14 June 2021

56 links · Monday

the end of freenode – Ariadne's Space

My first experience with IRC was in 1999.  I was in middle school, and a friend of mine ordered a Slackware CD from Walnut Creek CDROM.  This was Slackware 3.4, and contained the GNOME 1.x desktop environment on the disc, which came with the BitchX IRC client.

Don’t pass the torch, pass the flame. - MarcRandolph

A few weeks ago, one of the organizations I work with started its board meeting with the icebreaker, “tell us something about yourself that most people don’t know”.

Ceph on Minikube

TL;DR Install, Uninstall At home I enjoy running a bare metal Kubernetes cluster that I use as a lab for running various experiments.  One of the challenges that I have in particular with this setup is that when I wanted to take a hard look at running contai…

How to Sell a Startup

It has never been easier to sell a project you create, but the task is daunting when you first start planning. Many entrepreneurs get discouraged at the process, but once you know the rhythm of the selling process, it makes the entire thing much easier. Here'…

Legally Ignoring The License

Perhaps the biggest current challenge to open source software is companies which ignore open source software licenses. That sounds so “yesterday” from an era of license scanners and com…

Precognition

All you have to do is see the present before everyone else does

Value creation, capture, and distribution

Economics is equal parts value creation, capture and distribution.  Good economic policy allows value capture to enable value creation while...

Automonous Biology

Progress in biology has been suffering from a lack of engineering and I'm working on fixing that. When I say engineering, I mean Engineering™: building fault tolerant systems that lay foundations of abstraction for the recursive building of more systems. Curre…

Release 13.0.0 · BurntSushi/ripgrep

ripgrep 13 is a new major version release of ripgrep that primarily contains bug fixes, some performance improvements and a few minor breaking changes. There is also a fix for a security vulnerabil...

The Root Cause of Microservices Disasters

There’s a blog post out about Disasters I’ve Seen in the Microservices World, and the OP is right, those are disasters. It seems easy to avoid the disasters, right? You can look at all …

Supporting Let’s Encrypt, the nonprofit making HTTPS free for all | 1Password

Today, we’re thrilled to be partnering with Let’s Encrypt, the world’s largest certificate authority. Part of the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), the team supports website owners by removing the cost and complexity normally associated with e…

Introducing Script Watch: Detect Magecart style attacks, fast!

I'm really excited to be announcing something that we've been working towards for a long time at Report URI, Script Watch! Continuing our goal of making browser security features like CSP easier to use and empowering application owners to neutralise serious ri…

Making Your Life Easier with C# Scripting -- Visual Studio Magazine

Test projects give you a way to exercise your code to see if it works but they're also part of your project's 'permanent record.' If all you want to do is try something out with some throwaway code, C# Scripting in Visual Studio might be a better choice.

##linux on freenode

Last remaining >1000 user community channel seized by freenode staffLate in the evening of June 12, 2021, freenode staff seized the largest community channel left on freenode.They cleared the ##linux access list and established themselves as channel owners. In…

Stripe Identity: Verify identities with confidence

Stripe Identity lets you programmatically confirm the identity of global users so you can prevent attacks from fraudsters while minimizing friction for legitimate customers.

Conversation about diagnostics | .NET Blog

Diagnostics has always been a fundamental part of the .NET development experience. It enables developers to understand the runtime behavior of their programs, at both a high- and low-level. It’s also the set of tools that developers reach for to root-cause a f…

Hot failures and high availability

Last week, Amazon had an outage in its Frankfurt region. Here is what they had to say about it:We can confirm increased API error rates and latencies for the...

SQL Saturday Mailing List

I have set up a mailing list at Mailchimp for people to sign up and get information about the SQL Saturday corporation. You can sign up here: http://eepurl.com/hwVBKn. Feel free to pass this along.

Filing for Non Profit Status

Today, after some research with a lawyer and accountant, I filed the US IRS Form 1023-EX form today with the US IRS. This was to establish this corporation as a 501.c.3 entity that is a public charity to enable us to do a few things: First, get some donations …

Print-in-place ATAT Print on Twotrees Bluer plus

STL- https://fab365.net/items/229Requests from FAB365.net have received numerous requests from customers. Among them, there are the most requests for Star Wa...

Doom on an IKEA TRÅDFRI lamp!

We ported Doom to the Silicon lab's MGM210L RF module found ni the IKEA TRÅDFRI RGB GU10 lamp (IKEA model: LED1923R5). The module has only 108 kB of RAM so w...

C# Language Highlights: Nullable Reference Types

Learn about the benefits of Nullable Reference types from Leslie https://twitter.com/lyrichardson01 and Matt https://twitter.com/CodeMillMatt in this short video. Useful Links Nullable Reference typ

Build serveless real-time chat application with Web PubSub and Static Web Apps

With the growth of internet and mobile, building the cross platform real-time chat experience into your application also becomes a very common need, for example patient and doctor chat in healthcare, customer support chat in eCommerce, student and teacher chat…

Project Hail Mary

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Number-One Audible and New York Times Audio Best Seller A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The M…

Microsoft Learn

The skills required to advance your career and earn your spot at the top do not come easily. Now there’s a more rewarding approach to hands-on learning that helps you achieve your goals faster. Earn points, levels, and achieve more!

Goodbye Freenode

For the last month or so, the IRC world has been embroiled in drama over the new ownership of Freenode. For me, it culminated yesterday when I was banned from Freenode.