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cremp··on Turn off DoH, Firefox
How can you block it, if the browser itself is doing the communication, over https no-less?

DoH was made to stop censorship, which includes blocking; if you could just block it, then whats the point of DoH?

cremp··on Turn off DoH, Firefox
Even worse, corporate intranet addresses get leaked.

Everyone on this article saying it's FUD is either a framework junky, isn't seeing the bigger picture, or just focus on one wrong thing in the article.

cremp··on Cloudflare S-1
Except something that is not the same for all S1's, is the history of losses.

For a business to really give a positive, something needs to change, otherwise they stay negative.

Edit:

> and we expect we will continue to incur net losses for the foreseeable future

That is not a common statement.

cremp··on Cloudflare S-1
Exactly, and the real reason they did it was to cash out.
cremp··on Cloudflare S-1
> We have a history of net losses and may not be able to achieve or sustain profitability in the future.

I never got this... Why go public if you literally say you won't make money?

Who would buy stock in something that will not return a positive?

Are they starving for money and hope some public trading gets them a boost?

Edit: It seems to be following the same pattern as the other tech IPOs recently, just to cash out the early investors.

cremp··on The Elite Club That Rules the Diamond World Is Starting to Crack
Careful with that. I had the same thought, but was proven 'wrong' because my SO did not want anything but diamond, just because of the 'tradition.'

No amount of reading online would get her to change her mind.

She was worth it though.

cremp··on Work on production line of Boeing 737 Max ‘not adequately funded’
What happens most of the time with the big companies (Boeing, Cessna, Bombardier...) is that it is cheaper to have an in-house DER (Designated Engineering Representative) for the part of the aircraft that they are certifying. DERs themselves

You have Mechanical DERs, Electrical DERs, Software DERs, and others.

A good example for the HN crowd, the Software DER. Per regulations, the software standard is the DO-178B. The DER isn't actually spinning up the dev environment, or building the piece of software used; just checking to make sure the process was followed. (the dev environment was documented, what dependancies...) These people are a step up from code reviewers and just check paperwork more than software.

The FAA itself isn't concerned with safety; it is just there to make sure there is a papertrail to follow in the event of a safety issue.

cremp··on New information about Slack’s 2015 security incident
> inserted code that allowed them to capture plaintext passwords as they were entered by users at the time

Huh? I get if you 'lose' a database backup, but hashing on the server side has always been the wrong way to do things. If you hash it in JS before the request is sent, there is no possible way for you, or any attacker to get the raw user password; only if they literally change production code to send a new request to another endpoint.

> users we confirmed to be affected.

So everyone who logged in during the event?

> resetting passwords for all accounts that were active at the time of the 2015 incident

That's what should have happened the first time. Once you have attacker modified code, you cannot trust what you have on file is accurate or not already taken.

cremp··on Amazon stores Alexa transcripts indefinitely
> kept these logs in backups

Is that unreasonable?

I mean, I cannot possibly expect myself to go through my backups and delete a folder from everything, down to the multi-year incremental.

Once you start tampering with a backup, it stops being a backup.

cremp··on NordVPN sued by Torguard for blackmail [pdf]
On the DDoS...

I'm more inclined to say they don't know who it was, but pointing fingers, and Black Friday to maximize the potential damages reward.

The legal case also says "unknown individual"; so they could be a run-of-the-mill reporter or something.

A lot of what Torguard is saying in the case is pretty benign. An email from header can be faked, trade secrets, if left on the open web... aren't really secret anymore.

Nord isnt in a clean place either. Their response is making claims that the legal case doesnt even touch.

cremp··on Switch from Chrome to Firefox
Has anyone actually Wireshark'ed a machine with just Chrome running?

I ask because I keep reading about how Google is bad because of their business, but I haven't seen an actual pcap, or any reporting for that matter, on what Google actually sends back home.

If you have, or know of a place that has done that, I'd be interested to read about it.

Until then, Chrome, and Firefox are just more tools in my arsenal; and people trying to get me to ditch one, just because they dont like it, is just outright dumb.

cremp··on Show HN: Normail – un-fancy email with cal, contacts, and Nextcloud $50/year
This smells like Mail-in-a-box... A Free solution where a VPS is $5/month max.

You target people who want to go away from Google, yet you have even worse transparency on what you're running.

Edit: As a fact... it is mail-in-a-box... This is worse than I thought. (Proof: https://box.normail.co/admin)

Who in their right mind would give $50/year to someone they've never met, that has no real worth, and is peddling a free software suite as the real deal to get away from Google.

cremp··on Tether Says Stablecoin Is Only Backed 74% by Cash, Securities
Because Tether is the de-facto way for the exchanges to bypass USD regulations.
cremp··on DNS-over-HTTPS Policy Requirements for Resolvers
> A corp network should set up their own DoH resolver anyway

What good is that is the browser uses their own list? Literally that's what the article is saying. Firefox will force users to use ones that break the top-down approach on how software works. If I set a DHCP option for DoH, and setup my own DoH resolver, Firefox wont care, they will jsut use their list.

This also opens up possibilities for selling positions on the trusted list, because we've seen that happen before (adblock, or the firefox Mr Robot extension.)

Firefox itself, with plays like this are trying to make a decision about the whole, when they are completely forgetting the corporate side.

cremp··on DNS-over-HTTPS Policy Requirements for Resolvers
Because they should!

Think a corporate network. If I as a sysadmin set our DHCP options to give out our own resolvers, I expect that every machine on the domain to use ours.

DoH breaks that completely; and hence the network operator should have the final say.

As a sysadmin myself, if browsers are overriding the basic model of top down, and it hurts me, because when something is wrong, I cant just look on my machine, I have to check which browser they use... that is the antithesis of the problem, because when DoH doesn't work but normal DNS does, then I'm flat out of options.

This is why I choose not to use Firefox or any of the DoH mainline providers (Cloudflare,) and I go out of my way to make sure users cant do it.

cremp··on Wikimedia Foundation Joins the World Wide Web Consortium
Why on earth would a company that actually makes a difference join a glorified media company that has DRM rules written by the exact companies that would benefit?

Honestly asking, why is Wikimedia joining W3C a good thing? If anything, I think, it forces Wikimedia's hand to cave when the DRM pressure hits again.

cremp··on Southwest Boeing 737 Max Makes Emergency Landing at Orlando International
Grounding really applies to passenger flights. Airlines are allowed to 'move' the plane from one location to another if there are no passengers.
cremp··on JPM Coin Is the Wildest Big Bank Idea in Many Years
> use all the deposits for fractional reserve banking

They already do, and it's supposed to be limited per law, it's called the leverage ratio.

cremp··on 40% of Smart Homes at Risk to Hackers
That claim isn't surprising even if it came from a company with no vested interest.

Most people who have those smart devices aren't really in the technical field. They won't have VLANs segmenting their network, or sniffers watching, let alone a proper firewall.

Look at Mirai; took over smart devices and instead of gaining footholds into everyones network; just used all the outbound traffic.

I wouldn't dismiss the claim just because an AV company said it.

cremp··on .dev Insiders
They are required to, to prevent cybersquatting.

If companies such as Facebook, or Google itself, had to wait until the EAP, then Anon (Unrelated to company) could have the Facebook.dev, or Google.dev domain; leading to confusion, and ultimately lawsuits for the domain.

I'm 90% sure there is a rule with IANA to allow companies to claim their brand before it goes public.

Speaking of public; the EAP is nothing but a price gouging scheme. Since anyone could join the 'EAP' it is public, but they are structuring the fees such only those who have enough to throw away can use it... The fact is, the .dev TLD is GA...

cremp··on Griping about Go
To add on; recover itself is a nice code-smell.

If you're using recover, it's probably time to rewrite the func.

I say this because Go forces you (minus just ignoring with _) to error check; so panic's shouldn't happen to start with.

cremp··on Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation
Except now, sendgrid is merged with twilio; so... history repeating?
cremp··on Blocking website ads with a hosts file
Such as?

DNS over HTTPs isn't just a Chrome issue; firefox are the ones who are actually shoving it down your throat.

I know most users here on HN are firefox users, but come on... It's an issue with all browsers, not individual.

cremp··on USB Type-C to Become More Secure with Authentication Standard
They have the same form-factor for the connectors; I'd say that's a standard; especially since they are polarized plugs (full square, trapezoid.)
cremp··on USB Type-C to Become More Secure with Authentication Standard
I'll say it goes further than that.

I have a few modular power supplies around from different vendors, and I made the mistake of using one cable in a different vendors supply.

The supply side had the same connections; so I thought that I could just mix-and-match.

Turns out, that even though the connections are standardized, I ended up putting ground on a 5v pin, 12v on the 5v, 3.3v on the 3.3v (magically) and 5v on the 12v pin on a standard SATA connector.

As a result, I fried several hard drives, because the output of the supplies wasn't standardized for the connector type. I can't even imagine an end-user using a volt-meter to check which are compatible with which vendor.

This was a problem before USB-C.

TL;DL: Check your modular supply cables, and don't use other vendors cables.

cremp··on Hyper
Yes.

Why on earth would you rather something that takes up 100-200 MB over something that uses less than 5 MB (my biggest memory hog putty on Windows)

With that mindset, your 16 GB of RAM will go away after a few programs, because the devs weren't worried about memory usage. That is just the wrong mindset to have as a developer.

Apps like this are making things needlessly complicated, just for the sake of complicating.

cremp··on Hyper
Why?

Seriously, why?

Not only is it electron based, so my memory usage for a terminal is stupid high, but what sets this apart from your standard terminals, because maybe plugins?

I'd trust the standards over this any day, just because of handling of edge-cases, unicode comes to mind.

cremp··on Apple threw shade at Amazon 'HQ2' as 'beauty contest,' but then it did the same
I'd say headline is correct...

> Incentives from Texas include as much as $25 million in taxpayer-funded grants, and a 15-year property tax abatement possibly worth tens of millions of dollars

That's literally what Amazon was forcing cities to do to each-other.

cremp··on Fake Net Neutrality Comments Draw A Federal Probe
Serious question: Why is everyones reaction to put {executive} in jail?

People don't understand that corporations, and to a larger extent, governments, are Medusa. You can cut a snake off, but there are more, who were trained by {executive}. (And it doesn't actually stop the {bad_practice} from happening; the head wasn't cut off.) (And for those who really want the myth, the head still turned people to stone, IE 'we've always done it this way.')

Don't get me wrong; as a net-isizen, I want Pai to rot in hell for everything he's done, but what is the rational behind putting people in jail?

USA already has enough people incarcerated from tiny drug charges; what makes this any better? Throwing people in jail won't solve anything, so why is that the biggest reaction to stuff like this?

cremp··on DigitalOcean launches its container service
DigitalOcean has always been behind the curve of these things. All of the other big cloud platforms have had this for at least a few months.

I haven't actually seen anything 'new' come out of DigitalOcean in years.

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