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“A service called fail2ban can mitigate this problem (edit: SSH being public) by creating rules that can automatically alter your iptables firewall configuration based on a predefined number of unsuccessful login attempts. This will allow your server to respond to illegitimate access attempts without…”

— Justin Ellingwood, How To Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 14.04

“Find someone. Fall in love, Give your soul. Lose your soul, Lose that love. Find someone else.”

— Allen Epley, Day Six

“All the light in your name.”

— Jack Michael Barnett, Michael van Der, The Light In Your Name

“She was just one of those girls. After her, I quit girls.”

— David Prowse, I Quit Girls

“I’ve got no sleep at all. Just thoughts of how I might struggle through tomorrow. It’s hard to write this because it’s being written by someone who will probably be dead by the time you read it.”

— Carissa's Wierd, So You Wanna Be A Superhero

“The FBI agreed Wednesday to help an Arkansas prosecutor unlock an iPhone and iPod belonging to two teenagers accused of killing a couple, just days after the federal agency announced it had gained access to an iPhone linked to the gunman in a mass shooting in California.”

— Claudia Lauer, FBI Agrees to Unlock iPhone, iPod in Arkansas Homicide Case

“The size of things in our universe runs all the way from the tiny 10-19 meter scale that characterizes quark interactions, to the cosmic horizon 1026 meters away. In these 45 possible orders of magnitude, life, as far as we know it, is confined to a relatively tiny bracket of just over nine orders o…”

— Gregory Laughlin, Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?

“JavaScripthon is a small and simple Python 3.5+ translator to JavaScript which aims to be able to translate most of the Python's core semantics without providing a full python-in-js environment, as most existing translators do. It tries to emit code which is simple to read and check and it does so b…”

— metapensiero.pj, A Python to JavaScript Transpiler with BabelJS and generates SourceMaps

“The little-known Japanese company at the center of a legal tussle between Apple Inc. and the U.S. government over the hacking of an iPhone built its business on pinball game machines and stumbled into the mobile phone security business almost by accident.”

— Monami Yui, Inside the Little-Known Japan Firm Helping the FBI Crack iPhones

“Reading through the guided code will help you learn about how most compilers work from end to end.”

— thejameskyle, The Super Tiny Compiler

“There is little that a puppy won’t fix, even if the fix is for a short time.”

— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel

“I will never be old. I’d scarf a cyanide capsule first. Life isn’t worth living unless you are young and surrounded by other young people in a beautiful cold garden perfumed by dirt and flowers and fallen leaves, gleaming in the string of lights, listening to the quiet city on the last fine night of…”

— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel

“We are the first major browser vendor to integrate an ad-blocking feature. With this option, Opera can now block ads as early as possible: right in the engine, when a network request for a URL is first being made.”

— Błażej Kaźmierczak, Opera built-in ad blocking, now in beta

“test("hello world",function() {2 equal(1,1,"This should never happen!");3 });”

— Multiple, This should never happen

“Dozens of journalists and columnists have lost their jobs, and the authorities, acting on court orders, have seized two opposition media companies. Insulting the president is a crime under Turkish law, and more than 1,800 cases have been filed.”

— Melissa Eddy, Erdogan’s Attempt to Suppress German Satire Has the Opposite Effect

“Other than the excellent GenerateRandom API call (which you should check out for seeding your PRNGs), KMS is composed of a set of API operations for creating, managing, and using a relatively small set of encryption keys, called Customer Master Keys (here, "master keys"). There are a bunch of operat…”

— Alex Schoof, Using AWS KMS to manage secrets in your Infrastructure

“Your AWS account is one of the most valuable things you own if you run a business on AWS. If you only own a single AWS account, you’re facing a serious security risk!”

— cloudonaut, Your single AWS account is a serious risk

“The company called npm is based, like Koçulu, in Oakland. Though a for-profit enterprise, npm runs its eponymous registry of open-source software for free and has a mission of fostering open-source JavaScript development. The company generates revenue from private services for code that isn’t open-s…”

— Keith Collins, How one programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code

“Docker allows you to package an application with all of its dependencies into a standardized unit for software development.”

— Docker, What is Docker

“It (edited: "Anisble") uses no agents and no additional custom security infrastructure, so it's easy to deploy - and most importantly, it uses a very simple language (YAML, in the form of Ansible Playbooks) that allow you to describe your automation jobs in a way that approaches plain English.”

— Red Hat, How Ansible Works