We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.
Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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Impending works – Monday afternoon/evening, London Time! Samizdata is being moved to a newer, more lush, perhaps more louche server. This will also provide for freshening-up of the blog software, and a gradual migration to HTTPS.
Impact: Samizdata will be irregularly-offline this upcoming Monday, December 5th, starting from an estimated 3pm London time (10am Eastern, 1600h CET) for an estimated 4-to-6 hours, perhaps a little longer depending on how long the DNS bookkeeping takes.
If the migration fails we’ll fall back to the existing machine and continue, but it’s likely to be okay. Assuming that everything goes well, you may still expect a little flakiness when accessing the blog for up to 24 hours afterwards; after that time it’s a “bug”, or else we dropped something in transit.
“Fortune favours the bald!”, or something like that…
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We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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Best of luck with it!
Will there be cake with the new server?
But mezzrow, the cake is a lie and we never lie on Samizdata. Well, hardly ever 😎
PdH provides a ‘tell’ on what he does with his spare time on a PC.
Shouldn’t that be “Cake is lie”?
more lush
Absolute Not!
more louche
Now we’re talking…
I presume the gradual move to https:// is unrelated to the recently enacted UK Gov. “Snoopers Charter” and is just something that has been in the pipeline for years…
For a site that receives no financial or identity-related data from its users – no one sends you a credit card number, or a password, or anything beyond text that is explicitly sent to you to be published – why HTTPS? The text is hidden, sure, but the IP addresses are still open.
I could understand it if you were introducing a line of cute stuffed hippos and taking credit card payment for them, but otherwise it seems like it just increases your bandwidth needs.
HTTPS, inreases the site’s position on Google searches.
https as ranking signal
“why HTTPS?”
1) because passive observers should not be, to the best of one’s ability, permitted to establish what you are looking at, other than the fact that you are looking at it
2) because HTTPS protects the responses – webpages, javascript – from being tampered-with, having extra Javascript injected into them on-the-fly, etc.
“after that time it’s a “bug”” . . . or a feature . . .
A common misinterpretation. The original quote is
It refers to the importance of using strongly-weighted fonts in online message boards to make your words stand out.