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syvanenon How Does a Firewall Work Step by Step

This site is more ads than content. At least on my mobile around 3/4 of the screen is covered by ads. With the smallest possible close buttons.

syvanenon The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war

Is Azure somehow impacted by this? Or any other of the big providers like AWS or Google Cloud?

Maybe there’s something that Finland and Finnish ISPs could learn from the big providers? And from Ukraine how they moved everything critical into cloud?

The big cloud operators and service providers with their own backbones have redundancies on their network on multiple levels. Not just IP level but also on light path level. Giving them enough bandwidth that even with failure they don’t get congestion.

Finnish ISPs could build more connectivity even inland or higher up in the Gulf of Bothnia. But many of them haven’t as they have optimized for latency and not for redundancy.

Even Finnish government networks were shown during the COVID to be under provisioned, the. pan gateways didn’t handle remote work. And then one roadwork cut a cable next to the road it was shown that the redundant cables were in the same ditch. Service owner has just bought “redundant” connections and never confirmed it.

syvanenon Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

> This one you've definitely just made up.

It was called "Project Hug". Based on the different sources it contained credits for all the google offerings such as Ads, Youtube and Google Cloud in exchange for keeping apps on the Google Play platform.

Different repots on this: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/google-reportedly-paid-activis... https://gizmodo.com/google-denies-its-project-hug-bribed-20-... https://www.theverge.com/23959932/epic-v-google-trial-antitr...

syvanenon Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

It’s so weird to observe how Alphabet doesn’t seem to even try to keep its parts separated.

Amazon at least tries keeps its companies separated from each other. AWS account teams doesn’t know what Amazon teams do and vice versa.

While Google Cloud account team constantly gets involved with Workspaces, Ads and Google Play related stuff.

If I remember right just few years ago Google was told to stop giving cheaper prices on Google Cloud based on customers Ads and Google Play revenue.

syvanenon Camera Ignores Perspective and Sees Behind Walls

Yeah, would be better if this just links the video and not a website that has now original content but just describes the video.

syvanenon Logitech F710 gamepad, allegedly contributed to Titan submersible implosion

Yes, as one way to control cameras on top of masts. Replacing periscopes. Not really a comparable to actually steering the boat. Here’s a video from a submarine tour where you can see the Xbox controller in action: https://youtu.be/0StWrXoN8nI?si=Hf5eoGOU-jxDNa2x

(Edit: added link to video)

syvanenon New devices could change the way we measure blood pressure

The article seems to skip the direct and continuous blood pressure measurement used by intensive care units. They will typically measure blood pressure via an invasive arterial cannulation. This enables them to get accurate measurements in real time. But as an invasive procedure it’s not without risks. At least it allowed me to sleep without nurses waking me up all the time for measurements via arm cuff.

syvanenon How did LastPass master passwords get compromised?

So this blog seems to completely ignores LastPass statement from 2021-12-28:

> Our investigation has since found that some of these security alerts, which were sent to a limited subset of LastPass users, were likely triggered in error. As a result, we have adjusted our security alert systems and this issue has since been resolved.

Source: https://blog.lastpass.com/2021/12/unusual-attempted-login-ac...

Source2: https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1476296988001849345?s=21

syvanenon Slack is experiencing a service disruption

It did help. As it removes also the DS record cache. Just try to make DNS query using those resolvers.

syvanenon Mycodo – open-source environmental regulation system

Automation for growing chili’s?

syvanenon Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea

That system you linked only measures radiation. While the sensor in Sweden actually sample the air to detect certain isotopes. STUK does have this type of sensors also and did see these same type of isotopes in the air[1]. [1] Announcement in Finnish https://www.stuk.fi/-/helsingin-ilmassa-pienia-maaria-keinot...

syvanenon Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

Shareware is making a comeback?

syvanenon Letting go of the GPS to learn the art of natural navigation

Well the direction depends which satellite is been tracked on the geostationary orbit.

So depending where you are on Northen hemisphere and which satellite provider are you using your satellite dish points to anywhere between south-west to south-east.

For example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_(satellite)

syvanenon Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

Except Red Hat is financially now in Q4.

syvanenon Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

Blog post from Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/coreos-bet

Red Hat FAQ: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-red-hat-acquire-coreos

CoreOS Blog post: https://coreos.com/blog/coreos-agrees-to-join-red-hat/

(Added FAQ and CoreOS links)

syvanenon Apache leaks process memory - CVE-2017-9798 (Optionsbleed)

Proof of Concept: https://github.com/hannob/optionsbleed

There's also Arstechnica article: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/apach...

Tracking fix publishing:

* Debian: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9798

* Ubuntu: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2...

* Red Hat: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9798 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-9798

syvanenon Serverless Raspberry Pi Cluster with Docker

So this blog instructs to install commercial docker instead of moby. I wonder how the licensing goes if you were to use this.

syvanenon Linux local privilege escalation (CVE-2017-1000364 and CVE-2017-1000366)

Qualys Security Advisory: Blog: https://blog.qualys.com/securitylabs/2017/06/19/the-stack-cl... and email: https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.tx...

Red Hat: https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/stackguar...

Debian: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-1000364

SuSe: https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000364/

syvanenon Open source electronic lab notebook

Have to say that while Open Source is in the title and all you can only find one single link to source code in the middle of Story -page. Would hope to see "Download" or typical "Form me on Github" -ribbon at the corner.

syvanenon RedHat to acquire Codenvy

Red Hat's Blog: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/why-red-hat-acquiring-c...

syvanenon Google and IBM announce Istio – easily secure and manage microservices

There seems to be also other companies involved:

IBM: https://developer.ibm.com/dwblog/2017/istio/

Redhat: https://blog.openshift.com/red-hat-istio-launch/

Pivotal: https://content.pivotal.io/blog/pivotal-and-istio-advancing-...

syvanenon Google and IBM announce Istio – easily secure and manage microservices

There seems to be also other companies involved:

Redhat: https://blog.openshift.com/red-hat-istio-launch/

Pivotal: https://content.pivotal.io/blog/pivotal-and-istio-advancing-...

syvanenon Samba 3.5.0+ vulnerability: Remote code execution from a writable share

Info of fixed versions:

Debian: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7494

Ubuntu: https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3296-1/

Red Hat: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7494