echochar

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by echochar 11y ago
Brilliant.
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by echochar 11y ago
Is there any similarity between "tag-length-value" and netstrings (1997)?
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by echochar 11y ago
What is the purpose of the .note section? If it is left out, it appears from ktrace that the kernel assumes the binary uses some other ABI, e.g., Linux, etc. (compat_linux, etc.) and the /emul shadow directory gets searched.
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by echochar 11y ago
Is it possible to download the bulk data, e.g. CSV files via FTP, for noncommercial use in a personal database?
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by echochar 11y ago
How about a tool to "exclude what you don't use"? I have several personal hacks for doing this I have written over the years but I've yet to find anyone else who tried to automate it. For example, one task is to determin
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by echochar 11y ago
From ritter.vg: "You're browsing without Javascript! If you have no idea what that means, you should ask your technical friend about it. Otherwise - kudos." No, kudos to you. I could count on one hand the number of times I
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by echochar 11y ago
I agree firewalls and NAT are a nuisance, and today's internet is not one iota as cool as the BBS days. The nuisances introduced by "ISPs" have hindered but in the long run have not stopped reliable peer to peer internet. I
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by echochar 11y ago
Yes. But the server capability is always there. It can be launched again any time the attacker needs it.
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by echochar 11y ago
"Those are just nice-side effects." For me, not being baited into buying stuff is a nice side effect. I block ads because it's fun to see how badly Google, Apple, Microsoft, apps and websites want data about computer users.
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by echochar 11y ago
I agree. Thank you.
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by echochar 11y ago
Understood. However try to reconcile this with the thought experiment I gave above. You would be saying that these Windows exploits would not work because users have IP addresses that are changing too frequently. Is it possible that _in
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by echochar 11y ago
Many times I see commenters on HN making statements to the effect of "users cannot run their own servers" and spurring a "debate" in the context of someone trying to innovate away from the current asymmetric, client-serv
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by echochar 11y ago
"Google makes deployment much easier by using static linking..." Unless you only are referring to only the Go compiler, can you provide a cite for this statement? I also use static linking as much as I can. Sometimes it requires
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by echochar 11y ago
Even with Javascript disabled and only session cookies?
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by echochar 11y ago
OK, so the author purports to be on the side of "end users". And he purports to share empathy with users who get annoying messages that their browser is lacking, outdated, etc. As an "end user" who has gotten hundreds o
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by echochar 11y ago
http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/i386/INSTALL.i386 Also, if you learn to use installboot(8) you can make your own PXE bootable images. I would read the Makefiles in the OpenBSD source tree to see h
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by echochar 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Monetary_circuit_theory
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by echochar 11y ago
"I guess people using BSD... burn an image to a USB stick..." I always thought "burn" referred to optical storage like CD-ROM? Not sure about others, but when I do BSD installs I do not have to click any buttons. I do n
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by echochar 11y ago
gateways.list is quite useful. Are there lists that include more carriers (non-US)?
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by echochar 11y ago
progress(1) is a separate utility on BSD; one of my favorites. (Although it is also built in to BSD ftp.) I regularly use progress with dd, tar and other utilities. At least one BSD dd now has a "msgfmt" option that outputs parse
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by echochar 11y ago
"...user agent strings are a giant disaster of technical debt" Amen. I agree with the commenter below who suggests we use random strings instead. Unless there is some sort of published standard for what this header should contain
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by echochar 11y ago
"8 trillion (@ 60 percent of GDP) in ephemeral housing equity" "loss of 8 trillion in housing wealth" Is this true? How do you create 8 trillion in wealth? If it was "lost" then who has the 8 trillion now?
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by echochar 11y ago
The article seems to suggest the fact that "email" is so old is significant. IRC is quite old too. And that's what Slack is, with some enhancements. Email has also undergone many "enhancements". Yet the article
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by echochar 11y ago
1. Practice with new programming language and database. 2. Turn unstructured, difficult to parse data adorned with HTML, and other window dressing into structured data that is easier to parse.
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by echochar 11y ago
In an "Ask HN:" someone is calling for a ban on Forbes. Forbes has indeed reached a new plateau in stupidity. Anyone using a text-only browser has seen that Forbes' most recent design transfers all the content but prevents th
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by echochar 11y ago
"No external imports required..." I convert HTML to CSV regularly (multiple times a day). But I do not use Python; I use C. Actually I use flex to make filters which I compile as static binaries that read from stdin. This is in
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by echochar 11y ago
Thanks for commenting. I experimented with small C compilers but UNIX is too intertwined with too many "standard" C libraries. I would like to see a UNIX that used some other libraries, if for nothing else as a proof of concept;
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by echochar 11y ago
When I read "pure Bourne shell" I expected just /bin/sh. This uses cat, sed, rm, cp, grep, bc, sort, etc. too. The shell part may be "pure Bourne shell" but there are other utilities involved besides sh. I gues
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by echochar 11y ago
"You're making some argument..." Not that I know of. There's an argument, not made by me, that some IoT is foolish to which I alluded. Is that what you mean?
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by echochar 11y ago
"The text starts with a question... "does every node need a direct Internet connection?"" I do not see the word "direct" in any part of the rant. Am I missing something? Are you sure that is what he meant? T

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