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by 616c 11y ago
I would not be surprised, emil. I am an American who spent a couple grand to visit Iran for two weeks. I am a wannabe Arabist (so it is fun to guess all shit on the walls) and even more wannabe Farsist (because it sounds hilarious, and mor
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by 616c 11y ago
Well, after my time in China, I sucked it up and tried to learn Chinese and communicate in broken Chinese with my students. When other kids complained about our old Taiwanese teacher's English accent, I asked them simply: "let&#x2
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by 616c 11y ago
No surprise here. I majored in Arabic in college. I have looked into Chinese, Farsi, Hindi/Urdi, Thai, Indonesian, and Vietnamese, in order of effort, with a year of Chinese at college level (in the US that is bullshit, but while doi
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by 616c 11y ago
I cannot say I am surprised. I could talk about Arabic almost every time I comment here. That get's boring. Let's move to Vietnamese. So one of the coolest co-workers my father had was a recon pilot during the Viewnam War. Not
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by 616c 11y ago
If sanity is a measure of credibility on the net, I should blow off all the great programmers, tinkerers, and thinkers who have invaded my mind and inspired me with a healthy doese of cynicism and curiosity. So in short, I do not give a fuc
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by 616c 11y ago
Interesting to note is a very good FLOSS Weekly interview with BSDGirl (is that her handle?) had an interesting project announcement discussion to prevent harassment, called OAPI, with an institute she wants to create to keep it non-corpora
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by 616c 11y ago
I also think it is interesting, once I put 2+2 together, you pointed out the OCaml Java runtime from Xavier is not open source ... yet. It will be, but it is binary only at this point.[1] I want to make a joke about the F/L/OSS s
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by 616c 11y ago
Well, if you are the quasar/pulsar guy I think you are, I will take you up on your praise then. And because of my guess, what do you think of the performance?
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by 616c 11y ago
What's funny in certain countries (right now for me the GCC) is that people believe if you flash with your brights at the right speed and frequency it will automatically set them to green, or shorten the interval on the opposing traffi
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by 616c 11y ago
What cracks me up about the main conclusion of this piece, that once foreign culture X loses its edge as an enemy, the well dries up, has an interesting counterpoint in Arabic language literature. I will not debate the enemy thing, but the
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by 616c 11y ago
windytan is sick. I have read the stuff every time it is posted here, and I am saddened with all my interest in SIGINT as a kid I never took it seriously, because her non-mil, non-intel signals analysis makes it seem so much cooler than wh
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by 616c 11y ago
I went throught the hassle of not doing what you recommended, unaware, and it is funny how often you look for stuff to simplify Emacs usage and you find bbatsov.
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by 616c 11y ago
Yeah, another mis-step by mom. Sorry for munging the facts. I respect your work. You two are doing cool stuff. So are the 41 net hackers, but not so relevant to my point. :-)
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by 616c 11y ago
jacquesm, thank you for doing my homework for me. You went far beyond what I teased about. For background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9576219 Thanks again.
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by 616c 11y ago
I can relate. My first Arabic teacher grew up in Syria in the 70's, and the last 40 years has been brutal emotionally. Both parents died as I grew up, and once her mother died (maybe after 2004?) and all the bureaucracy and bribes sh
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by 616c 11y ago
Did not read that far in. To be more specific, from personal anecdotes, it is far more than regional. Neighboring tribes will kill somebody and blood feud can and often does go on for decades. Guys I know, when they go to Sana'a to t
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by 616c 11y ago
Oh, ok. I take that back then. The article I did not like but the Wikipedia article makes her seem like a demi-god. So, thanks again. Good find.
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by 616c 11y ago
I thought so. We had an interesting chat about it and me writing about my time in the Gulf. When I saw the date I felt a little sick to my stomach. Haha. Glad to hear I was right and the dates were not reflecting your time there.
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by 616c 11y ago
I wonder if he is here, but I was under the impression this dude was/is Bahraini or Emirati. I wonder what kind of legal pressure they could seriously impose, seeing as few in the GCC would care (locals routinley do not even show up f
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by 616c 11y ago
So I love what you post, jacquesm, but can you give me background? When I wrote my previous post I meant I want to read about their rigs, their programming languages, style, art that inspires them, not corportate melodrama Granted, I total
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by 616c 11y ago
I hope to God, despite the date, this is post-dated. I know Yemenis where I live and they cannot even enter ... because the airport has a giant fucking whole in the runway and now and they might have been landing in a downtown neighborhood
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by 616c 11y ago
I am sure I will get downvoted to all hell, but I understand the politics of your comment. I am sure it will get de-railed, but it would be awesome if someone can post interviews with well-known female programmers in response here. I woul
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by 616c 11y ago
From the TLS sysadmin deployment guide( https://weakdh.org/sysadmin.html ): > Generate a Strong, Unique Diffie Hellman Group. A few fixed groups are used by millions of servers, which makes them an optimal target for preco
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by 616c 11y ago
Well, I was under the impression that projects like Streisand exist because OpenVPN is no cake-walk either. https://github.com/jlund/streisand EDIT: Forgot the link, like a proper idiot.
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by 616c 11y ago
Oh, I am aware. I work in a such an org with the Cisco IPSec system. I have mutliple that I use/evaluate for work purposes, but when I asked this I am more interested in the open systems not tied to a dedicated appliance, or at least
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by 616c 11y ago
This is why I ask. I did not want to post it again (I am sure I am not the first), but this is SoftEther thing masquerades as these different VPN protocols while being the same backend. http://softether.org/
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by 616c 11y ago
In addition, tunneling TCP in TCP to hide OpenVPN behind a HTTP proxy, lest it look out of place and be easily fingerprinted as OpenVPN on packet analysis is why I wanted to avoid it this time around. https://www.bestvpn.com&#x2F
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by 616c 11y ago
You got a write-up on that? It sounds like a daunting task, so funny blog post with profanity about Linux config (used to write them, no one would read them) are something I really enjoy. So definitely write about that. There is so much b
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by 616c 11y ago
So I know many people use OpenVPN these days, but does anyone use L2TP/IPSec or IPSec? I asked because when recently searching this topic, despite the author mentioning lots of dated materials, most of what I find is archaic. This po
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by 616c 11y ago
I have always followed CouchDB from a distance, so I am curious, has anyone been able to pull the same crap writing Erlang or Javascript? This is more relevant to the latter bc of the sandbox, but this NoSQL architecture decision sounds ve

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