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TheWoodsy

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TheWoodsy··on President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia
Their main propaganda news channel has already said (incorrectly) that they are already fighting NATO and US troops in the breakaway areas.

Is it time to make this a reality? I really don't see it ending without it happening. russia has shown that it has no regard for the suffering of any troops of any nationality. So purely from a population perspective, Ukraine will fail eventually unless they can effectively force-multiply like we've never seen in any other armed conflict.

TheWoodsy··on EA: The Human Story (2004)
Anyone curious to find out their browser wants to talk to russia via 91.192.149.121 UDP port 3478?
TheWoodsy··on YouTube has decided our Arc A380 review is “18 only” and “not suitable for ads”
Willing to bet money it was because of the words, "kick arse" repeated several times in the video.

Edit: My mistake. The video with the words was their most recent one - https://youtu.be/AN8ZAf15DrM?t=1083

TheWoodsy··on Retbleed: New speculative execution attack sends Intel and AMD scrambling
Yes. Boot the kernel with the flag "mitigations=off". Run some benchmarks. It's not nearly as substantial as all the 'fear warriors' makes it out to be.
TheWoodsy··on James Webb Space Telescope launch [video]
Seems I cant get a stable stream in AU from this link. (youtube stream) Twitch works though https://www.twitch.tv/nasa
TheWoodsy··on CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets
Someone was displeased - https://fuckingcenturylink.com/

I'd love to see an in-depth technical analysis of the outage.

TheWoodsy··on The Ulam Spiral of Primes (2010)
Something that I've always wondered is what these prime spirals would look like in greater than 2 dimensions.
TheWoodsy··on Do You Trust This Computer? [video]
So I bailed after the first X minutes. Why cant we just unplug the power and/or the network cable and move on from this FUD?
TheWoodsy··on 1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service
Thought this was an April Fool joke at first.

Queries are jumping anywhere from 10ms to 138ms compared to a flat 6ms on Google and OpenDNS in Australia. Maybe unexpected traffic?

TheWoodsy··on Windows93 SP2
Take a look at A:\system32.dll

I wonder how many hours I could waste looking for more Easter eggs ;]

TheWoodsy··on How to become the sole owner of your PC [pdf]
http://www.phdays.com/broadcast/ > Scroll to bottom > Third last > How to Become the Sole Owner of Your PC

Talk is ~3.5minutes transcribed live to English. Sadly you're not missing much by just looking at the PDF.

TheWoodsy··on It's time to build your own router
/me puts hand up.

Oh the tinkering.

56k POTS, IPChains, Them dodgy Intel NIC's, ADSL PPPoE, IPTables, Bonding, 802.1q VLANs, DSCP tc classes, Squid, Bind, MRTG, Cacti, IMQ Ingress Shaping kernel patch, Radius, Sendmail. I could go on for hours.

You break it? You fix it! Best self-schooling I'd ever had.

TheWoodsy··on My Experience With the Great Firewall of China
Cool stuff. Slides for the talk at https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/system/event_at...

Time to get my hack on. :]

TheWoodsy··on Linode is suffering on-going DDoS attacks
I wonder if this is correlated to the extortion thread on NANOG I saw the other day.
TheWoodsy··on The untapped potential of volunteer computing
Wow. I completely missed it.
TheWoodsy··on The untapped potential of volunteer computing
The article really should mention http://www.gridcoin.us/ A Crypto currency awarded for actual BOINC work units.

I was a big fan of Folding@home back in the day, but now that I have the wonderful responsibility of the electricity bill, I've stopped all work. I wonder if Gridcoin could become a suitable offset for those bills in the future?

TheWoodsy··on Stop using gzip
I believe you're looking for pbzip2. Parallel bzip2 file compressor. I've replaced it as my go-to compression.
TheWoodsy··on Elon Musk: Only a Carbon Tax Will Accelerate the World's Exit from Fossil Fuels
Carbon tax in Australia. All extra expenses were passed along down the chain to the consumer. We got rid of the tax. Prices stayed the same. sigh

Implementation and/or regulation is key.

TheWoodsy··on The Web’s Cruft Problem
I ended up with 67 Requests and 2.8M. uBlock Origin > Flash disabled > Going through a Squid transparent proxy with SquidGuard lists from shallalist.de (adv,anonvpn,remotecontrol,spyware,tracker)
TheWoodsy··on Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default
This is priceless http://i.imgur.com/3uNsIF2.png
TheWoodsy··on How Microsoft Bing Censors the Middle East
If you want to come into my house and use the internet, that's fine. But you will do so through my firewall. If the EFF then writes an article about my 'restrictive' firewall. I'll tell them to politely fsck off.

I am not condoning the filtering of search results, and never will. In the grand picture we all know that this censoring gig never works. But where does the EFF get this idea that they have the right to berate a company and insinuate that they disobey a governments rules/laws/standards in their own country? It's a bit much 'aint it?

TheWoodsy··on TLS Client Puzzles Extension
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash proof of work Works great for Teamspeak3. Required 'level' to join server is 22. New identity takes roughly two seconds of compute time to reach 22. Spammers never bother after first ban.
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