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div72 | 5 months ago | on: DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS

It'd be far more acceptable to block the CG-NAT IPv4 addresses if you knew that the other non-compromised hosts could utilize their own IPv6 addresses to connect to your service.

div72 | 11 months ago | on: Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

Have you seen headscale? It's a bit of work if you don't have a selfhosting setup but it enables you to use the service without being at the whim of Tailscale.

div72 | 11 months ago | on: Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model

> The largest portion of all languages in Common Crawl

https://commoncrawl.github.io/cc-crawl-statistics/plots/lang...

div72 | 1 year ago | on: I think we need a bigger boot partition

What? Why is your NVIDIA modules even in the boot partition? My largest /boot is on Fedora and that's 454MiB, 87MiB on Arch and 30MiB on NixOS.

EDIT: "With grub, the situation varies; if the device has a graphics card, it usually means that driver modules need to be placed in the boot as well.", "usually" carries a lot of weight here, none of the systems I had had this kind of a requirement.

div72 | 1 year ago | on: Reviewing the cryptography used by Signal

Except TLS-SNI sends the hostnames in plaintext during the handshake and you can't disable it in at least Firefox AFAIK.

div72 | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?

Are you sure you were informed by Thunderbird and not by your SMTP server?

div72 | 1 year ago | on: ROOT: analyzing petabytes of data scientifically

Only for the optional "read time travel and world domination plans" module.

div72 | 1 year ago | on: Copyleft licenses are not "restrictive"

Copyleft licenses are restrictive as obligations are restrictions. "You must provide a source code to your users" is equivalent to "You cannot use this software if your source code is not available to your users".

Freedom is a finite resource in which copyleft licenses take from the developer to give to users. (which ends up at the same point as the article but I prefer wording it this way.)

div72 | 2 years ago | on: China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers

Isn't ARM's TrustZone equivalent to ME/PSP on Intel/AMD?

div72 | 2 years ago | on: Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous

> This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.

div72 | 2 years ago | on: Web Browser Telemetry

The post is about unsolicited requests at startup, Tor Browser does not connect to Tor unless you click Connect or enable the auto-connect option.

div72 | 2 years ago | on: It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox

Weird thought, but have you tried using Selenium?

Seems like launching a browser tab with:

    from selenium import webdriver
    driver = webdriver.Firefox()

and navigating to duckduckgo.com:

    print(driver.current_url) # https://duckduckgo.com/

works.

div72 | 2 years ago | on: Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation

> When are we going to talk about how openly corrupt Mozilla has become?

It's routinely discussed on HN, whenever a topic about Mozilla/browsers comes up. The real question in my opinion is what can we do about it? Start an awareness campaign? Stop using Firefox? Stop donating to Mozilla?

div72 | 2 years ago | on: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians

Probably because of attribution. I assume that most Wikipedia articles are licensed under a version of CC with attribution requirements.

div72 | 2 years ago | on: How to store a permutation compactly (2022)

For something to be used in PoW, it needs to be both hard to solve and easy to verify. Protein folding checks the first box but not the second. As an example, prime number calculations check the both boxes and there's Primecoin which bases its proof algorithm on prime chains.

This only applies if you prefer to be trustless though. If you are willing shed a bit, you can trust Folding@Home's scoreboard data (and whoever supplies the data to you) to use it as a pseudo-"PoW" and run a proper proof algorithm beneath. (which is also done by a number of coins like Banano, Curecoin, Gridcoin. You can see their people on the leaderboard with weird names like x_ALL_x, x_GRC_x or just bunch of non-sensical alphanumeric characters.)

div72 | 3 years ago | on: ChatGPT's Chess Elo is 1400

I agree with your conclusion but the example you gave of Magnus Carlsen doing an illegal move is a pretty bad one imo. That was clearly a trap from his opponent as he did an illegal move first by checking Magnus while he was under check and then immediately calling the arbiter when Magnus moved his king in response. Magnus also probably did not have had much time left as it was a Blitz game.

div72 | 3 years ago | on: Stride – Open-source C# Game Engine

Seems like a typo, dropping the s at the end works.

div72 | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Socketify.py: Http/Https and WebSockets servers for PyPy3 and Python3

Probably should add that it's faster with PyPy as it might not be obvious on how an interpreted language like Python can beat an AOT compiled language like Go.

Interesting results nevertheless.

div72 | 3 years ago | on: FreeBSD: Stack Overflow in Ping(8)

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33798604.

div72 | 3 years ago | on: The End of /R/GPUMining

That's a pleasant mention of Gridcoin but I'd like to clarify that you do not actually mine Gridcoin. Gridcoin rewards scientific work for the BOINC(Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing).

(Not that your comment is wrong but one could miss the mention of scientific computing while skimming.)

(Also BOINC and Gridcoin both are open source and needs some love from contributors. I'd like to drop their links for anyone who has free time.

https://github.com/BOINC/boinc https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research )