posixplz

I assume you mean "validated" and not "compliant" -- the distinction is important. Yes, it will be 140-2 validated. It's being submitted for testing before end of month to make the 140-2 cutoff. (September is the last month for 140-2 submissions. After September, all new FIPS submissions must be for 140-3 validation.)

It's fair to assume it will take about 12-18 months from submission to certificate issuance.

>> memory safe

> That's an incorrect assumption if you haven't audited the code.

Audit the code? Simply `grep unsafe`.

Spot on. Also worth noting that regulation and government administrative law are the only ways to restrict consolidation. (Anti-trust, FTC merger approvals)

Serve the same content over HTTP and HTTPS. Many web admins today don’t serve content over http, instead they HTTP/301 redirect all http requests to https.

I miss the days when punctuation marks were significant to google searches. And the days when you could use logic operands in searches like +&!

I’m glad I learned POSIX and especially Linux when searches were evaluated more literally. It was simple to locate relevant technical pages.

It’s a shame google doesn’t offer legacy search.

Really, slippery slope fallacy over employers providing food to workers?

The free food does a good job of keeping me in the building. I honestly can’t understand why anyone would be opposed to office perks.

PlantUML is an excellent tool for creating visual representations of system behaviors. Because diagrams are generated from plaintext, they’re easy to maintain and version control. I use it often when designing new features and systems. You don’t need to pay attention to UML semantics to create valuable diagrams.

“I’m sorry if I hurt you,” is a very different statement from, “I am sorry I hurt you.” One makes responsibility conditional, and the other takes responsibility.

FYI, RF paints are poor signal attenuators, even when applied in multiple coats. There’s no RF paint product that can stop commercial cell communication across usable spectrum.

Yes.

Credit card companies do the same thing. They run ads stating you won’t be held liable for fraud. The implication is that the credit card company does this because it cares about you as a customer. The truth is federal law dictates cardholders can’t be held liable for fraudulent charges.

Are MikroTik access points still a royal pain to configure and maintain? I use their switches, but not their APs.

Decades ago, I was a network engineer working in production data centers. I’m used to setting up switches manually. But I have no professional experience with setting up meshed WiFi networks. I like that the Ubiquiti APs “just work” for the most part.

I’ve started to notice weird AP/client failures with my ubiquiti gear and debugging is a nightmare. It seems that ubiquiti has hidden a lot of useful information in an overzealous effort to streamline UX.

Does the cult of personality — its leader, followers, and traditional media amplifiers — bear no responsibility? In the context of this article, “big tech” seems only to be a convenient scape goat, given that this is hardly the first time masses devoted themselves to a truth-less strongman.

This article is filled with anecdotes and provides no real evidence to back its outlandish assertion. Mass delusion and political cults are not new phenomena.

I’m sure the printing press also “helped trash America,” by the author’s standard.

Why bother providing an anecdote like this when we have mountains of empirical evidence about the content on Parler? And that evidence directly counters your assertion.

Facebook and Twitter don’t make the determinations alone. They contract internationally recognized fact checking organizations. Is it perfect? No. Do we need to curtail online disinformation at a platform-level? Yes, clearly we can’t rely on the critical thinking skills of the reader to make a rational determination — if we could, we wouldn’t have this problem in the first place.

This and several posts on this thread seem to think it’s impossible to discern fact from fiction, that every opinion, even if false and presented as factual, deserves equal time.

I fear that if we cannot have factual, cogent policy debates, our democracies are doomed.