johnklos

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by johnklos 4y ago
That's a poor evaluation ;) Almost all BSD and Linux distros can boot off the SD card and mount their root on USB attached storage. This is better than doing the permanent fusing stuff, for instance, on Raspberry Pis, and there's
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by johnklos 4y ago
This is lovely, and it handles three of the largest problems with using SBCs for NAS: 1) Stability due to power delivery. Having dedicated, local power delivery can make a HUGE difference with SBCs. 2) Reliability of SD card media. Spinning
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by johnklos 4y ago
I don't understand this. First you're talking about forwarding / relaying you don't control, which... you shouldn't care about. If someone else wants to forward / relay, then they need to worry about SPF breaka
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by johnklos 4y ago
You see, there's too much normalization of the idea that everyone should be free to do everything. We see too much push to have developers maintain their own infrastructure, which is partly why there's such a big (and artificial)
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by johnklos 4y ago
Unfortunately, it's marketing bull. As long as they can get wider exposure by being factually incorrect, they'll be factually incorrect. There are good technical reasons to make a distinction, like between Trojan and virus, but th
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by johnklos 4y ago
The picture of the potentiometer on a circuit board is of an Amiga 3000. These folks have good taste!
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by johnklos 4y ago
Try it! We have Alpha binary packages :) https://zia.io/notice/ARclSIZzZKNlAfXoFE
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by johnklos 4y ago
You should definitely check out Mold: https://github.com/rui314/mold
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by johnklos 4y ago
If configuring SPF is juggling chainsaws, then there's no hope for humankind.
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by johnklos 4y ago
This is just flatly wrong: "One of them is that a relaying SMTP service (sometimes called a 'forwarder') will break SPF. This is known as the relaying problem." If relaying is happening, and you haven't added the re
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by johnklos 4y ago
In addition to what williadc wrote: "had started making processors from multiple chips bundled together in plastic packages." Other things are just poor wording choices, which are unfortunately common from non-technical journalist
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by johnklos 4y ago
The NYT would do well to have a technical person proofread these articles before publishing them. There are several obvious errors.
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by johnklos 4y ago
I just upgraded an older Ryzen system from a six core 2600 to an eight core 5700X. Between the additional cores, the additional cache, the higher clock speeds and the IPC improvements, it now compiles the entire OS 178% faster (I chose comp
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by johnklos 4y ago
It was a very interesting time in computing history. The changes from the i80286 to the i80386 were extreme - the i386 gave us a fundamentally different instruction set that common 32 bit systems still use in 2023. On the other hand, the ch
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by johnklos 4y ago
Communicating with any large company. Try to tell Google, Verizon, Microsoft, American Express, et cetera, that there's something wrong with their servers, or some security issue with their site, whatever, and you'll either not be
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by johnklos 4y ago
What others have said about their BMC. I reported a security issue about their BMC / IPMI to Supermicro, and Supermicro decided it wasn't a security issue, so they weren't going to do a thing. There's no place in this wo
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by johnklos 4y ago
My goodness. Really? He refers to "cloud nonsense", then uses a "dedicated server"? That's a new kind of special.
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by johnklos 4y ago
To be fair, even if he was only paying $5 a month, if there was a tiny chance that the compromise was done by an employee, any reasonable provider would be all over it.
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by johnklos 4y ago
Let's see: 1) he thinks that "dedicated servers" are in any way secure 2) discovers malicious intrusion, but doesn't burn down the whole server and re-key everything 3) is supposed to be knowledgable enough to be a core
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by johnklos 4y ago
There are many things, but I think they all boil down to KISS: don't download, don't install and don't run what you don't need. Most of the compromised servers on which I've done post-mortems have had much more soft
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by johnklos 4y ago
ASRock makes some good motherboards, and all support ECC by default. Somewhat related: I don't like server motherboards like those from, say, Supermicro, because they don't care very much about security. For example, they've
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by johnklos 4y ago
Sure, I'd be interested. My email address is john at klos dot com :)
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by johnklos 4y ago
"Without any notice to Cloudflare, an Austrian court had ordered Austrian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block 11 of Cloudflare’s IP addresses." Maybe if Cloudflare actually paid attention to email sent to their abuse addres
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by johnklos 4y ago
In the past I've built servers by carefully selecting parts, calculating maximum power usage versus airflow, calculating full time electrical load, building, testing with fans disabled in rooms with high ambient temperatures, looking f
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by johnklos 4y ago
I installed Windows 95 on a 25 MHz m68030, in part just to see if I could: https://twitter.com/AnachronistJohn/status/15759679703915601... I've been curious about whether Windows XP or newer could be finagled
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by johnklos 4y ago
You know, you can't just say "anywhere". User interfaces are used on microcontrollers, on embedded systems, on legacy systems, on odd platforms, on old platforms. Rust certainly doesn't target all of those, or even most
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by johnklos 4y ago
There's something so heartwarming about 8 bit graphics showing a winter / holiday scene on a real CRT, at least for a certain age of readers. I wonder what youngsters think and feel about these.
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by johnklos 4y ago
What's the primary reason people want to host on their own, in your opinion? I know of two primary reasons, and neither disappears because of smarthosting.
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by johnklos 4y ago
Most service providers don't advertise anything they call "smarthost", but most that do email and that have good reputations will know what you're asking for if you contact their sales. I've recommended Linode and P
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by johnklos 4y ago
Ha ha ha... Perhaps we should have an "Ask HN: Do You Host Your Own DNS?" thread ;) Running BIND is very simple, and there're lots of how-tos and some excellent O'Reilly books, too. You can run your own DNS on a VPS, on

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