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by ymse 11y ago
Cloudflare should have an emergency hotline for situations like this. Charge half the ransom to handle the traffic for the duration of the attack. Offer contract afterwards.
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by ymse 11y ago
> It makes me wish I was interesting enough to be snooped on. Oh, but you are. Having access to VMs on other networks makes you a sysadmin, which automatically raises flags[0] within NSHQ. I've used DNScrypt[1] for some time now, wh
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by ymse 11y ago
How is this related to anything, let alone your job? As I'm sure you know, systemd grew out of Red Hat, and Debian as most other Linux distributions have adopted it in lack of a better alternative. There is no grand scheme to it other
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by ymse 11y ago
Hm? It's still there. http://git.busybox.net/busybox/log/?ofs=49
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by ymse 11y ago
Since you have the luxury of a FSF-blessed laptop, I would recommend trying GuixSD[0]. Transactional package managers are the best thing since sliced bread. 0: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
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by ymse 11y ago
Fairphone is doing something similar with their upcoming phone. Although the hardware is not open. They should talk with OP. https://www.fairphone.com/phone/
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by ymse 11y ago
I'm surprised Poul-Henning Kamp isn't involved. Linux Foundation have been throwing money at him for the past year[0] to work on an ntpd replacement[1] and he's well-known for his time (and security) nuttery[2]. [0] http:&#x
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by ymse 11y ago
As an Evil user, I concur. Perhaps it could be implemented through a plug-in architecture, with some LISP-like interface.. :)
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by ymse 11y ago
The Android HN app is a pleasure to use: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.manuelmaly.h... It even supports thread collapsing.
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by ymse 11y ago
Spice works pretty well: http://www.spice-space.org/
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by ymse 11y ago
Did you have Javascript disabled? Upvoting with JS enabled generates an additional GET request for an image with the same href as the vote button. Perhaps part of their security minded hacker detection system. ;)
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nosh: modern init and service management tools(homepage.ntlworld.com)
1 points by ymse 11y ago|0 comments
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by ymse 11y ago
I'd be happy just to get rid of DST.
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by ymse 11y ago
It also supports multiple identities, so passwords can have different recipients. Good if you don't want to share everything with your phone. The best part is that the program itself is a ~500 line shell script: https://gith
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by ymse 11y ago
The most annoying part is that blocking first-party cookies (e.g. with µMatrix) causes this message to appear every time since you are not sending your "consent" back to the server.
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by ymse 11y ago
War with the Newts (1936) by Karel Čapek (of R.U.R. fame). Classical sci-fi novel and political satire in which a new intelligent breed of Newts are taking over the world and no-one realizes before it's too late. Still relevant today.
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The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)(web.archive.org)
120 points by ymse 11y ago|14 comments
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by ymse 11y ago
Just like your mobile.. http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_syste...