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finch.am 5y ago

GNU tar blocking factor, blocks, records and checkpoints

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insomniasec.com 5y ago

Ghostscript Safer Sandbox Breakout (CVE-2020-15900)

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insomniasec.com 6y ago

JSON Web Token Validation Bypass in Auth0 Authentication API

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Are we all OK with short DNS TTLs now?

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blogs.gnome.org 7y ago

Please Welcome Lenovo to the LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service)

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dns64.name 9y ago

IPv4-literal mapping service for NAT64 networks

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www.mythic-beasts.com 9y ago

Rent a Raspberry Pi 3 on a native IPv6-only network

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ninetimes.cat-v.org 10y ago

New 9front (Plan 9 fork) release "PLEASE EXCUSE ME THE OUTFLOW"

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foragerfunds.com 10y ago

Dick Smith Is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time

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github.com 10y ago

Instagram has broken their API for external galleries

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 10y ago

Hyper-virulent, multidrug-resistant pneumoniae found in China

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original.livestream.com 10y ago

CubeSat-carrying launcher poised for experimental flight

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permalink.gmane.org 10y ago

OpenBSD 5.8 released

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github.com 10y ago

Redox: A Rust Operating System

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github.com 10y ago

Redox: A Rust Operating System

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github.com 10y ago

TextSecure response to Stagefright Android vulnerability

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bsdly.blogspot.com 11y ago

Solaris adopting OpenBSD's pf

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ruggedpod.qyshare.com 11y ago

Open source ruggedised server for outdoor datacentre-less deployment

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github.com 11y ago

New Python 3 compatible bindings to librabbitmq using CFFI

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Improving my typing?

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anyname.nz 11y ago

New Zealand to begin registrations for 2nd level domains tomorrow

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www.crowdsupply.com 12y ago

Novena open laptop almost at $700k with 45 mins to go

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kyhwana.org 12y ago

Cyanogenmod Updater vulnerable to MITM attack

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blog.silentsignal.eu 12y ago

How did I find the Apple Remote Desktop bug? – CVE-2013-5135

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www.jwz.org 12y ago

PSA: Back Up Your Shit

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www.kali.org 12y ago

Emergency Self Destruction of LUKS in Kali

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www.nbr.co.nz 12y ago

Manawatu school removes wi-fi over cancer fear

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archiveteam.org 12y ago

Goodbye social network; hello gaming portal.

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www.cnn.com 12y ago

Sylvia Browne dies at 77

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www.messynessychic.com 12y ago

The Forgotten Giant Arrows that Guide you Across America

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Why I left Pine64 4 years ago

The currently shipping affordable RISC-V SBCs tend to be RISC-V cores embedded with a bunch of frustrating undocumented peripherals, more or less the same as with affordable ARM SBCs. It's disappointing :(

See for instance the Allwinner D1 chip.

"We will just use technology to bypass this bad law" is a very convenient position for a technology-focused group to take. It feels weirdly privileged to just say "ah we will abdicate ourselves from the problem by using ever more complicated technology" rather than working to improve the legislation to benefit everyone.

It's basically like you described - an informally specified set of rules the various "big players" in e-mail enforce. There's some consensus about the things you "have" to do to participate in e-mail but it's generally not a black and white "do these things and you'll be fine" situation.

The tl;dr as to why it doesn’t work is that they blanket forbid calling “rclone serve”, which is required for “append-only” support in restic.

This doesn’t make sense given that the specific invocation of “rclone serve restic --stdio” doesn’t open any network sockets, it’s no less safe than e.g. “tar”

My first experience with rsync.net was very disappointing. To this day they still advertise “append-only mode” support for restic at https://www.rsync.net/products/restic.html.

Their support people confirmed it doesn’t work (though they didn’t seem to understand why it would be fine for them to support it as advertised...) yet 6 months later they still advertise that they support it, even when I have e-mailed to remind them (and it still doesn’t work either) :(

If a site like Wikipedia is too wide, wouldn't you just make your browser window thinner? Mine has never been wider than half the display since I got a widescreen LCD ~ 15 years ago.

It would be great if someone forked this to allow it to function as an XOAUTH2 IMAP proxy for other providers.

This would be particularly useful with big e-mail providers (Google, Microsoft) looking at retiring password based authentication in the near future.

To address your 2nd point: as far as I know, Digital Ocean's IPv6 doesn't provide the things you'd need to run an IPv6-only server (e.g. there is no NAT64 or DNS64 gateway, no v4-to-v6 proxy for letting the v4 Internet reach your server).

And sure, if you just want a little bit of computing power and literally don't care where from, you might as well get a VM from somewhere like Digital Ocean instead of a Pi from Mythic Beasts, but that is beside the point. This is an offer to rent a Pi on an IPv6-only network, which nobody else is doing.

[dead] 10 years ago

You can ignore things like "Not advertised to any peer" in looking glass output, just a function of a router being used as the looking glass server and not participating in routing.

[dead] 10 years ago

Indeed the DNS seems alright. I am seeing broken routes to their load balancers from all of my testing sites (on opposite sides of the globe).