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by Wicher 10y ago
Tinc ( http://www.tinc-vpn.org ) works well for me and can do meshing.
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by Wicher 10y ago
That's not how it works. Eating the livestock (or drinking the milk) transfers antibiotics to our bodies, and then we become the environment in which bacteria are selected for resistance to antibiotics.
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by Wicher 11y ago
shelve: https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/shelve.html
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by Wicher 11y ago
#opportunistic encryption s2s smtp_tls_security_level = may smtp_tls_CApath = /etc/ssl/certs This will use STARTTLS to upgrade the connection. This does not protect you against an active attacker, but it will protect you aga
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by Wicher 11y ago
Maybe you can use shared memory. You could use raw mmap.mmap(), or use the sharedctypes multiprocessing submodule ( https://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html#modul... ) . You'd allocate memory in t
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by Wicher 11y ago
Adapt by recognizing zebra wetsuit clad surfers as food? That implies surfers are part of shark's regular diets, which they're not.
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by Wicher 12y ago
No. Passively listening only requires dumping whatever flies over the interface of some router. Done! Very hard to detect. You can also just scan for keywords and only start dumping traffic when triggered. With SSL, you cannot retroactive
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by Wicher 12y ago
> That's good in that it requires a slightly more sophisticated attack, but I don't really view that as a very effective defense. A slightly more sophisticated attack, indeed — but one that doesn't scale well. It ups the c
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by Wicher 12y ago
Aside: If I recall correctly, with the zip file format, the index is at the end of the file. A (named) pipe works fine with, for instance, a bzipped tarball. I wouldn't be surprised if the ZIP file format has its origins outside the Un
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by Wicher 12y ago
Exactly! The actual memory contents behind the controller are dependent on physical characteristics. Using the FTL firmware, the flash+controller (such as eMMC) vendor is free to do all kinds of tricks, for instance, depending on the qualit
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by Wicher 12y ago
I did check by diffing the RIFF headers. Here's some info on the metadata: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/422/projects/WaveFormat/ . There's little to no room for variance.
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by Wicher 12y ago
From Wikipedia (Compact_disc lemma): "[…] The change in height between pits and lands results in a difference in the way the light is reflected. By measuring the intensity change with a photodiode […]" I'm no signals expert.
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by Wicher 12y ago
Background here: http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html#play
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by Wicher 12y ago
> some people buy mats to put onto your CDs before putting the CD in a player An 80-minute, 700 MB CD-R fits 80 * 60 * 44100 * 2 * 2 / 2^20 ~= 807 MB of audio. Why is that? The 100MB difference is not just due to the audio TOC b
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by Wicher 12y ago
Indeed. Prior to steam powered ships and harpoon guns, only the so called 'right whale' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_whale ) was hunted by Western nations (by rowing out to them in small boats, sometim
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by Wicher 12y ago
> [...] like `acpid` that tells bits of hardware to take a rest I believe that that stuff is mostly in the kernel. Man acpid: > acpid is designed to notify user-space programs of ACPI events.
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by Wicher 12y ago
It says 'Mb'. Chip sizes are frequently expressed in bits, not bytes, so this could mean 64MiB of ram and 32MiB of flash (I'm assuming mebibits (2^20 bits) instead of megabits (10^6 bits), for which 'Mb' is the SI s
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by Wicher 12y ago
Well, I can tell you, if you win a race because it is only when you're in your "extra time" that the wind finally picks up, it doesn't really feel like winning. Happened to me in a course race. The weather during the dif
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by Wicher 12y ago
If it's the tracking you'd like to avoid, don't use ad blockers! They're the wrong tool for the job. They're for blocking ads. So they'll block ads that are not leaking your info (for your use case, a false pos
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by Wicher 12y ago
Edit: This is a reply to a comment that's now deleted. So this orphan reply doesn't make much sense without the parent. Things are changing: "Sweden on Tuesday became the first European Union country to announce it will give
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by Wicher 12y ago
Git is the subject of, in my opinion, some quality satire in this respect: http://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
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by Wicher 12y ago
Oh yes indeed. When I was cycling (and camping) in the less-often-visited-by-tourists areas of Croatia and Bosnia in 2011, there were mine warning signs all over the place. I even had to wait for an hour while a demining team cleared a road
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by Wicher 12y ago
You will then probably also like to set browser.fixup.alternate.enabled to False in about:config, to disable the trying to go to 'whatyoutyped.com' and such when hitting an NXDOMAIN.
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by Wicher 13y ago
Unique is too strong a word, for instance, there's Watership Down (recommended): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_down
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by Wicher 13y ago
I learned shell scripting mostly from... actually using the shell as the mothership of mostly any activity I undertake on my machines, be it at work or at home. The experience you gain by trying not to repeat yourself carries over into scri
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by Wicher 13y ago
The article doesn't say which wireless chipset it is using (only that it's Broadcom). > Yes it looks like Belkin actually understands what the word “open” means and why. Yay! I will believe that only once I see that the wifi ch
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by Wicher 13y ago
> Really? I thought jet lag was based on your sleeping hours, not the sunlight hours. But sleeping is a daily thing, and the day is based on the rhythm of the earth going round the sun. There's more to it than just missing some slee
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by Wicher 13y ago
> Frequent travel between the coasts causes jet lag, robbing employees of productive work time. With a one-hour time difference, bi-costal travel would become almost effortless. Jet lag is caused by traveling significant distances east o
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by Wicher 13y ago
According to the KernelMode thread¹ the keypair is generated on the server. The public key is retrieved from it, but its private counterpart will never be on your machine. No key is sent to the server. ¹ http://www.kernelmode.info
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by Wicher 13y ago
Yes, but if they have their crypto stuff together, it might not gain you much. Someone here mentioned the encrypted versions of the files are the original size + a little extra. To me that indicates that they use a public key (of which the

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