Even if you log out don’t they still know who you are based on IP or other fingerprints to serve relevant content? Anecdotally I’ve been on online shopping sites that will email me my cart to ask if I want to check out even when I’m not logged in, so it seems unlikely that you’ll be any more anonymous by signing out.
Isn’t this much like how Diesel engines work? They compress air first to heat it to the point that when mixed with fuel it spontaneously ignites. Maybe glow plugs can make a comeback.
It sounds somewhat similar to a supercharged two-stroke design like the formerly very popular Detroit Diesels (8V71, 6V92TA, for example). None of those engines were very efficient though.
Diesel engines are based off a south Pacific people's invention who used a bamboo tube with piston to ignite a sliver of wood. Rudolph used it as inspiration for his engine design.
He also intended the fuel for it to be peanut oil or canola oil a crop farmers could grow for their tractors.
Glow plugs are still here sort of although now a heating grid. My diesel truck has it to pre-heat the air to make starting easier.
In the diesel case, fuel is immediately at its auto-ignition temperature when introduced. In this, the air-fuel mixture is heated until it reaches its auto-ignition temperature.
This is cute. Does this have any practical value? You would never get someone to sign it obviously, and for self-signed certs you have no revokability here without reissuing a cert to everything in your domain. Most people with a PKI setup don't need this, right?
I suppose you can use such certificate to MITM yourself to inspect the traffic to/from nodes you control, but pretty much every tool out there has features to generate certificates on the fly.
Any software or hardware that needs to intercept HTTPS.
One common example is antivirus software that block malicious content. It can install this wild-wildcard certificate, and act as a proxy to all sites the user visits. There are obvious security issues to it of course.
My absolute favorite example of what's possible with awk is this[0] calculator from Ward Cunningham about splitting expenses on a ski trip. It's a really beautiful little piece of code well-adapted to this problem.
This is the sort of thing us industry professionals need to study in more depth. It doesn't have the most flexible interface, but it's human-readable, and the implementation is simple, fast, and about as obviously correct as possible.
I glanced through the input and output. When I got to the code, I was startled by how short it was. This page is worthy of its own post on Hacker News. I am now convinced that Ward Cunningham is a genius. I was already pretty sure after reading how he invented the wiki.
This reminds me of a story of a guy who wrote a whole company internal debit system like this (coffee, meals out, etc) and it turned into a currency. I feel like I either saw it here, or a similar forum. Anyone have a link? My searches have not found it...
Tim Berners-Lee has been talking about the Semantic Web[0], which is what this grew out of, since 1998. If you can see RDF's use in Solid, it's not like he's just getting on the hype train just now.
