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by dpifke 8d ago
I never got a response when I wrote to the FTC, requesting formal guidance as to whether having to disable NoScript (a browser security measure) to complete a CAPTCHA to unsubscribe from email spam satisfies 16 CFR § 316: "Neither a s
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by dpifke 6mo ago
Let me introduce you to California's way of doing things: https://guncad.substack.com/p/special-issue-state-of-califor... They're suing Florida residents with no ties to California for linking to pictures of
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by dpifke 8mo ago
In the U.S., requiring a login (or any information other than your email address) to opt out is against the law. Additionally, you cannot require any steps other than "sending a reply electronic mail message or visiting a single Intern
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by dpifke 8mo ago
In this case, "null MX record" means MX exists, but does not specify a valid server: $ host -t mx example.com example.com mail is handled by 0 . Senders should not fall back on the A record in this case.
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by dpifke 8mo ago
I use uBlock Origin for this, something like: news.ycombinator.com##:matches-path(/^/item\?id=/) tr a.hnuser:has-text(/^dpifke$/):upward(tr) This mostly works, but only kills the user's comments and not
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by dpifke 9mo ago
The very first subheading is entitled "What to Submit." I quoted it in my initial reply as rationale for why the people flagging this submission as off-topic were justified.
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by dpifke 9mo ago
This seems similar to the "Is Github Down?" submission problem, where the submitter simply links to github.com. That's a poor submission, because by the time most people click on it, Github will no longer be down. There might
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by dpifke 9mo ago
Lots of hackers find porn very interesting. In fact, my first "real job" as a hacker was for a company with ties to the 1-900 industry that had decided to expand out onto the internet (not just to sell porn). Stories about porn
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by dpifke 9mo ago
Strong disagree. Gay porn is censored in a lot of Muslim countries, that doesn't make it on-topic for HN.
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by dpifke 9mo ago
It's off-topic, per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. This submission is literally a TV news broadcast. There are lots of other places
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by dpifke 9mo ago
As someone who has moderated online communities in the past, I recognize the value in having a page like this, to which you can point people if they want to enumerate such trifles instead of discussing the episodes or series themselves. Ra
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by dpifke 9mo ago
At an untowered field, saying the airport name at the beginning and end of each transmission is standard phraseology.
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by dpifke 9mo ago
If it causes more than $5k in damage. Otherwise, it's a misdemeanor. But you probably don't want to be investigated for either.
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by dpifke 9mo ago
https://unpoly.com touts "progressive enhancement." Third link on the page ("read the long story") points to https://triskweline.de/unpoly-rugb/ , which renders as a blank page with NoScr
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by dpifke 9mo ago
Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. (quoting https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguideli
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by dpifke 9mo ago
Shouldn't you be out protesting your local chess club instead of posting on HN right now?
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by dpifke 9mo ago
We do use gyroscopic power storage, see e.g. https://h-cpc.cat.com/cmms/v2?f=subfamily&it=group&cid=402&l... https://www.activepower.com/ ...and probably others. (A couple of decades ago
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by dpifke 9mo ago
Related: https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/subtle#WithDataIndependentTiming (added in 1.25) And an in-progress proposal to make these various "bubble" functions have consistent semantics: https://github.co
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by dpifke 9mo ago
I recently logged onto LinkedIn for the first time in a while, and found an old job posting from when I was hiring at a startup ~2 decades ago. It's amazing how much it sounds like LLM output—I would have absolutely flagged it as AI-g
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by dpifke 10mo ago
My first car (hand-me-down from my Dad) was a 1980s Datsun, that I managed to total within a few weeks of getting my license, much to the consternation of my younger brother and sister who expected it to eventually be handed down to them as
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by dpifke 10mo ago
If you're in the U.S., you might check if your local fire department has a CERT[0] training course. (I did it many years ago in San Francisco; they call it NERT for some reason.) It'll give you a chance to practice putting out an
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by dpifke 11mo ago
Spamhaus has been sued—multiple times, I believe—for publishing DNS-based lists used to block email from known spammers. For instance: https://reason.com/volokh/2020/07/27/injunction-in-libel-cas... (Th
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by dpifke 11mo ago
I had this same problem with my self-hosted Home Assistant deployment, where Google marked the entire domain as phishing because it contains a login page that looks like other self-hosted Home Assistant deployments. Fortunately, I expose it
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by dpifke 11mo ago
With Windows 11, WSL has X and Wayland support, so you can run graphical applications as if they're native (e.g. share the same cut-and-paste buffer, switch between windows using alt+tab, and so on). It's also much easier to atta
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by dpifke 11mo ago
That's basically WSL. My work laptop is Windows, and the only native applications I run on it are a web browser, Zoom, and the company's VPN software. Everything else runs inside WSL. I greatly prefer Debian to Homebrew, so if I
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by dpifke 11mo ago
Related: Go is looking to add SIMD intrinsics, which should provide a more elegant way to use SIMD instructions from Go code: https://go.dev/issue/73787
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by dpifke 1y ago
Wow, that's pretty crazy, compared to the US. I paid a one-time fee of $50, then $262.50/year for IPv4 block + IPv6 block + ASN: https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/fee_schedule/ I've been thr
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by dpifke 1y ago
From your HN profile, I see you're in Brazil, which is part of the region IANA has delegated to LACNIC. Per [0], LACNIC has further delegated numbering authority in Brazil to Registro.br. Following the links on that page (or performin
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by dpifke 1y ago
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." My reply involved the effort of sending a test message from my Chase account, to capture the exact text used. If you want people to engage with you in good faith, you should
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by dpifke 1y ago
Not true, at least for ARIN. If you have an IPv6 allocation, you can obtain one or more IPv4 /24 allocations, so long as their stated purpose is to provide IPv4/IPv6 compatibility (e.g. for dual-stack services or NAT): https:&#x

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