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Maxime Villard has been doing great work finding lots of bugs, many with a code scanner he wrote called Brainy. As an OpenBSD user I've been watching with interest from the sidelines. More info on Brainy results: https://w
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> Those seem quite the overstatements. In addition to other comments, OpenVPN's default cipher is Blowfish. Since that sounds unbelievable, here's the manpage: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki&#x
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> Applied Quantum CSS to render browser UI I'm so excited about the future of Firefox. In addition to the above, OpenBSD is currently working on pledge support in FF. In a couple years FF could be simultaneously faster, more priva
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> it automatically clicks all ads your browser encounters hundreds of times I think it would be hard to deny that clicking every ad hundreds of times is straying into uncoordinated DDoS territory, considering the installed userbase. I d
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9y ago
> Several bugs have been squashed in the ReactOS CC and Freeloader, allowing it to boot in 96MB hardware (smaller RAM need than our 0.4.7 release). This is an impressive update when most projects, and not necessarily wrongly, always move
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I was in the same boat so I started buying quarts of cream. Put yogurt into a bowl, add some cream and mix with a spoon, add berries or a dash of cinnamon or whatever for color and you're set!
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> 77 percent would stick to the regular ads version, while 23 percent said they’d pay not to have ads. If/When 77% of its users leave Facebook, a substantial portion of the remaining 23% would be less inclined to pay for using the s
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I used to work with a homeless shelter and the director told me the #1 cause of homelessness was sudden massive healthcare bills. This can even extend to caring family members who foot the bill, leaving them financially at the edge, just be
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9y ago
Routers, workstations, servers (DNS, web, mail, backup).
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Busy upgrading machines now, lots of nice new things. Looking forward to checking out the new execpromises in pledge. I use pledge in all my C stuff and have added it to a few other apps. Thanks OpenBSD devs!
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9y ago
> so making this change on the Tarsnap website brings it in line with the reality of the billing system Seems hard to argue against this. > The topic of picodollars has become something of an ongoing debate between us, with Patrick i
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I tried the commands given (plus a few more I just guessed) and they all worked. What an enlightening demonstration of IRC's simplicity! This comes at a good time because I've been having issues with eggdrop, maybe now I'll
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9y ago
The videos are only of interest to family and friends. That said, I've seen a few stats of top-page HN links generating 10,000 or more unexpected visitors, and a 1TB cap with a 20MB video would easily handle that. But if that weren
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9y ago
Bogus claims are an ongoing issue and this same basic article (about static videos in particular!) has been posted before -- which is not to say it shouldn't be posted, but rather that Youtube hasn't fixed this known, albeit diffi
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Next time you drive past a car accident, picture the cars not along the side of the road but in someone's house. That's where they will go when something goes wrong and they fall from the sky.
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acme-client is great and I use it for RSA certs, preferring it over acme-tiny [0]. However I prefer ECDSA (until we get EdDSA), so for those certs I use acme-tiny. https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny
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I've read that the Russians didn't hack the vote tallies, instead they hacked and selectively purged certain voter registries, thereby controlling who was "allowed" to vote in the first place. A different strategy to ac
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> Importantly, Lewis isn't the only person who claims this happened to him. One Facebook user says he accidentally told "friends and family to go [to] hell" when he "replied to the spam." Wow. I deleted my FB ac
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9y ago
DNSCrypt doesn't use SSL or TLS. You may have assumed that because DNSCrypt defaults to 443/TCP but that is only for availability, as this port is usually not blocked. The packet format is very similar to DNSCurve, from which it
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Regarding the disingenuous headline, it was likely chosen by an editor to get clicks. There are problems with the article itself though: > new clothes are becoming as cheap as used ones You can find $30 - $40 t-shirts from the GAP, and $
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9y ago
This is a common fallacy, that freedom and safety are in opposition, that increasing one decreases the other, that freedom puts you in danger and a lack of freedom saves you. In this debate people often say there is perfect safety in priso
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Right. The point is that someone who appeared to be a supervisor, in other words in charge of the swat team, was apparently already aware of the chance that this was a case of swatting. Going into the situation, that knowledge likely made
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Do you have any citations for this claim? Brian Krebs did just this, visiting the local police to inform them of the potential for a swatting attack. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/the-world-has-no-room-fo...
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Ordering a pizza to someone's house is a prank. Ordering armed people who expect to fight an armed murderer with multiple hostages is not a prank.
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I don't know any businesses that use paychecks in the US, though surely they exist - it's a big country. Be careful about how quick you are to judge an entire country based on what you read online, ok? (My company with a rural o
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I know the subthread went in another direction, but: vitamin D increases the absorption of calcium. With minimal vitamin D synthesis from sun exposure in northern Europe, it makes sense that extra dietary calcium would be an evolutionary a
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> That isn’t realistic in this decade for rural/remote areas. Not OP, but I recently lived in a rural area and had 3 options for Internet: * Mediacom cable with permanent 20-50% (or more) packet loss * CenturyLink DSL at 1mbp
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* Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo. Powerful anti-war story. * Vagabonding, by Rolf Potts. Shaped my views on hard work and travel. * 1984, by George Orwell. Brilliant and terrifying. * The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle. Ove
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> Verisign is just a company located in the USA. Does it then follow that any company located in the USA is 'controlled by the USG'? Verisign doesn't own .com -- the US government does. Verisign operates .com on contract w
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> it vanished for Comcast users whose DNS servers at the time enforced DNSSEC Interestingly, Comcast had their own DNSSEC outage earlier today: https://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages/20170928-comcast.com/ &g
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