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by mct 12y ago
Tor itself has a nice built-in method of authentication you can use. I don't know of a good howto, but it's documented in the man page. Search for "HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient" : https://www.torproject.org
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by mct 12y ago
This is exactly how "d/foo" works for me, both in vim, and in nvi (the "bug-for-bug" clone of the original vi). Perhaps you have a script installed that's changing the default behavior?
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by mct 12y ago
http://www.npr.org/2014/03/18/289628696/space-thief-or-hero-...
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by mct 12y ago
Random tidbit: The "1" digit on a telephone has no letters associated with it; "2" is assigned "ABC". (This was burned into my brain years and years ago while watching a "Jeopardy!" episode, in which
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by mct 12y ago
In 1995, this was a fairly common technique to produce smart quotes :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark_glyphs#Typewrite...
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by mct 12y ago
Am I completely missing it, or does the website really give no indication of how many pages their notebooks contain?
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by mct 13y ago
Yes, you're right. But that makes it far worse!
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by mct 13y ago
I'm very happy to see djb's crypto work being supported in openssh! Does anyone know offhand why ChaCha was chosen instead of XSalsa20, which is used in NaCl?
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by mct 13y ago
Linode publishes logs of their IRC channel at https://www.linode.com/irc/logs/ , but it's currently returning "504 Gateway Time-out". Does anyone know offhand if that URL had previously been broken,
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by mct 13y ago
You don't need to be suicidal to call the SF Suicide Prevention line. From http://www.sfsuicide.org/get-help/call-us/ : "Trained volunteers are available 24 hours, 7 days a week to listen and help you
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by mct 13y ago
(Apologies for the untimely reply) We used a UBlox5, which we purchased from diydrones.com. This was in 2009, so that particular model is now outdated. Both Adafruit and SparkFun now sell devices which are explicitly listed as being HAB-f
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by mct 13y ago
Another win that you get is roaming: if your local IP keeps changing, perhaps because your bus's cell modem keeps dropping out, then you don't lose your SSH sessions As a random aside, mosh ( http://mosh.mit.edu/
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by mct 13y ago
They shut themselves down if they detect you are travelling around Mach 2 or above 18000 metres altitude The intention was for a GPS device to disable itself if it was traveling faster than 1k knots AND above 60k feet, not traveling faste
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by mct 13y ago
Citation?
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by mct 13y ago
That's an interesting concept. Am I missing something, though, or is there no way to create an account on that website?
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by mct 13y ago
If you're writing a filter, an even better pattern is: while (<>) { ... } By omitting the file handle, "<>" will go line by line through each filename specified on the command
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by mct 13y ago
Dan Boneh's Cryptography I class on Coursera is about to start again in just a few days. I highly recommend it: https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
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by mct 13y ago
For anyone not aware Noisebridge runs TOR exit nodes out of SF Noisebridge is based in SF, but the Tor exit node we run is a colo box in LA.
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by mct 13y ago
The source appears to be available at https://github.com/kylemcdonald/socialroulette.net
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by mct 14y ago
I make a point of carrying a few Cliff Bars in my backpack, to offer to people who ask for money. Some people turn them down, but a number also happily accept them. There are no good solutions, but this is the best compromise I've come up
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by mct 14y ago
Hi. Author of the original tcptraceroute here. I first wrote tcptraceroute is 2001, while I was working for a large Mid-Atlantic NSP. I'd routinely see customers (and our NOC staff) reporting that traceroutes to many popular sites (such a
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by mct 14y ago
When accessing the page over HTTPS, Chrome is refusing to load the stylesheet located at a non-HTTPS URL. ("[blocked] The page at https://xkcd.com/1168/ ran insecure content from http://imgs.xkcd.com/static/styles_short_beta.css ")
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by mct 14y ago
The term is a generic one, not specific to Mormonism. According to the Wikipedia article[1] (albeit from an uncited source), there are references to it from the year 567. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithe
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by mct 14y ago
An interesting line from that article, which I hadn't previously seen: > In early 1976 ads for its Apple I computer, Apple Inc made the claims that "our philosophy is to provide software for our machines free or at minimal cost"[23] an
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by mct 14y ago
> PS: you're saying I only need to search banks in the bay area for one with that color scheme, floor tile, and banker, then drill/blast the box shown and make off with 90% of Coinbase's deposits in untraceable cash? You'll also need
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by mct 14y ago
I think what you mean is that GMail requires you to use https for their web interface. gmail requires STARTTLS (or ssmtp) when an authenticated user submits outbound mail to them via SMTP ( http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=
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by mct 15y ago
To break a single line into two lines on a whitespace boundary, one pattern I find myself using often is moving the cursor to the whitespace and hitting 'r<return>'. (The 'r' command replaces the character under the cursor with the
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Tell HN: Memorial Service for Len Sassaman
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by mct 15y ago
One native-Twitter solution available to you today is to create a private list containing only the people you'd like to read on a regular basis. https://support.twitter.com/entries/76460-how-to-use-twitter...
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by mct 15y ago
No only does HE give you a full /64, but they'll also route you an entire /48 if you click the "allocate" button on the tunnel properties page.

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