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by jlgaddis 7y ago
They provided a very detailed, technical, 29 page PDF as well.
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
s/January/February/
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
FWIW, running Chromium 79.0.3945.130 through mitmproxy (on Debian sid), I don't see this in the headers when visiting gmail.com or youtube.com.
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
apt install ssl-cert-check
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
I think I could manage to live with myself for a few billion dollars.
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
> Excuse me while I go and learn way more about the innards of sudo than I ever wanted to. Or just disable pwfeedback, if you went out of your way to turn it on for some reason.
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Yep, one of the first things I did after OpenBSD switched was: alias sudo='doas' It's tough to remember to type 'doas' instead of 'sudo', especially when you use both Linux and OpenBSD all the time
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
(I don't have a link handy and I'm going from memory here so I apologize if I've screwed anything up...) There was a Harvard student a few years ago who got busted for e-mailing a bomb threat (during finals, maybe?) or someth
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
I'm gonna guess that skrebbel is a Swede.
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
> I very much hope that security is taken more seriously now. I've got some bad news ...
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
What makes you believe there aren't already dozens of companies working on exactly this?
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Yep, in the state in which I reside (Indiana), there is no seven-year limit. Did something stupid when you were 20? It's still gonna be held against you when you're 65.
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Is it really self-hosting if you're running it on someone's cloud?
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
The site doesn't work at all on the iPad I'm reading HN with right now, but I'm not complaining about it because it's running iOS 10.0.1. I expect lots of sites to not work correctly -- and they often don't!
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
10.200.200.2/24 is a shorthand form (a.k.a. "CIDR notation") of saying IP address 10.200.200.2 with a 24-bit subnet mask (255.255.255.0).
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
> ... so it couldn't be trivially tied back to you. Except that a fake ID will have your picture on it.
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I found a picture as well: https://web.archive.org/web/20160513222453im_/http://forces....
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Tom Scott recently made an video [0] you might be interested in. It's well worth the seven and a half minutes to watch it, IMO. > I tried to write a more honest VPN commercial. The sponsor wasn't happy about it. [0]: https:&
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
The questions were provided in a downloadable file: unix-quiz.html Extracting them from there using only (one of) "grep" or "sed" was left as an exercise for you. I'm somewhat disappointed in your lack of s
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
The answers: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2020/01/unix-quiz-answers...
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
FWIW, the (untested) PowerShell equivalent would be: New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\common\officeupdate" -Name "preventbinginstall" -PropertyType DWord -Value 1
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Dupe. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22121150
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
You may want to reconsider the name. > IRIX is a discontinued operating system developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) to run on the company's proprietary MIPS workstations and servers. It is a variety of UNIX System V with BSD extensi
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
LastPass is $36/year now!? It used to be $12/year (prior to their acquisition by LogMeIn, which is when I bailed).
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OpenStack? For a standalone bare metal server?
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io > Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
Do you think that spamming your service on HN over and over is an effective and economical way to get sign-ups? I'm just curious, since it doesn't seem to have been working out so far.
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by jlgaddis 7y ago
After attorney's fees and such, what's leftover for everyone who had their data slurped from Equifax? The average person might get a check for two dollars each, if they're "lucky".
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Not only do they carry guns, they are trained to automatically assume that everyone they encounter is out to kill them ! Imagine how paranoid and afraid that'd make you after a while! Given that, it's not really surprising we hav
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Here's an "unusual" one I read about recently: > He denied having any ID, claimed he could not remember his Social Security umber, and said his name was “Mr. Horrell.” > After police found a photo ID in the vehicle,

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