I think someone didn't adequately test a fontend change b/c in traffic I saw all of the chat-history data come my way but it didn't display. Also the javascript applet I use to export chats in markdown is...failing in very interesting way. No time to track down the bug atm (also if it going to keep changing for a while there's no point).
Slashdot's moderation system (in theory) is excellent. It is more than a + / - button so I don't see it working in a faster-paced environment like facebook comments. I think the happy, sad, angry, and heart emoji-rating system they use now is probably already maxing out the amount of time a user will spend on rating something.
I would guess it has something to do with cisco asking them to help alleviate issues with their 1.1.1.1 squatting on a bunch of devices. I tested it when it came out, and if I set my DNS to 1.1.1.1, then logged into a hotel wireless network (that I knew was running those devices), as soon as a request was made, I was logged out of the captive portal.
I would have expected 1.1.1.1 to already be blocked if anyone filters on bogon-space (or has dealt with i
Is there a database of who blocks what? I searched but didn't find a collection anywhere.
Unless we are looking at port 25 and whatnot. Yes, it is not allowing you to use a (not technically)-arbitrary port, but most would agree that the internet is better off for that.
Using unallocated IPs for "internal" or bogus purposes is sketchy, continuing to use them after they are allocated is something else. Especially so nearly a decade on.
There is when much of the code was "write once, read never". There's more than a a few dozen MB blobs of dense perl5 code that we had no clue what it actually did, and was told not to touch it, lest many things break.
I had to end up touching one of them, because of things breaking with that subsystem and the new ticketing system that was being implemented. It had the wonderful line
database_user = root
database_password = [current mysql root password]
Every time I write some crap code at work, someone on HN tells a story about such horrors that I no longer feel bad. Thanks for making my day better :).
This team provide a great side service - you can setup BGP with them using an internal AS. It's one of the few ways you can get practical experience setting up BGP in the home with a third party. I'm running it right now.
> A bogon prefix is a route that should never appear in the Internet routing table. A packet routed over the public Internet (not including over VPNs or other tunnels) should never have a source address in a bogon range. These are commonly found as the source addresses of DDoS attacks.
Debugging system(s) failure sometimes make me feel I should be consulting with spirits, ouija board and all. But as the article said, we'll rely on rumor, hearsay, conjecture and if time remains, we will consult the logfiles.
Every company that is fighting DDPR needs to fire legal and compliance. It literally says 'blah blah <stuff none of them want to do> by this/specific/date, NO EXCEPTIONS'
It's hard to separate what actually came from China, and what didn't come from China. Not that it isn't obvious (I mean really, you invented the spoon -- also claimed by Korea but whatever -- information overload so they have done themselves a disservice.
Not sure what was going on there 4k-15k years ago?
Scholarship in ancient Chinese history here. While 'China' as a concept didn't exist, certain forerunners to key cultural traits defining Chinese civilization were in place by 3000BC. This includes agriculture with pigs, chickens and common intensive staple crops, village structures, pottery, warmaking, Sino-Tibetan language,[0] and critically the indisputable development of written Chinese characters.
However, in addition to these there were also distinct, large, parallel, significant cultures with impressive technical achievements, those such as the Shu[1] Kingdom (finally invaded and destroyed by the Qin in 316BC, and only rediscovered in the 1980s) which was known for its masterful large-scale bronze casting, said to be unequaled in human history.
Prior to 2k years ago, it gets messy fast, and notions of "China" are vague, relative and almost untenable. Chiefly because, lacking any large unifying kingdom to provide political, economic, military and cultural unity, it's very difficult to make blanket statements about an area the size of the modern region of China. There were certainly separate cultural spheres from the northeast (circa Korea), the north, the northwest (Xinjiang), Tibet[2], Sichuan, Yunnan/Guizhou/Guangxi, Hainan, the southeast and Taiwan, from which humans launched themselves in to the Pacific to conquer the final part of the planet.[3] We can make sparse suggestions based on suppositions about overall migrations of people and technology, but not much more.
When the dominant state broke down and new states emerged - as in 3 kingdoms, or 16 kingdoms periods - would you always consider a later state to be a successor in title of the state that existed prior to the break up? Is it the language?
>"critically the indisputable development of written Chinese characters." //
What makes the characters Chinese. Italian, for example, uses the Latin character set (though that comes from Greek, which comes from, ...; which may make it a poor analogue). Why aren't they Qin, or Han, or whatever? Is it just imprecise naming.
You haven't talked to Chinese people have you? They will tirelessly parrot out that China has 5000 years of history (it doesn't), because the Middle Kingdom has to be the worlds oldest civilisation - least a billion glass hearts should shatter.
