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by kbuck 11y ago
Having been hit by AWS's CPU cap before (on the t2.micro instance type) and having used many other providers, I can tell you firsthand that AWS's CPU limits are MUCH lower than their competitors'. In our case, a sustained usa
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by kbuck 11y ago
You're confusing gzip (.gz) and PKZip (.zip). Windows has no native support for gzip, only PKZip.
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by kbuck 11y ago
Yes. This is spam.
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by kbuck 11y ago
They've likely blocked your VPN because they think you're trying to bypass region restrictions. In this case they don't care whether you're human or not: they simply want to make sure you can't watch videos that wou
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by kbuck 11y ago
There are many issues that prevent us from easily serving your use-case, unfortunately. I'm not completely sure about the details around this specific case, but historically we've had to restrict connections from similar software
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by kbuck 11y ago
Mostly correct, but one nit to pick: IRC is not 7-bit; you can actually transmit unicode messages on every IRC network I've ever seen. It's also not usually unicode-aware, though, so if you send a message too long, it might get tr
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by kbuck 11y ago
EsperNet server administrator here. You did not 'nearly break EsperNet' with EiraIRC usage. Our capacity vastly exceeds our load (we could likely run the entire network from a single one of our servers). However, the time our admi
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by kbuck 11y ago
Small correction: VMware isn't a spinoff of EMC, it's a subsidiary. VMware was originally founded in 1998 and acquired by EMC in 2004.
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by kbuck 11y ago
I'm not exactly a fan of Apple-focused reporting either, but every single graph except one in this article has statistics for the S6 Edge. The one that doesn't has stats for the S6, which has the same compute hardware as the S6 Ed
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by kbuck 11y ago
Almost certainly. Many datacenters offer free incoming bandwidth either to improve their ratio or just because it doesn't actually cost them anything (e.g. they're paying for a 10gbit internet exchange port but their traffic is hi
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by kbuck 12y ago
In San Francisco (the subject of the post), houses built after 1979 are not covered by rent control[1]. This "new construction exemption" was designed to avoid stagnation in rental construction. [1]: http://www.sftu.org
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by kbuck 12y ago
Is this just a service selling DNS slaves, or is there something deeper about how this works? From the URL, it just looks like the normal operation of a slave DNS server. What makes it "virtual"?
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by kbuck 12y ago
Small correction: VMware authd runs on the host machine, not the guest. That's actually a Windows machine running VMware Workstation.
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by kbuck 12y ago
If you upvoted the story, it'll appear in your "saved stories" list[0]. The URL is per-user and appears on your user profile page (or you can just change the id parameter in the URL). [0]: https://news.ycombinator.
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by kbuck 12y ago
It's fairly simple: none of those steps happen, because since the advertiser's scripts and iframes are blocked, they don't even know you've loaded a page with an ad on it.
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by kbuck 12y ago
The Go 1.4 release notes[1] mention a "fully precise" garbage collector, but I thought this was one of the major highlights in the 1.3 release? (The notes[2] for the 1.3 release say: "For a while now, the garbage collector ha
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by kbuck 12y ago
(\sSAI) is a group, not a character class. It matches the fixed string " SAI" and stores it in a group. If it were [\sSAI], you'd be correct.
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by kbuck 12y ago
The "I" can't be "T" because the regex on the bottom (.(\sSAI).*) forces it to be "I".
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by kbuck 12y ago
Browsers that do support SNI include: IE7+ (unless running on Windows XP) Firefox 2.0 and later Opera 8.0 and later Chrome 6 and later (unless running on Windows XP) Safari 3.0 and later Android default browser on Android 3.0 and later (thi
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by kbuck 12y ago
It hinges upon the fact that people are more likely to be vocal when they don't like something than when they do. Consider online reviews: are you more likely to review a product when it's worked fine as you expected or when it di
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by kbuck 12y ago
Configuring things is hard, and if you rely on Google to give you magic commands to execute instead of learning about what you're doing, you can really mess up. If you don't have the time to spend properly administrating a system,
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by kbuck 12y ago
What makes a site hosting malware per se harmful, and how can you consider malware per se harmful while booters avoid being classified identically? Malware is illegal and obviously a detriment to the internet, as are booter services. Pe
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by kbuck 12y ago
They do, but you'll be charged a $200 (or more) "installation fee" if you don't bundle TV with it. When my service was installed, the guy literally walked in, plugged the modem into the wall, and was done. However, if yo
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by kbuck 12y ago
This seems unlikely, and in fact, Firefox has been moving in the opposite direction with other binary components (Flash, Java, Silverlight). Newer builds of Firefox require you to explicitly confirm that you'd like to allow <site&gt
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by kbuck 13y ago
I disagree. I've had Yahoo reject my emails completely silently (didn't arrive in inbox OR 'spam' folder, even though Yahoo's MX said the message was accepted). Yahoo was entirely unresponsive about this issue. We d
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by kbuck 13y ago
Actually, since this attack wasn't volumetric and was instead attacking GitHub's (TCP-based) applications, they have the rare ability to identify the attacker's drones and possibly hand the list off to someone that can get th
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by kbuck 13y ago
I don't think this was made to capture people just visiting cheat sites. Elsewhere I've heard people mentioning that this functionality exists to detect a new and evolving set of cheats wherein you enter credentials into an innocu
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Europe shrugs off largest DDoS attack yet, traffic tops 400Gbps(theregister.co.uk)
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by kbuck 13y ago
You're right in saying that annoying ads are getting less common and that a minority of advertising networks have them now. I used to manually block such advertisers myself, but I gave up and started using a filter list after spending
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by kbuck 13y ago
> And some believe that today's ads aren't as obnoxious as yesterday's. Today's ads are even worse than ads used to be (although the worse ads are less common now). These days, you can expect to have to see a full-scr

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