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dfcon Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone

Thank you. I was a little surprised by the price but I guess I naively hoped it was a change of heart from big standards.

dfcon Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone

Does anyone understand what was meant by "This is because almost every standard (except ISO8601, whatever) is just a file, and you can read it." Initially I thought it was because the PDF of ISO-8601 is not a file commonly distributed with operating system. But that's not unique to ISO8601, you won't find IEEE 1588-2019 or NMEA 0183 v4.11 on your computer either. For ~20$ I think I can buy a PDF of the standard from ISO. Is there something special about ISO8601 that is not contained in the standard?

dfcon Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths

NIST does a lot of really neat work outside of crypto standards. Judah Levine and all the other metrology folks are awesome. It's unfortunate that they get grouped together by comments like this.

dfcon Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court

You can click favorite to "subscribe" to the comment without making everyone else have to skim/skip your comment.

dfcon TCAS averts possible head-on collision in Austin

Are you referring to the 45 year old Cessna when you say private jet? It looks like that plane flies a lot around Louisiana and Texas. Weird to jump to a conclusion about F1 money and an entitled pilot.

dfcon Show HN: What happens if you make a crossword out of Reddit r/gaming

It happens on puzzles 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20.

dfcon Show HN: What happens if you make a crossword out of Reddit r/gaming

Why is there no 1 across on the puzzle? There are clues for 1 across but not on the "board".

dfcon Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

It sounds like they did both:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/16/24272009/amazon-disconti...

dfcon Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

I got the kindle oasis because of the next/prev page buttons. I don't know why they discontinued it.

dfcon Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

I've been a kindle user for so long I'm embarrassed to admit I don't have any concept of what it is like to get ebooks outside of the Amazon ecosystem. Was the change easy to make? Do you feel like you have access to as much content as you did with a kindle?

dfcon Turn your Android phone into a modern ham radio transceiver

So just assume your Baofeng battery is also managed. Tada! Two battery free solutions.

dfcon Turn your Android phone into a modern ham radio transceiver

How is this battery free?

dfcon Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava

I just recently got frigate up and running. How do the other two compare?

dfcon Wigle.net: All the networks, found by everyone

It's kind of crazy to see how prevalent MYChevrolet and/or myGMC are. There are more MYChevrolet / myGMC SSIDs than attwifi. I have to think this is because so many people are doing the stumbling from inside of a vehicle.

dfcon Whence '\n'?

I can't find a reference now. But from what I remember the logo is supposed to be on top facing the user when plugging a device in. This was part of the standard that defined the size/shape/etc of what USB is.

dfcon MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia

If you want a awesome tool to manage your music collection check out beets: https://beets.io/

It makes heavy use of MusicBrainz. If you are OCD about your digital music collection it is a must have.

dfcon CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them

Which of these authors have LinkedIn profiles documenting their employment history?

dfcon Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS

But it seems like User Interaction is required.

dfcon Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS

I agree that Alice just needs to print anything but that seems like user interaction required. Its also not clear if Alice has multiple printers defined does it matter which printer she selects?

dfcon Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS

The original CVSS score on Twitter indicated that user interaction was not required. However reading the RCE chain on the page says:

Wait for a print job to be sent to our fake printer for the PPD directives, and therefore the command, to be executed.

If Alice never hits print it seems like a print job will never be triggered. Am I missing something? I'm not questioning evilsocket, I'm trying to check my understanding.

dfcon Comic Mono

I use fantasque sans. I forget what made me choose it over Comic Shanns. It's worth a look if you like this style.

https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans

dfcon Defend against vampires with 10 gbps network encryption

Thank you for your reply. I have had some weird issues with Linux bridges in the past and now I'm wondering if this could have been the culprit.

dfcon Defend against vampires with 10 gbps network encryption

> I wonder if their setup achieves the same degree of transparency, because afaiui, that's just not possible involving a 802.1Q-compliant (Linux) bridge.

Can you elaborate on what is not transparent about 802.1q bridge in Linux?

I hear you on the system tuning. Whenever I change sysctl variables I always include a comment with what the default was and why the new setting is better. I don't trust sysctl copy pasta w/o decent explanations.

dfcon Telephone Line Rural Outside Plant

What ISP do you use?

dfcon Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian

I think this is the comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bcachefs/comments/1f4erbg/comment/l...

dfcon Firewall rules: not as secure as you think

I appreciate the response but I think you misunderstood my question. OP mentioned a "software-only, zero implicit trust overlay network". In my head all overlay networks are software only (and from your answer your conception too). I was trying to figure out why OP mentioned "software only"? Was it redundant or was it a useful way to distinguish between another category of overlay network.

dfcon Firewall rules: not as secure as you think

Are there overlay networks that are not software only?

dfcon A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD

Cumberland is equidistant (~2 hours) between Pittsburgh airport and Dulles.

dfcon The Erie Canal: The man-made waterway that transformed the US

I'm from Syracuse (East of Rochester). My gf and I just went back to visit and spent a lot of time riding/running along the canal. It must have been wild to see a pedestrian bridge floating down the canal. I don't think I have ever seen anything bigger than a kayak on the canal.