there are _so many_ reasons a site could go down and it is almost never hacking/malware. Near perfect uptime is both difficult and expensive no matter what you're attempting to do. Most of the time the reason a site goes down is not unlike "tripping over a power cord" (most often misconfigured DNS)
"People deserve to buy a home at a price they can afford, a price that will somehow also cover my entire initial investment, three decades' worth of repairs and home improvements, allow me to purchase a new condo, and fund the next two decades of my retirement. It's that simple."
buff.ly/eb04d9q
idk why it took me until reading this to realize that I could just file down the sharp edges of my macbook kentwalters.com/posts/corners/
Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)
NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.
how diffie hellman key exchange works
(with as little math as possible)
I had a teacher in high school who gave students who did that shit: "It's the best natural high you can get; don't hold it in!"
CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF!
(I never post Olympic videos bc the IOC will hunt you down but I am taking that risk so that you can hear the Canadian curling cursing)
You are not prepared for the sound in this video. I sure wasn’t, anyway
Whoa! Mind blown: the s/ORIG/NEW/ syntax predates Unix:
Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs
Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs theonion.com/melting-ice-caps-expose-...
Oh man. I've been trying to write something kinda sorta like this (not quite, but close). But, yeah, this is worth reading.
I was recently reminded of this.
A couple decades ago, I wrote a short paper that described how the basic approaches of cryptography and computer security lead to an efficient and practical privilege escalation attack against master-keyed mechanical lock, which I published in IEEE Security and […]
Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.
This is a pretty interesting piece. Love or hate the idea of mixing federal pardons with state crimes, you need to read this.
Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
twenty twenty-five
photo of Nathan fielder by himself with the caption "Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too."
This is incredible.
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
new euphemism for "fact" dropped, today's is "scientific orthodoxy"
Wait do they not call that the cigarette lighter? I know it doesn’t come with an actual lighter anymore but that’s still how I refer to it 😂
This was genuinely the best Weekend Update in a very long time. Expectedly dark.
youtu.be/SesRWE02PIU
"It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until IT HAPPENS. Looking at the data, it is statistically plausible that IT will HAPPEN in the next thirty-six months. Eighteen, if you factor in hamburger consumption and all the weird bruising."
to paraphrase Philip J. Fry, "nobody drives in New York, there's too much traffic"
here for the deep cut
It really is great for the 80% prototype & throwaway code. It cannot (and should not) be trusted for the last 20% (which is what takes 80% of the time in any halfway decent software product anyway)
