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geraldcombs··on Show HN: Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark
Well, crap. The domain and site are still fairly new, so maybe that's the issue? Is there anyone here from Palo Alto that can take a look?
geraldcombs··on Show HN: Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark
Thanks for the feedback! I'll see if we can make the top of the site more descriptive.

Update: Changed the first sentence to "Stratoshark lets you explore and analyze applications at the system call level using a mature, proven interface based on Wireshark.

geraldcombs··on Show HN: Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark
It's currently only passive, but that'd be an interesting feature. In order for that to happen we'd have to add that functionality to https://github.com/falcosecurity/libs/ along with the necessary plumbing in the UI.
geraldcombs··on Show HN: Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark
Thanks! It's part of the same code base (and therefore open source), and Linux is definitely supported. It adds libscap and libsinsp as dependencies, and you can find basic build instructions at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/blob/master/doc/str....
geraldcombs··on AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
We return 402 (payment required) for one of our affected sites. Seems more appropriate.
geraldcombs··on 2400 phone providers may be shut down by the FCC for failing to stop robocalls
The explanation someone gave me years ago was that midwesterners can speak to northerners and southerners without needing a translator, and the cost of labor in rural Nebraska and Kansas (which also had a ton of call centers at the time) is low.
geraldcombs··on Ultralytics AI model hijacked to infect thousands with cryptominer
Why not both? Git itself checks and sanitizes branch names, and GitHub should arguably match that behavior. I don't think anyone would object to safer workflows and related tooling instead of being told "here, have some bash inside YAML, now be careful!"
geraldcombs··on Ultralytics AI model hijacked to infect thousands with cryptominer
Yeah, I think the story that's being missed here is that GitHub allows branches named "$(curl...|bash)".
geraldcombs··on Backdoor attempt on Exolabs GitHub repo through an innocent looking PR
Maybe it's the hacking equivalent of Schrödinger's douchebag? If the hacking attempt succeeds, then you've achieved your goal. If it fails then you obviously joking or doing "research."
geraldcombs··on Solar power from space? it might happen in a couple of years
And canals: https://www.tid.org/current-projects/project-nexus/
geraldcombs··on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining
Apparently ME was so bad it's been memory-holed.
geraldcombs··on Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?
Ours contains a Banana Splits reference: https://www.wireshark.org/404.html
geraldcombs··on Show HN: Charcoal – Faster utf8.Valid using multi-byte processing without SIMD
I was trying to make the point that string validation isn't limited to protobuf. You need to do it for any network protocol that uses strings, which is most of them.
geraldcombs··on Show HN: Charcoal – Faster utf8.Valid using multi-byte processing without SIMD
This could be generalized to any `string` field in any network packet.
geraldcombs··on Cloud Egress Costs
So does DigitalOcean. It'd be nice if the page specified which vendors do and don't.
geraldcombs··on Snapdragon X elite is faster than MacBook Air M2
Windows 10 and 11 support Arm64, but their Server counterparts don't. Microsoft has also been reaching out to application developers, asking them to add Arm64 support. I think we're going to see a major shift to Arm64 in the Windows world in the near future.
geraldcombs··on JC converts the output of popular command-line tools to JSON
TShark (the CLI companion to Wireshark) does with the `-T json` flag.
geraldcombs··on Show HN: How did your computer reach my server?
The traceroute that ships with macOS supports ICMP, UDP, TCP, and GRE. As I recall, the one(s) available on most Linux distributions do as well.
geraldcombs··on The Windows installer of ImageMagick will no longer be signed
How are Electron apps typically shipped? If the answer is "inside an installer" then the installer needs to be signed.
geraldcombs··on Cortex X2: ARM aims high
Apples and Acorns
geraldcombs··on Hallucineted CVE against Curl: someone asked Bard to find a vulnerability
You're leaving out the "...and then they reported it to the project" part, which meant that the project maintainers had to put in time and effort responding to a reported vulnerability.
geraldcombs··on Testing if a port can be reached, using built-in tools other than ol' telnet
The traceroute command on modern Linux and macOS supports TCP, which I've found to be quite useful since you can see where in the path a connection is failing.
geraldcombs··on Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell
This shifted from "can" to "absolutely have to" a long time ago for my use cases.
geraldcombs··on The Silicon Valley elite who want to build a city from scratch
For those wondering where the property in question is, there's an SF Chronicle article with a map:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/flannery-associa...

There's a sizeable overlap with the Montezuma Hills wind farm. It'll be interesting to see how a bunch of pre-existing wind turbines fit into their plans.

geraldcombs··on Flash Museum
Oh wow, thanks!
geraldcombs··on Flash Museum
In the early aughts it was fashionable for web sites to have elaborate "intro" pages, usually animated using flash. They were so ubiquitous and annoying that someone created a parody at skipintro.com. Does anyone know if the skipintro animation can viewed anywhere today? It looks like the Wayback Machine has snapshots archived, but trying to load it returns an error.
geraldcombs··on Wireshark Is 25: The email that started it all and lessons learned along the way
Wireshark's creator here. Waking up to everyone's kind words and reminiscing made my morning. Thanks!
geraldcombs··on I may be the only evil (bit) user on the internet (2015)
I wonder which version of Wireshark he was using; we've supported the evil bit since 2009.
geraldcombs··on Learning DNS in 10 Years
kydns looks really cool!

(and if you're tired of Wireshark's hex dumps you can switch to the packet diagram view: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChUsePacket...)

geraldcombs··on There’s more than one way to write an IP address (2019)
It (and most other scripting languages) are likely just calling inet_aton under the hood.
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