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Does the name mean 31?

Off-topic but I tried https version of paulgraham.com but got a bad cert domain name error. SANs are for store.yahoo.com, leftover of Viaweb?

But isn't this part of the point the author of the article is trying to make? In case of Superfish it was United States Department of Homeland Security who advised uninstalling it and in case of Sony's rootkit, a class-action lawsuit. In both cases higher authorities hired by people to protect them, protected them. Not FSF, nor the fact that the code wasn't GPL.

Even if Superfish was GPL licensed, the issue would've persisted. As article mentions even laptops coming with Linux pre-installed hardly come with the Kernel and userspace tools source code and you need to download them separately. Should Lenovo have preloaded Superfish as Linux kernel module and shipped it to its consumer laptops, United States Department of Homeland Security would have still advised removing it.

Interestingly enough duck.com was owned by Google and they transferred the ownership to DuckDuckGo.

A bit unrelated but I wrote https://github.com/amir/hepccn to list TCP connections by domains rather than just IPs. It filters connections to port 443 and 8443, downloads the peer certificate and then extracts the subject name (pretty sure I learned this trick from an article on Julia Evans' website but can't find it now). I wanted to add more functionalities to it but I stumbled upon an issue and that's for when SNI is enabled. I guess there's no way for me to recover the hostname the client has sent at the start of the handshaking process without introducing MITM, right?

FP already existed at the time that OOP emerged as the savior. What currently in-practice paradigms do you think are likely to save us in 10-20 years?

> Editor tooling is sub-par (especially compared to language communities like Java and C#) and finicky - we often end up just compiling in a separate terminal.

https://github.com/ndmitchell/ghcid is a great tool that does exactly the last part.

Quite possibly through IPMI as PAM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killdozer!_(short_story) ?

I'm a subscriber but I don't look at it as a subscription to a weekly magazine but an investment. Enabling knowledgeable people to write in-depth analysis of various patch sets or subsystems of Linux kernel—which rarely change dramatically—ensures that, later on, there'll always be an article in Google search results that'll explain the reason behind certain behaviours in a more approachable manner than reading the source code or doc.txts—they're invaluable but a bit intimidating.

uMatrix for Firefox seems to be released as well: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/

Policeman was the closest thing —that I know of— to uMatrix for Firefox users, but —at least for me— Firefox is always complaining that Policeman is slowing down the browser. And also, it's nice that you can easily import your Chrome uMatrix rules to Firefox.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Description_Lan... ?

Wondering where did you get that map. Caspian sea is missing.