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When a Single Line Screws With Your Entire Config

 ssl => true
 

That’s it. That one dang line had me running around in circles when trying to implement Filebeat. Because SSL is disabled by default in Filebeat.

Facepalm.


NASA Outsourcing Astronaut Delivery

http://qz.com/556440/nasa-has-given-spacex-the-order-to-transport-astronauts-into-space-in-2017/

On Friday (Nov. 20), NASA awarded a work order to Elon Musk’s private space firm, SpaceX, to transport astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Boeing received a similar order for a manned flight back in May. The missions will take place on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecrafts.


This is Why I Don't Trust Google

From the Guardian’s article about a new black box component in Chrome:

First spotted by open source developers, the Chromium browser – the open source basis for Google’s Chrome – began remotely installing audio-snooping code that was capable of listening to users. It was designed to support Chrome’s new “OK, Google” hotword detection – which makes the computer respond when you talk to it – but was installed, and, some users have claimed, it is activated on computers without their permission. “Without consent, Google’s code had downloaded a black box of code that – according to itself – had turned on the microphone and was actively listening to your room,” said Rick Falkvinge, the Pirate party founder, in a blog post. “Which means that your computer had been stealth configured to send what was being said in your room to somebody else, to a private company in another country, without your consent or knowledge, an audio transmission triggered by … an unknown and unverifiable set of conditions.”

Yeah. No. Firefox just replaced Chrome for those few instances I needed a second browser.