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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/someoneweird; my proof: https://keybase.io/someoneweird/sigs/86lH2sVuK7jVlCZfNc7HLvmdFA9TsTHu4z6XLidTYZY ]
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SomeoneWeird··on Ask HN: How do I set up my own simple website on a domain I buy?
You can set domains in a CNAME file in the root of a repository.
SomeoneWeird··on Elsevier, that just freaked me out
There's an off-the-shelf USB that you can buy called a Teensy[1] that is programmable and automatically registers itself as a USB HID. Very similar to what is described here.

[1] https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/

SomeoneWeird··on Imba – A new programming language for the web
I lot of these things are basically irrelevant if you use ES6/7.
SomeoneWeird··on Ask HN: Most popular sub-domains?
potentially cdn.*?
SomeoneWeird··on Snow – A layer 3 virtual network that uses public keys instead of IP addresses
This seems very similar to cjdns[1]

[1] https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns

SomeoneWeird··on [dead]
Works for me?
SomeoneWeird··on Who'll be the next president – Google Search
Nope, I'm in aus and I see it.
SomeoneWeird··on GitHub Security
It's also worth mentioning that GitHub supports TOTP 2FA, so you can set it up with Google Auth or another client like Authy.
SomeoneWeird··on A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves
Did you follow the installation doc?
SomeoneWeird··on Take Nothing, Leave Nothing: On being banned from the world’s most remote island
Don't forget HMAS Cerberus[0] which is also a suburb.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Cerberus_%28naval_base%29

SomeoneWeird··on How to Crack Mifare Classic Cards
The problem with any type of hardware/usage like this is that it's susceptible to offline attacks, which widens the attack surface greatly. A better way to do this would be to encrypt any data that you need to store on the card. And an even better way would be to communicate with a server and have it validate the transaction.
SomeoneWeird··on [dead]
This is just how DNS works, nothing interesting to see here.
SomeoneWeird··on Random Google email saying they're to charge me for using their free service now
Obviously they've just decided to start charging for it, unless I'm missing something?
SomeoneWeird··on [dead]
Not sure exactly what this is supposed to do.. but if it's supposed to log you out of each website when you get an "OK"... it doesn't work.
SomeoneWeird··on Ask HN: Template for sales proposal letter?
Might be worth looking at this[1], Y Combinator open sourced their Sales Agreement last week.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9035256

SomeoneWeird··on Ask HN: Installing Swift on ubuntu for newbie
You can't.
SomeoneWeird··on Crypto puzzle
This looks like it was already solved in the thread?
SomeoneWeird··on First U.S. Bitcoin Exchange Set to Open
That still doesn't mean you're the first.
SomeoneWeird··on Apple Store display in London
I've seen this at 2 Apple shops in Vic, Aus too.
SomeoneWeird··on Nickel.js: An expressjs inspired web framework for Rust
*.rs
SomeoneWeird··on Proposal For An Interactive Introduction to Graphics Programming
You should look at https://github.com/stackgl/shader-school - it is very similar.
SomeoneWeird··on NSA controlling Youtube... Comments?
I seriously hope this is a joke.
SomeoneWeird··on Parrot launches drone with 14MP camera and 180-degree fisheye lens
12 minutes of flying time for $1000+? .. I think I'll just stick with my ARDrone2.
SomeoneWeird··on How taking pictures through windows can inadvertently reveal your location
This is pretty neat, I wonder how hard it would be to automate using gmaps for an approx location.
SomeoneWeird··on Ask HN: How much time/effort did Heartbleed cost your team?
few hours for our sysadmin, I suppose.
SomeoneWeird··on ARIN down to 1.00 /8 – Akamai got 104.64.0.0/10 yesterday
Ah, apologies, I had it in my head that anything on XP didn't work :)
SomeoneWeird··on OS X Beta Seed Program
Does this you let downgrade too? (I'd presume not)
SomeoneWeird··on ARIN down to 1.00 /8 – Akamai got 104.64.0.0/10 yesterday
Except... WinXP does not support SNI, so even the latest browsers on XP still fail
SomeoneWeird··on Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io
This is exactly what Keybase does.
SomeoneWeird··on How Turtl has no idea when you're sharing copyrighted stuff
May I ask why you think that is?
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