jlgaddis

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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Pretty much any HN comment thread even tangentially related to "cloud" usually has comments from employees at AWS, Azure, and/or GCP -- you know, Oracle's three primary competitors. -- not to mention many other big tech
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> ... manipulating the URL, that presumably counts as a crime. "Manipulating the URL" -- "?id=1", "?id=2", "?id=3", in effect -- was enough to get Andrew Auernheimer (a.k.a. "weev") con
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According to "IP Accounting and Access Lists with systemd" [0], posted ~2.5 years ago: > With v235 another kind of resource can be controlled per-unit with systemd: network traffic (specifically IP). > ... > IPAccoun
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Just this morning I realized I had a need for a decent SSH client for iOS, although I don't need something that includes vim, clang, and Lua, Python, and C, though. That's extreme overkill for my needs -- I'd just like the ab
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
> Anybody on your machine can read the commands you are running, for example with ps. This is why I always mount /proc with the "hidepid=2" option (as well as the "gid=<n>" option to ensure that doesn&#x2
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
I run Debian on my workstation and laptops but still prefer to use CentOS/RHEL on my servers. The automatic startup of newly installed services (before you even have the opportunity to configure them) on Debian (and derivatives) has al
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Set it in your environment / shell startup files (.bash_profile, for example) export POWERSHELL_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1 and, in theory, you should be good to go (unless/until Microsoft decides to change things up). --- After log
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Actually, there is a (small) bit of hope: SHAKEN/STIR [0]! > STIR/SHAKEN, or SHAKEN/STIR, is a suite of protocols and procedures intended to combat caller ID spoofing on public telephone networks. > ... > As of
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
> ... I get irate at people who don't answer calls from unknown numbers. Spam or soliciting? Hang up and block caller. It doesn't take more than 5 seconds. I'd like for you to spend a day at my grandmother's house.
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> ... this can help your case if you can prove they didn't have actual cause. Pro-tip: if they're at your door with a warrant, they have probable cause.
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You're aware that -- regardless of what you might have seen on TV or the movies -- they don't actually have to present a physical warrant, right? Nor do they have to allow you time to call a "watch commander to verify it&qu
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> AWS has their entire operations team working at all hours of the day and night supporting their infrastructure. They also offer some of the most highly redundant services in the world. And yet, a couple times a year perhaps, we have
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Re-read the first sentence -- very carefully -- of the comment you replied to.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22963336
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Every "GitHub is down [again]" post leads to the same discussion. With the number of recent GitHub "service disruptions", it starts to get a bit old.
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> I would really like to see a postmortem for the recent outages. While I doubt it's all the same root cause, it would be nice for some messaging around improving resiliency. They recently posted a "post-incident analysis&quo
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Unfortunately, you can't use Ed25519 keys unless you have the latest/newest model(s) of Yubikey and that Yubikey came with at least a specific firmware version (5.2.3, IIRC).
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
I installed PowerShell on a Debian machine a while back so that I could use (VMware's) PowerCLI modules / commands. That worked well enough -- exactly as on Windows, AFAICT -- but I can't imagine ever trying to replace my &qu
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
If you don't want PowerShell reporting your activities back to the mothership, don't forget to set POWERSHELL_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1 in your environment before launching PowerShell!
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When running something like this on a large scale to capture all traffic going across a network, you'd typically use a "network packet broker" (cf. Google) that sends a copy of all traffic to the machine(s) running this softw
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard [0] has been around for ~25 years but it still took quite a long time before most Linux distros decided to adhere to it (for the most part; some still do "non-standard" things at times). Now that
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I suppose people blindly following suggestions on the Internet will eventually learn a hard lesson -- don't. Corollary: Learn to RTFM. Unless you've went out of your way to avoiding installing the documentation (man pages, etc.),
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From a follow-up article [0]: > As it happens, I was mistaken about some aspects of the situation with chown. --- [0]: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ChownSymli...
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"We kill people based on metadata." -- Gen. Michael Hayden (retired), former Director of both the CIA and NSA.
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It seems that'd be pretty easy to do that with, e.g., a few strands of SMF running across a datacenter, but I'd imagine it's a bit more difficult to "bend" a bundle of, say, 144 strands that are encased in a few inc
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I think Apple has been around long enough to know better than to make claims like "iOS is secure" or "macOS is secure". Oracle, for example, apparently learned the hard way about claiming software is "unbreakable&qu
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> The frequency illusion is that once something has been noticed then every instance of that thing is noticed, leading to the belief it has a high frequency of occurrence (a form of Selection bias). The Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is the
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You probably have the WD40EFRX models, same as me. AFAICT, we're safe.
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VMware Workstation runs on Windows and Linux and supports the same "Connect to ESXi" functionality that Fusion does on macOS.
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> Can u run proxmox on a single developer machine ? Yes. Proxmox is built on Debian (or was, last I played with it) and you can actually install it on a Debian host, if desired. > (so that you boot up your machine into one of the v

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