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by JdeBP 1y ago
Actually, it's about 20cm from my left elbow, which is physically several orders of magnitude closer than anything run by my ISP, and logically at least 2 network hops closer. And the closest resolving proxy DNS server for most of my
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You <----> residential ISP <----> VPN endpoint <----> CloudFlare CDN <----> actual site The older blocks were being done by residential ISPs, so using a VPN (even simply with an endpoint inside the U.K.) by
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I was surprised that no-one mentioned this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473048 , where someone is trying to put software-implemented text blinking into OpenBSD.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's done at state level, by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources for one, so it is possible that federal government damage has not affected it.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
A quick test of Vivaldi with some of those shows it nowhere near as strict as your Firefox is. Amusingly new Date("2025-07-12 12:30:45 BST") is an invalid date, whereas all three of new Date("2025-07-12 12:30:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517053 and https://techdirt.com/2025/07/09/litigious-company-demands-re... I now know what The Register was being so surprisingly careful ab
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by JdeBP 1y ago
If people have naïvely configured their BIND client libraries to talk directly to Quad9, instead of via a machine-local forwarding caching proxy DNS server, then libcurl can be sending a re-query out to Quad9 every 60 seconds for domains th
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by JdeBP 1y ago
For context: Suicide was a crime in the United Kingdom until 1961. * https://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/60/contents * https://bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14374296
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The Indian system is coincidentally being discussed right now at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44492175 .
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Not even solely the army. pyjamas, dekko, dungarees, gymkhana, bangle, pundit, verandah. The list goes on and on. India has been a large source of loanwords over the centuries.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Reading someone quote Jon Postel in the context of CR+LF brings back memories. * https://jdebp.uk/FGA/qmail-myths-dispelled.html#MythAboutBar... "that may not be the most sensible advice now", says M. Leadbea
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by JdeBP 1y ago
My first introduction to how ludicrous this all is was as a child encountering people who seriously called people who live on the same tectonic plate as us, who used to be directly connected to us with a land bridge only a few 10kA ago, and
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It is distinctly odd to watch people in the 2020s laboriously explaining how difficult all this stuff would be, when the reality was that the register scarcity that prompted this sort of double-duty in 1979 was already going away in mass-ma
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It was a common design of new operating system APIs, not encumbered by PDP-11 compatibility, in the 1980s. * https://tty0.social/@JdeBP/114816928464571239 Even some of the later augmentations in MS/PC/DR-DOS
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You might think so. (-: * https://github.com/jdebp/nosh/blob/trunk/source/socket_conne... kqueue() can apparently return the error right in the data of the kevent, but I'm still using poll() s
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Hard‽ Small POD structures returned in register pairs has been a feature of C compiler calling conventions for over 3 decades, and was around in C compilers in the 16-bit era. * https://jdebp.uk/FGA/function-calling-co
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The 11110 thing is a myth, though. The closest that we get to that is that it is number 127 in the NARA's catalogue of the Johnson's public papers for 1968. * https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PPP-1968
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by JdeBP 1y ago
> You mean you don't like INI because it's a Windows thing? No. That's you writing that. I wrote no such thing. > Unless you say that they were a blip on a radar on Unices in the 80s, Which is indeed what I wrote.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Not any more, it does not. You are reading a warning that was put on that page a few years ago. Things have changed over the 6 years since Windows 10 release 1903. In particular, a couple of years later Microsoft was (interestingly, not
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It does make one wonder whether Illumos pax or pax from one of the other BSDs would have worked better; or whether it was the tool generating the test pax archive in the first place that was the problem.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Since the context is systemd, one really should look to Unices in the 1980s rather than to Microsoft Windows in the 1980s. INI files were popularized by DOS+Windows, where there was no formal specification and whatever the Win16 API happen
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by JdeBP 1y ago
When I see a commit like https://github.com/brianluft/heirloom/commit/445ea8ef7018ef0... , I am convinced that yes, this is the original source code. (-: https://github.com/brianluft/hei
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You missed rust and go from your list. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
zdw mentioned an "authoritative" server, i.e. a content DNS server. CloudFlare is not talking about content DNS servers there. It cannot decide from paragraph to paragraph what it is calling the DNS servers that it is talking ab
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by JdeBP 1y ago
In theory there isn't, and everyone is supposed to use forward slash. But in practice there is, because not everyone has stuck to using forward slashes over the decades. Some tools are more forgiving of the differences amongst the va
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I hope that no-one merges that code, because it would be baking erroneous control sequences into OpenBSD. Exotic Silicon is making the mistake that we all have made, of getting ITU/IEC T.416 wrong. Most of the rest of us have been tho
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's an interesting hole that the test cases don't cover any of Microsoft Office, Windows Explorer, PowerShell's various cmdlets, or the several major .NET ZIP archive libraries. It would seem that the author just does not u
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by JdeBP 1y ago
None of this stuff is theoretical. It's just old . There was a time when passing ZIP files around was a very popular method of software distribution, and things like this were gotchas that had to be watched for. It was widely known,
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Instead of just dogmatically asserting that any C program has security vulnerabilities, and changing C programs is also a security problem, you should look at what tmux's record actually is. tmux has existed for approaching 18 years, a
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Now achieve that when your implementation constraint is that you're using JavaScript to style a <div/> element. (-: * https://github.com/Sean-93/asciimoon/blob/main/src/component...

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