Here's a quick one. Quick because it's easy to describe; it wasn't easy to debug. I'm containerizing services. This week's fun is getting BIND (DNS server) into a container in a way that I can more easily maintain and distribute critical services. It's been... fun. The complication is that I'm also trying to package up an instance of dns-collector - BIND can be configured to send data about its activities to a socket, dns-collector reads and parses into (in my case) JSON-based activity logging.

Two weeks ago The Boston Globe published letters from readers of La Presse, a Montreal newspaper, in which they expressed their views about Donald Trump. The letters were published in both the Glob…

Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy

I like phones. Not really using them, mind you, but a telephone was the first "computer" that I ever encountered - maybe that's still true for most people, though today phones are computers. But the "telephone" has for most of it's history been a terminal (another loaded term), or endpoint, or user interface, to a network, with computational capacity (though mostly what we'd call "switching").

On January 27, 1838, Abraham Lincoln rose before the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois, to make a speech.

Daisy Harris, an A.I.-generated English granny, has been stymying scammers with meandering, time-wasting conversations. But can she actually make a dent in the flood of fraud?