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bataton Russia considers 'unplugging' from internet

But they're already doing it.

More than 17 millions of IP addresses were blocked in 2018 [1][2] including large segments of Google/Amazon/Azure/DO/Linode etc. Although recently roskomnadzor unblocked most of them (perhaps due to the spread of DPI among internet providers, so they able to deal with https now and act more accurately), but ~800,000 IPs remains blocked. The government doesn't give a shit about creating a bad reputation for online business in Russia. Instead, actively engaged in "import substitution", e.g. making Сhina-like isolated payment card system [3] or spending millions for "national search engine" [4] (currently bankrupt, AFAIK). They are seems to be totally OK with isolation.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/17/russia-blocks-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_Ru...

[3] https://nspk.com/cards-mir/

[4] https://sputnik.ru/

bataton Russia considers 'unplugging' from internet

Official bill draft page[1] and some highlights from the provided set of documents (translation):

  Operators, owners of technological communication networks, as well as other persons having a ASN number [...] must:
  - follow the routing rules established by the federal executive authority [...] 
  - modify the routing rules at the request of the federal executive authority [...] 
  - to resolve domain names use software and hardware in accordance with the requirements, determined by the federal executive authority [...]
  - use only internet exchange points listed in the national IXP registry [...]
  [etc. etc. etc.]
  In cases of threats to integrity, sustainability and safety [...] centralized management of the Internet by the federal executive authority may be carried out.

[1] http://sozd.duma.gov.ru/bill/608767-7

* Edit: typo

bataton Medium is a poor choice for blogging

I hate modern web. Every site nowdays filled with bright/flashing/wobbling/jumping buttons, modal windows, pinned bars covering 1/3 of the content (or 2/3 on my phone in landscape mode) and asking me to install Yet Another Special App to view site. But I already have app for viewing sites - damn web browser. Browser can even open different pages in different tabs. Or even different sites in different tabs, unbelievable!

(Will it ever end?)

bataton The Intl.RelativeTimeFormat API

I'd rather want to see this (among other stuff) as a part of "ECMAScript standard library" than web browser API.

bataton Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more

    vivaldi --user-data-dir=...

bataton Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?

I'm pretty sure there may be some. Please check my comment in previous post about DDG https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17868117

bataton DuckDuckGo Raises $10M

Rather yes than no.

I tested DDG vs Yandex/Google/Bing and I'm pretty sure Yandex acts as "main" (if not "single") search provider for my language (or whatever heuristics DDG uses). For some senseless Ukrainian keywords Yandex shows almost identical to DDG results, while Google/Bing - mostly different.

In 2017 Yandex (among some other Russian companies) got ban in Ukraine and access to its services was blocked. Roughly at the same time Ukraine region have disappeared from DDG ("kl=ua-uk" URL parameter is still mentioned on search params page[1], but not working).

These events are likely connected. Furthermore, if DDG is just an aggregator, why a year later they can't switch to Google as local search provider and bring regional search for Ukraine back? Google local search results are at least as relevant as Yandex were. Or there are some hidden contractual obligations, partnerships, royalties directly from Yandex etc.? This looks unclear and suspicious to me.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/params

bataton Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

Well, it works as expected https://html.brow.sh/http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

bataton Gitlab 500 error

    18h45 
    Yorick is doing the vacuuming. Vacuuming is not doing it’s thing. Why….
    
    18h48 
    Still not vacuuming.
    
    18h50 
    Yorick: still not sure why it’s not vacuuming.    
    We need a roomba.

I love them :)

bataton Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator

  This app can:
  - find accounts on the device
  - read your contacts

Can I be social with someone chosen by my own, please?

bataton DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing

Ukraine region not available any more: while "ua-uk" URL parameter is still mentioned on search params page[1], it's not working. I didn't get the answers on DDG forum (now closed in favor of reddit), neither on /r/duckduckgo. I suspect this could be connected somehow to Yandex block. Anyway, currently can't use DDG for local search, sad :(

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/params

bataton Inside Telegram’s ambitious $1.2B ICO to create the next Ethereum

[citation needed]

Looks like rumors and disinformation spreaded by Anton Rozenberg - former Telegram developer. Russian journalists refer to his Facebook post[1]. IIRC, Rosenberg and Durov had some serious conflict. I've seen article on Medium[2] (earlier with unblurred screenshots) and Rosenberg seemed to me not quite adequate person.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/id77777/posts/10154846872521076 (Russian)

[2] https://medium.com/@anton.rozenberg/pavel-durov-sued-senior-...

bataton Markdown Here – Write email in Markdown

How could one write 64px red bold underlined "DO NOT REBOOT THE WEBSERVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" with this?

bataton MINIX – The most popular OS in the world, thanks to Intel

English version in Positive Technologies blog [1]

And this has already been added to me_cleaner [2] as --soft-disable option 2 months ago.

[1] http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html

[2] https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/commit/ced3b46ba2ccd7460...

bataton Using jupyter notebooks with a virtual environment

Looks awesome, but requirements.txt still seems pretty sufficient for me. Simple is better than complex :)

bataton Tensorflow sucks

> First, let’s look at the Tensorflow example

> Now let’s look at a Pytorch example that does the same thing

Reminds me Escobar (russian philosopher, not to be confused with Lopez-Escobar) theorem, which approximately translates into English as "With no alternative choice of the two opposite entities, both will be an exceptional nonsense."

bataton The tale of aux.c

How to delete "~" directory :) https://askubuntu.com/questions/26466/removing-folder-named

bataton PlainJS – Vanilla JavaScript Repository

Yea, let's bury jQuery again and make more "helpers.js" [1]

    export function extend(src) {
      var obj, args = arguments
      
      for (let i = 1; i < args.length; ++i) {
        if (obj = args[i]) {
          for (let key in obj) {
            // check if this property of the source object could be overridden
            if (isWritable(src, key))
              src[key] = obj[key]
          }
        }
      }
     }

or just add super-unique stuff to our classes [2]

    DragSelect.prototype.removeClass = function( element, classname ) {    
      var cn = element.className;
      var rxp = new RegExp( classname + \'\\b\', \'g\' );
      cn = cn.replace( rxp, \'\' );
      element.className = cn;
      return element;    
    };
    
    DragSelect.prototype.hasClass = function( element, classname ) {    
      var cn = element.className;
      if( cn.indexOf( classname ) > -1 ) { return true; }
      else { return false; }    
    };

or write tons of boilerplate code like

    if (typeof element === 'string') {
        owner.element = document.querySelector(element);
    } else {
        owner.element = ((typeof element.length !== 'undefined') && element.length > 0) ? element[0] : element;
    }

(mmm, it's so vanilla)

[1] https://github.com/oncode/handorgel/blob/master/src/helpers....

[2] https://github.com/ThibaultJanBeyer/DragSelect/blob/master/s...

bataton Godot Engine – Free and open-source 2D and 3D game engine

Good news everyone!

https://godotengine.org/article/beta-release-python-support

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6MsqsJqnao&t=2h35m09s (Emmanuel Leblond at EuroPython 2017)

bataton Hack – A typeface designed for source code

IMO DejaVu's "i" is much better.

https://i.imgur.com/1ITyRGt.gif

bataton C compiler undefined behavior: calls never-called function

I can't build it with fsanitize=undefined at all with clang 3.4:

    > clang -Os -std=c++11 -Wall -o boom -fsanitize=undefined boom.cpp 
    /tmp/boom-428713.o:(.rodata._ZTIFvvE[_ZTIFvvE]+0x0): undefined reference to `vtable for __cxxabiv1::__function_type_info'
    /tmp/boom-428713.o:(.rodata._ZTIFivE[_ZTIFivE]+0x0): undefined reference to `vtable for __cxxabiv1::__function_type_info'
    clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

bataton Benchmarks of PHP 7.2 Beta: PHP Is Still Getting Faster

Some awful stuff: http://php.net/manual/en/function.escapeshellarg.php http://php.net/manual/en/numberformatter.setpattern.php

bataton Yandex’s on-demand taxi service debuts its self-driving car project

bataton NTFS bug lets anyone hang or crash Windows 7 or 8.1

Browser's same-origin policy wolud prevent you from accessing local resources from internet. But this is still pretty exploitable DoS.

One could craft a shortcut to "C:\$MFT\non-existing.exe" or bogus "desktop.ini" inside some folder (on network share?) and explorer will crash the system while trying to fetch an icon. I've got a lot of freezes and one BSOD somewhere in ntsf.sys on Windows 7/8.1:

    ntfs.sys (Ntfs+0x4688) 
    Bugcheck code: 0x24 (0x1904FB, 0xFFFFF88018558398, 0xFFFFF88018557BF0, 0xFFFFF800022D4A77)
    Error: NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM
    file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\ntfs.sys

Here's what process monitor showed me right before BSOD. "Thread exit" from local session manager process looks quite interesting: https://www.dropbox.com/s/99qnpr25nt0tznh/procmon.jpg?raw=1

Exploit PoC:

WARNING! Unzipping this archive and/or stepping into unzipped folder likely to crash your system. You have been warned :) https://www.dropbox.com/s/sl5lw6yykvul5b7/ntfs_bug.zip?raw=1

Bottom line:

* Cromium-based browsers seems to download "file.lnk" as "file.download". Wise move, eh?

* Dropbox seems to delete shared lnk-files O_o

* God bless Sublime Text's session autosave.

bataton Xperia Touch makes any surface interactive

Awful contrast on lit surfaces (like any projector) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW8kzP7qnD8

bataton Angular 4.0.0 Now Available

I thought upgrading from 2.x.x to 4.x.x shold break something according to SemVer. So why "it's backwards compatible with 2.x.x"?

bataton Show HN: Fabulous: Print images in terminal with Python

There's standalone utility catimg (https://github.com/posva/catimg) written in C. It supports animation and 2x "retina" resolution using unicode symbols. Here's blog post about it: http://posva.net/shell/retro/bash/2013/05/27/catimg/

bataton Excel: Error when CSV file starts with “I” and “D”

Comment proving HN superiority over other pathetic news websites.

bataton The effects of living in a poor neighborhood

Expected to see something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt–Igoe story.

bataton SQL Tricks

CSS3 is also Turing-complete [1], so even while you can write a whole bunch of data processing stuff with SQL not means you should. There are indeed better tools for doing this, keep in mind what is "Q" in SQL.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300836