Time formats are a fantastic way to find bugs in your code or even your view of the world. Zach Holman has a great post/rant/talk here about time entitled “UTC is enough for everyone… right?.
It turns out humans have had a long, long history of poorly dealing with time, so when you hammer your head against the wall trying to deal with a timezone bug, well, you’re just the last in a long, long line of human beings that are terrible at all this! Congrats. You’re pretty unremarkable.
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I love good bugs. The stories of bug hunts will do when I’m not finding my own.
Diagnosing and fixing a Bug requires patience, thoughtfulness, and above all a systematic, scientific mindset. We must eliminate variables one by one. Persistently forming hypotheses and testing each one is the name of the game. While the poor engineer assigned to hunt the Bug already knows this, it is our tradition to ease the pain by sharing the story of a legendary Bug Hunt.
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In a previous post I configured lighttpd to serve proxy.pac files on my pfSense box. Turns out by doing this, I broke the acme.sh package because I was blocking external access to port 80 (because noone needs my PAC file… or something else I break.)
Add the following line anywhere in /usr/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf:
include "/usr/local/etc/lighttpd/block-notacme.conf"
Edit the file: sudo vi /usr/local/etc/lighttpd/block-notacme.conf
And add the following contents:
$HTTP["url"] !~ "^/\.well-known/acme-challenge/.*" {
$HTTP["remoteip"] !~ "10\..*" {
url.access-deny = ("")
}
Once done, restart the lighttpd service (sudo service lighttpd restart)
In Photographing the Unbridled Power of a Supercell Storm, AtlasObscura looks at Camille Seaman’s book “The Big Cloud”.
Once they’re in what Seaman calls “chase mode,” there are “no bathroom breaks, there is no stopping for food, no nothing.” At that point, “as things start to actually set up in the storm, our whole objective is to stay with that storm in the right position, which is usually—not always, but usually—the southwest corner of the storm, and follow it safely, so that we can photograph it and see if it produces a tornado.” The goal is to observe and photograph without being in danger. “The worst thing for storm chasers to end up being storm chased.”
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Many countries’ veterans struggle to integrate back into civilian life and find purpose outside the military, but the problem is especially acute for legionnaires. Having shed their nationalities and left friends and family behind, foreign-born soldiers often base their identities on the Legion itself. Retirement means losing home, community, and employment all at once … So while the IILE houses wounded veterans, the fields that fill with camo-wearing men picking grapes each harvest address the emotional and financial hardships that former legionnaires face.
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From a New York Times article on disasters which strike America, their frequency, location and financial impacts.
Only about 4 percent of all hurricanes that make landfall globally hit the United States, said Robert Mendelsohn, an economist at Yale University who studies the damage caused by hurricanes. Yet 60 percent of worldwide damage from hurricanes happens in the United States.
Dr. Mendelsohn attributed this partly to federal government programs that discourage citizens and local governments from building walls to protect housing near the coast. Only in the United States do relief programs and subsidized insurance make it attractive for people to move toward disaster-prone areas, he said.
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Tank, a short by Stu Maschwitz created entirely in Adobe After Effects.
The way I made TANK is a little crazy. I made it entirely in Adobe After Effects, with equal parts animation elbow grease and nerdy expressions madness. This video is part behind-the-scenes, part After Effects tutorial, and part therapy session.
Well worth checking out - the video is 80’s gamer porn - but the making of is just incredible.
[Read More]This was the front page of the New York Daily News, 19th March 2018.
With yesterday’s Texas massace, there have now been more students or teachers killed by guns in U.S. schools than active-duty military deaths in 2018. No headline can do this justice.
[Read More]Just a quick note - the recommended “Generic PCL 6/PCL XL LF Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.13” settings worked fine for me on Debian/Kali.
The only tweak I had to do was to set the IP address instead of the local hostname - but that was more about our network than CUPS.
[Read More]The first time I saw this ad, I couldn’t look away, nor did I want to. It’s powerful in its message and presentation, and spectacularly well done.
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