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by abcd_f 7mo ago
Claimed elegance is based on a very bold assumption that the NAT device preserves the source port of outbound connection. Hardly the case in even half of typical deployment cases.
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by abcd_f 7mo ago
Also makes it easier to identify your alt accounts ;)
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by abcd_f 7mo ago
> can't impact your driving privilege Unlike improper parking, running red lights should impact said privilege as potential consequences are way more serious.
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by abcd_f 7mo ago
But they didn't say anything about refunding them and you can bet Trump will oppose that and ask the SCOTUS to decide on it. They of course have an option to take their time to render the decision and then just dismiss the case without
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by abcd_f 7mo ago
What local options are on par with ChatGPT?
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by abcd_f 8mo ago
TC still exists, huh?
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by abcd_f 8mo ago
My wife just said she wasn't getting any chills, but definitely some yawns :)
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by abcd_f 8mo ago
> when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old. As endearing as it sounds, that's pure selection bias on Walter's end rather than something even remotely common. Clearly there are cases of this sort, like arts an
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by abcd_f 8mo ago
It's a tough problem. Once some users have extra power to push content to the front-page, it will be abused. There will be attempts to gain that privilege in order to monetize, profit from or abuse it in some other way. The only opti
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by abcd_f 8mo ago
The solution to this is to allow aliases ... or account groups if you will and then allow/disallow things based on combined karma.
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by abcd_f 8mo ago
This very post is probably his too, under an alt :)
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by abcd_f 8mo ago
I read through the RFC and I think it's fair it was rejected, because this was ultimately a half-measure, with severe usability restrictions. Fat pointers are clearly a way to deal with arrays (and also get "slices" and non-z
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by abcd_f 8mo ago
Arrays decaying to pointers is probably the biggest non-platform specific design oversight. As you said, it's easy to see where it came from, but it should've been fixed long ago.
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by abcd_f 8mo ago
> the PNW winter It rains only once ... but for six months :)
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by abcd_f 8mo ago
Yeah, to intimidate kids when they don't deliver academically :)
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by abcd_f 8mo ago
> US incompetency US corruption. Incompetence would've been a good news here.
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by abcd_f 8mo ago
Port knocking should open up the port for the IP that sent the knock. Not for everyone.
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by abcd_f 8mo ago
You can conceal that open port with some form of port knocking. Though this does reinforce your "easy" point. Also, if it's an UDP port, then using a protocol that expects first client packet to be pre-authenticated and not e
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by abcd_f 8mo ago
I witnessed something recently that points unambiguously at Whatsapp chats being not private. Not two months ago I sent a single photo to a friend of some random MacGyver kitchen contraption I made. Never described it, just a photo with the
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by abcd_f 8mo ago
... or two separate taps even. Though it's quite a bit more exotic and ancient. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/AF32/production...
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by abcd_f 9mo ago
Daaamn... Olivetti. ,d88b.d88b, 88888888888 `Y8888888Y' `Y888Y' `Y' An Olivetti PC was an ultimate dream to have in the late 80s and the early 90s for me, in impressionable age of adolescence, prone to
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by abcd_f 9mo ago
> Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan They forgor Tajikistan. Or may be it was just too hard to spell.
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by abcd_f 9mo ago
> ultra cheap shipping prices It’s either "ultra cheap shipping" or "ultra low shipping prices". Prices can't be cheap. /nitpick
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by abcd_f 9mo ago
Having read just the name I assumed it was a brewing project dealing with mate (drink) aging.
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by abcd_f 9mo ago
The article on the trio of de Havilland passenger jet crashes from 1950s (linked from the post) is very interesting - https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane/accid...
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by abcd_f 10mo ago
It's basically a blog post to plug links to author's (presumably) struggling projects. The majority of established ISVs are perfectly fine and have long adapted to new realities, be that the existence of AI coding tools, subscript
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by abcd_f 10mo ago
They had one. Until he made a fatal mistake of giving a tenner to the wrong people.
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by abcd_f 10mo ago
IPsec to be precise, not IPSec.
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by abcd_f 11mo ago
How many came from AWS, Azure and GCP IPs? ;) Seriously though, a per-country breakdown would've been very interesting to see.
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by abcd_f 11mo ago
Use the uBlock, Luke...

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