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by egberts1 2mo ago
Done on company property. Design Owned by company. We did not object for maximum marketing.
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by egberts1 2mo ago
Ummmm. In 2007, near a certain defense contractor, we demonstrated a 319'-wire trebuchet mounted horizontally but slight vertical a-skewed for distance/aiming. Used a gnarly large helical gear but with integral diminishing ratio.
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by egberts1 2mo ago
My favorite is having an XOR opcode modifying the operand of its next IMUL operand. Fools QEMU and makes for a good "am I on a VM" logic test. A function of precalculating XOR operand inadvertly twice at QeMU TLB compute time AFTE
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by egberts1 2mo ago
That is why my webserver only server-negotiate Cha-Cha/Poly at TLS level and rejects all else. No caddy. No cache. No proxy. A lot of scrapers give up. Log rate remains low. Actual visits even lower. Peace of mind, for a while: https
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by egberts1 2mo ago
Nowadays, we see movies being made deep on the heart of Texas!
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by egberts1 2mo ago
Videos are not playable on Apple iPhone.
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by egberts1 2mo ago
Where's my sledgehammer?
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by egberts1 2mo ago
Disclaimer: I code-review OpenSSH yearly. Just by looking at the diagram, the mere presence of a third-party IdP is enough for most of enterprise and homelab to be deterred and look elsewhere for a more self-contained self-host identity pro
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by egberts1 2mo ago
Original mission statement of Voice of America is still unchanged and defined by its Charter, which became U.S. law in 1976. It has three core principles: 1. Provide accurate, objective, and comprehensive news. 2. Represent America as a who
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by egberts1 3mo ago
Ive got a tack server collecting dust. How do I plug in a specific hardware?
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by egberts1 3mo ago
Little Sisters v United States became that inflection point around late 2013 to early 2014. The mechanism: emergency injunctions against executive implementations. The “switch” was not Congress changing SCOTUS authority. It was the Court be
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by egberts1 3mo ago
More accurately, running web sites using latest RFCs.
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by egberts1 3mo ago
17.6% of assigned BGP-able IP address space are assigned but not actively broadcasting BGP packets??? (Deep-breath in, warning: rant) This makes for a very problematic of continual hijacking AS link pathways between two hosts, notably betwe
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by egberts1 3mo ago
Hard working. Need more of that
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by egberts1 3mo ago
I'm running an archaic Dell PowerEdge T710 dual-Xeon E5690 (6/12 CPU, 3.73GHz turbo) with 192GB DDR3-800 (was 288GB but now PassMark 14,328). Token rate is 0.091 per second. Good for an overnight job.
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by egberts1 3mo ago
Can't rip the plastic wrap off to smell for rottenness. Absorbent pad adds to the price also hides the "purge". Harder to find meat without thousand poked holes (tenderizing) Can't tell if meat are colorized to hide brow
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by egberts1 3mo ago
This ASCII character '|' is a bar.
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by egberts1 3mo ago
Shorter title: why lazy workers resist on-site work.
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by egberts1 3mo ago
Disclaimer: original RedHat investor here. My home lab requires: * Option 42 (custom NTP configuration) * Option 66/67 (TFTP/PXE boot) * Option 119 (Domain Search List) * Vendor-specific options (43) * Option 121 (Classless Static
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by egberts1 3mo ago
Problem Statement Think hard (time, money, resources) Write down solution Profit!
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by egberts1 4mo ago
I have a tree. I always started with 3 words POINT LASED CRUMB This eliminates not only the most frequent letters but least frequent letters (Bloom filter), leaving rest of infrequent letter set to guess by narrow deduction. Never failed me
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by egberts1 4mo ago
methylcobalamin B-12 plus Vitamin D3 is the preferred form. Skip the D2 vitamin.
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by egberts1 4mo ago
Is it just me or did I missed a notice that Bluesky is not on the list of UK's banned social media?
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by egberts1 4mo ago
You need a slave driver to whip those AI in line. Or a psychiatrist to tame the craxy LLMs Or an elected leader to lead the Luddites. https://github.com/vishal-dehurdle/state-harness
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by egberts1 4mo ago
Other than chronic South America and Libya outbreaks, screwworm has been around forever. Coupled with SIT, pyrethroid, doramectin, ivermectin, debriding, dressing are just about 100% effective. Thanks to our enlarged 230-strong Federal-cont
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by egberts1 4mo ago
I am guarded on today's LLM after much unit testings myself. For as long as LLM use the probabilistic predictive next-token for an algorithm, there shall be glaring errors when encountering a complex-logic (or even compound-logic). In
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by egberts1 4mo ago
As one who helped improved Capstone and its even more wonderful partner, Unicorn, I actually found an exploit in QEMU using Capstone/Unicorn. Unicorn is a nearly-true software-based CPU emulator for ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, Pow
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by egberts1 5mo ago
Balderdash!!!
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by egberts1 5mo ago
Correct. Very insecure unless your client app goes out of its way to perform DnSSEC. But wait, there's more: SSH config, resolv.conf, DNS RR setup. A lomg checklist for successful SSHFP deployment: https://egbert.net/bl
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by egberts1 5mo ago
Resolved ... after recovering from a mass German DNSSEC drinking party? Ok.

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