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thrownhwnon Why can't computers boot instantly? (2013)

Has someone explored the area of writing software that spits out resume from disk images?

thrownhwnon Sdns – Lightweight, fast recursive dns server with dnssec support

Nice work. Been looking for a resolver with DoH support that’s built with Go. Cloudflared is just too buggy and not actively maintained.

Would love to see some support for Prometheus compatible metrics.

thrownhwnon SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS)

> NSA controls the DNSSEC roots.

No they don’t. You know better than to spread FUD, regardless of what you think about DNSSEC.

I agree with your other points, however.

thrownhwnon The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt

Similar experience to being a hacker-cracker 20 yrs ago, bouncing off servers around the world over a modem connection to telnet into some poor SunOS 4 boxes in South Korea or at GSFC (NASA). Sometimes you had to wait minutes before anything appeared on the screen while TCP was doing its thing. God forbid if you accidentally (yp)cat’d some large file..:)

thrownhwnon Xerox Alto's 3 Mb/s Ethernet: Building a Gateway with a BeagleBone

Cool, had to Google bubble pushing[1]

[1] http://district.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/kevin.dunn/files/Simplif...

thrownhwnon I made a talking emoji using regular emojis and JavaScript

Interesting, thanks for the insight!

thrownhwnon Vagrant 2.0

Docker is a fragmented mess network wise if you need to support developers on both windows and macOS. Also, docker requires hyper-v and admin privs on Windows. And you can't run VirtualBox with hyper-v active so you need to choose either of the two options. Granted, you could run Docker in virtualbox but it wouldn't be very clean.

thrownhwnon Vagrant 2.0

Anybody know if they has code-signed their Windows and macOS binaries with 2.0?

It's a shame so many "core" developer tools are not code-signed. It makes life hard in companies where binary whitelisting is used.

thrownhwnon Spotify’s Beta Used ‘Pirate’ MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay

Piracy is also a form of convenience. What you want, when you want it. No stupid geographic delayed releases, no stupid DRM where you have to prove you're not a thief every time you want to access the content, no internet connectivity requirements, etc.

thrownhwnon Spotify’s Beta Used ‘Pirate’ MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay

Can confirm. Spotify had a dedicated server at a notorious ISP that downloaded quality mp3 warez from TPB among other places. Scene people were also present at their release party.

I'm happy they succeeded. It's an awesome service built by some very skilled hackers. I wish there was a Spotify for movies and TV series too.