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Depends on the domain. .us registrations were done by emailing a filled-out template to a hostmaster.

Because they did use more than the web. Usenet, e-mail, FTP, etc.

foodstanceson Suspend for the X1 Carbon 2018 on Linux

Have you tried setting `layout.css.devPixelsPerPx` to some multiplier like 1.5?

foodstanceson AT&T Successfully Derails California's Tough New Net Neutrality Law

You can't receive texts from other Twilio numbers

That seems like it would be the easiest thing for them to get working out of all the wireless stuff, did you report that issue to them?

foodstanceson A Beginner's Guide to Firewalling with pf

I recommend using `egress` in a simple setup like that, it'll still work if you ever change your network device.

    block in on egress proto tcp to port { 25, 80 }

foodstanceson OpenBSD disables Intel's hyperthreading due to security concerns

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/96c11352863a7f6240b4e5...

foodstanceson Ask HN: How to find a mental health professional?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists

Unfortunately you may need to just try a few and see who you click with. It's not uncommon to do a preliminary session with one and either they decide to refer you to someone else (based on your situation) or you just don't like them. This is why it's hard to go by reviews from other patients.

foodstanceson Retguard: An improved stack protector for OpenBSD

That is not a fork, that is OpenCVS which is a brand new, from-scratch implementation. It's not yet being used to host the OpenBSD code (but some AnonCVS mirrors use it).

The CVS that OpenBSD uses is still GNU CVS - https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/cv...

foodstanceson Retguard: An improved stack protector for OpenBSD

https://www.openbsd.org/opencvs/index.html

foodstanceson Adventures in Deleting Tweets

If you're doing all the browser scraping, wouldn't it have been easier to just automate your browser clicking the delete/unlike button itself? I've done this in the past with Selenium, sometimes needing GreaseMonkey.

foodstanceson Stock-trading app Robinhood was rejected by 75 investors

You authenticate to Plaid with your bank credentials, so it's not much different than the data you can get directly from the bank through OFX (like Quicken and other things do). Plaid just simplified it and put a better API on it.

foodstanceson Pocket Casts acquired by NPR

And a popular podcast that makes him $5500/week in sponsorship revenue (x3 ads per show but /3 hosts).

foodstanceson Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?

Maybe your hearing is just shot.

foodstanceson Mailinator launches Disposable SMS

A lot of services that use SMS for new account verification also block numbers from non-mobile providers, even ones that haven't been used before. I tried using a Twilio number as a Google-Voice-like service where it would forward texts to my actual number, but many services refused to accept the Twilio number.

foodstanceson Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident

The system in my car does this but only under a certain speed, much lower than what the vehicle in this video appears to be doing. It's intended for stop-and-go city driving or to avoid hitting a kid that sprints out of a driveway in a slow residential area, not to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting a deer or person at 40mph.

foodstanceson 2600 Accused of Using Unauthorized Ink Splotches (2015)

(2015)

foodstanceson Chat app for use when your battery is less than 5%

I'd love to know if this had problems getting through Apple's App Store review because they couldn't use it during testing.

foodstanceson Meltdown, aka “Dear Intel, you suck”

People just don't like paying for intangible things, so the only way to pay for the internet is clickz/eyeballz. And OUTRGE! clickz/eyeballz are the cheapest and easiest.

The irony of course is that this was posted on a mailing list (so clicks are meaningless) by a developer of free software who has to spend his time working around these bugs that Intel caused. He has every right to be outraged and vent all he wants. He is actually doing the hard work while you watch kitten videos and chuckle-memes.

foodstanceson XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available

That is from June, this is the latest from December:

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/46...

A motherboard change and a BIOS update (2.4.2) are supposed to lower the noise as much as they can, while still deeming it "working within specification". Users report the 2.4.2 update didn't help much or even made it worse.

foodstanceson XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available

Does it still have that awful coil whine?

foodstanceson Show HN: HNNotify – Get emailed when a users reply to your HN Posts and Comments

HN used to natively support sending push notifications through Notifo, but that company folded and the feature went away.

I guess one of these HN-comment-e-mailing websites needs to apply to YC to actually have a chance of getting integrated into the site.

foodstanceson A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet

Using the values directly is not the same thing as feeding the values into a RNG.

foodstanceson Are all BSDs created equally? A survey of BSD kernel vulnerabilities [video]

To the "X86BSD" user who commented here: you are shadow banned so your comments are showing up as dead by default so most users can't see or reply to them. Just thought you should know.

foodstanceson Android vulnerability allows attackers to modify apps

> I sit here with my Moto and the last patch from February...

> I don't like the closed culture

What good is an "open" culture if you can't patch things yourself anyway?

foodstanceson Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD?

https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html

foodstanceson Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still worth it?

Boring yet still very volatile.

I wonder if or when Rails will settle down and stop changing everything between major releases causing all documentation to be out of date, gems to break, developer habits to break, etc. Not to mention all of the related tooling like Bundler which seems to spit out new and uninteresting warnings and errors every time I update it.

It would be great to be able to write an application using a framework and not have to constantly change the application just to get long-term updates to the framework like bug fixes, security patches, compatibility with new versions of Ruby, etc.

Basically Rails-LTS but not from a 3rd-party (and embraced by the ecosystem).

foodstanceson Switching from 1Password to Bitwarden

Where? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/1password-beta/phi... still says it requires the separate Mac and Windows apps.

foodstanceson A Guide to Not Getting Hacked

Because an iPhone is easy to use for the vast majority of people and OpenBSD is not.

foodstanceson Switching from 1Password to Bitwarden

The article talks about a new Ruby/SQLite backend, making it no longer reliant on .NET, MSSQL, or Bitwarden's servers at all.

foodstanceson WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers

Either the computers in these mysterious corporate environments are exposed to the internet, in which case they'd be reflected in these public stats collected by them visiting public websites from IE, or they aren't, in which case they don't matter in the slightest because they're not going to visit webpages using WebAssembly.