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devillius··on NREL Map of US Datacenter Infrastructure (2025)
This map illustrates the geospatial relationship between data center locations, transmission infrastructure, fiber optic networks, and metropolitan areas.
devillius··on Ask HN: What are your favorite alternatives to Postman and Insomnia?
Hoppscotch - https://hoppscotch.io has been a good alternative for my use cases.
devillius··on Aks HN: GitHub's Home Page is so smooth, how?
This might shed some light on what they did... Amazing work to say the least. https://github.blog/2021-01-29-making-githubs-new-homepage-f...
devillius··on “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
An appropriate place to make a report: https://compliance.umn.edu/
devillius··on Ask HN: Should you roll your own auth?
If you're dealing with production traffic and live credentials... NO!
devillius··on Is there hope for IPv6?
The recommendation is to assign a /56 to end users from an ISP. That would give you plenty of subnets to work with.

/56 == 256 /64s Each /64 == 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses

devillius··on Ask HN: What do you do in your 1-on-1s with your direct reports?
This. 100 times this.
devillius··on Equifax linked customers to my fake phishing version of their site by accident
Are you sure it's not https://www.equifaxbreach2017.com

/s

devillius··on Ask HN: If enough people froze only Experian report, would they go out of biz?
Equifax? And no.

Their whole business model is based on selling your info. Only way they are going out of business is if companies stop giving them info.

devillius··on Show HN: I'll mail Equifax your arbitration opt-out for free
Like keybase?
devillius··on Show HN: I'll mail Equifax your arbitration opt-out for free
You could look at the alternate site: https://equifaxbreach2017.com
devillius··on Seriously, Equifax? This Is a Breach No One Should Get Away With
This is kinda how I feel. https://equifaxbreach2017.com/

FYI. That is not the real site.

devillius··on Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
This is how I feel. https://equifaxbreach2017.com

FYI. That is a satire / parody site and not the real one.

devillius··on Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps
Web Browser: Firefox, Chromium, Chrome

Email Client: Thunderbird

Terminal: gnome-terminal

IDE: Atom, VS Code

File manager: Nautilus

Basic Text Editor: gedit

IRC/Messaging Client: None

PDF Reader: None

Office Suite: Libreoffice, Openoffice

Calendar: None

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: None

Photo Viewer: None

Screen recording: Recordmydesktop (Kali recorder)

devillius··on Ask HN: How best to report phishing emails to a domain holder?
I would send emails to abuse@neiu.edu and phishing@neiu.edu. In addition, you could perform a whois lookup on the domain to get the Technical Contact: https://who.is/whois/neiu.edu and send an email to admin@neiu.edu

If you wanted to take it another step forward, here are the folks you could probably contact: https://ssb.neiu.edu/mercury_neiuprod/GZKDIRL.P_DISPLAY_DEPT...

Hope this helps.

devillius··on Ask HN: That website with product/startup ideas?
I think I know what you're looking for. demandrush.com

Failed to capitalize on a large number of eyeballs.

devillius··on Magma – An encrypted email server daemon
I don't think the Python/Ruby/Node/VB developers are the intended contributors.

Source: I'm a Python/Ruby/Node/VB/C/C++ dev

devillius··on Ask HN: Best practices for log format?
As part of my current role, I setup and managed a unified logging infrastructure as part of a SIEM install. We're talking ingesting logs in the order of TBs a day (Lots). Here are my observations:

1. Syslog type logs are great when the volume is low, but field extraction can be a pain (unless you're a Regex savant)

2. Structured logs are nice to deal with. Fairly easy to read and a dream to parse. Make sure you have a good ETL process in place to process these logs so they are searchable. 3. If you have a lot of logs, they are only as good at the usability of the search on that corpus of text.

I use Splunk to ingest the logs and once the extractions are in place, it is a dream to search. Other options like ELK are available and work pretty well too.

Show the devs the advantages of having structured logs indexed and ready to search. No more: SSH > cat | grep | tail | less | more

Real-time functionality and the ability to alert on certain conditions is an added bonus.

devillius··on Ask HN: What is the best alternative now that Wunderlist will be gone?
You don't need an Office subscription. A regular Microsoft account works just as well.
devillius··on Ostinato – A Network Traffic Generator and Analyzer
This is such a classic. Used it in college and still use it to this day to find definitions / struct members.
devillius··on Ask HN: Secure estate planning
Most password managers like LastPass let you designate someone else who can retrieve your account.

Master Passwords /Keys / Encrypted USBs in sealed envelopes stored together with your will all seem like probable options.

I personally have a Master password and a USB with my private encryption keys stored securely and Google Inactive Account manager to send instructions if I don't access my account for a month.

Good luck and I would be curious to hear what you end up doing.

devillius··on Non-military federal agencies’ purchases of guns, ammunition, etc (2016)
I think the title is a little misleading. The report states that the findings are from 2006-2014 and that is when the rapid militarization of police forces with DHS funds was widely reported.

I fear that HN attributes all these to the current political atmosphere and how the foundation laid by the previous administration.

devillius··on Show HN: HowDoYouPronounce.org – Made with AWS Polly
Can't seem to pronounce 'rural'
devillius··on 106 years after tragic crash, locomotive located in Lake Superior
As someone who lives in Duluth, this is not surprising at all. It's a magnificent sight when Lake Superior freezes over and you are able to walk/drive over it.
devillius··on Ask HN: Most reliable VPN service for a medium size startup
Why would you not have your networking team deploy a Cisco ASA / pfSense / OpenVPN to your DMZ?
devillius··on Clinton Emails: FBI Recommends 'No Charges'
I'll just leave this here. Eerily similar: https://www.fbi.gov/sacramento/press-releases/2015/folsom-na...
devillius··on Penetration Testing Tools Cheat Sheet
Lyonlim, Couldn't find an email in your profile. Feel free to send me an email (in profile) if you wanted to explore this more.
devillius··on GPS Hacking, Part 1
Awesome. Thank you. I didn't realize they had a new version of the chart out now.
devillius··on GPS Hacking, Part 1
The FCC rules for Amateur radio which is defined in Part 97 clearly states that an amateur may not disrupt radio location services. The frequency for the GPS Signals, high UHF is not close to any privileges available, amateur operators included. In short, don't do this unless you're testing / putting out very low power. Better yet, get an RF enclosure.

Here is a graphic of the spectrum available in the US: https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/2003-alloch...

devillius··on Knuth 3:16 (2002)
Came here to report this too.
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