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by jlgaddis 7y ago
If you "genuinely have good reason to reach out and we have no prior connection", that's fine and 99% of folks aren't going to consider that spam. Ultimately, it really comes down to the intent.
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For many of us, the fact that it is "unsolicited" means it is spam. I really don't care if it was an e-mail sent out to 1000 random people or it was "targeted" to 20 people just like me. If it's commercial and
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
FWIW, the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ [0] states: > The project name is pronounced Deb'-ee-en, with a short e in Deb, and emphasis on the first syllable. This word is a contraction of the names of Debra and Ian Murdock, who founded t
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Rostelecom (AS12389) is directly connected to Level3 (AS3356) and announced the hijacked routes to them but Level3 filtered them out. But... AS12389 announced them to Rascom (AS20764), who accepted them and sent them on to Cogent (AS174), w
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Huh? If you take away BGP, there is no Internet! No other protocol in existence/use today can scale the way BGP has.
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You've been on HN for (at least) six years and never noticed the guidelines?
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> Why do you have to use so many? Well, I started out with a Symantec VIP Yubikey many, many years ago. Then, MtGox sent me one for 2FA after some compromise there. Later, I bought a "full-featured" Yubikey for use with GPG a
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
For those wondering that this is all about, refer to "LS on New IP, Shaping Future Network" [0] (and the attachments listed there): --- > The September 23-27, 2019 meeting of the ITU-T Telecommunications Standardization Adviso
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Wrong thread?
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I've been holding on to my 6s and planned to as long as possible but, at that price point, I think I'd probably go ahead and upgrade to one of these.
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From "Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse" [0]: > The term was coined by Timothy C. May in 1988, who referred to them as "child pornographers, terrorists, drug dealers, etc." when discussing the reasons for limited civi
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
COVID-19
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Oh wow, I had forgotten all about the ePass2003. I've still got one here, but it's probably been 10 years since I've used it. I haven't forgotten how much of a PITA it was to get it working, though!
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
> ... made by the authors of the article. And, just so everyone is clear, your employer.
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Yes, be careful when using ForwardAgent and, more importantly, avoid using it altogether unless you absolutely need to! Most "use cases" I've come across could have been solved "better" by simply using ProxyComman
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
If you're using OpenSSH >= 8.2, Ed25519 support isn't really much of a concern. The vast majority of ("enterprise") Linux systems -- and, likewise, much of the "legacy" software in use today -- likely won&#x
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
The company that authored this "How to SSH Properly" blog post sells a product that will enable you to use SSH "properly" (according to their definition). That's not a coincidence, of course. It's purely sales
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
> Use Ed25519 keys. > ... > You can use Yubikey and pretty much every other solution out there with with OpenSSH now. Unfortunately, you can't use Ed25519 keys unless you have the latest/newest model(s) of Yubikey a
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
> I also have no idea, in the context of modern web browsing, how large or small 300,000 DNS queries per month is. FWIW, here at home, my DNS servers are reporting a combined total of ~138k (from 21 unique clients) over the last (rolli
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
So... DNS (via Cloudflare) over Wireguard?
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Different article, same subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22748379
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
You might add a few "-v"'s to your "ssh" command-line for more verbose debugging information.
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
I'd consider the web-based administration interface to be "untrusted code" -- and there just a remote code execution vulnerability (due to very insufficient input validation of MAC addresses) discussed here yesterday [0] .
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
> ... I wasn't sure for a moment whether this was just an early caught April Fools. Nope, this was actually announced [0] about 18 months ago. --- [0]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ground-station-
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Not sure where it originated but I love this saying: > In theory, theory and reality are the same. > In reality, they're different.
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Worst case, you can actually just call the IRS and they'll give it to you (after verifying who you are, of course).
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I found it quite funny that that specific outage was due to a dependency on Comcast's DNS servers (if it's the outage I'm thinking of).
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> In an email, a hospital spokeswoman, Lucia Lee, disputed the claim that the hospital had not furnished protective equipment to its staff. “This crisis is straining the resources of all New York area hospitals, and while we do — and ha
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
A few important notes for those who skip TFA and come straight to the comments: > The nurse ... said Mr. Kelly had not used protective equipment, even though he regularly helped nurses on his team with hands-on care. > ... an outsi
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
As wmf mentioned, you may not be able to change the configuration of the VPN client. You could, however, simply delete the default route yourself (from a terminal).

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