Miscellaneous Tech News
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 @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News: @stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News: @tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News: Hills ditches Salesforce for Microsoft ha i thought you meant the Hills thay was bought by Ames. Oh man, I remember this now... Ha I just saw these now for some reason. 
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 @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News: @stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News: @tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News: Hills ditches Salesforce for Microsoft ha i thought you meant the Hills thay was bought by Ames. Oh man, I remember this now... When I was a little kid we used to go to the Hill's in Butler to get a pretzel and a slushie after my dad was done playing basketball. 
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 iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel. https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/ 
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 Telegram is banned in Russia, so Russian Press Staff start using Viber, which just means no-one, anywhere should be using Viber. . . 
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 @stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News: iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel. https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/ Long as ufw and firewall-cmd will still work, this is good. 
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 @momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News: @stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News: iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel. https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/ Long as ufw and firewall-cmd will still work, this is good. In the article, it did say that it will be a non-disruptive transition for Linux users. Whatever that means for ufw and firewalld. 
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 @momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News: @stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News: iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel. https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/ Long as ufw and firewall-cmd will still work, this is good. Yeah. For now, at least, it looks like they're going to make it backwards compatible. I just wonder what kind of syntax they'll use for things like NAT and such. 
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 @black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/microsoft-linux-custom-kernel-azure-sphere Not too surprising. Microsoft has been a UNIX vendor since the 1980s. They made Xenix. 
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 @stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News: iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel. https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/ Looks like I need to go experiment with BPF! 
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 @travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News: @stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News: iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel. https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/ Looks like I need to go experiment with BPF! Going to show my ignorance a bit. When they are talking about hardware offloading do they mean to the NIC or to an independent machine? 
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 @coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News: @travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News: @stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News: iptables to be replaced with BPF in the Linux kernel. https://cilium.io/blog/2018/04/17/why-is-the-kernel-community-replacing-iptables/ Looks like I need to go experiment with BPF! Going to show my ignorance a bit. When they are talking about hardware offloading do they mean to the NIC or to an independent machine? I haven't ready that far into it yet, but I'd assume the NIC. You know what they say about assuming tho. Using an ASIC can be a huge performance boost as well. 
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 Cambridge Analytica had been planning to release their own cryptocurrency. That is not likely happening now. 
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 @mlnews Cryptocurrency and scumbags together again! Dont worry it is a totally legit use of electricity and money though. 
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