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swixmix··on Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist
Hey, my word does exist.

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/infernus/eyJ3IjogImlu...

swixmix··on Lessons I've Learned as a 15 Year Old Web Developer
Sounds like you're a person just like everybody else.
swixmix··on Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked
the typical buffer overflow would have been caught by OpenBSD's protective malloc.

> [...] OpenSSL adds a wrapper around malloc & free so that the library will cache memory on it's own, and not free it to the protective malloc. [...] So then a bug shows up which leaks the content of memory mishandled by that layer. [...]

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=139698608410938&w=2

swixmix··on New nuclear reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity
The problem with nuclear power is that it's a hard decision to reverse. Once we make it, we have to stand by it to the end. We can't reduce funding on nuclear power and expect it to end well.
swixmix··on Scientists use the Tokyo Skytree to test general relativity
Navy used gravity measurements to help inertial navigators.

https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=31940

swixmix··on Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes
> [...] serves less time than people convicted of selling small amounts of drugs.

Did you mean to compare this to racial biased drug sentencing?

swixmix··on Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
It depends on the threat model. If I need to prove to a court in the US, then I'm signing paper and faxing it. To do it differently would be more expensive to prove.
swixmix··on The facts around Zoom and encryption for meetings/webinars
Right. Let's assume I refuse to take on the responsibility of a videoconferencing server. What are my options to get Jitsi Meet? Can I pay a company to set up and maintain it? Or do I have to hunt for a videoconferencing engineer?
swixmix··on The facts around Zoom and encryption for meetings/webinars
Doesn't Jitsi have the same problem? The solution is the same: Run your own server. End to end encrypted videoconferencing does not scale easily without a server.

> Is Jitsi Meet end-to-end encrypted? #409

> ... "yes, https://meet.jit.si/ encrypts the communication, only the two clients and our server has access to them". ... [1]

[1]: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/409

swixmix··on Japan set to ban entry from the U.S. as early as next week
"Pacific Fleet orders 14-day gap between port visits for 7th Fleet ships during coronavirus outbreak" [1]

See PDF file titled "CNFJ Liberty Restrictions effective March 25, 2020". Looks like liberty is limited to on-base. [2]

[1]: https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/pacific-fleet-orders-14...

[2]: https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrj.html/

swixmix··on The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online
Encryption isn't mentioned in this bill at all-- it's worse than that. This bill let's a small group of people vote on practices that you may be bound to by law, using an emotionally sensitive subject.

The draft of this bill is currently lacking decent limits.

swixmix··on From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages
But the small and medium sized farms that do those things by hand with the local work force will not be able to afford to pay their workers.
swixmix··on I Spent a Year in Space, and I Have Tips on Isolation to Share
The headlines apply to isolation but the text is very specific to astronauts.

Headlines: Follow a schedule; But pace yourself; Go outside; You need a hobby; Keep a journal; Take time to connect; Listen to experts; We are all connected; Oh, and wash your hands -- Often. (OK, this last one was just an important sentence.)

We're not boarding submarines and hiding from the world for three months at a time. This is more like living in a retirement home before you're ready and nobody wants to visit...

swixmix··on If the heart is a muscle, why doesn't it ever get tired?
My guess is that the heart rests between each beat.
swixmix··on The most surprising Unix programs
Is scale factor the same as error bounds in http://man.openbsd.org/dc ?
swixmix··on “Out of an abundance of caution” – An overused phrase (2015)
Thank you.
swixmix··on “Out of an abundance of caution” – An overused phrase (2015)
These sound more like passive voice problems. It might seem silly, but the military has many good resources for writers.

A silly one, for example: https://www.armywriter.com/NCOER/bmw.pdf

It also touches on when not to use passive voice. :)

swixmix··on Buffer overflow when pwfeedback is set in sudoers
OpenBSD replaced `sudo` with `doas` in 2015. Both are currently maintained by OpenBSD developers but `sudo` isn't part of OpenBSD.

See https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html and OpenBSD src commit dated Fri Jul 3 21:51:53 2015 +0000.

swixmix··on OpenSMTPD Advisory Dissected
Please help support him.

https://www.patreon.com/gilles

swixmix··on How a Cruise Ship Makes 30k Meals Every Day [video]
Subs also get food delivered from other ships.
swixmix··on Lockout-Tagout
https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/19...
swixmix··on Lockout-Tagout
I assume he means no lock was involved. Anyone who ventures in house electricity should have a circuit breaker locking device. Use it, lock it, and verify the circuit is dead each time before you work on it.
swixmix··on Blogwashing
When it comes to blogs, prioritizing new over old is generally a good idea.

If a blog post is worth publishing multiple times then it should be published as something different.

I think Google ranks microblogs, blogs, articles, wikis, discussions, books, etc differently.

swixmix··on EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study Law Enforcement Use
"Download the ALPR Dataset"

https://www.eff.org/pages/download-alpr-dataset

does not appear to be updated with this data. but other data already available.

swixmix··on Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement [pdf]
This is the agreement that assigns royalties to the United States.
swixmix··on United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden
This lawsuit is mostly about paragraph five of the NDA:

> 5. I hereby assign to the United States Government all royalties, remunerations, and emoluments that have resulted, will result or may result from any disclosure, publication, or revelation of classified information not consistent with the terms of this Agreement.

https://www.gsa.gov/forms-library/classified-information-non...

Download SF312-13.pdf.

swixmix··on Unencrypted patient medical information is being broadcast across Vancouver
Like Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)?

http://www.arrl.org/ares

swixmix··on The New American Homeless
No, you have to get people who live nearest each other to be an organized community. Doesn't matter if it's houses, pods, or tents. Doesn't matter what type of community either.
swixmix··on The New American Homeless
Developers don't have any interest in the occupants beyond their money. After the first wave of sales or rents, they pass the torch. The problem is with the people involved. It's hard to get the ones affected to be involved.

Can low income people ...take off work to plan their community? ...possess the capacity to help? ...have the stability to persist through it? ...be happy in high density? etc.

swixmix··on The New American Homeless
People desire to be secure in their home and property. Living in someone elses house, like renting, erodes at that.
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