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I have been following RA for years now. There is a small public company (OMX:SYNACT) I found that are in its Phase 2b with a medication that looks very promising. They completed their Phase 2a with statistical significance in a couple of key indicators. It looks like to be on par with JAK inhibitors but with a cleaner safety profile and no need for injections.

Unlike the JAK inhibitors that suppresses the immune system, their pill instead resolves the inflammation by activating receptor 1 and 3 in the melanocortin system. Phase 2b completes this summer and I am personally super excited to see the results.

I'd love a tool that lets you keep a history of "cloud migrations", where you write both the "up" and the "down".

We did a dirty solution for this with Ansible. We have a base playbook (with roles and all that jazz) that sets up a server and then we can write patches which are separate playbooks.

After the patch has run we simply store the patchlevel in a file on the server so that we dont "double-apply" any patches on the next patch-run.

Linux 4.19 8 years ago

I don't think it was, at least not that black and white. If the community really was that split the project would not have survived for 20 years. Surely we would have seen a fork where the involved factions split off.

I think this is a very vocal minority in play here. From my understanding these changes did not come from any of the core contributors but rather from activists. The used divide and rule; if you don't sign off on our political documents you are with "them" and we will let everyone know what a horrible human being you are.

Linux 4.19 8 years ago

I feel really worried about the Kernel project now that they have let Identity Politics breach their walls. These kind of things have a tendency to split a community rather than unite it.

The kernel project is surely one of the most successful software projects ever. Having survived for 20 years, why change a winning formula?

I have always considered Linus un-political and more interested in getting sh*t done and getting it right above anything else, so why he would sign-off on this is a mystery to me.

Very good points!

Btw, what is missing in the invoices?

For us to be able to move from S3 we would also need to be able to create multiple API keys where we can set what buckets they have access to.

We can only identify user fronting plugins that make themselves known through signatures or js/image/css imports. We do this in an automated fashion by exploiting the predictable folder structure of WordPress. So no maintenance needed here.

There are some very popular plugins (Yoast SEO, Jetpack, W3 Total Cache) that don't import additional files. For these we have hardcoded patterns (under a 100). We do not have anything in place for checking if these patterns break.

We could automate creating a WordPress installation, installing the plugin we want to check, trigger a wp detective scan and then checking the results. But I am note sure it is worth the engineering effort.

We actually don't have a signature database, not needed.

WordPress have a predictable path structure and we use that to extract theme and plugin slugs (textual ids). For some plugins that don't import JS or StyleSheets we look for other signatures.

Once we have the slugs, we do a lookup in the official WordPress theme/plugin repository and get all the info we need (plugin descriptions, icon, author etc)

I am using Emby as a central media server. Emby takes care of the hosting and indexing of the material. Then I have multiple Kodi clients that consume the contents from Emby.

Before I could access my media server with the iPhone app. Then all of a sudden I was forced to register for a Plex Pass to be able do this. For me at least, that made the whole app unusable.

Only read and answer emails a couple of times during the day. For the rest of the day keep your email client closed and notifications off.

You can even add a little notice in your email signature that this is how you operate.

FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE Announcement:

Some of the highlights:

- GCC is no longer installed by default on architectures where clang(1) is the default compiler.

- Unbound has been imported to the base system as the local caching DNS resolver.

- BIND has been removed from the base system.

- make(1) has been replaced with bmake(1), obtained from the NetBSD Project.

- pkg(7) is now the default package management utility.

- pkg_add(1), pkg_delete(1), and related tools have been removed.

- Major enhancements in virtualization, including the addition of bhyve(8), virtio(4), and native paravirtualized drivers providing support for FreeBSD as a guest operating system on Microsoft Hyper-V.

- TRIM support for Solid State Drives has been added to ZFS.

- Support for the high-performance LZ4 compression algorithm has been added to ZFS.

Full details: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/announce.html