Who wrote those bugs in the first place?
What's your point?
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The view of the European Union (aka German Green Party) is that Nukular Energy is not renewable or desirable. https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-is-nuclear-energy-good-for-...
Surely that must be a politically motivated stance.
I miss the days when this was a feature built into Google.
It could do all the removal server side.
I love uBlacklist. However, when I started to "block" scam sites I became acutely aware of just how many there are. It is like playing endless whack a mole.
I recently have had the need download some Windows software and all the top links from Google are scam sites. By that I mean they pretend to look like the legitimate / real site and they can be damn good at it.
No wonder my dad for one has downloaded stuff from those kinda sites.
I started blocking them, but there seemed to be an endless supply.
I am hoping users can work together to create smart blacklists, and there are already some subscription feeds for it.
I do worry about performance as the lists grows.
We need a p2p client side / federated search engine, with customisable white/blacklists and proper caching. Able to both work with results of other search engines and index specific websites itself.
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That crap forced me to finally pi-hole my entire home. I'm never buying a Samsung TV ever again, or other Samsung stuff.
My dryer broke yesterday. I specifically bought an AEG because it was a dumb dryer, not some smart appliance with an app and all that junk. Don't get me wrong, I love smart stuff. In fact, I plugged my new dryer into a Shelly S plug so my home assistant can send me a notification on my phone when it's finished. But I trust my HA. I can never trust Samsung again.
Pi-hole your network for a week and take a look at the logs to see all the crap it has blocked. You'll be surprised.
Pi-hole does not solve the problem completely unfortunately; it's fairly trivial to bypass network DNS. In theory any software could manually call one of the public DNS ip's or just have a fallback hardcoded list of IPs.
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A faraday cage must be enclosed metal all around. A hat has a big hole where the head goes :) I don't think it will function as one. Microwaves are very prone to bouncing.
It should significantly reduce the signal strength though.
Can also trap reflected waves inside and focus them right in the middle
I imagine some crabby responses to this
this is not reddit
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“ Lockdowns only for people who have this marker? I can imagine people wouldn’t want to make this test as it makes them turn paranoid, could we force people to make this test?”
I disagree here. People would want to know if they are at risk. For example in our local school system there has been 40 teachers who have tested positive and 230 students since school started this fall (2600 students in the district). Out of the confirmed positive cases we have had 0 severe cases. 0 hospitalizations with an average illness of around 3-5 days.
The amount of school activities missed due to contact tracing, exposure protocols has been immense. The constant stress of a scary pandemic weighs heavily on the community. Imagine if all students, staff and community members could be screened to see if they were vulnerable. Precautions could be made for this select group.
The overall health of the community and school system would improve drastically utilizing another tool to put the scope and danger of this pandemic in perspective.
> The amount of school activities missed
Has been more or less spread across population. If only a known subset is affected, those will become disadvantaged and possibly even discriminated during employment.
I worked on a large XMPP system for a while and realized it's actually not a very good protocol, for one reason: presence. "Presence" is the feature that shows a little indicator next to each one of your contacts indicating whether they're online or away.
The problem with presence is that it generates a LOT of traffic. It's N^2 with the average number of contacts each user has - every time a user changes presence, you have to send a message to every one of their contacts to update them about the presence. This happens whether they're paying attention to your client or not. So on a large system, the big majority of the traffic is just presence messages flying back and forth saying who is at their keyboard and who isn't. This is really wasteful in general. Worse, it's not a super important feature for a lot of people, so it's definitely not worth the effort. And ever since mobile computing became ubiquitous, it's not even clear what this is supposed to represent.
So, I say let XMPP die. It was a fine idea for its time. But the protocol has no place in the modern world.
What do you suggest replacing it with?
If you're separated out from ops, what would ever drill that into you? Saying you're too busy for ops is just wild to me. That's some of the highest effort to reward work someone can do.
> waste my already precious *freetime* on fixing bugs in prod
It doesn't mean bugs cannot be raised, planned and addressed through the normal development process.
Also, abundance of bugs in production could indicate cutting costs on testing.