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by phicoh 10y ago
I tend to bring an insane amount of electronics in my hand luggage. The reason that need big objects like laptops separately is that they block too much when they are scanning the rest of your luggage. So if on average the scanner can see t
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by phicoh 10y ago
One of the hard problems we already had to handle was that Unix used long also for file sizes. So if nobody would use 64-bit types early on to break the 4G barrier on storage, then obviously, nobody would do it for time. Even the 32-bit Uni
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by phicoh 10y ago
To avoid breaking backward compatibility what you typically do is allocate new system call numbers for the system calls that have the new bigger time_t. Then at some point you spin a new version of the C library (and in the case of time_t,
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by phicoh 10y ago
The C version of Unix was written for a 16-bit processor (pdp-11). The C compiler simulated 32-bit operations but nothing bigger. 64-bit operations only got wide spread way later when 16-bit systems were no longer relevant and 32-bit system
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by phicoh 10y ago
I don't know where you live that you have that much space. My personal rule is don't swerve. If you don't have time to signal that you are going to move, or look to make sure other traffic is not in the way, then either brake
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by phicoh 10y ago
Swerving is good way to get yourself killed. If you find yourself swerving to the center of the road without making sure there is no traffic trying to overtake at the moment, then you have to figure out what to do to avoid that. Relying on
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by phicoh 10y ago
That depends. The goal of local drivers is to go from A to B in reasonable time. If extreme risk deduction interferes that, people will revolt. Some of the rules in some countries regarding overtaking cyclists would create a complete mess i
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by phicoh 10y ago
The Dutch rule is basically, that the driver is liable if an accident happens, even if it's the cyclist's fault (unless you can prove that the cyclist deliberately caused the accident). So there are not a lot of rules on what you
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by phicoh 10y ago
ESTA is a officially a visa-waiver program that is supposed to be free. I seriously doubt that an actual visa will be as cheap.
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by phicoh 10y ago
This anecdotal, but it was suggested that after the Dutch government suspended conscription, the military lost easy access to lots of highly educated people. There is quite a large group of people with a university degree who can very quick
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by phicoh 10y ago
What makes this complex is that there is ICANN the company and the ICANN community and registrars that offer anonymising service that are not supported by the community. (Note there is plenty to complain about how ICANN or the community fun
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by phicoh 10y ago
Change the password to something you cannot recall. A long randomly generated password that you leave at home. Works best if you are a citizen of the country you try to enter.
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by phicoh 10y ago
Where did you get the idea that NTP is defined by a 'reference implementation'? Going back to 1988, Dave Mills has been documenting the NTP protocol. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1059 (Personally I don&#x27
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by phicoh 10y ago
I have an experimental protocol that uses tcpmux. Works very well for that purpose. However, it sort of requires your service to be started by inetd. It doesn't work for services that want to manage their own listen queues. It also com
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by phicoh 10y ago
Easy to do with DNS SRV records. Just add: _http._tcp.hostname SRV priority weight port target. and you can use any available port you like. Of course, current TCP has 16-bit ports hard coded. But IPv6 has almost unlimited addresses. For so
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by phicoh 10y ago
There are certainly ThinkPads where suspend/resume works with FreeBSD.
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by phicoh 10y ago
It's a choice. If you can live with binary packages produced by the FreeBSD project, why not use those? If you want something special, why not set up poudriere and update during the night. Realistically, if you are running FreeBSD in p
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by phicoh 10y ago
That's a bit like asking Debian to be more like Ubuntu. And I have seen plenty of software that only works on Ubuntu, on other Linux distros you are on your own. For an end-user friendly BSD you may want to look at TrueOS ( https:&#x2F
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by phicoh 10y ago
I think the big difference in culture accounts for more than the lawsuit. FreeBSD moves very carefully. New features are introduced when they are quite mature. For major changes, the old way of working is maintained for quite some time. Ear
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by phicoh 10y ago
The last time I transferred my mobile number, the telco wanted to have the IMSI as well. Then what my phone reported was not what they wanted, so it took a while to sort that out. But it seems secure enough. It is not easy to get an IMSI fo
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by phicoh 10y ago
I'm very curious if you know a decentralised authentication mechanism that scales and works for e-mail. I don't know any. Without, improving over PGP is mostly wishful thinking.
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by phicoh 10y ago
For large scale monitoring of traffic, active attacks are very unattractive. If a government would manipulate dns on a large scale, that would cause a lot of trouble. For targeted attacks, using PGP is the way to go. Though it comes with th
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by phicoh 10y ago
By and large the only way to prevent man in the middle and downgrade attacks is to use DNSSEC and DANE. Without that, an attacker can just filter out the STARTTLS option in the SMTP EHLO response and the mail will be sent in plaintext. Howe
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by phicoh 10y ago
There are quite a few people who are technically very capable and at the same time socially dysfunctional. They are great if they can have their own corner of the project. But can be a disaster in areas where interaction is required. There
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by phicoh 10y ago
You don't really need copyleft protected software. The BSD community is very much alive. The important point is actually use the type of software you care about. If you care about copyleft, use as much copyleft software as you can, if
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by phicoh 10y ago
The ethernet CRC is designed for packets on the wire. On the wire you have a bit error rate and sometimes burst errors. For bit errors, as long as no packet has 32 bit errors the CRC will always catch them. For burst errors, if the error se
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by phicoh 10y ago
Personally I drew the line at the USG demanding to know your social media identities in the ESTA forms. But that was the Obama administration. It is nice to pretend that all problems started with Trump, but in fact the situation of crossing
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by phicoh 10y ago
And what a great country it is. Causing in war in Iraq, Afghanistan, supporting the civil war in Syria and then leaving it to Europe to deal with the refugees. I guess you must be really proud of your country now.
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by phicoh 10y ago
For IT professionals the risk doesn't seem very high. Just running tor exit-nodes is not illegal. There are enough jobs in IT where you don't have to worry about any kind of government approval. There are lots of stories about peo
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by phicoh 10y ago
The claims are true as far as I know. The police did get (or try to get) data from TomTom. In addition the tax office got data that was collected to check if people pay for parking. There are license plate scanners in lots of places. The to

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