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by spc476 7y ago
If only it was that easy. Last month MJ12Bot hit my site from 136 distinct IP addresses. If we drop the last octet, it's 120 unique class-C addresses, and if we drop the last two octets, then 43 unique class-B addresses (and why not-
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by spc476 7y ago
You can read the rest of my MJ12Bot saga: http://boston.conman.org/2019/07/09-12 My take: they are grossly incompetent at programming.
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by spc476 7y ago
I'm running my own DNSoverHTTP instance at home. I have Apache, with HTTP/2 support, running, some self-signed certificates, and a CGI script that accepts the DNSoverHTTP request and makes a DNS call to my local version of bind.
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by spc476 7y ago
You seem to be asking for a single clear answer. Okay, here's one: node.js. Learn it. Live it. Love it. Use VS Code. Learn it. Live it. Love it. Is this the best combination? Many seem to use it (it's the current hotnes
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by spc476 7y ago
I read the thesis, and it is incredible. Massalin developed Synthesis OS to run on Sun machines (using a 68030 if I'm not mistaken), and was able to run Sun OS executables on her OS, faster than Sun OS could run its own executables.
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by spc476 7y ago
If you use a data: URI, you don't even need hosting. Edit: adding link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme
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by spc476 7y ago
It's that bad. Very few writers can make a living just off writing novels. I have a friend who wrote, six? seven? novels and just couldn't make it as a novel writer. There's just too much competition [1] these days. [1] No
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by spc476 7y ago
As a kid of seven or eight, I remember roaming out in the forest (I lived in the mountains of western North Carolina) only to come home and find the occasional tick on my head. These days, I'd be scared to death of contracting Lyme D
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by spc476 7y ago
What happens with this code? volatile int x; int y; int z; x = 10; x = 20; y = x; z = x; Answer: the constant 10 is written to x the constant 20 is written to x the conte
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by spc476 7y ago
INT 21h, function 37h could be used to get and set the switch character for MS-DOS, in addition to requiring the use of '/DEV/' for device filenames: * AL=0, return switch character in DL * AL=1, set switch cha
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by spc476 7y ago
Get enough of these, and you have to wonder just how stupid people can be if they can't even get their own email address correct. I signed up for gmail years ago, and got my firstname.lastname@gmail.com address. I don't use it at
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by spc476 7y ago
As I stated a few days ago [1], there are times when you have no debugger (or a debugger won't help you as was in my case). Learning to debug via print() is a useful skill to know. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by spc476 7y ago
It could be the alien equivalent of anthropology or zoological grad students trying to study indigenous life on our planet. Encounters could be explained as them pulling drunk pranks on the natives.
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by spc476 7y ago
Yes [1]. And prior to WWII, there was no withholding and everyone had to file quarterly. During WWII, withholding was introduced so the employer is now responsible for filing quarterly tax estimates, although if you are self-employed, you
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by spc476 8y ago
But it's C99, so you can do: setsockopt(listener, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSERADDR, &(int) {true}, sizeof(int)); I think this makes the intent clearer.
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by spc476 8y ago
It depends upon the architecture and compiler. One C compiler for the MC68000 might have int as 16 bits (since externally, the MC68000 had a 16-bit external bus) but another one have ints as 32 bits (since the MC68000 can handle 32-bits in
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by spc476 8y ago
Until such a day comes, `printf()` debugging will still be useful. Heck, even after that day comes, it may still find uses. The other day I was writing LPEG [1]. I had a rule that wasn't firing for some reason and I wanted to know
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by spc476 8y ago
I've done something similar (but not exact) for Lua [1]. I was testing code to trace Lua execution and found some code that was executed more than I expected [2]. Adding a trace like you described should be easy as well in Lua. [1]
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by spc476 8y ago
The office I work in has five development teams that cover different aspects of our service (provisioning from our customers, core product on Android, the UI for the Android code, servers, and call processing [1]). Each team has ownership
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by spc476 8y ago
He did. It was called _Brazil_. And the sequel to that was _The Adventures of Baron Munchausen_. Okay, they aren't direct sequels but they make a trilogy of related movies: the fantasies of childhood, the fantasies of middle age and
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by spc476 8y ago
If you are on Firefox and have Javascript disabled, you can select the menu item “View → Page Style → No Style” and see the content.
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by spc476 8y ago
You just need a decent library to parse DNS packets. [1] Yes, it's in C, but it should be easy to interface to other languages given it only has two functions. [1] https://github.com/spc476/SPCDNS
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by spc476 8y ago
Here's a very real issue we had at work. I wrote a program (and it's configuration file) to process SIP messages. We installed it with using the default port of 5060. It kept failing. After much investigation, it was revealed
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by spc476 8y ago
I use Lua for configuration (even at work---ops has no problem with it). It even allows trailing commas. You can even use semicolons if you want. As for the index issue, you might find it annoying, but I would argue the "objectively w
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by spc476 8y ago
I just checked, and I have over 100 config files in /etc. Does that mean I need to have an additional 100 README files?
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by spc476 8y ago
I just looked at some random configuration file on my system. Right at the top, in the comments was the following: # Please don't edit this file directly (it is updated with every Red Hat # Linux update, overwriting your c
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by spc476 8y ago
Lovely, running my own email server could be punishable by jail time. And people bitch about the continuing consolidation and centralization of the Internet ...
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by spc476 8y ago
Between the `fork()` and an `exec()`, I can: * redirect stdin, stdout, and stderr * open files that might be needed and close files that aren't * change process limits * drop privileges * change the root director
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by spc476 8y ago
In the early 80s, you could be a 15 year old and make a ton of money making a computer game. This got harder as time went on and computers got more complicated (and expectations rose).
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by spc476 8y ago
While that may be true, I can't but think of the scribes. Mass literacy has destroyed the scribe occupation (think of their children!) but overall it has been a benefit to mankind. I'm thinking the same with computers and prog

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