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Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox(jwz.org)
309 points by mfincham 13y ago|146 comments
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Cashing in the chips (we can't simply run a spy agency on trust)(offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.co.nz)
1 points by mfincham 13y ago|0 comments
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by mfincham 13y ago
Sure, but when you want to update the WHOIS / reverse DNS or whatever you have to convince an RIR. If you don't care then I guess that's fine.
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by mfincham 13y ago
s/Zeeland/Zealand/ please :)
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DEF CON the Documentary in 720p(defcon.org)
5 points by mfincham 13y ago|0 comments
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Concern over MPs' lack of Internet savvy(3news.co.nz)
1 points by mfincham 13y ago|0 comments
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by mfincham 13y ago
Awesome thanks! I hadn't read this yet :)
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by mfincham 13y ago
Much of that space can't be recovered though because it's just little non-contiguous bits here and there...
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by mfincham 13y ago
It depends on the policies of the RIR (Regional Internet Registry) in the region where the IPs are from. That said, if you're willing to ignore the RIR's policies (which a lot of people do) you can usually "black market"
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by mfincham 13y ago
"It depends", is unfortunately the answer. For very old software where it's not possible to patch it for IPv6 support (this is rarer than you might think!) then some kind of IPv4 NAT or a DNS64 style "application layer g
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by mfincham 13y ago
Some good information on this from Geoff Huston: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2012-08/EndPt2.html
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by mfincham 13y ago
Recovering additional IPv4 space at this point only prolongs the inevitable problem. The solution is IPv6.
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by mfincham 13y ago
Returning them would only delay the inevitable by a matter of months. Deploy IPv6 today, it ain't hard.
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Protest marches against GCSB bill across NZ(nzherald.co.nz)
1 points by mfincham 13y ago|0 comments
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by mfincham 13y ago
A probable improvement on this would be to leave bash out, and just put a python hash bang in the script directly. I'll leave implementing it as an exercise to the reader. Personally I have found using Guake ( http://guake.or
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New Zealand Government About To Legalize Spying On NZ Citizens(politics.slashdot.org)
6 points by mfincham 13y ago|0 comments
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by mfincham 13y ago
Not really... If you don't want to confuse people when you sign your e-mail, make sure you're using PGP/MIME not inline signing. I've been signing my mail for years and had almost zero problems doing this.
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by mfincham 13y ago
This is expected behaviour, you're just "signing" the message with your key at this stage. You need to import someone else's public key before you can send an encrypted message /to them/.
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by mfincham 13y ago
It's probably a "sun dog". Bill Beaty has some good info about it: http://amasci.com/amateur/sundog.html
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by mfincham 13y ago
<proselytizing> Software needs to empower the user. Writing arbitrary limitations in to code to make certain functionality harder to achieve is a seriously repulsive attitude for developers to have. The current trend in removing featu
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When a foreign intelligence agency becomes a domestic intelligence agency(offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.co.nz)
3 points by mfincham 13y ago|0 comments
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by mfincham 13y ago
You're right, I didn't word that well at all. I meant it's fairly common to see apt complaining about not having the key available to verify a package. I see this a lot in my work where sysadmins lacking clue enable a third p
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by mfincham 13y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, more info about why the name was changed is on the Debian list server: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-main...
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by mfincham 13y ago
I'd say it's still pretty risky to leave this source enabled. The behaviour shown at http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt#How_apt_uses_Release.gpg is what a user would see if the entire repository (including the Relea
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Remove unofficial debian-multimedia.org repository from your sources(bits.debian.org)
126 points by mfincham 13y ago|24 comments
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GCSB’s new powers for wide-spread spying on New Zealanders(techliberty.org.nz)
1 points by mfincham 13y ago|0 comments
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Why NZers need to make a submission on the GCSB Bill(internetganesha.wordpress.com)
3 points by mfincham 13y ago|0 comments
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Spying powers revealed in the US and how NZ’s GCSB Bill could be far worse(idealog.co.nz)
3 points by mfincham 13y ago|0 comments
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Govt attempts to gain powers over the design and operation of all networks in NZ(techliberty.org.nz)
5 points by mfincham 13y ago|1 comments
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by mfincham 13y ago
I don't believe using Amazon's DNS like this will result in a "CNAME on the root domain" (a technically invalid situation in all cases, since a CNAME can't co-exist with other records...), I think it causes Amazon to return an A record whic

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