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kidminon When random is not actually random enough

OpenBSD has arc4random_uniform() avoiding "modulo bias".

https://man.openbsd.org/arc4random.3#arc4random_uniform

kidminon Twitter(X) Is Down

Web/App aren't working. Updog also shows it's down. https://updog.ai/status/twitter

kidminon GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack

snprintf(buf, bufsize, "%*s", padwidth, str)?

kidminon Memories of .us

Some minor/trivial corrections:

- gTLD stands for "generic TLD"[1], not a short form of global, comes from their "generic" usage. Both two categories of TLDs are in the domain namespace which is globally resolvable.

- Almost all of two-letter ASCII ccTLDs reflect the ISO country codes, from ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, but there are a few exceptions: the United Kingdom (GB) has ".uk"[2], Ascension Island (now part of SH) has ".ac", etc. (Yes, there are more non-ASCII ccTLDs: .新加坡, .УКР, etc.)

If you want to briefly take a look at how TLD registries structure their second/third level such as "k12.or.us" or "chiyoda.tokyo.jp", see "ICANN DOMAINS" section of the public suffix list[3] (note: it is not complete)

[1] https://icannwiki.org/Generic_Top-level_Domain

[2] https://cddo.blog.gov.uk/2022/11/15/is-it-time-to-retire-the...

[3] https://publicsuffix.org/

kidminon DNS Provider Quad9 Sees Piracy Blocking Orders as "Existential Threat"

In Japan the PM's office once considered to block online piracy websites[1] with DNS in 2018. Japanese tech community fought against it[2][3][4] and it wasn't implemented.

The telco authority currently considers to block online casino websites[5] (gambling is illegal in Japan).

[1] https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/singi/titeki2/tyousakai/kensho_h... [2] https://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/topics/2018/20180625-01.html [3] https://www.wide.ad.jp/News/2018/20180912.html [4] https://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/materials/iw/2018/proceedings/d3/d3... [5] https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_sosiki/kenkyu/online_casino/ind...

kidminon CVE-2024-47081: Netrc credential leak in PSF requests library

and it is from the beginning: https://github.com/psf/requests/commit/79bb9ee1417afe2231972...

kidminon Yes-rs: A fast, memory-safe rewrite of the classic Unix yes command

There is an enterprise-grade project written in Java: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

kidminon The Top of the DNS Hierarchy

Actually the root is a null (empty) label rather than "."; dots are delimiters of labels, there is an empty label after "." in FQDNs. See RFC 1034 Section 3.1.