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by eksith 12y ago
Since the site seems to be down still : http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blog.bl...
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by eksith 12y ago
I feel the problem is that security is often tacked on (usually by another company) and not an integral part during the design from the start. If home automation and security are treated as merely parts of one whole solution encompassing yo
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by eksith 12y ago
I believe so. OpenSSL had a whole swath of other issues that contributed to its problems, but chief among them was a habit of implementing core functionality already provided by the OS. Also, as mentioned, the constantly lengthening codebas
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by eksith 12y ago
It seems I have to revaluate my stance on this. I admit, it's been a while since I ran OpenBSD as a full desktop. I've been happy with Crunchbang Linux so far as a simpler system, but maybe it's time I tried it again.
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by eksith 12y ago
OpenBSD is what I use to host a bunch of private sites for myself and a few people I know. This is only due to some custom configurations and applications that my shared webhost didn't provide and for things I can't be bothered wi
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by eksith 12y ago
It seems this is the last version to have Nginx in the base install. 5.7 Will only ship their in-house httpd(8) as the default web server, although Nginx will still be available in ports. Reyk explained the reasoning : http://und
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by eksith 12y ago
That's very true. It's the freedom vs. chaos dichotomy that all societies have to struggle with at one time or another. As for pedophiles, I believe this is the domain of real world social services. Abuse doesn't occur in a v
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by eksith 12y ago
I think the internet should be a series of dumb pipes for the sake of open connectivity and unencumbered sharing of information. A dumb pipe shouldn't care what the interacting system built upon would be. But obviously others disagree.
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Communication between brain networks in people given psilocybin(wired.com)
189 points by eksith 12y ago|97 comments
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by eksith 12y ago
Same here. Notebook was a like a brain dump for me and it saved my bacon quite a few times while pinning research. In fact, when Pinterest came out, I couldn't help but not the similarities (except, of course, for the glaring differenc
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by eksith 12y ago
Hence, my prefix "Not saying it's University of New Mexico". Surely, the purpose of a discussion forum is to foster discussion? I didn't exactly go digging deep for this information and hitting the frontpage of HN would
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by eksith 12y ago
The eager user in me is delighted there's a place to save my bookmarks. The paranoid user is worried Google will have access to my saved sites and sell my usage stats. The nostalgic user is still irritated that Google Reader could have
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America’s Polling Places Desperately Need a Redesign(wired.com)
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by eksith 12y ago
But even the U.S. justice system is (ostensibly) geared toward "it's better to let 100 guilty men go free than convict 1 innocent man" with the presumption of innocence and all. While the justice system is hardly the paragon
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by eksith 12y ago
There's no personal information here. Everything you see was what she had posted at the very end of the article, her signature, and common knowledge "Duke City" is Albuquerque. What remains were DDG searches for the specific
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by eksith 12y ago
Author info at the end says "Karen W. is a Duke City denizen..." I'm not sure if that's misdirection, but "Duke City" is another name for Albuquerque, NM. Edit: This is interesting. Not saying it's Univers
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by eksith 12y ago
There would be a lot of demand for a much simpler WP alternative built with security in mind. Would you by any chance be open sourcing the project? More eyes on the source couldn't hurt.
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by eksith 12y ago
It's not often I write long, connected replies, but I prefer the (1/4) method after writing the whole thing out in notepad or something.
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by eksith 12y ago
When trying to get through what appears to be a brick wall of myopia, the liberal use of the block feature is more productive. Seriously, I don't even try to have arguments anymore. A sane and relatively productive one is nearly imposs
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by eksith 12y ago
I think that has to do with the fact that one discovery or invention leads to a cascade of others. And upon those, yet more cascades of discoveries and inventions. It's as if technological and scientific advancement was a genome, it&#x
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A day buying (and returning) things with Apple Pay(washingtonpost.com)
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by eksith 12y ago
Sadly, they will switch to alternate means of sustenance. Many criminals already have E.G. Money laundering, kidnapping, murder for hire etc... The time to legalize was before it was possible for drug producers to purchase an entire country
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by eksith 12y ago
There are a bunch of videos demonstrating the effect https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=electromagnetic... I believe, the Mythbusters demonstrated the effect is entirely due to the moving ionized air and not due t
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by eksith 12y ago
By filter, I meant server-side sanitization. Stripping "bad stuff" as you put it should be mandatory regardless. Someone can simply craft a raw post to the "action" URL of the form (the handler) without loading the page
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by eksith 12y ago
All user input should go through some manner of filter regardless of the presented form. After all, it doesn't take too much effort to send raw post data without loading the page at all.
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by eksith 12y ago
The safe bet may be a line from authority itself: "Trust, but verify" as they say. Right now, the only antidote to systemic weakening (potential or actual, intentional or through incompetence) of security is an auditing of code al
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by eksith 12y ago
The site is not loading for me at all https://ssd.eff.org Wonder if the load is too high too soon. Edit: Oops, now showing 504 Gateway Time-Out (nginx) Edit2: It's back. Looks very well put together. Edit3: Wow, this is ex
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by eksith 12y ago
Your best bet would be to ask them directly. I don't know how they could claim copyright on the original works, but they may have a case if you reuse their digitized copy of the original work. Much like a photograph of a piece of art m
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by eksith 12y ago
I didn't downvote any of your posts and I believe you when you say you're not affiliated with FTDI. But I vehemently disagree with your stance that the sabotage of hardware is warranted or even that it's a minor inconvenience
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by eksith 12y ago
It's not that they just won't work with their drivers, it's that it disables the device so that it's not operable without special (and costly, if they're widely deployed) intervention. The new Windows driver cha

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