Huh? Maybe I missed something, but...why should self-hosting a database server be hard or scary? Sure, you are then responsible for security backups, etc...but that's not really different in the cloud - if anything, the cloud makes it more complicated.
Well for the clickops folks who've built careers on the idea that 'systems administration is dead'... I imagine having to open a shell and install some stuff or modify a configuration file is quite scary.
> Hiring and replacing engineers who can and want to manage database servers can be hard or scary for employers.
I heard there's this magical thing called "money" that is claimed to help with this problem. You offer even half of the AWS markup to your employees and suddenly they like managing database servers. Magic I tell you!
I'd say a managed dB, at minimum, should be handling upgrades and backups for you. If it doesn't, thats not a managed db, thats a self-service db. You're paying a premium to do the work yourself.
I've seen this on some of the domains speculatively registered by companies hoping to sell them for a fortune. Pick a dictionary word, or just a short (3 or 4 letter) Domain Name. If it's not actually in use, somebody had registered it and would love to sell it for some stupid amount. In the mean time, I guess they pay the fees by renting to scammers...
I really wish the domain registrar's would prohibit speculation, but there's money to be made, so...
I had something similar, but I was lucky enough to catch it myself. I've used SSH for years, and never knew that it - by default - also accepts password logins. Maybe dumb on my part, but there you go...
I'm a huge fan of projectors. With large TVs, you have a huge black wall when you aren't watching. With a projector you can have a pull-down screen that disappears when you don't need it. Or leave it down - it's white, and a lot less visually intrusive.
The only problem with projectors is there's not much choice if you're sensitive to DLP rainbow effect. I haven't tried one of the newer ones with a faster colour wheel, though. It means I've had to go JVC DLA projectors, but these are now ridiculously expensive and I can't see myself ever spending that much on, well, anything.
Yes, projectors with 3LCD tech is what you are looking for. They produce all 3 colors at once via 3 distinct lcds inside the chassis and mix them ahead of time. There are a few to choose from, but they all cost above 3000.
The reason why projectors don't use a single rgb lcd (like monitors) to produce the color is the same why all sub 5000$ projectors use pixel shift to fake 4k resolution: Too much light is blocked by the lcd itself if the individual pixels become too small.
I am somewhat sensitive to the effect and have been okay with an X3000i. If I scan my eyes across a black screen with white text, I can still perceive the effect - but it's nowhere near as bad as some older DLP projectors.
It's weird. Almost all web traffic is now https - even though very little of it is sensitive. Email, on the other hand, is quite often sensitive, and yet...no one cares.
It seems like the bigger day to day issue is the possibility of downgrades from STARTTLS or a server that doesn’t support TLS. Encryption in the GPG isn’t necessary or even would be unwanted (for a company to have records of all the emails).
So there are mechanisms to put encrypted things in workplace emails and then have some mechanism for receiver in a different organization to unencrypt. I have seen a mechanism that comes down to magic links, which I found ironic (though yes, intercepting is less of a threat than sending the data unencrypted).
I feel like supporting an option to not send an email unless STARTTLS happens is the way to go. There’s probably a lot of practical problems for, say, online Outlook or Gmail supporting that option when sending an email. But I feel like that’s the easiest solution.
Unfortunately, those are 2 different problems. It’s easy to have servers store encryption keys to make https work. You only need to encrypt trafic between you and a server for 5 seconds at a time.
It’s hard for personal communications. The server shouldn’t know the keys, and they need to survive for decades.
No, they couldn't. What they could do--and what they did do--was push for the move of TLS connections for the MX-MX hop of email; I don't have the stats off the top of my head for how prevalent that is, but I think it's in the 80-90% range of email being delivered in this method.
But end-to-end encrypted email? It breaks everything. You need to get all the MUAs to support it (very few do either S/MIME or PGP). You'll break webmail--the most popular way to use email--without lots of major investment. And encrypted email breaks things like spam filtering or server-side filters catastrophically. Key discovery is also unsolved.
There was a time when I was on the everybody-should-use-encrypted-email train. But I've since grown up and realized that encrypted email fundamentally breaks email in ways that people are unprepared for, and people have already figured out how to route around the insecurity of email via other mechanisms.
Google makes money off search, which requires that users want to visit websites. All websites using HTTP are not secure. Unsecure websites are uninteresting to most users, but most users don't have the know-how to distinguish what sites are using HTTPS and which aren't. So the simplest solution is to get all websits to switch to HTTPS before it becomes a problem
Another possibility is Google is in an industry that makes money by collecting information about users, and by supporting universal HTTPS, they gained a competitive advantage over ISPs and others regarding user data for Google searches and other services.
Yet another argument for UBI, this time because "AI".
The author misses one important, cold-blooded point: Why should someone receive UBI?
Present social systems are based on the idea that a few people are down on their lick. So you help them until they get back on their feet. Some few people make welfare their career, but that is a minority.
If nearly everyone is getting UBI, you have to ask: where is that much money coming from? If it exists, why would those few people/corporations/whatever agree to part with it? They must be immensely powerful, so why wouldn't they just say "no"?
The world is not a utopia. UBI is not going to happen. Not even because of AI.
At a certain point, employing humans will become pointless. Robots will be able to do everything a person can for cheaper. This will divide people into two camps: those who own enough shares of robot companies to live off of dividends, and those who don't. The latter will be destitute, and also by far the largest camp. You will have an army of millions of smart, capable, very angry, and very hungry people. They will go into revolt, unless you give them some solution. That is why you will do UBI.
Indeed. The idea is interesting, but the claim is obviously exaggerated: sure, you're burning less gas, but you're tanking electrons. Whatever the final mpg equivalent is, it isn't 120mpg.
His other company is yet another green washing idea. Taking what could and should be valuable natural fertilizer and sequestering it. Also, for most of these ideas, the energy costs of transport and processing outweigh any supposed benefits.
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