That's Not an Abstraction, That's Just a Layer of Indirection.
What looks like neatly organized and modularized code often reveals itself as a labyrinth, with layers upon layers of indirection. The performance is sluggish, debugging is a nightmare, and your CPU seems to be spending more time running abstractions than solving the actual problem.
Improving SSH's security with SSHFP DNS records.
Of course I wanted to try this immediately after hearing from SSHFP records for the first time! So here they are!
Unfortunately, Hetzner still does not support DNSSEC:
we are not currently planning to implement DNSSEC.
Without the DS record for p3k.org in the org zone the whole chain of trust breaks, and SSH still asks me whether I trust my own host 🙁
Horton hears an Observable Jupyter Hurmet.
Hurmet – A notebook for calculations.
Relevant: datasciencenotebook.org.
Almost not The Onion.
Both Campaigns Release Ads Showcasing Trump’s Most Racist Comments.
Numerous viewers told reporters that only at the very end were they able to determine which candidate each ad was supporting, because one spot said “Stop Donald Trump” and the other said “Vote Donald Trump.”
Will you search the loamy earth for me?
Climb through the briar and bramble?
I'll be your treasure.
The Copenhagen interpretation of web authentication.
The Copenhagen Book provides a general guideline on implementing auth in web applications.
It is free, open-source, and community-maintained. It may be opinionated or incomplete at times but we hope this fills a certain void in online resources.
Exploring the intertwingularity of a docs site.
Hierarchical and sequential structures, especially popular since Gutenberg, are usually forced and artificial. Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged—people keep pretending they can make things hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can’t.
– Ted Nelson
ISO/OSI, ick hör DIr trapsen…
Das Signalling System #7, zu deutsch Signalisierungssystem Nummer 7, (im weiteren SS7 genannt) ist eine Sammlung von Protokollen und Verfahren für die Signalisierung in Telekommunikationsnetzen.
Mysterious human brain.
Those who have it are cortically blind, but affirm, often quite adamantly and in the face of clear evidence of their blindness, that they are capable of seeing.