nocarrier

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by nocarrier 1y ago
I loved how the Windows 95 install CD had Weezer's Buddy Holly video on it. I remember finding it and thinking it was so cool they did that.
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by nocarrier 2y ago
That article on rapid Rust prototyping matches my experience with using Rust as the backend for a web and iOS app. I used clone() and Vec and String and other shortcuts from that article as much as possible since I was building a backend ap
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by nocarrier 3y ago
“During the period 2018-20, Space Norway carried out significant security related upgrades to the fibre connection.” Sounds like someone was tapping cables with submarines?
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by nocarrier 3y ago
Once Colin's patches land on FreeBSD and Firecracker, the total boot time for the kernel is under 20ms. Absolutely incredible times that we live in.
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by nocarrier 4y ago
It was actually Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge that really got Zuck excited about the possibilities of VR—he read it a few years before he bought Oculus and talked about it a lot at the time.
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by nocarrier 10y ago
I was at FB from 2006-2015, and Scuba caused a phase change in how Facebook's performance was analyzed and how quickly insights were gained. For many of us in Infrastructure, we spoke of the pre-Scuba, post-Scuba eras. It was such a jo
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by nocarrier 10y ago
Cartographer ingests BGP topology and POP and datacenter health (and other things), and then pushes what is basicially a lookup table to tinydns. None of the dynamism is inside the DNS server itself, which lets it focus on what it is good a
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by nocarrier 10y ago
Cost was a smaller factor than politics; the Indian government wanted the private keys for our certs in order to let FB put a POP there. That was an absolute dealbreaker, so we served India from Singapore and other POPs in nearby countries.
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Indiscreet Logs: Persistent Diffie-Hellman Backdoors in TLS(eprint.iacr.org)
4 points by nocarrier 10y ago|0 comments
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by nocarrier 10y ago
I joined FB in 2006 and had never been in an open office environment before. It was quite an adjustment. I didn't like working in the office until I had been there for about six months. The office on University Ave was packed tight and
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by nocarrier 10y ago
Indeed, but there is something to be said for sane defaults--look at the thread on HN a few weeks ago about SSH cipher defaults. Yes, TLS and the CA ecosystem has its faults, but my stance is that any chat protocol should be using auth and
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by nocarrier 10y ago
I read IRC v3 and assumed they were making major changes to the wire by bumping the major version, which is why I said what I said. I've been using IRC for 24 years but haven't implemented it before, maybe I'll do that now so
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by nocarrier 10y ago
Hmm, I didn't see the 3.3 spec which is still being developed, it looks like they are doing strict transport security as a base extension. So that would address most of my concerns I think. I would still prefer to see TLS required no m
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by nocarrier 10y ago
Fair enough, but I feel you're being a little pedantic since there are base extensions described which are required, and optional extensions which are not required. TLS is one of the optional extensions. So I'll reframe my questio
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by nocarrier 10y ago
Why isn't encryption baked in by default? It's optional from what I can tell. I don't know how you can design a new protocol and not include encryption.
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by nocarrier 10y ago
I think you're being overly harsh. I read the entire article and enjoyed it very much, including the author's commentary. I didn't interpret their tone as trying to be hard-edged or snarky; I felt it was just them honestly sh
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by nocarrier 10y ago
Not sure if you know this, but you can ask Google to blur a Street View address by filling out a form. I'd guess he did this himself versus any sort of conspiracy thing happening.
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by nocarrier 10y ago
To your last paragraph, only relying on forgetting the keys works great, as long as you have absolute 100% confidence in the mechanism used to do that. I read your posts on HN often so I know you know you're quite familiar with defense
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by nocarrier 10y ago
Lucid Emacs -> Xemacs was mentioned in a sibling comment, but I remember people being in awe about EB working on those. There were many interesting employees back then--J. Chenault, J. Gehlen, R. Braumeller, F. Eiden, K. Sears, etc. I&#x
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by nocarrier 10y ago
There was more Lisp influence than just the CS macros you mention here. Eric Benson was a major contributor to Lucid Emacs and many early Amazon engineers had Lisp experience. SICP was practically issued to every new software engineer--it w
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by nocarrier 10y ago
The two AsiaBSD papers linked from the post are good for more detail. I was a little surprised they had to hack sendfile to do the crypto in the kernel in order to get the throughput they're used to with http, but the reasons are expla
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by nocarrier 10y ago
People who watch a football game Sunday night and then talk shit at work on Monday about all the things they would have done differently if they were coach/quarterback/etc.
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by nocarrier 10y ago
I'm former FB. To your search question, I hope they build a high quality, accurate search product someday, but they've made a few attempts at search over the years and none of them have really panned out so far. Graph search was r
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by nocarrier 10y ago
Ah cool, that's similar to what we did. I think http2 gets a bad rap, we saw a lot more positives than negatives from it. You should do a writeup after you test sctp and quic, I'd be pretty interested in reading it and I bet other
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by nocarrier 10y ago
The list of firewall-punchable level 4 protocols is frozen in time to just TCP and UDP, and it's sad at first glance, but it's not as bad as we think: * Most ISPs don't mangle UDP, and if you care enough about perf to be usin
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by nocarrier 10y ago
This works for your use case which is great, but in my experience, you get gains with full http2 between edge and origin that you miss out on if you demux or fall back to http 1.1. We saw slightly better median latencies and much better &gt
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by nocarrier 10y ago
I'm former FB Infra and agree with your first point re: motives. There's a lot of true believers working in the security space at Facebook, and I have tons of respect for them. I used to work closely with many of them. However, sc
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by nocarrier 10y ago
Feature phone is actually oldspeak. It's what we called cell phones with features back when most cell phones didn't have features. Then smartphones came along and reset the expectations for what features a phone has, leaving featu
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The AI Existential Threat, and the Bandwidth++ Scenario(medium.com)
2 points by nocarrier 10y ago|0 comments
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by nocarrier 10y ago
The Erlang components of Facebook Chat were replaced with C++ several years ago. The two main reasons I remember are A) it was hard to maintain a group of engineers with acceptable competency in Erlang over time and B) the C++ code offered

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