aquabeagle

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When Unix Learned to reboot(2)(bsdimp.blogspot.com)
22 points by aquabeagle 6y ago|1 comments
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by aquabeagle 6y ago
While this article is about OpenBSD's floppy support, if you already had OpenBSD on the machine and working networking, upgrading it without any external devices is as easy as: ftp -o /bsd.rd https://cdn.openbsd.or
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by aquabeagle 6y ago
Seems like the FTC or some other government agency could save a lot of people a lot of heartache with a PSA targeted at elderly people. Commercials during daytime TV basically saying no one will ever legitimately call you and ask you to bu
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by aquabeagle 6y ago
As is Heaven's Gate's website - http://heavensgate.com/
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by aquabeagle 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century
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by aquabeagle 6y ago
I think we're supposed to call them "allowlists" now.
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by aquabeagle 6y ago
And making a video about how to defend against them can get you sued. https://twitter.com/bennjordan/status/1268961057743294472 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sqIvak-4Ek
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by aquabeagle 6y ago
I've tried Haiku a few times and liked it, but it feels like the beta label has been around forever and is not doing them any favors. It's 2020, you're not publishing software as a big-box release in stores, just cut a relea
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by aquabeagle 6y ago
Google is king of NIH.
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by aquabeagle 6y ago
So one hack that forks a project and just changes the name on everything to call it their own, talking about a browser fork that did the same thing. Do these people actually contribute any useful code?
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by aquabeagle 6y ago
There was a free website many years ago that I used, where you print out a form with blocks on it and write each letter, then scan it and upload it and it gets turned into a font. I can't seem to find it now (or maybe it went paid). Mi
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by aquabeagle 6y ago
Seems like having to use a bunch of popular patches is counter to the author's other praises about how simple and minimal the software is. Why doesn't upstream integrate them and let everyone use them without having to patch?
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by aquabeagle 6y ago
Which of the hundreds of Linux distributions that have free/volunteer resources split amongst them do you run?
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by aquabeagle 6y ago
Immediately sold them and kept the cash
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by aquabeagle 6y ago
Notify17 seems really expensive for just proxying push notifications. You only get 75 free per month?
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by aquabeagle 6y ago
Because macOS Server was a large reason why companies bought the Mac Mini.
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The Purism Librem Mini(puri.sm)
7 points by aquabeagle 7y ago|4 comments
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by aquabeagle 7y ago
Which was largely written by Joe Biden in 1995 after the Oklahoma City bombing. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/surveil...
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by aquabeagle 7y ago
tarsnap desperately needs something like this included with it.
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by aquabeagle 7y ago
If you consider PGP something that mostly works, and Signal the fringe contrarian view We're talking about email here, so yeah, the number of encrypted emails I've received with PGP is non-zero and through Signal is zero.
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by aquabeagle 7y ago
Typical security industry contrarianism. "Stop using that thing that mostly works as intended and is integrated into lots of email clients and systems, and has a number of independent implementations, and has the decentralized properti
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by aquabeagle 7y ago
It's the Boss Level.
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by aquabeagle 7y ago
And yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22175431
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by aquabeagle 7y ago
Now take that F-ckwad, and remove the Anonymity by requiring them to use their real name. And bingo, now you live in Interesting Times. https://www.reddit.com/r/insanepeoplefacebook/ would like to disagree.
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LPE and RCE in OpenBSD OpenSMTPD(openwall.com)
94 points by aquabeagle 7y ago|83 comments
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by aquabeagle 7y ago
I wish I would have not fought the tools so much. I started Android programming from the command line using make/ant and testing on a device because I didn't like Android Studio. This ended up wasting a lot of time and energy ove
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by aquabeagle 7y ago
The title on this story makes it sound like OpenBSD stopped updating Firefox altogether. That's not the case, it just stopped backporting non-ESR Firefox updates to its -stable branch.
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by aquabeagle 7y ago
On OpenBSD: $ ls -l /dev/*random* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Dec 10 15:05 /dev/random@ -> urandom crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 45, 0 Jan 6 15:30 /dev/urandom
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by aquabeagle 7y ago
That you primarily know of Tavis from his FVWM config and not his security work is really weird.
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by aquabeagle 7y ago
It's in ports/packages now, but it used to be in base.

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