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micro-ram··on Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD? (2015)
ZFS has open my eyes to /dev/disk/by-id/. It's the only way when you have many of the exact same make/model/size drives per machine. You will learn by fire the first time you need to determine which drive you need to replace.
micro-ram··on Windows Explorer Through the Years
ShellExView from Nirsoft
micro-ram··on What’s the difference between an integer and a pointer?
Agreed. I get the intended result of 7 5 7 on macOS 10.13.6 LLVM.

  Mac:tmp $ clang -O3 mem1d.c ; ./a.out
  diff = -96
  x = 0x7f9f4fc00300, *x = 7
  y = 0x7f9f4fc00360, *y = 5
  p = 0x7f9f4fc00300, *p = 7

  Mac:tmp $ diff mem1d.c mem2d.c 
  13c13
  <   int *p = (int *)(yi + diff);
  ---
  >   int *p = (int *)(yi - 96);

  Mac:tmp $ clang -O3 mem2d.c ; ./a.out
  diff = -96
  x = 0x7fc2b5c00300, *x = 7
  y = 0x7fc2b5c00360, *y = 5
  p = 0x7fc2b5c00300, *p = 7

  Mac:tmp$ clang --version
  Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.2)
  Target: x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0
  Thread model: posix
micro-ram··on Some U.S. law enforcement agencies are using GrayKey to bypass iPhone encryption
What about the requirement to run signed code from power on?
micro-ram··on How Does the Flu Kill People?
For anyone interested, there is a video on Amazon Prime called The Science of Fasting 2016.
micro-ram··on Chrome is Not the Standard
and lost a lot of trust as a result.
micro-ram··on Remember Zip Disks? These Election Departments Do
GRC still has a utility for click of death.

https://www.grc.com/tip/clickdeath.htm

micro-ram··on IPv6 Wall of Shame
Install IPvFoo in Chrome and watch how many servers have embraced IPv6.
micro-ram··on Why aren't PGP and SSH keys popular as a second factor for authentication?
^ This. Print your QR codes and put them in the safe.
micro-ram··on AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory
What happened to the other 16 threads?

18(core) * 4(cpus) * 2(+ht) = 144

micro-ram··on WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites
KB SSL Enforcer allows you to automatically build your own enforced HTTPS list.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kb-ssl-enforcer/fl...

micro-ram··on SourceForge Acquisition and Future Plans
Just as a test I decided today (Feb 13, 2016) to download WinSCP. Fully surrounding the actual download link[1] are no less than 3 ads with the word "Download" prominently displayed. The project page[2] was even worse with 4 "Download" ads. This is still unacceptable.

[1] http://imgur.com/XGkkPag

[2] http://imgur.com/822v7CN

micro-ram··on Decentraleyes: A Firefox addon to prevent tracking via free CDN providers
Here is a one line Linux/OSX script that builds the sub-resource integrity hash string of js & css files.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e05e0ff71993d6a6d757

micro-ram··on Amazon's customer service backdoor
Amazon should simply treat users with active 2FA accounts as high security accounts. High security accounts must go through a much more rigorous validation when speaking with support.
micro-ram··on Cloudflare Introduces Universal DNSSEC: Secure DNS for Your Domain
Unless you have a short life 90 day cert from LetsEncrypt.org then your pinning doesn't last very long.
micro-ram··on OneDrive Changes
> Do you have a cite for this claim?

Use Little Snitch firewall and you will see it.

micro-ram··on Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you get paid through Stripe
VIP Tag/Folder http://www.howtogeek.com/208904/how-to-only-get-notification...
micro-ram··on The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons
I use ScriptSafe (formerly ScriptNo) in Chrome similar to NoScript on Firefox. Also check out uMatrix.

https://code.google.com/p/scriptno/

micro-ram··on Why we don't sell domain validated SSL certificates
I always hoped CAcert.org would have gotten us there sooner, but that never happened. Agreed letsencrypt.org will radically change the cert market. I have already stopped renewing some personal certs and am using CloudFlare free SSL with a self-signed cert on the origin.
micro-ram··on Exploiting Type Confusion in Flash
Agreed. It's time to move on. Uninstall Flash & chrome://plugins Disable.

http://occupyflash.org/

micro-ram··on How I got XSS’d by my ad network
Blocking third party JS does not help me offload the libraries to a CDN (ex. cdnjs.com) to save server bandwidth.
micro-ram··on Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2
Is Openvpn even necessary? Open 3389 to only your IP address in the security group.
micro-ram··on Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2
Agreed. Only use the provided AMI for testing and learning how to create your own.
micro-ram··on Show HN: Detecting malware through DNS queries – a Kali Pi / Snort project
Interesting approach comparing 2 DNS lookups. What about port mirroring the upstream router connection from a smart switch? Would it overload the Pi? Then it would be a simple plug and play device you could connect to any lan (with mirroring) for a check-up.
micro-ram··on The Mac App Store Won’t Make You Rich
I think Apple just needs to review their policy and add another entitlement "Entire Current User Folder ~/" to allow apps that traditionally cannot be sandboxed. I am sure they want us to re-imagine a way for FTP apps to work, but I don't want to change my workflow. I want to be able to browse any folder on my Mac on the left pane. So I won't buy the Mac App Store version. I fully agree with Panic and why they bailed out.
micro-ram··on Tmux has left SourceForge
+1 for CyberDuck
micro-ram··on Bing Webmaster Tools does not support HTTPS SNI
It might have been low last year. This year with the deprecation of Windows XP, pagerank boost for HTTPS[1] and free certs and caching from CloudFlare[2] all of my sites are now SNI. Some are even HSTS.

[1] http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/https-as-...

[2] https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl

micro-ram··on I was an undercover Uber driver
Use no-script (FF) or script-safe (chrome). It never reloaded on me.
micro-ram··on Comcast to bring two-gigabit Internet service to Bay Area, boost existing tiers
2.5Gbps = NBASE-T. http://www.nbaset.org/

5Gbps = MGBASE-T. http://www.mgbasetalliance.org/

My real world testing of 1.3Gbps 802.11ac only yields about 250Mbps of real throughput. Wifi is half duplex and has more overhead than Ethernet.

Good interview with Matthew Gast on 802.11ac

http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-enterprise-tech/135

micro-ram··on ANSI Art Collection from Old BBSs
DesqView had DVANSI.COM IIRC
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