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publicarrayon Why is my LG Washing Machine using 3.6GB of data/day?

Maybe it’s part of a botnet?

publicarrayon Ask HN: What tools/strategy do you use for backups?

I’m trying out https://Kopia.io at the moment Finally something that is fully cross platform, easy to use and open source.

publicarrayon EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers

Maybe try the open source programs at Fastly.com or Bunny.net

https://www.fastly.com/open-source

https://bunny.net/contact/

publicarrayon Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux

For me, it's been bottom https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom and dua https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli for a while

I've found some other cool CLIs written with rust at https://github.com/TaKO8Ki/awesome-alternatives-in-rust

publicarrayon Show HN: Get lists of files in a directory that contains a large number of files

Instead of "find -maxdepth 1" there is "fd -I -d 1" which in my experience is faster as it uses multiple threads https://crates.io/crates/fd-find

publicarrayon Ask HN: So what if my personal information gets stolen?

Possible target for spear phishing (easier to social engineer when more information about a target is public).

Account take-over if the password was used elsewhere (credential stuffing).

Become a target for Extortion or Blackmail: https://www.troyhunt.com/the-opportunistic-and-empty-threat-...

Edit: Some companies still use birth dates, security questions or social security numbers for identification. If the information is public, any one can identify as that person via a phone call. https://krebsonsecurity.com/?s=SMS&x=10&y=14 https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/10/voice-phishing-scams-are... https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/08/hanging-up-on-mobile-in-...

publicarrayon Oblivious DNS: Plugging the Internet’s Biggest Privacy Hole

>> The root server would just see your NS lookup for .com, ...

> That's not how DNS works today so you're asking for a major re-architecture.

Actually that is how QNAME minimisation (on the resolver) works https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7816

unbound has some nice slides: https://ripe72.ripe.net/presentations/120-unbound_qnamemin_r...

publicarrayon Ask HN: What encrypted Dropbox alternative do you use?

Cryptomator.org inside iCloud. I like it because I'm responsible for the password. There is no password reset feature.

Also a +1 for Keybase.

publicarrayon Yahoo hack warning: What happened and should you be worried?

I don't think it's a new hack it's just that the internal investigation has lead to more findings of the already talked about cookie hack: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/more-yah...

publicarrayon Map-dl: Download Google Maps

Thanks, It all started when I got asked whether I could build a simple way to download specific areas of google maps. The following day a college asked whether it was possible to just get the traffic layer and download it for further analysis. So map-dl was born :-)

publicarrayon Bandwidth costs around the world

I wonder if there is a reason for the high cost. In Australia some of the infrastructure is being upgraded for the NBN, maybe that's part of it? I don't know but I'm curious to find out.