ISP Traffic Prioritization
This was originally posted as a Slashdot comment. It discusses the idea of prioritizing traffic in an ISP environment, ideally using markings generated by the customers. I do network engineering at an...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi 3 Stratum 1 NTP Server (Ubuntu)
Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3: Adafruit or Uputronics Power Supply: Adafruit SD Card (8+ GiB, Class 10 highly recommended): 32 GiB from Amazon or 8 GiB from Adafruit Mini Heatsink (optional): Adafruit GPS...
View ArticleZero Rating
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/12/16/2014245/att-verizon-tell-fcc-to-back-off-on-net-neutrality-complaints AT&T wants companies to pay to “sponsor” their zero-rated data. This is the obvious...
View ArticleInformed Consent Required
I replied to this portion of a comment on Reddit: I don’t think you actually want legislation that dictates a child’s ears cannot be pierced until they are old enough to decide. I actually do want such...
View ArticleMinnesota Taxes
Jeff Johnson, a 2018 candidate for Minnesota Governor, posted on Facebook: With all the talk from the left about how federal tax reform will be costly to some taxpayers in very high tax states (like...
View ArticleFacts are Discriminatory
As reported on Ars Technica, the National Labor Relations Board’s Office of General Counsel, released a memo about James Damore’s complaint against Google after they fired him over his controversial...
View ArticleGuns: Focus on agreement
This post, entitled, “Fuck you, I like guns” was posted to Facebook recently. The positions from this article are: “I like guns and I don’t care what you want.” and “I don’t like guns and I don’t care...
View ArticleFreeBSD Code of Conduct
Slashdot linked to the FreeBSD Code of Conduct. The article claims there is some controversy, so that’s what the comments focus on. I wrote: Having just read the Code of Conduct, it seem generally...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi 3 Stratum 1 NTP Server
This is an update of the previous post. I’m now using Raspbian Buster with NTPsec (which I package in Debian). Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3B+ (or older 3B): Adafruit, Uputronics, or The Pi Hut Power...
View Articlesystemd timers vs cron
Chris Siebenmann recently posted an article on his excellent blog titled, “Systemd timer units have the unfortunate practical effect of hiding errors“. I posted a comment in reply: Switching from cron...
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