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by johnklos 3y ago
> If I might make some counter-arguments to some of these Of course :) > A lot of the points of differentiation in terms of plumbing layers are slowly eroding away, systemd helped a lot by standardizing things around service files as
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by johnklos 3y ago
Look around and find out why. du is your friend.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Go ahead and find a guide showing you how to do a thing that Just Works regardless of the flavor of Linux distro. You can't, because they're gratuitously different for the sake of differentiating themselves. You can't even us
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by johnklos 3y ago
You can talk about hypothetically doing anything. You're not really making a point. Hypothetically, you can rewrite the firmware for the IPMI with a backdoor and extract data. Hypothetically, you could kidnap the family of a developer
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by johnklos 3y ago
I have servers which have literally been running non-stop for multiple years. Unless / until the kernel itself needs to be upgraded for security issues, and so long as backup power is good, they can run indefinitely.
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AmiSSL 5.11 available with OpenSSL 3.1.3 compatibility(github.com)
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by johnklos 3y ago
Honestly, medical security is more theater than real security. The people with marketing prowess sell crap for much, much more of a markup to the medical world than to most other industries, excepting perhaps military, and just like many ot
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by johnklos 3y ago
It's interesting to consider the people who, with the very same set of facts, come to completely opposite conclusions about security. For instance, Amazon has a staff of thousands or tens of thousands. To me, that means they can't
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by johnklos 3y ago
What the heck. I'll give it a go.
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by johnklos 3y ago
How dumb could a person be, suggesting that something be installed in an expensive airplane that couldn't possibly ever be turned off! Sigh.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Indeed. Too often I hear about how people need "features" without even knowing what they think they need them for. It's like the drug companies selling drugs on TV - suddenly people are asking their doctors if they need some
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by johnklos 3y ago
Of course it saves money. The main selling line of the cloud is you're too dumb to administer, so just trust them and throw money at them. If you're not too dumb to administer, then running your own hardware is invariably cheaper.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Well, that's another matter. Slowness might come as a result of brokenness, but slowness by itself doesn't mean anything. I host a web site on an LC III+ which is often compiling and multiple tens of megabytes in to swap, so I kno
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by johnklos 3y ago
This is awesome. I still keep around an ImageWriter II I found in a dumpster two decades ago because they're incredibly reliable and will print no matter what. Ribbons are plentiful and cheap, the printer doesn't care about the ki
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by johnklos 3y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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by johnklos 3y ago
This is an incredibly poorly written article. First, cops lie more often than they don't. Second, saying that a taser, "administers a shock of about 1.9 milliamperes" means absolutely nothing. Third, errors like "Taser&#
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by johnklos 3y ago
Why would I click on something to see an article on a site which requires SO MUCH CONSENT? This is HN, not F**book. https://archive.ph/ZbJ0L
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by johnklos 3y ago
That's shortsighted. Why not go all the way and just stop using computers altogether?
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by johnklos 3y ago
I think it's interesting that the one IP range I decided to check has correct information on the ipapi.is web site, but unambiguously incorrect information in the downloadable geolocationDatabaseIPv4.csv. Somehow Bedford, New Hampshire
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by johnklos 3y ago
No. That's silly. The logs would've / should've just shown that the program halted because it was confused about data. The actual commands to fix would've been quite different.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Modifiable ROM images let us do all sorts of things like add support for more memory via higher density SIMMs (Quadra / Centris 610, 650, 800), add support for non-native and not normally supported hardware, fixing bugs, and so on. I&#
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by johnklos 3y ago
So the "engineering teams" couldn't tail /var/log/FPRSA-R.log and see the cause of the halt? I've had servers and software that I had never, ever used before stop working, and it took a lot less than four
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by johnklos 3y ago
Sorry, but a MAC address page doesn't need cookies, nor cloudflareinsights.com, nor buysellads.net, nor carbonads.{com,net}, nor a completely ridiculous amount of Javascript. There are plenty of better sites to use, such as Wireshark&#
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by johnklos 3y ago
From my reading of things, they (SearX) wanted to protect us (the people who use SearX) from ourselves (the people who run SearX). In other words, marketing BS. If I don't want aggregate stats, I won't collect them. I'm a big
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by johnklos 3y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37425473 It's just referencing an example, but creating usable tools really isn't hard.
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by johnklos 3y ago
For something like this service, simple rate limiting per IP / netblock, along with TCP/IP fingerprinting for VPN endpoints and such, could be very effective. I run histograms for connections per netblock on my email servers, and
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by johnklos 3y ago
This reads like an ad. There are much better ways to deal with bots than to let Cloudflare further bifurcate the Internet.
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by johnklos 3y ago
It's interesting that a not very optimized port of DOOM was available for m68k Macs where DOOM runs at an almost playable framerate on a Mac LC or LC II with 15 MHz m68020 or m68030 on a 16 bit memory bus. It's worlds faster than
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by johnklos 3y ago
I use them for all sorts of things, even now. They make excellent VPN devices, they're great as local recursive DNS resolvers, and I have several that're backup NAT routers / firewalls for various networks. They also are perf
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by johnklos 3y ago
"What I've done to my workers, I want to now do to you" is one hell of a campaign slogan. On the other hand, someone telling China to go stick it is always fun!

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