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The free world needs a new leader.

We will not forget this.

Self-referential training not only pollutes the internet but also undermines trust in technical documents.

I laughed

planet-today.com (the source) is a right wing conspiracy website, that get most international traffic from russia (https://www.semrush.com/website/planet-today.com/overview/). The domain is also registred in Lituania (https://urlscan.io/domain/planet-today.com) like most russian propaganda websites. The website is also posting live data on the Schumann Resonance (https://www.planet-today.com/p/schumann-resonance-today-247-...) and this link is heavily featured on the homepage. This is esoteric pseudoscience heavily used in the qanon context. And on top of these graphs (I sh*t you not) it says: The graph is updated every 15 minutes. Local time is expressed in Tomsk (Russia) Summer Time (TLDV). TLDV = UTC + -- hours. What a weird choice of local time for a US news publication.

I think this might be a static page they are hosting on Akamai?

Is the UKIP still a relevant party in any way?

From the perspective of the website ff tracking protection is the same as an adblock user. I think they are just distinguishing both cases because most ff users don't know that they are using an ad blocker.

Asimov. Pretty much anything he has written.

In my company all developers work on MBPs and none of them says even a positive word on the new generation. To add to the article: Ethernet over USB-C is sluggy at best. We had to change two devices over GPU failures (never happened before). I found myself playing around with the Surface Book and it felt like cheating on my wife ... I bought about 100 MacBook Pros for me and my company and it feels like this is the last generation in use. I still can remember the joy I felt when I opened my first MBP and I think I will not forget the disappointment from the current generation.

One might migrate some super important instances to bear metal or cloud hardware under full control. If this is an embargo against a bug that could make VMs on the same hardware attackable this should be public.

I cannot believe this is trending on HN.

Great news as Hamburg is the most boring town there is in Germany.

I think Mozilla is falling for Symantecs / other CAs propaganda here. Yes, WoSign did bad things, but those are by far not the worst things we've seen in CA wrongdoings in the last years. We've seen certs issued for MITM attacks and security holes in the validation process of nearly every CA. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/14/trustwave_analysis/) < they confessed issuing a cert for MITM purpose and are still part of the game. The allegations mainly consist of: a) WoSign didn't make transparent that they have control over StartCom. Yes, this is a thing and it should be discussed. But the main focus of this is obviously to get StartCom into this story. Where - as I understood it - there is no allegation, that StartCom itself did something wrong. At least not in the league of "we should kill that company". Transparency is important and we should fight for it. Not only in China. b) They backdated SHA-1 certs. Obviously because not updated Windows XP machines are a thing in China. This is against code of conduct. This is bad, but I totally get the intention here. And the intention is not MITM attacks or worse (as we see a lot in CA business) the intention is not to break Chinese internet.

Bottom line: "Let's encrypt" is destroying the business of many shady CAs these days. Competition is getting harder. StartCom had an advance in this race as they adopted quickly to the new rules and the've build the best product in the market for special use cases. We - for example - rely on a lot of wildcard certs for many domains. StartCom had the product. We pay'd them $200 for all our certs and the next cheapest competitor wanted $150.000 / year for our certs. I totally get why they are getting attacked by the big players. I totally don't get why Mozilla is falling for this.