_joe

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by _joe 4y ago
OP lives in Rome, where the average driver mentality is somewhere between "need for speed" and "carmageddon". Basically no one is ever willing to wait for anyone else, as OP's reasoning shows pretty adamantly. Of co
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by _joe 4y ago
Acting like what makes Rome's traffic dangerous are cyclists or moped drivers (even if those can often be quite reckless) is basically victim-blaming. We should never take such posts too seriously.
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by _joe 6y ago
This is indeed correct. Wikimedia overall uses less than 2000 bare-metal servers, so yes the infrastructure is tiny compared to those. What can be interesting, I think, is that you have a completely open infrastructure that has to solve pro
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by _joe 6y ago
It's both a waste of donor money and a starvation of resources for people actually consulting images on wikimedia commons.
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by _joe 6y ago
Any for-profit entity hotlinking Commons is unfair. Heck, they have the right to redistribute freely the image as they see fit, instead of consuming resources that are a common good. But this goes beyond that - it's some blind check of
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by _joe 6y ago
Purges have been migrated to kafka as a mean of transport, at long last. So now if a purging daemon crashes, purge requests are not lost. You can see per-server stats on purges happening here: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d
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by _joe 6y ago
The real throwback would be going back to use newsgroups, and only have competent people posting.
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by _joe 6y ago
The hard upper limit on a neutron star mass, the Rhoades-Ruffini limit, is at 3.2 solar masses. This discovery is significant, because we never found a collapsed object in the 2-3 solar masses range, but it definitely doesn't need new
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by _joe 7y ago
The article is full of inaccuracies and errors. Confusing threads with eventloops is just one of them. I can't imagine it's being upvoted.
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by _joe 7y ago
You remember incorrectly. It was a plan from a past Executive Director that never even started.
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by _joe 7y ago
Changing of ownership fundamentally resets the trust we all had in PIA, which was due to you having proven in court you deliver on what you declare. And in the VPN world, trust is fundamental. I am still surprised you didn't see this c
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by _joe 7y ago
I did unsubscribe a couple weeks ago and got a canned response too, almost immediately. When your business is privacy and trust, any acquisition is problematic. Let alone an acquisition from a company with a similar track record.
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by _joe 7y ago
That's only partially true. A big part of security is your relationship with the people providing you hosting. The compromises to nordvpn and others came from a rogue hosting company, for instance.
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by _joe 9y ago
When you people will be able to scale git to accept the number of revisions Wikipedia has, and add several new ones per second with millisecond latencies, please let me know. Also, only a programmer could think git is a friendlier interface
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by _joe 9y ago
Physics gave up being "deterministic" (in the sense you used the term in) about 120 years ago. And mathematics is just a convenient tool with which we describe reality, no one would seriously think today that our math is deeply in
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by _joe 9y ago
What a whole bunch of inaccuracies. I have no time to waste rebutting all the multiple falsehoods in this post, but I want people living in other countries know that it is filled with inaccuracies and plain falsehoods.
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by _joe 9y ago
booking.com and hotels.com 50/50? LOL. And yes, failing to kill booking.com when Expedia was a clear market leader is a huge mistake indeed.
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by _joe 9y ago
Techops at WMF here: the TL;DR is "no", but I can get into details. MediaWiki accounts for the lion's share of the servers we run (between MW itself and the databases and the object storage for files/images, I think arou
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by _joe 9y ago
If McDonald's provided cheap food by ignoring the labor laws, would that be fair? Or any safety regulation on how food is preserved, etc. I could go on, but I think you get my point. I share your sentiment towards our taxi drivers, but
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by _joe 9y ago
The solution to that is to allow more licences, and maybe to use those new licences to compensate current drivers for the loss of value of the licence they bought. Allowing a corporation to just ignore existing regulations while everyone el
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by _joe 9y ago
Selling at a loss when you have a lot of money will give you an unfair advantage over others that can't sell at a loss. You do that so that you can take a stranglehold on the market and then dictate prices yourselves. It's the tex
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by _joe 9y ago
Please beware Italy is not a common law country so legal precedents are not binding, and you do need a new law here to future regulate something.
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by _joe 9y ago
heh, yes, just wrote this too early in the morning. Editing, thanks!
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by _joe 9y ago
Yes. Also, license costs in Italy sunk in the last 15 years anyways, as more of them were granted. Add to that that the license is individual, and you can surely sell it, but just to another person; corporations can't own them and ask
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by _joe 9y ago
Being from Italy, let me point out a few things: Frist of all: unfair competition can mean, for instance, a mega-multinational subsiding its riders costs to wipe out competition. That is dumping, a practice that is illegal in most advanced
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by _joe 10y ago
The total number of requests that get through the cache to the application layer can be seen here https://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/stacked.php?m=ap_rps&c=... which you can see is not showing any substantial inc
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by _joe 10y ago
This is not just a joke; the interface is working (apart from some bugs you might expect at this stage) and while the announcement is clearly a joke, the interface is IMHO pretty cool
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Wikimedia telnet interface(meta.wikimedia.org)
115 points by _joe 10y ago|70 comments
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by _joe 11y ago
Wikimedia's LVS manager that does what seesaw does, although it was never "advertised" to the public: https://github.com/wikimedia/PyBal It actually is a bit different in that it advertises VIPs via BGP,
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by _joe 11y ago
Actually, it's a bit more complicated than that. We don't just serve .wikipedia.org from our frontends, but also e.g. .wikisource.org etc. So yes, we are using SNI but for wildcart certs :)

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