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notfoss··on Wing-slapping: A defensive behavior by honey bees against ants
In Japan, even the bees know martial arts.
notfoss··on Spam accounts in 2022
They also don't have to pay any taxes for money earned through scamming.
notfoss··on Redirector – Browser extension to redirect to privacy respecting front-ends
While I like the concept, the title of this article is misleading, as nowhere on the GitHub page or even at https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ does the author highlight the privacy implications of this.

As mentioned in another comment, https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect seems to be more relevant for privacy minded folks.

notfoss··on Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself
> Surprisingly a couple of times, I was asked about recognizing birds by their singing. The library can't do it, but it is something I am thinking about exploring one day.

Hopefully, it'll be easier than this: https://xkcd.com/1425/

notfoss··on A safer and more private browsing experience with Secure DNS
Android - at least for now - supports DoT. But, who knows, they might switch to DoH in the future.

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using#an...

PS: I have been using it for a while and it works fine.

notfoss··on Perch: a really little CMS
> people email me now instead.

And then you manually add that to the article or just keep it to yourself?

notfoss··on Kutt – a modern, open-source URL shortener
Many companies use shortened URLs in SMS messages.
notfoss··on Tokyo's 2D Cafe
They should name it Borderlands cafe :P
notfoss··on Biometric YubiKey
Zoho.
notfoss··on NY Payroll Company Vanishes with $35M
If I was one of their shareholders, I would be happy instead, as they seem to have come out as the real good guys in the whole story (unless they were legally obligated for covering the mess).
notfoss··on NSA OSS Technologies
Well, it's generous for non-americans ;)
notfoss··on How My 10-Year-Old Learned JavaScript
Give the kid Emacs, the language doesn't matter :P
notfoss··on A new reason to love OpenDNS: no more ads (2014)
I am not sure why you were downvoted, but that is exactly the reason why many blog posts don't display the post date.
notfoss··on Analyzing the names of almost every Chinese restaurant in the U.S.
Recently I was watching "The Dictator" in which Sacha Cohen's character told someone that his name was something like "Imumoccupancy120", to which the other one replied "There is a number in your name?".

But, I guess, it isn't impossible in real life ;)

notfoss··on Curl vs. Wget
Thanks for the explanation. But generally I have found aria2 to be more reliable in such scenarios.
notfoss··on Curl vs. Wget
aria2 is much more reliable when downloading stuff, especially for links which involve redirections.

For example here's a link to download 7zip for windows from filehippo.com.

Results:

* Curl doesn't download it at all.

  curl -O 'http://filehippo.com/download/file/bf0c7e39c244b0910cfcfaef2af45de88d8cae8cc0f55350074bf1664fbb698d/'
gives:

  curl: Remote file name has no length!
* Wget manages to download the file, but with the wrong name.

  wget 'http://filehippo.com/download/file/bf0c7e39c244b0910cfcfaef2af45de88d8cae8cc0f55350074bf1664fbb698d/'
gives:

  2016-03-03 18:08:21 (75.9 KB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [1371668/1371668]
* aria2 manages to download the file with the correct name with no additional switches.

  aria2c 'http://filehippo.com/download/file/bf0c7e39c244b0910cfcfaef2af45de88d8cae8cc0f55350074bf1664fbb698d/'
gives:

  03/03 18:08:45 [NOTICE] Download complete: /tmp/7z1514-x64.exe
notfoss··on Curl vs. Wget
This would be better directed at those who use Outlook. The ones using curl to send mails will be boasting about it ;)
notfoss··on Show HN: Peer-to-peer secure file transfer using WebRTC
Don't worry, this is how HN works and we are able to discover different programs around a similar theme.
notfoss··on Slack notifications for Fail2Ban
For new IP addresses, you can write a script to monitor your auth.log file.
notfoss··on Why isn't HTTPS everywhere yet?
What is the Full SSL feature offered by you? From what I understand it means supporting weaker ciphers apart from SSL and older TLS versions. Is that the case?
notfoss··on Peach’s Most Interesting Feature, the Hybrid Command Line
That's why I tell users to always remember the '-h/--help' option ;).
notfoss··on How to Protect Your Infrastructure Against the Basic Attacker
Shouldn't it be the opposite? If clients receive a REJECT message, they will simply stop trying to connect, but if they don't receive any response at all, i.e., DROP, they will keep on trying to connect before any timeout threshold kicks in, thus putting more load on the server.
notfoss··on How to Protect Your Infrastructure Against the Basic Attacker
Very nice article, even for advanced users (not attackers ;)).

I have one question though. What are your thoughts on DROP vs REJECT firewall rules, as some people claim that DROP offers no additional benefits over REJECT while causing inconvenience to legit users. ref: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~peterb/network/drop-vs-re...

notfoss··on I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account on Yosemite
Not trying to excuse OSX's behaviour, but non-technical users are the ones who use passwords like: abcdef, 123456, password123, etc.

In fact, using such characters (emojis, other unicode characters, etc.) in passwords should be considered a secure practice.

notfoss··on A guide to Linux signals
That's nice. Apparently, we can place the brackets around any of the characters too! Can you explain how it works?
notfoss··on Show HN: Lightning – a tool for rapid filesystem navigation
For favourite folders, you can simply use aliases.
notfoss··on Zoho down due to DDOS attack
No, that is proton mail. They offer encrypted email services. Zoho is different from them.
notfoss··on Zoho down due to DDOS attack
They are giving regular updates on their twitter account: https://twitter.com/zoho
notfoss··on Leading 'anti adblock' provider gets hacked- pushed malware to end users
They seemed to have removed the pagefair code for now.
notfoss··on EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software
If games sell well early into their release, the devs would be elated and motivated. Also they would get more money at the time they are hoping to get it.
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