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I believe the motivation is that the Amateur service is largely self-policed. If communications are encrypted, it becomes harder to encourage such self-enforcement.

Total failure of a data center's cooling apparatus seems to be a very rare occurrence to me, perhaps limited to simultaneous failure of utility and genset power (example: electrical switchgear and fuel pumps underwater due to flooding).

Anyone have any data around how frequently such a failure occurs?

Live discussion of upcoming flyby at https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive currently (2018-09-19T17:00Z).

I wonder if the direct nod to Bezos is an attempt to gain favor with a wing of the President's base who already have a target on the Amazon CEO, a long shot to combine forces from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum.

This is cool from an implementation standpoint.

However, doesn't this defeat the purpose of using IPFS? Using Cloudflare to front-end content stored within IPFS makes Cloudflare the choke point for all traffic, effectively re-centralizing the distributed content.

In legacy “low pressure” systems, regulators aren’t used at the residential end at all. Our neighborhood was recently upgraded to a “high pressure” system, and regulators were introduced, along with vents cut through the foundation to the outdoors.

Our neighborhood was built in 1950. This system upgrade included replacing all the mains in the road as well.

Here's[1] a recent article that supports the OP's point-of-view.

Interestingly, Environmental Research "publishes original reports describing studies of the adverse effects of environmental agents on humans and animals," which seems to exclude any research to the contrary.

[1]: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.envres.2018.01.016

Petitions are not science.

> For the love of all that is decent with humanity, use push to talk.

I’d love Zoom, WebEx, GoToMeeting, et al., to implement push-to-talk, and give an option for mandatory use to conference call organizers.

An article[1] on org-publish[2] made it to the front page of HN[3] just yesterday, in fact.

[1]: https://vicarie.in/posts/blogging-with-org.html

[2]: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-publish-html-tuto...

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17940393

Go is apparently well suited to minimalist static site generators, see zas[1], zs[2], and z[3].

[1]: https://github.com/imdario/zas

[2]: https://github.com/zserge/zs

[3]: https://github.com/cjp/z

Agreed. Google's ubiquity coupled with the proposed change to Chrome threatens to morph a user's experience of the open Internet into something akin to AOL and its keyword feature. That puts the Internet back fifteen or more years.

It's a bit disingenuous ars technica ledes with a screenshot of a homograph attack that Chrome mitigated in March 2017, and really doesn't relate to the article. https://www.xudongz.com/blog/2017/idn-phishing/

Yes, because $dayjob uses zoom.us which has frustrating defaults.

Plain text websites load just fine with HTTPS/TLS via very-small-aperture terminal (VSAT) ISPs. This is based on my experience with 1024k/256k Hughes service in rural US.

I’ve considered Dvorak, but I’m very reluctant to make the investment in lost productivity while learning. I’m not certain my slow suffering would be limited to about a week.

Passwords really do need to die.

I never learned to type "properly", or, should I say, never completed learning. We were told very sternly in catholic school typing class not to fiddle with the IBM Selectric "golf ball" lest the typewriter malfunction and we be permanently removed from the class.

Being a curious and tinkering individual, I was presently kicked out of the class. (Insert here rant on rewarding curiosity in schools, rather than punishing it.)

Today I have a bizarre, hybrid typing style, somewhere near touch-typing with a lot of error correcting, and occasional hunt-and-peck. It's odd... the hunt-and-peck occurs more when I'm typing nonsense like passwords. Words (and quasi-words in code and the shell) seem to come out just fine.

That said, it's nice to see that even in my 40s, I can improve at something over time.

A lot of the improvements in my typing, I owe to returning to mechanical keyboards. (I think... this is completely unscientific.) First, I switched to a Das Keyboard Ultimate, without labeled keycaps. This really forced myself to get away from the crutch that was the labeled keys.

Lately, I've switched to a Kinesis Advantage 2 ergonomic keyboard. This has helped more with my hand positioning, which seems to have improved even going back to a "default keyboard" -- I've noticed that when traveling and using my laptop keyboard, my typing has also improved.

I will fully admit that in addition to attempting to improve my typing and treat/prevent RSI in a non-scientific manner, I bought these keyboards for the eccentric nerd factor. As one does.

Is 811 10th (NYCMNY54) even interesting from an Internet perspective any longer? Yes, the building is part of AT&T’s network (AS7018), but as far as I’m aware, no peering occurs here at all. I’d look for equivalent shady racks or rooms at 60 Hudson, 111 8th and 25 Broadway.

Maybe the comfortable relationship between NSA and at&t are more the driver for the location, and the fiber taps are all backhauled here.

From a voice perspective, though, I’d think this was still a useful surveillance point, given AT&T likely still tandems traffic here.

> The use of particle filters necessitates a level of server affinity. Each new request to our service must be routed to the same back-end server for processing in order to update the correct particle filter.

Was implementing this on the client device considered? What were the motivations for this design?

From a client perspective, QUIC seems like it would provide the most value on mobile devices. Any word on how well supported this is on Android clients? I'm assuming iOS adoption will take some time.

In many enterprise networks, TLS MitMboxes rule QUIC out completely. I'm not aware of any middleboxes that support it. Nevermind that even on many guest networks, I see udp/53 hijacked, and all other UDP dropped.

This is a master stroke. The masses want to cut science funding. Rebrand as "planetary defence" and the spigots re-open.

Really reminds me of this guy https://youtu.be/bajOUNg9_ms?t=280

Could costs be reduced by using hydrogen?

Note that no one would have clicked on this article if it said "Why mDNS in OS X 10.10 is broken..."