This has nothing to do with transport. Iranian drone strikes disabled a Qatari helium _production_ facility.
Interesting bit from that article wrt to transport infrastructure: "most distributors simply stick to the industry standard transport of Grade 5. That is why for and [sic] end user of helium, a lower grade can cost more…
Well-designed sitemaps and use of something like https://www.indexnow.org/ helps. Cloudflare has Crawler Hints which works well IME: https://blog.cloudflare.com/crawler-hints-how-cloudflare-is-...
Just out of curiosity, what adblocker? I read the Guardian a lot with uBlock Origin turned on, and I've never had issues.
I've got the Android app and love it, as well as Knots 3D. Most knot enthusiasts will already know about it, but in the analog world The Ashley Book of Knots is fantastic. Beautifully illustrated; the author, Clifford…
I use them both. I like Knots 3D better, but it's missing some knots that I use. No EStar stopper or Matthew Walker in Knots 3D, for example.
I can't tell much about your infrastructure, but memcached would probably increase that by several orders of magnitude. The NGINX module is pretty simple: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_memcached_module.htm...…
112 and 911 (US) work on almost every mobile phone anywhere in the world. It's part of the GSM/UMTS standard. 999 is supported with either no SIM card or a UK SIM card. See §7.1 here:…
TIL, I always thought IP:ASN mappings were 1:1.
It's not good as a first line of defense for failover, but with some client software and/or failure mechanisms there aren't any better approachs I'm aware of. Some of the software I administer doesn't understand…
Maybe, but I don't think TTL matters for speed of initial propagation. I do set it low when I first configure a website so I don't have to wait hours to correct a mistake I might not have noticed.
Agreed; I have no idea how you'd implement that across multiple ASNs, which is definitely a requirement for multi-cloud or geo-redundant architectures. Seems like you'd be trying to work against the basic design…
> basically no attempt by anyone in government to stop them. No one in the _US_ government. Note that European governments and China haven't approved it in the first place.
They're the CDN in front of ~19% of websites [1] and the DNS provider for ~16% [2]. Doesn't that mean your staff can't access any of those sites? [1]: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cn-cloudflare [2]:…
This seems... deeply idiotic on GitHub's part. Consider the following scenario: 1. A script/CI/etc is pulling the latest releases from the repository. 2. Ownership of the account is changed. 3. The new owner controls…
This Reddit thread has a script with a workaround: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/15ysxgs/applicati... There are comments saying it's worked on several Quickbooks integrations. Regarding hardware drivers, I…
I've also had great experiences with Tumbleweed for the most part, but be careful using ZFS, as it frequently breaks with updates. Probably not something most people use, but it does force me to run Leap on my home…
> open access "allows for manipulation of systems on a vehicle, including safety-critical functions such as steering, acceleration, or braking." I assume this is just FUD, but if true it raises another question: why are…
On a related note, my favorite easter egg header: http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/
The linked paper towards the end is pretty interesting: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ddi.13489 (open access) Figures 3 and 4 show the estimated increase in range through the 2070s with continuing…
While that might be true of Phoenix (if the cars aren't electric, and gas station pumps continue to work during this hypothetical blackout), US car ownership rates are _insanely_ high compared to the rest of the world.…
You're right, a temperature rise without a corresponding increase in water vapor content does reduce RH (relative humidity). It does not, however, remove any water from the air in terms of mass (absolute humidity). So…
The novel "Ministry For The Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson starts out in a similar fashion, with 12 million people dying in a heat wave. It's a great read, albeit disturbingly plausible at times. I suspect most of the…
My rule of thumb for evaluating laws: what could the most malicious person you can imagine do with that power? 'Hate speech' is a highly subjective category, and most proposals for hate speech laws that I've seen could…
I've used KeepassXC + Syncthing for about 8 years now, and it works fantastically. Syncthing provides redundancy, syncing, and versioned backups. There's a merge function with conflict resolution in KeepassXC on the off…
This has nothing to do with transport. Iranian drone strikes disabled a Qatari helium _production_ facility.
Interesting bit from that article wrt to transport infrastructure: "most distributors simply stick to the industry standard transport of Grade 5. That is why for and [sic] end user of helium, a lower grade can cost more…
Well-designed sitemaps and use of something like https://www.indexnow.org/ helps. Cloudflare has Crawler Hints which works well IME: https://blog.cloudflare.com/crawler-hints-how-cloudflare-is-...
Just out of curiosity, what adblocker? I read the Guardian a lot with uBlock Origin turned on, and I've never had issues.
I've got the Android app and love it, as well as Knots 3D. Most knot enthusiasts will already know about it, but in the analog world The Ashley Book of Knots is fantastic. Beautifully illustrated; the author, Clifford…
I use them both. I like Knots 3D better, but it's missing some knots that I use. No EStar stopper or Matthew Walker in Knots 3D, for example.
I can't tell much about your infrastructure, but memcached would probably increase that by several orders of magnitude. The NGINX module is pretty simple: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_memcached_module.htm...…
112 and 911 (US) work on almost every mobile phone anywhere in the world. It's part of the GSM/UMTS standard. 999 is supported with either no SIM card or a UK SIM card. See §7.1 here:…
TIL, I always thought IP:ASN mappings were 1:1.
It's not good as a first line of defense for failover, but with some client software and/or failure mechanisms there aren't any better approachs I'm aware of. Some of the software I administer doesn't understand…
Maybe, but I don't think TTL matters for speed of initial propagation. I do set it low when I first configure a website so I don't have to wait hours to correct a mistake I might not have noticed.
Agreed; I have no idea how you'd implement that across multiple ASNs, which is definitely a requirement for multi-cloud or geo-redundant architectures. Seems like you'd be trying to work against the basic design…
> basically no attempt by anyone in government to stop them. No one in the _US_ government. Note that European governments and China haven't approved it in the first place.
They're the CDN in front of ~19% of websites [1] and the DNS provider for ~16% [2]. Doesn't that mean your staff can't access any of those sites? [1]: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cn-cloudflare [2]:…
This seems... deeply idiotic on GitHub's part. Consider the following scenario: 1. A script/CI/etc is pulling the latest releases from the repository. 2. Ownership of the account is changed. 3. The new owner controls…
This Reddit thread has a script with a workaround: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/15ysxgs/applicati... There are comments saying it's worked on several Quickbooks integrations. Regarding hardware drivers, I…
I've also had great experiences with Tumbleweed for the most part, but be careful using ZFS, as it frequently breaks with updates. Probably not something most people use, but it does force me to run Leap on my home…
> open access "allows for manipulation of systems on a vehicle, including safety-critical functions such as steering, acceleration, or braking." I assume this is just FUD, but if true it raises another question: why are…
On a related note, my favorite easter egg header: http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/
The linked paper towards the end is pretty interesting: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ddi.13489 (open access) Figures 3 and 4 show the estimated increase in range through the 2070s with continuing…
While that might be true of Phoenix (if the cars aren't electric, and gas station pumps continue to work during this hypothetical blackout), US car ownership rates are _insanely_ high compared to the rest of the world.…
You're right, a temperature rise without a corresponding increase in water vapor content does reduce RH (relative humidity). It does not, however, remove any water from the air in terms of mass (absolute humidity). So…
The novel "Ministry For The Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson starts out in a similar fashion, with 12 million people dying in a heat wave. It's a great read, albeit disturbingly plausible at times. I suspect most of the…
My rule of thumb for evaluating laws: what could the most malicious person you can imagine do with that power? 'Hate speech' is a highly subjective category, and most proposals for hate speech laws that I've seen could…
I've used KeepassXC + Syncthing for about 8 years now, and it works fantastically. Syncthing provides redundancy, syncing, and versioned backups. There's a merge function with conflict resolution in KeepassXC on the off…