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by aplorbust 9y ago
Did you know... Ken Thompson wrote an APL interpreter for early Research UNIX. source: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf McIlroy: "APL influenced the development of pipes. APL did not allow the use of
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by aplorbust 9y ago
In fairness to free.law which appears to provide unrestricted bulk access and uses open formats, what stops anyone, including the blog author, from downloading the bulk data, and then uploading to the Internet Archive? To some users, it is
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"Soon enough, numerous sites/services will crop up, likely funded by ads, subscription fees or non-profit status, competing on usability for retail consumers." Will they compete with the Internet Archive, which does not need
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"Google started this really annoying habit of including results that don't have the words you are searching." Queried a one word string that is probably in hundreds of pages. Got 5 bogus results. On the plus side, I noticed d
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"In fact, I vaguely remember splitting large files into smaller ones with numerical filenames, which I prefer. I also remember not having to worry about suffixes in the past. But numerical filenames didn't seem to be an option wit
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by aplorbust 9y ago
A mischievous person renting a domainname can list any public or private IP addresses in her A records; and she can list any nameservers, including ones with which she has no relationship. She can list an IP address that the user may be
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by aplorbust 9y ago
The solutions I use were already "built" before this one existed. I was using djbdns to block ads before there were adblockers. I think its great that more users, through DNS-based ad blocking projects, may see how controlling th
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by aplorbust 9y ago
No luck needed. Authoritative DNS makes it easy. Even without using authoritative DNS, if we only have a blocklist of IP addresses and some application-level firewall solution, we can examine outgoing HTTP headers in a client-side proxy an
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by aplorbust 9y ago
What if I let the user run it locally? I point a local dnscache at a local, customised "root.zone" that blocks all these EasyList ad server domains? User could have several alternate root.zones that provide different "profi
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by aplorbust 9y ago
What if I start a DNS service that blocks every ad server domainname in the "EasyList"? Personally I avoid using third party DNS, but if there is demand for this...
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by aplorbust 9y ago
There are folks who know much more about rump than I. They read HN and I stand to be corrected. But the description of bootrino seems like it is has a misleading definition of rump unikernels. It suggests because a Linux distribution and
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Not using glibc.1 Not using Linux. Advice for all commenters who make presumptions about others computer use: Please kindly check your assumptions. 1 Is this an issue for musl and the various other alternatives to glibc? I have no idea but
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Not using qmail the way you are (incorrectly) assuming. I am an end user not an email provider. For example I use qmail to provide "inter-device email" on a local network of devices all belonging to the same user, and not connecte
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Its trivial to randomise HTTP headers, both the content and the order . There are free and commercial databases of user-agent strings available to any user, the same ones the websites may use. Users can also modify or delete HTTP headers
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"Therefore the client does not know if a site will require SNI or not." The client that I use assumes no SNI required. (It intentionally does not support SNI.) If it fails because the website is on a shared host and requires SNI
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"... thanks to SNI, this doesn't give us any privacy." Assumption: All sites use SNI or will use SNI. True? Experiment: List all domains posted to HN (pages 1-20) that require https on any given day. Try accessing each one
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by aplorbust 9y ago
https://stat.ripe.net/data/dns-chain/data.json?resource=exam... https://dns-lg.sidnlabs.nl/example.com/A
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"qmail itself is so feature-poor that traditionally, nobody was and is actually running qmail. Instead everybody is running "qmail" which is qmail plus some patches." I ran and continue to run qmail without any patches.
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"Do DNS resolves over HTTPS for privacy, performance and security. Also makes it easier to use a name server of your choice instead of the one configured for your system ." "A server that is acting both as a normal web serve
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by aplorbust 9y ago
There is one author who does not use memcpy, strcpy, etc. He wrote his own "standard" C library routines. Others have used these routines; they are public domain. The security track record on the authors internet-facing programs
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"We've somehow forgotten the old maxim that a protocol is not done until we have removed everything that is not needed." Would software and web developers ever consider adopting this maxim? As a user, I would enthusiastically
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Reminded me of this: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9072-bgp_and_the_rule_of_custom One of the better talks I watched from this years conference.
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Here is how RFC 7230 defines "HTTP/1.1 pipelining": "6.3.2. Pipelining A client that supports persistent connections MAY "pipeline" its requests (i.e., send multiple requests without waiting for each response
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Here is how RFC 7230 defines "HTTP/1.1 pipelining": "6.3.2. Pipelining A client that supports persistent connections MAY "pipeline" its requests (i.e., send multiple requests without waiting for each response
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by aplorbust 9y ago
To reproduce: curl --libcurl 1.c http://example.com/a.htm http://example.com/b.htm grep curl_multi_init 1.c https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2008-02/0036.html
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"You need both." Me, personally? I do not use shared caches. I do not use local or remote caches. Wrote own nonrecursive (i.e. no RD bit ever set) stub resolver. As such, I have no use for DNSCrypt. I use trusted sources for lists
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by aplorbust 9y ago
It wasnt until 2006 that curl added HTTP/1.1 pipelining support. Hence I always used netcat instead of curl because I utilised pipelining heavily for text/html retrieval (IME, most servers supported it). Imagine something like th
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"> control over delivery or content of unencrypted DNS packets And thus we are back to asking for DNSSec." DNSSEC does not encrypt DNS packets. (Nor does TLS encrypt UDP DNS packets per packet . It encrypts a TCP stream.) Not
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by aplorbust 9y ago
https://archive.is/PUk3 <--- This posting describes the different collections that Google acquired or received. Is there irony in that one needs archive.is (archive.today) to access it? Maybe someone can find the origin
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"I convinced Google to allow me to give their USENET archives to the Internet Archive." Thank you.

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