alexforster

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by alexforster 2mo ago
It's much more likely to be a methodology issue than that Firefox's install base suddenly grew 240% in such a short period of time. Maybe some AI scraper juicing the numbers? Mozilla's telemetry could confirm this, so if they
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by alexforster 3y ago
DDG is just repackaged Bing. Always has been. I remember looking into them when I was ready to job-hop many years ago, and they asked for dedication to their search engine as their foremost requirement for employment. It's the "dr
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by alexforster 3y ago
I'm constantly DM'd at work about how I'm able to create the "cool drawings" in my blog/wiki posts, and I enthusiastically point to excalidraw.com. I have a background in vector illustration, which is all about
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by alexforster 3y ago
That post was fascinating. You are a model example of what progressive prison reform can accomplish and your story should be getting major press coverage if it hasn't already.
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by alexforster 3y ago
I don't think it's responsible to replace http/1.1 with either of these protocols. They both seem like complex beasts with poorly understood corner cases and little consideration for the abuse potential.
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New DDoS amplification vector in the wild(blog.cloudflare.com)
3 points by alexforster 3y ago|1 comments
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by alexforster 4y ago
> In fact, there are so many patent farms disguised as businesses I challenge you to sit, think of something, and search for a patent for it. Nice try, Opposing Counsel.
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by alexforster 4y ago
> It’s a MikroTik running RouterOS https://google.com/search?q=mikrotik+botnet These things are the absolute scourge of the internet.
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by alexforster 4y ago
This is easily searchable, so... I doubt you're seriously looking, but... > The evaluation fee is US$185,000. Applicants will be required to pay a US$5,000 deposit fee per requested application slot when registering. https:/&#
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by alexforster 4y ago
Give several hundred thousand dollars to ICANN.
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by alexforster 4y ago
CBS Austin is a Sinclair affiliate.
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by alexforster 4y ago
Many of them are unintentional: a device sitting on the open internet has some vulnerability and gets exploited. Bad guy sets up a proxy on the device and uses it to click a bunch of ads using bots, or crawl Google results, or launch attack
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by alexforster 4y ago
Unfortunately, this type of abuse is essentially only acted on if you either (a) cause some kind of problem for ops at the VPS company, or (b) the victim tells on you. Even then, the absolute worst thing that will happen to you is your acco
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by alexforster 4y ago
This is only if you have _no_ idea how to use very basic open-source tools to wreak havoc via some open proxies. The real cost of launching small-scale attacks like this is $5/month on your favorite VPS provider.
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Pipefail: How a missing shell option slowed Cloudflare down(blog.cloudflare.com)
30 points by alexforster 4y ago|1 comments
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by alexforster 4y ago
Author here – you are correct, I tried to golf a relatively long script down to one line, and I failed :) The post has been updated.
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Pipefail: How a missing shell option slowed Cloudflare down(blog.cloudflare.com)
2 points by alexforster 4y ago|0 comments
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CVE-2022-26143: TP240PhoneHome reflection/amplification DDoS attack vector(blog.cloudflare.com)
4 points by alexforster 5y ago|0 comments
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by alexforster 6y ago
I don't understand the negative reactions here. Gnome got Rothschild to agree to never sue another open-source project again. That's a huge concession and an outcome that's arguably better than a few invalidated patents.
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by alexforster 8y ago
Care to share that adapter model?
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by alexforster 8y ago
My last two Amazon purchases ended up being counterfit, even after spending a ton of time trying to avoid counterfits. I'm still going to use my fake electric toothbrush heads and fake Apple 5W USB charger, but I'm not using Amazo
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by alexforster 8y ago
There's an open Github issue where the author clarifies that his own code is BSD, and he puts the license of each file in its header.
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by alexforster 8y ago
The title should probably mention "for Android". It's misleading without that context.
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by alexforster 8y ago
They likely need to be able to mount your filesystem for some of their features to work. That's how they can reset your root password, write out network configs, etc etc.
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by alexforster 8y ago
Mirai was an extremely rare event. I understand businesses were impacted, but it's unfair to hold a three-year grudge against any Mirai victims who are otherwise responsible infrastructure operators.
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by alexforster 8y ago
"It’s designed to be flexible (run it anywhere Kubernetes runs)" Is this the only supported deployment method? It's interesting if Google is OSS'ing cool projects to increase GCE/GKE marketshare.
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by alexforster 8y ago
The USAF definitely noticed. He technically shouldn't be able to maintain his security clearance after this. It's probably going to amount to nothing, but it's still bad- https://www.theverge.com/2018/9&#
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by alexforster 8y ago
I remember the FreeSWITCH from 10 years ago. They didn't even cut releases, you were just expected to always run at HEAD - and the whole community refused to talk to you until you showed your commit hash. I got cores constantly from al
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by alexforster 8y ago
> the very real and well-known risk of being accused of sexual harassment Right there - that's the sexist part. Do you believe there's an epidemic of vengeful women running around falsely accusing men of sexual harassment? Beca
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by alexforster 8y ago
> I have never met with a female coworker alone in an office, and have never socialized with women coworkers outside of work. > Has it hurt the development of some of the women who have been my direct reports over the years? Probably,

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