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by akerl_ 1y ago
An attack against BGP where the attacker takes over traffic for an IP address isn't at all prevented by DNSSEC. The sequence there is: 1. I hijack traffic destined for an IP address 2. Anything whose DNS resolves to that IP, regardless
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Mangle is the technical term used by the kernel for those parts of the process.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
The companies that sell this kind of product aren’t doing it as a side hustle. It’s not like “oh, well yea, Atlassian mostly sell Jira but also they have a team farming viable iPhone data extraction vulns.” If you were working with one of t
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by akerl_ 1y ago
You'd boycott these companies, that you don't know who they are? It's not much of a boycott to stop doing business with companies you already aren't doing business with.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
The general fix for this is to put whatever your preferred method of contact is into the "about" section of your profile.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
> (Bitcoin style) encryption I’m curious what this means, given that bitcoin doesn’t have encryption? The blockchain uses cryptography for integrity, not confidentiality.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
In most places just dumping stuff in space you don’t own isn’t allowed.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
What's an example? We're in an era where browsers have forced certificate transparency and removed major vendor CAs when they've issued certificates in violation of the browsers' requirements. The concern about bad/
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by akerl_ 1y ago
I’m in the Shenandoah valley but I have 25kw, so it looks like unless I do something complex I’m stuck on Dominion.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
It seems like SVEC caps residential solar at 20kw vs 25? Am I reading that right in their docs?
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Tailscale is an extra dependency vs using WireGuard directly, which is what was being discussed.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
You're suggesting to use a VPS in a thread that's specifically about self-hosting on a home network, and about there being cons to that compared to hosting on a cloud/VPS platform. So you're sort of driving parallel to t
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Well, the dependency on Tailscale's servers, for one. You're getting that NAT-busting because Tailscale is running servers to handle that for you, and you're getting around key management by having them manage your keys and o
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Delete every meeting that isn’t directly related to either tracking the sprint, working on items on the sprint, or personnel management/growth, and then spent your time doing the work. Or quit, I guess, if the difference between 1 and
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by akerl_ 1y ago
The GPL is an open source license. It does not require that the source be public, just that people who receive the software also are granted the source with the GPL license.
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Maybe I’m missing it in the text, but is there a “why” somewhere for this effort?
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by akerl_ 1y ago
The Constitution and the principles of my country are perfectly aligned with adults entering into a mutually agreed business transaction. They’re aligned with a company offering to sell me a service with a given price, and where part of the
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by akerl_ 1y ago
It's not clear to me that a default judgement in a civil case against a moving company would be something their shipping insurer would pay out. As is demonstrated in this blog post, the insurer paid out directly on a claim of damages,
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by akerl_ 1y ago
That's a lot of maybes. I think I'd take the trade, the same way I pay for Netflix even though it means they know what I'm watching, or sign up for the store card at the grocery store even though it means they know what I&#x2
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by akerl_ 1y ago
The overlap of "the entities that carry out data breaches on digital entities" and "the people who break into your house to steal stuff" is not really well correlated. This is for a variety of reasons, but the most borin
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Is it theft? Do I stop having my data after they’re gone?
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by akerl_ 1y ago
Does that harm me or my stuff? Because smashed furniture and banged up walls suck.
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by akerl_ 2y ago
Sorry, are you saying "the only place where there's slapdash prose is right before it would be super cool to have an alpha version of the code magically appear, that we can iterate on based on the full context of the team, company
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by akerl_ 2y ago
Local boring thermostats are still for sale. So are boring locks (even local-only electronic locks). It feels like your actual beef here is that the majority of consumers are interested in buying cloud-connected gear that degrades when the
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by akerl_ 2y ago
This feels like a distinction without a difference. If all the shelves at Lowes that sell network-connected IoT thermostats said "10 year rental price" instead of "purchase price", the average non-nerd consumer wouldn&#x
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by akerl_ 2y ago
If what you want is a basic thermostat, there are any number of models you can buy. They're physical objects without network connectivity and they last basically forever. But if you buy a Nest, you're buying a network-connected de
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by akerl_ 2y ago
The 1st and 2nd gen Nest thermostats weren't released by Google, they were released by Nest prior to the acquisition. And they've been supported for over a decade. Their replacement (the 3rd gen nest) came out in 2015.
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by akerl_ 2y ago
The controller for the HVAC system costs a heck of a lot more than the thermostat.
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by akerl_ 2y ago
The Nest Thermostats listed here are falling back to "Honeywell local thermostat" functionality. They will still work for turning the dial locally to control the temp. They just won't be IoT connected. The 3rd gen Nest thermo
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by akerl_ 2y ago
Just to hit this one more time as directly as I possibly can: > The core difference is some things which are reprehensible when backed by state violence are fine when chosen individually or encouraged by social pressures. No. It is both

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