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by gwu78 11y ago
Have not encountered any apps like you describe. Examples?
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by gwu78 11y ago
I block "in-app" ads the same way I block "web" ads. Most ads use the same third party DNS services which makes blocking even easier.
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by gwu78 11y ago
So what are the "baseline levels" of UDP traffic your RFC refers to? Are you willing to disclose? "If UDP must be used encapsulate it in IPSec to avoid matching IP protocol 17 filters." And then you are going to have pro
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by gwu78 11y ago
"There is a vast, vast gulf between what the majority of software developers seem to think users want, and what users actually want." s/want/need/2 Another truism: Users are generally resilient and will adapt to wha
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by gwu78 11y ago
I go from BRE to flex to spitbol depending on the situation. Never had a need for PCRE. Snobol can match anything. k/q also has pattern matching. Personally, I get more mileage out of BRE than anything else. Simple and effective.
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by gwu78 11y ago
"... stupid reasons." Do you think developers assume you will not notice or will not care? In my experience, most if not all of this software uses DNS for the attempted dial outs. Running my own DNS makes blocking easy.
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by gwu78 11y ago
Correct.
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by gwu78 11y ago
"... the complete absence of CA architecture, or web-of-trust..."
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by gwu78 11y ago
Not sure about you, but the software we are forced to use at work is never as pleasing as the software we can use at home.
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by gwu78 11y ago
"It make take a few iterations of the source code with the help of other users to make it fully portable "out of the box."" Need any help with porting to Net/Free/OpenBSD?
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by gwu78 11y ago
"authentication of the content, not the connection" Popular websites that hold themselves out as businesses, i.e. "exclusive" sources of content (often generated by users, go figure), they have no reason to support this
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by gwu78 11y ago
s/connections/attempted &/ Yes, I do this always. For me, the ad blocking is most easily done via DNS. djbdns features make it especially easy. I have been using DNS to block ads especially in app ads for several years n
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by gwu78 11y ago
"Apple collects tons of user data..." I gateway all my devices through one computer running a stripped down kernel. Through this host I monitor all attempted network connections. I block ads and of course this means I block Appl
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by gwu78 11y ago
Most systems are actually a mix of statically linked and dynamically linked executables. For example, the systems I compile can all boot and function without the need for a dynamic linker. These static binaries are on a root filesystem tha
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by gwu78 11y ago
"And finally, I and Steve Crocker argued for a more flexible endpoint control over addressing, which got turned into a design (also by me) as "source routing" options, particularly "loose source routing". It sho
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by gwu78 11y ago
As most nerds know, internet messages or "email", and later Usenet, preceded the www by a number of years. The original issue was opening different types of files from within an internet message. No matter how browser-centric toda
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by gwu78 11y ago
"Start hosting ads on the main domain." I imagine if this were to happen users might see significant speed gains in web browsing. It is astounding how many pointers to offsite resources are in today's web pages and, when the
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by gwu78 11y ago
Next up: a minimal QEMU.
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by gwu78 11y ago
"It uses the hosts file to block ads..." You could also run your own "localhost" DNS to block ads. This is a bit more flexible than the HOSTS file. Even if you are a novice, I believe once you have this setup working,
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by gwu78 11y ago
Why not use file descriptor passing instead?
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by gwu78 11y ago
While I cannot speak for anyone else, I rarely ever use JavaScript and my "user experience" not at all "degraded". The browser I use, along with netcat, tcpclient, etc., does not even support JavaScript. The only except
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by gwu78 11y ago
Considering these are credit card numbers and you are trying to protect the account holders, is it really a smart idea to upload the names and numbers to some third party website?
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by gwu78 11y ago
This gratuitously uses a "sentinel" (octal 004) which is a technique that I sometimes use when converting more complex input to CSV. I regularly convert (bad) HTML and other nonsense to CSV, and this "challenge" was a li
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by gwu78 12y ago
Is this supposed to be an answer? I like marssaxman's comment. I'm not sure I would call this a "feature" because I think of "features" as being intentional and if marssaxman is correct, this justification for
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by gwu78 12y ago
int80h.org Anyway, the original question was _why_ does Linux use registers to pass arguments. Arguments can be passed on the stack, but Linux chose to use registers. Why this choice over the other option? Do you know the answer? Just cur
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by gwu78 12y ago
Are you suggesting that the original purpose of shared libraries relates to patching software? Others seem to be suggesting that the emergence of dynamic linking was a response to general limitations in secondary storage and memory. Limita
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by gwu78 12y ago
"It's a convention." Does Minix use that convention? How about BSD?
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by gwu78 12y ago
There was a time when shared libraries were a necessity. Not to mention supporting myriad architectures. That was a different era. Conditions have changed. Of course, the designs and implementations have not. They are still in heavy use
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by gwu78 12y ago
Thank you for the answers. More questions: If I run my own DNS cache on 127., 172.16. or 10. then do I have to worry about "cache poisoning"? Do I still need to verify authenticity of the answers to my DNS requests? What if I can
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by gwu78 12y ago
Ask HN: I am asked would I prefer 1. to have a pre-generated cryptographic "signature" of every www page that can be checked against some centralized repository for "authenticity" or 2. to encrypt every www page before t

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