The Weekly Weird - 2015-09-18
- Ceph.org got pwned so they're reissuing their signing keys. D'oh.
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Lots of financial news, lots of Bloomberg killing it again this week.
- (I guess all that fortran is working for them, eh? /rimshot)
- How many bonds from 1648 are still paying interest? (don't miss the fascinating HN comments and Matt Levine's take)
- "The federal government contracting process is insane."
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Blah blah IEX. Note that "Exchange" has quite a lot of legal(istic) baggage and isn't just a generic descriptor. The requisite HN comments.
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The Russians aren't the only ones switching to typewriters for security reasons, turns out the NSA is too (though the fact that we're reading it isn't exactly a vote of confidence)
- Apparently Google keeps all its source code in one giant repo. Yet more HN comments wherein the highly informed argue with the utterly clueless.
- I stumbled across the training program the military uses to teach cybersecurity to non-experts. It's both completely reasonable and utterly cringeworthy.
- Finally a roomba that can look up my skirt. (Yes, I'm probably going to buy one anyway, shut up)
- Let's Encrypt issued a certificate! That no browser trusts (yet)! I intend to turn https back on on skorgu.net using their certs so hopefully this works and stuff.
- In related news I realized far too late that www.skorgu.net has an AAAA record but nginx wasn't listening on IPv6 sockets. The internet is hard, guys.
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In case you missed it, Amazon lowered prices on storage again. Using the highly scientific "how much will it cost to stick 1TB into that there cloud thing for a month and not touch it" metric:
- $12.50 at this new IA level
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$7 at the glacier level
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$10 (unchanged) at Google's Nearline level.
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Femto is such a great prefix. Femtosecond lasers let you machine metal without melting, explode the air to make 3d images (on a previous Weird), and now see around corners (video).
- From the "things that just shouldn't exist" department: Lisp in sed.
- The headline "unhackable kernel" usually trips my mental spam filter. In this case though it's referring to seL4 which is a legit, formally verified microkernel OS. The requisite HN comments are good, including one that lists other EAL-rated systems like System Z.