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benedikt··on How to fuck up an airport
> You can use a standard subway ticket

almost. the airport is one stop into zone C, and a “standard” ticket would only be valid in zones A and B.

you need either an ABC ticket or a standard ticket + extension ticket.

benedikt··on Start Self Hosting
you’re not all that far off

* you’d have to sign up with a colo provider first. since data centers in physical buildings, this just depends on where you live

* when you sign up with them they provide you with info like ip addresses or how to connect to their network (they might have dhcp, or you might have to configure static ips). usually there is a initial setup fee, around 1 month of rent.

* if you just rent a a 1U space you usually can get physical access to it while accompanied by someone working for the data center. usually this is during business hours, but each data center will have its own rules. if you rent larger units, such as a full rack (42U) or half a rack you usually get a key card and can access it 24/7 (this usually involves a phone call for them to remotely open a lock)

benedikt··on Zelensky video deepfake
in this context it means "to give up".

> Varje meddelande att motsåndet ska uppges är falskt.

a more direct translation: "Every message that resistence should be given up is false"

benedikt··on Investigating Influencer VPN Ads on YouTube [pdf]
some years ago i ran a vpn service together with a friend. we had the second skill set you mentioned, but not the first.

we didn’t overhype the privacy aspect (and would in fact explain what _wasnt_ private about vpns, not that anyone was interested in listening) and primarily existed to serve a customer base for other reasons.

it was a good experience, but it went nowhere really. but i did quickly figure out that almost every large vpn provider out there has more of the first skill set you mentioned.

benedikt··on I'm so sorry everyone. Or: why I'm switching to Cloudflare
oracle cloud free tier gives you two small instances with public ips

it’s not limited to 1 year like aws, they say it will be free forever

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

benedikt··on Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
you can find out which zone is mapped to use1-az4 for your account with awscli:

    aws ec2 describe-availability-zones | jq -r '.AvailabilityZones[] | select(.ZoneId == "use1-az4") | .ZoneName'
benedikt··on Glued to Your Phone? Here's How to Rethink Your Relationship with Social Media
what’s the camera like ?
benedikt··on Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time
How do you push and install a Debian package with scp?
benedikt··on Texas Instruments sent a DMCA takedown to a site archiving data sheets
hey, i set up a mirror here: https://mirrors.deadops.de/ti/

and a zip file (8gb) here to download in bulk (or for others to make their own mirrors): https://mirrors.deadops.de/ti.zip

benedikt··on Texas Instruments sent a DMCA takedown to a site archiving data sheets
my mirror is here: https://mirrors.deadops.de/ti/

zip file (8gb) here: https://mirrors.deadops.de/ti.zip

benedikt··on Texas Instruments sent a DMCA takedown to a site archiving data sheets
never uploaded anything to libgen, but i am setting up a http mirror of this and will also provide a .zip file, to make it easy for others to download the whole collection.

posting the link here when its done, then someone else can submit this to libgen and other places.

benedikt··on Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
You can’t really stop people from finding your face online if it’s on social media, but you can present the information so that you’d first read the text and then see a photo.

Move the photo on the profile to the bottom of it, and make it optional.

benedikt··on Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles
What if the photo is optional and displayed at the bottom? Showing a practically mandated photo first puts a lot of unconscious biases in your head.

This is a relatively new trend, and probably has something with social media to do.

benedikt··on TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem
> well-managed environment (ie one that has non-rudimentary window management and a browser/extension that handles idle tabs with negligible ongoing resource use).

Can you elaborate on this? Which extensions are you talking about?

I also rack up hundreds of tabs and my browser is often the main resource hog for me. I’ll often have to kill -9 it to force it to start with “oops we crashed, here are your previous tabs in an unloaded state”, but it sounds like you have a better way of doing this

benedikt··on Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
What are you currently using them for? Are they just sitting dormant ?
benedikt··on The Haskell Elephant in the Room
twitter isnt the place for reasonable nuanced discussion, if you think facebook et al. are bad then you are supposed to agree with the hyperbolic black and white language.

although this isnt twitter, i sometimes feel like the commenters on HN have spent too much time on twitter. i cant stand opinionated twitter "personalities" that tweet more than they code, and it's been bleeding over to other places as well.

benedikt··on Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95
The gradient on the titlebar was from windows 98 btw, windows 95 didn't have it.

win95: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Windows_95_at...

win98: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Sound_Recorde...

benedikt··on SSH Emergency Access
https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/iptables/iptables-apply....

Or use `at` to run `iptables-restore`. Simpler than setting up a cronjob (and if youre doing it manually, cron has a bunch of gotchas that at least bite me in the ass once in a blue moon).

benedikt··on ADS-B Exchange – Co-op of unfiltered flight data
What's the difference between the dongles on the Wiedehopf buyig guide and a "generic" RTL-SDR dongle?
benedikt··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)
This is a good primer. https://thehustle.co/rocket-internet-oliver-samwer
benedikt··on Ask HN: Hosting provider that respects privacy?
In the same vein as prq.se, Cyberbunker might be interesting: http://www.cyberbunker.com/web/index.php
benedikt··on How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team
Curious, were you much older than the other students in college?
benedikt··on Why software engineers don’t get jobs: Three horror stories
The "tech interviews" are way too often more about stroking their own egos than to understand how the candidate works.
benedikt··on Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix
> If you seriously think VoD services were going to operate using standards without DRM in place I'm not sure you'll find many productive conversations on this topic.

I know you are completely right. But I'm still not happy about it and I will still complain about it.

The technical ineffectiveness of DRM isn't something that needs to be explained on HN, this is absolutely about business people and lawyers getting too much power without having the necessary technical understanding.

While I'm waiting for the solution on that, I'll continue watching torrented shows that are obviously Netflix screencaps.

benedikt··on CIA malware and hacking tools
Also Sweden does not extradite anyone that has a chance of facing the death penalty.

And Assange said he would allow himself to be extradited to if Manning was commuted. She was, Assange is still in the Ecuadorian embassy.

The UK has much favourable extradition treaties with the US than Sweden has.

benedikt··on How a French scholar was treated at US airport
Completely off topic, but this thread is a bit old anyway. Did you use the this nick on #linux.is@ircnet a "couple" of years ago ?
benedikt··on What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt
Also there are other countries than the US
benedikt··on Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers
Slightly related, I ran nmap scans on the known NK internet for a while.

The data can be found here: https://github.com/benediktkr/nk-scans

benedikt··on How to steal a developer's local database
> If you set your DNS TTL to a relatively-low 1 minute (as in the POC), that's 31.9 years for an exhaustive search.

Right, but that assumes a new DNS record is created each time. An attacker might simply have records for the entire 127.0.0.0/8 range and would iterate over them.

It would still take a long time to make an exhaustive search, but it will be faster than waiting for a 1 minute TTL between each try.

benedikt··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2016)
Location: Berlin

Remote: Only interested in remote work but willing to travel regularily.

Technologies: Capable as Security Engineer and DevOps on Linux. Python, C#. Would be interested in Clojure work. Use Python to get my day-to-day work done.

Resume: http://benedikt.sudo.is/cv1.pdf

Email: benedikt@inventati.org

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