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dbalanon How to fix flying

Being very bad and ATC sim games, my excuse was that real ATC's use a lot more tech than a keyboard and map of airplanes. Now I stand corrected.

dbalanon Why I Had a Magnet Implanted in My Finger

Will you be able to travel if you have implants? What happens when the scanners find something fishy? (Now I'm curious about medically approved implants as well)

dbalanon A new Curl logo

This might shed some light - Curl Developer on URLs

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hGPFWP...

dbalanon FPGA Webserver

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see the reason.

dbalanon The Path to Rust

Runtime errors are easy to happen in Go, main culprit being the typesystem. If you are writing some non trivial abstractions (e.g db calls), you'll almost always end up with passing interface{} types, which destroys the compile time type safety.

dbalanon Major Remote SSH Security Issue in CoreOS Linux Alpha

As another used pointed out, fail2ban is a generic tool, I don't necessarily agree with the method its implemented though there is a recent module in iptables that should be enough for most services.

Also, about SSH - it is still better to block the bad actors before you process the request. I've seen occurances where the network was saturated bots trying to brute force.

dbalanon Major Remote SSH Security Issue in CoreOS Linux Alpha

I get that coreos wants to be transparent, but isn't this the point of having an alpha release?

dbalanon My url isn't your url

punycode, that is used to encode unicode urls is also used for support of unicode characters in DNS.

dbalanon Moxie Marlinspike Makes Encryption for Everyone

Its incredibly hard for publishers to do https, where main revenue is from serving third party content embedded inside.

Wired has nice article about their efforts going https https://www.wired.com/2016/04/wired-launching-https-security...

dbalanon Moxie Marlinspike Makes Encryption for Everyone

Here is moxie's reply in that matter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10665520

dbalanon SS7 MITM Attack Against WhatsApp and Telegram

SS7 is broken beyond repair, infact it being a walled garden is the only security it ever had.

This ccc talk is a good intro - https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6122_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412271...

dbalanon Ubuntu 16.04 proves even an LTS release can live at Linux’s bleeding edge

I wish it was really easy like that.

ubuntu developers take all effort to give you a userspace with everything working together, but there simply far too many choices of hardware which will break things.

I've a skylake laptop - power management sucks in all distro because kernel hasn't caught up yet[1]

I use a broadcom wifi chip which just got their firmware merged into mainline.

I don't know how *BSDs can import support for all shiny new hardware as they are launched. (Disclaimer: I have a thinkpad edge 2010 that runs openBSD happily)

[1] https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html

dbalanon Every top 5 song from 1958 to 2016

Its quite easy tracking song popularity down to number plays, thanks to the streaming services, but thats now. Any idea where the old data is coming from? Couldn't find any links on the site.

dbalanon GNU name system

Is .gnu hosted in the root servers? If so, it isn't still possible to take it down?

dbalanon Apple Stole My Music

Repharse - non US credit card with CC from a country where spotify isn't launched.

But they do allow you use spotify anywhere from the world if you have premium.

dbalanon Apple Stole My Music

Maybe in the US - but its not outside. I've been trying to play this streaming game for now

1. Spotify - doesn't allow you to buy premium (which is availble worldwide) if you have a non-US credit card.

2. Apple Music - is available, but I use a linux laptop.

3. Rdio - shutdown.

The vast majority of preference of the the people how they enjoy their music makes put "friendliest DRM" in the leagues of Unicorns.

dbalanon Japan Now Has More Electric Car Charging Spots Than Gas Stations

The actual data worth looking will the percentage of electric vehicles to ones that run on conventional fuel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_J... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country#Ja...

dbalanon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2016)

Location: Bangalore, India

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Type: Contract or Full-time.

Technologies: python, go, linux, AWS, django, flask, haskell, high scale low latency environments.

Resume: http://rest.s3for.me/dbalan/resume.pdf, https://dbalan.in

Email: mail@dbalan.in

dbalanon The DROWN Attack

Better explanation: http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/03/attack-of-we...

dbalanon Show HN: DNS server with ad sites blocked

This is DNS server version of the excellent host blocking rule maintained here: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

This was setup in mainly to stop my android loading ads all the time. This is no way standards compliant (for starters, it caches everything for a fixed time and discards TTL values) but worked well so far. Comments are appreciated.

dbalanon TP-Link begins router firmware lockdown due to FCC proposed regulation

Is this limited to devices sold in the US? They are going to impose it on every other place that sells them?

Afiu tp-link has no obligations to manage two devices trees for a niche community. Stubborn minority effect at play here. [1] http://fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf

dbalanon How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone

Hug of death. Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Dc-koH...

dbalanon True Micropayments with Bitcoin

That device looks awefully lot like a Raspberry PI. Anyone know the exact spec?

dbalanon Adblock via /etc/hosts

Relevant: adblock with DNS Server https://hub.docker.com/r/kolyunya/afdns/

This is for people who cannot edit /etc/hosts, but can change DNS server.

dbalanon Chrome Will Drop SPDY Support on May 15

Original announcement: https://blog.chromium.org/2016/02/transitioning-from-spdy-to...

dbalanon Chrome Will Drop SPDY Support on May 15

Is there anything SPDY can do that http/2 can't now?

dbalanon Intel to shut down renegade Skylake overclocking with microcode update

What are the ways in which this microcode update is enforced? Is it something that ships with your os? or something that user has to manually install like a BIOS update?

dbalanon Important SSH patch coming soon

This link is a separate thread that is in top. Maybe we should chuck this parent altogether.