jlgaddis

43 ms·

361.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
There was an RNG on the i810 chipset ~20 years or so ago and several VIA chips had onboard RNGs as well. Modern chips ranging from the one in the Raspberry Pi to Intel CPUs have them too.
362.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
Our local Linux User Group (now defunct) had a "special event" to celebrate the occasion (although I didn't realize ~19 years have since past!). Unfortunately, the bakery we got the cake from was unable to satisfy our request
363.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
> ... Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 service, Quad9, and the OpenDNS service resolve their queries using QNAME Minimisation. However, the "most popularly used" open resolver, Google's Public DNS, "does to not appear to suppor
364.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
From https://x.company/projects/makani/ : > In 2020 Makani’s journey as a company came to an end [0]. To share the lessons and insights the Makani team gained from their 13 year journey developing an entirely n
365.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
> If having a [password] grants you access to the system then it's obscurity. Perhaps if you're hiding it under the doormat in front of the door and expecting it won't be found. Or writing your PIN on your ATM card with
366.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
In case anyone else is confused at first, I'm assuming you meant s/Red Worm/Code Red/g
367.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
Pro-tip: # echo install pcspkr /bin/true > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-pcspkr.conf
368.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
> Couldn't you simply put the next hop's MAC address (instead of IP address) into the routing table and be able to route packets just as well, with a lot less complexity? Several others have already answered your question --
369.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
> ... humans kill a lot more chickens ... than raccoons. If you've ever ate raccoon, you'll understand why.
370.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
> Summary: > Potential security vulnerability in Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT), and Intel® Standard Manageability (ISM) may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate this potential
371.
Intel-SA-00404: Intel AMT and Intel ISM Advisory(intel.com)
13 points by jlgaddis 6y ago|2 comments
372.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
> I think you overestimate the amount of QA resources available to the Ubuntu project. s/available to/allocated by/ I don't know that Canonical cares too much about doing QA themselves. It seems like they&#x2
373.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
> If you want your friends to meet you at the bar, create an "Event". The event has a title of what the event is (e.g. "Going to the bar"). It has a description to get your friends excited (e.g. "$2 margaritas&q
374.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
Yes, but don't most of them also come with syslog forwarding enabled and a syslogd (rsyslog, syslog-ng, etc.) and logrotate installed?
375.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
fail2ban has become a lot less useful in recent years, as brute-force password attacks have seemed to mostly move from "1000 attempts from one single IP" to "one single attempt from each of 1000 IPs". Besides, set up you
376.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
If you're gonna go through all of this work -- including creating and maintaining private keys -- why not just restrict the SSH server to only permit key-based authentication (optionally, signed by your CA)? If having 22/TCP open
377.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
When SCO v. IBM was going on, Groklaw was the first web site I'd visit pretty much every day, right after waking up. Fo all of us Linux geeks back then, PJ provided an extraordinarily amazing service to the open-source community. Mos
378.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
There are also Python bindings [0] for dublin-traceroute which allows things like analysis with pandas or generating charts. --- [0]: https://github.com/insomniacslk/python-dublin-traceroute
379.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
Related: " Traceroute Lies! A Typical Misinterpretation Of Output " [0], previously discussed here on HN [1]. --- [0]: https://movingpackets.net/2017/10/06/misinterpreting-tracero... [1]: https:&#x
380.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
FWIW: $ traceroute -A ... $ mtr -z ...
381.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
There’s several variations due to varying languages, dialects, and such but I always heard what he’s referring to phrased like this: > ”The chicken is involved but the pig is committed.” That is, while both are needed to make breakfast
382.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
" OpenBSD Innovations ": https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html
383.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
I used OpenBSD in production at my previous job (an ISP), in a few different roles. Lots of ISPs use OpenBSD for various purposes. HSMs from nCipher used to run on top of (a slightly modified, IIRC) OpenBSD. Just as JunOS (the OS on (some)
384.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
CNN Lite: https://lite.cnn.com/en You're welcome.
385.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
> anonical originals" Oof, "Canonical originals", that should have read (not sure what ate the two missing characters, HN or the iPad).
386.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
I know the guidelines on submission titles but this is a good example of how one (missing/removed) word completely changes the entire meaning. Perhaps the "How" should be added back in? -- Edit: The title has been changed. Or
387.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
As you yourself mentioned, ZFS is different. The other projects were (for the most part) anonical originals" that they tried to create -- primarily on their own -- to replace existing products. ZFS is going on 15 years old, quite matur
388.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
And, if that happens, this will still make it easier (and quicker) to get the machine vack up and running.
389.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
Red Hat previously added btrfs to RHEL as a "Technology Preview", only to later remove it (they didn't really have anyone left devoting resources to it, IIRC), deciding to focus on stratis / VDO instead [0]. They do ha
390.
by jlgaddis 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324280

More ›