alienth

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by alienth 5y ago
I'm in the US and tried donating our child's potty chair. The donation spots I tried refused it because they weren't allowed to take anything which a child has to sit in or on for safety reasons. I even tried Value Village, w
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by alienth 7y ago
We (reddit) were blocked by AWS on this until 2017 or so. Since then it's mostly been an issue of reworking internal tooling and storage. There are a huge number of places we'd need to futz with to support IPv6, and to be honest w
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by alienth 9y ago
Not any immediate plans. Decent amount of development is necessary there. There are so many places in our various systems that work with IP addresses, and many of them don't support v6 addresses.
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by alienth 10y ago
Thankfully, if someone is MITM'ing you, or has acquired the IP of your host, then the SSH fingerprint check against your known_hosts will prevent them from snagging your password in this manner. (provided the host's private key ha
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by alienth 10y ago
It's the code names of the exploits which are being released by Shadow Brokers. Likely the names which the original authors utilized. Equation Group is known to utilize code names like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by alienth 10y ago
To each their own. I've lived in cities and suburbs, and I personally greatly prefer the latter. I'm not alone - I promise. It's fine if some, or even most, think that suburbia is hell on earth. Criticize suburbia all you lik
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by alienth 11y ago
For those wanting something safer but similar, see the `fc` shell function.
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by alienth 13y ago
The traffic surge from the Boston incident is extremely marginal compared to the DDoS which we're facing right now. It is far and above any form of possibly being compounded, unfortunately. But I wish it was :) Compounding I can deal with,
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by alienth 13y ago
They're slamming over 20x our normal bandwidth with URL containing things such as "boston", "your_gay", etc.
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by alienth 13y ago
Certain beyond any shadow of doubt.
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by alienth 13y ago
We're mostly recovered, at this time.
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by alienth 14y ago
FWIW, we're no longer under Conde Nast. Journalists were the first to reach out to us, not the other way around. While I do agree that there is a trend in online journalism to hunt down page views rather than legitimate news, I personally f