The Weekly Weird - 2017-07-07
- In general, don't use your sql database as a queue. But if you must (and can control the load), get it right.
- Attackers blindly scanning your web servers? Give 'em a surprise.
- Run a container as a regular executable.
- Put retro-futurist cool and post-work squick in a blender and you get self-driving automats in China.
- My previous attempts to put a submarine datacenter equidistant between Europe and the US were not, I thought, given adequate attention but here's how you build a datacenter on a boat.
- Geostationary orbit is pretty crowded and now one of the birds up there is in pieces.
- I don't really know what to make of this article given my loathing of the trolly problem but What if Buddhist monks trained AIs? I'd like to read the actual thesis and my opinion of Harvard has taken a bit of a dip since they misspelled 'off' but it seems interesting.
- Finally, a $1600 titanium smartphone.
- I'm not sure how to feel about openbsd re-linking the kernel on every reboot. It's clever, no doubt but how often do openbsd machines reboot?