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IsmaOlvey··on Sale of Kodi ‘fully-loaded’ streaming boxes faces legal test in UK
For some context, here's a blog post from the Kodi devs about "Fully Loaded" boxes from earlier this year: https://kodi.tv/the-piracy-box-sellers-and-youtube-promoters...
IsmaOlvey··on Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack
Both the phishing and malware attacks would be performed over CloudFlare's networks, while the DDoS attacks would not.

What happens over CloudFlare's networks in the case of DDoS providers would essentially be the agreement of a business contract.

IsmaOlvey··on Fibers in Guile Scheme
Neither Make nor WeeChat are written in Guile. They're both written in C.

They do, however, use Guile as an extension language.

IsmaOlvey··on Product clones using WebTorrent
A problem with WebTorrent is that there isn't much incentive for regular clients to support it, while WebTorrent clients have a lot to gain.

In general, it seems like WebTorrent clients will be more inclined to "hit and run" (i.e. download some content, then navigate away without contributing back to the swarm), leading the worse swarm health.

IsmaOlvey··on Show HN: PJON network protocol stack specification
Quoting the README:

   > It is a valid alternative to i2c, 1-Wire, Serial and other Arduino compatible protocols.
IsmaOlvey··on When to Avoid JSONB in a PostgreSQL Schema
One thing I would add to the list: Don't use it for data that you need to change. There are (at least at present) no built-in functions to modify values within JSON(B) objects, which makes it very tedious modify data once it has been stored.

It is much better for data that is stored once and then queried.

IsmaOlvey··on PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
> AFAIK, even NuGet doesn't allow you to just check in the dependency spec, rather than the contents of all of your dependencies.

I have a project where I only checked in the solution's repositories.config (packages/repositories.config) and the project's packages.config (ProjectName/packages.config), and it seems to work fine.

IsmaOlvey··on Fear and Loathing in Linux, or Who Needs /etc/motd (2010)
> Yeah, why would you want to generate the motd -- the message of the DAY file -- dynamically, through a daily cron job? Ludicrous! That file is supposed to be static!

Running a set of shell scripts on every login is not the same as generating a file through a cron job. The author is complaining about the former, while you're stating he complains about the latter.

It's would be proper to take care not to misrepresent matters while accusing others of doing it.

IsmaOlvey··on Ask HN: Anonymous person sent proof of SSH access to our production server
fail2ban still doesn't have IPv6 support.

If you use IPv6 (and you should, if possible), it's better to use an alternative that supports it (e.g. SSHGuard).

IsmaOlvey··on MXE: Windows cross-compile environment for Unix
If you're on Gentoo, sys-devel/crossdev is useful for creating cross-compilers.
IsmaOlvey··on A dynamic window manager for X11 written with Node.js
The "Why?" section seems to answer the question "What?".

Would have expected either "Why you should use this", or "Why I/we wrote this".

IsmaOlvey··on Starcraft Html5 project revived on GitHub without all copyrighted materials
Littlewargame is decent: http://www.littlewargame.com/play/
IsmaOlvey··on Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client
There's a script for irssi that provides compatibility with Glowing Bear: https://github.com/ailin-nemui/teddy/wiki
IsmaOlvey··on Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, existing users opted in
But that does make it unusable for anything but directly posting it into the address field of your own browser window.

Which means you end up having to open the URL first yourself just to copy and share it. And that doesn't even always work, since URLs triggering downloads don't update the URL in the address field (at least in Firefox).

IsmaOlvey··on Show HN: Fabulous: Print images in terminal with Python
Are you planning to support true color?

This gist has some information and also tracks adoption in other software packages: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728

IsmaOlvey··on Winbuntu – Blurring the Lines Between Linux and Windows
I find it perfectly logical to call it the "Windows Subsystem for Linux", considering it implements the Linux syscall interface.
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