I haven't gotten to your PR's yet, but there is a ticket now in our internal development queue to review and merge those.

I don't know Debian's specific history, but having participated in volunteer organizations, getting everyone to agree on how to spend money can be tricky.

Personally I'd love to be making more open source contributions as well, and I've been thinking off and on about taking a sabbatical to make time for it, though that probably won't happen.

I might be able to help find dev work for you that doesn't involve technical interviews, though it may not necessarily be a "job".

I think I would like to see mozilla do is act as a micropayments service provider to websites based on aggregated browsing history, and take a small service fee for it.

I already use firefox. There's no other company right now I would trust more with some knowledge of my browsing history. I believe I would pay for a subscription service to support both mozilla and the news websites I visit.

And they're already working on something like that it seems: https://www.fastcompany.com/90403645/mozilla-and-creative-co...

There's a question of "what extra do you get for that payment" - maybe an NPR or PBS style pledge drive gift is a possible answer, not sure.

This blog post has been changed to clarify the context for why daemonization is in use (the service is very old, meaning it predates systemd) and also gives an even more simple sample program that illustrates the underlying issue without use of daemonization or syslog.

I put in our privacy policy that customers will be notified if majority ownership changes, but had not considered advance notification of the ownership change.

Such a clause might work as long as it's part of the sale contract to adjust the sale price if any customers take that option.

One thing we couldn't figure out from the documentation is encrypted root with serial console: https://prgmr.com/blog/openbsd/2020/05/08/openbsd-encrypted-... I have gotten it on someone's TODO list to upstream that work though it hasn't happened yet.

It's not a summary by number of words, but it if someone doesn't want to read the article, it's what I want them to be aware of.

It's frustrating the number of silly things you can do at the command line that persist for backwards compatibility reasons. But we can at least add warnings for them. It would have been much better for the user to have been told at the time they failed to add a netmask that they made a mistake. It would have removed the need for the support ticket entirely (at least, one hopes so.)

mkswap is another example of this. Karel Zak had thoughtfully added warnings in swapon already if you enabled swap with insecure permissions https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.g... but nobody had bothered to warn at the time the swap file was actually created. So I had someone add that: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.g...

TL;DR - we'd like someone to add warnings to ifconfig etc. if no netmask is supplied. I could do it but don't have the time.

prgmr.com has updated it's openbsd installer version to 6.7.

We were a bit surprised to see "Fixed softraid(4) CRYPTO volumes on 4K-sector disks" in the release notes. We don't have any 4k logical sector drives but for some reason I thought that was reasonably common in consumer drives these days.

To my best knowledge, I and lsc are the only people associated with prgmr.com who post semi-regularly on HN. lsc isn't involved much beyond having a minor stake in the company.

lsc set up the Safeway divider advertisements. It was pretty cheap, like $150 a month. I don't think we would do it again, but it certainly caught a lot of people's attention.

Python is totally possible with a screen reader; the screen reader just needs to read out punctuation. It's easier with a self voicing application like emacs.

Maybe it's not programming without sight that's hard, but working with sighted programmers who use tools that aren't compatible with screen readers.

My company (prgmr.com) gave a presentation about hiring our first blind engineer at SCALE last year:

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/presentations/accid...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvrQPdt1X30&feature=youtu.be

We hired another blind developer who occasionally does some frontend work. If any sort of visual layout is involved, that obviously needs review, but he's able to add on to existing pages. He's also trying selenium for testing the visual layout.

It will probably be more of a challenge for you since you're having to learn to deal with lack of vision as an adult rather than having been blind since a young age. In your position I'd seek out advice specifically from others who have gone through the same process.

justworks is a PEO and their PEO certification is currently suspended. https://www.irs.gov/tax-professionals/cpeo-public-listings https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/suspended-cpeos.pdf

I saw that it's legally possible to form an association health plan. I don't think there are very many of them, or if there are, they are not public organizations.

https://www.takecommandhealth.com/ is an existing option for an ICHRA or QSEHRA. I am not clear what savvy is offering that isn't offered by them.

A professional employment organization (PEO) is required to get group rates for health insurance as a small business. PEO's handle more than just health insurance; they can also handle 401k's, disability insurance and remove the need to register as a foreign corporation in each state that your employees live in. If anyone has recommendations here I would love to hear them.

For a while prgmr gave out complimentary service with no end date and that was a mistake. It's much better to do a year at a time so that you aren't stuck trying to figure out what to do if the account contacts stop responding.

Regions like for TV and movies. IE, they sold a drive in Asia and someone sold it to us. We do a warranty check and are told that we can't get a warranty for that drive because we're in the US.

It's worth doing a warranty check with the manufacturer as soon as you receive the drive if there's any possibility at all it might not be up and up, so that you have an opportunity to return the drive if you want to.

Even if the drive is legitimate, a vendor might sell you an OEM drive which means having to go through that vendor for warranty service instead of direct with the manufacturer. That might be too much of a hassle.

We stopped buying drives from Amazon when we got drives for "the wrong region" and couldn't RMA them.

NewEgg is a bit better, but don't buy refurbished drives. Provantage is another reputable vendor that usually has decent prices.

If you're local to the SF bay area, check out Central Computers. King Star USA also works if you're a business customer making a large purchase.