johnklos

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by johnklos 1y ago
It's a shame this won't work on VAX.
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by johnklos 1y ago
Yes, but they are still effective at preventing spam from spammers who are pretending to be others.
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by johnklos 1y ago
Content filtering should be highly context dependent. If the WAF is detached from what it's supposed to filter, this happens. If the WAF doesn't have the ability to discern between command and content contexts, then the filtering
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by johnklos 1y ago
AFAIK, it's not, but it'd be fun to expose it and do silly things with it.
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by johnklos 1y ago
Software that's only available as x86 binaries and a whole system that needs 16 gigs of memory? It's not surprising that it comes from the corporate world and not the open source world. I respect the fact that the Sentry people ar
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by johnklos 1y ago
GoDaddy is the registrar. They (Zoom) host their DNS using Amazon.
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by johnklos 1y ago
Regarding OpenBSD: I don't know if 32 bit PowerPC support will be around for all that long, if one considers how many platforms have been dropped from OpenBSD in the last few years. Also, it doesn't look like OpenBSD has binary pa
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by johnklos 1y ago
Using off-the-shelf ARM boards beats the heck out of designing, building and writing firmware for an ARM system. It makes upgradability much, much easier, although I doubt that companies that sell devices like this audio processor consider
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by johnklos 2y ago
It feels almost more useful than BASIC on the Atari 2600, at least.
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by johnklos 2y ago
I've installed Windows 98 via DMF images using a FlashFloppy flashed Gotek on an Amiga 3000 running PC-Task, in part just to see if I could. The Gotek made it worlds easier than if I had been using real floppy disks, I'm sure.
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by johnklos 2y ago
Stupid company! I keep a machine which has sshd listening on the IMAPS port (993) for when I'm traveling. It's amazing how many free networks don't allow ssh, but with -J and sshd on port 993, that really doesn't matter.
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by johnklos 2y ago
"Should you ever operate your recursive resolver on only one network? Specifically, should it be limited to the IPv4 or IPv6 network? The general answer for the year 2025 is: NO, you shouldn't." I wholeheartedly disagree. Whe
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by johnklos 2y ago
All I can say is that you've been sold selling points. I appreciate the attempt, but: 1) How does AVID selling Blackmagic hardware make that a dependency? You can just as easily buy Aja hardware. "This depends on that" means
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by johnklos 2y ago
FUD? No. There are plenty of people on plenty of sites asking, "How do I do this very simple thing using systemd?", along with plenty of answers which depend on which distro it is, how recent it is, et cetera. For instance, DNS ha
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by johnklos 2y ago
> I have also seen many people refusing to learn modern tools One of the reasons I prefer NetBSD (and the BSDs in general) is that they don't change gratuitously. The ifconfig / ip example you use is good: Why? If we look at th
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by johnklos 2y ago
You're not wrong, but you're closer to wrong than right. C toolchains are the best of a collection of rather sucky things. I can compile all sorts of things on my Mac LC III+ with 36 megabytes of memory. Sure, Perl takes nine days
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by johnklos 2y ago
It amazes me that devices with Intel Puma chipsets are still sold new and are still in use in 2025. That's another story, though. The number of wifi networks that're running around us has gotten so crazy that it's no wonder w
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by johnklos 2y ago
First, I don't use Google, but that's not the point. Second, please tell me how the fact that you can use no video interface card or Aja means you're dependent on Blackmagic. Third, please tell me how bin locking on ISIS &#x2
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by johnklos 2y ago
First, facts don't rely on the amount of experience the person sharing them has. But I do get that it's easier to take someone at their word when they have lots of experience, so yes, I've worked on all sorts of projects of a
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by johnklos 2y ago
Nothing these days "struggle(s) with a few editors accessing the same footage". AVID hasn't been at the forefront of video editing since the Avid/1 / ABVB days. They sell a reasonably usable program with horrible ha
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by johnklos 2y ago
The biggest problem with huge corporations is that sometimes it's next to impossible to actually communicate with them. Does anyone have any good contacts at Apple? I sent this more than two weeks ago: Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:56:
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by johnklos 2y ago
TOPS on old PDP hardware (or an emulator) is quite interesting. If nothing else, it gives an appreciation for the age of many of the ideas that ended up in later OSes like CP/M and MS-DOS.
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by johnklos 2y ago
Things have gone in the direction of being favorable for spammers. * WHOIS is effectively destroyed. * Companies like Cloudflare actively protect known spammers & scammers, and have made abuse reporting time consuming and error prone. *
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by johnklos 2y ago
Computer books change over time, for obvious reasons. The O'Reilly animal books are always good, but they've removed some useful information in later editions. For instance, the [sendmail bat book]( https://www.oreilly.c
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by johnklos 2y ago
The Vampire people really turned me, and likely many others, off when they tried to argue that FPU emulation isn't important and that hardly anything uses the FPU, rather than simply saying they weren't going to work on it then. W
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by johnklos 2y ago
A new account that dismisses, but offers not the slightest bit of technical reasoning. Please point out something that the Palemoon people have said that's incorrect, or that is even exagggerated.
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by johnklos 2y ago
Pretty much every story posted to Hacker News related to Cloudflare has some people making excuses for Cloudflare - how they couldn't possibly have the development resources to test, much less "fix" access for less popular br
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by johnklos 2y ago
"bricked" usually means bricked for most people - those of us with EPROM programmers wouldn't count. They did this with their Blu-Ray players about five years ago: https://www.theregister.com/2020/07&#x2F
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by johnklos 2y ago
> That is not always possible It is definitely always possible. > may not be affordable You hired the wrong person / people, then. > may degrade the overall user experience Which is exactly what Cloudflare does, although mos
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by johnklos 2y ago
Designing a site to not be affected by bots is fixing the problem. Blocking things that are bot-like, poorly, with no technical understanding, is a kludge, not a fix.

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