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geraldcombs

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geraldcombs··on All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem
This sounds an awful lot like a standard FTP server configured with a write-only directory.
geraldcombs··on RadioShack Prepares Bankruptcy Filing
IMHO ad blocking is good security practice. There have and continue to be plenty of instances of malware being served up via ad networks. "Malvertising" even has its own Wikipedia page.
geraldcombs··on Why Google Fiber will never come to Seattle (2014)
"Overland Park, Kansas, apparently has its own version of the Seattle process. It spent nine months arguing the Google Fiber contract..."

Overland Park's haggling likely had more to do with the fact that Sprint is headquartered there.

geraldcombs··on Show HN: Pipeglade – Pipe-Driven GTK+ Interfaces
A manpage might be just the right marketing channel for people who are really into piping commands.
geraldcombs··on Qubes – Secure Desktop OS Using Security by Compartmentalization
Shouldn't that be "defense in depth"?
geraldcombs··on Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem
Wireshark doesn't use MySQL or any other SQL backend. I'm not sure what sort of dependency chain would trigger the installation of MySQL but it's unusual to say the least.
geraldcombs··on Open Source Software CDN
Are they affiliated with the Open Source Initiative? If not, why are they using the OSI logo?
geraldcombs··on Npmjs.org moderated one of my comments regarding their outage today
Perhaps npm, Inc should hire him instead of deleting his posts.
geraldcombs··on Npm's Self-Signed Certificate is No More
Have you applied for a job at npm, Inc? It sounds like they could use your help.
geraldcombs··on USA ISP Speed Index
Would latency affect the non-streaming parts of Netflix, e.g. browsing titles?
geraldcombs··on USA ISP Speed Index
Why no latency measurements?
geraldcombs··on Proposal to Change the Default TLS Ciphersuites Offered by Browsers
In Cloudflare's case "haven't bothered to send their own keys" implies "haven't seen the need to pay Cloudflare $200/month or $3000/month for the ability to upload a certificate+key". AFAICT only the Business and Enterprise plans allow custom certificates.
geraldcombs··on Finding Unlicensed Repos on Github
The license specified in a LICENSE or COPYING file may not match the rest of the source code. Debian's devscripts package has a utility called "licensecheck" that will scan a directory and report the license used by each file. Chromium has a wrapper called "checklicenses.py" that checks the output of licensecheck against a list of incompatible licenses. If someone were to take the next step of letting you point checklicenses.py at a remote repository the world would be a better place.
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