fensipens | 7 years ago | on: GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go
GOWK is the right answer
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fensipens | 7 years ago | on: A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S/MIME
Response by Werner Koch (GPG), contains some details:
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-May/06031...
fensipens | 8 years ago | on: TunSafe WireGuard Client for OS X
You are not alone, see the following exchange on LKML, where Donenfeld immediately "disciplines" another subscriber for asking some minor question that was not 100% on topic:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/7/1745
Follow-up by David Miller:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/8/533
That said, I like the idea of WG like I liked the idea of systemd.. but Donenfeld just seems to be another Poettering in the making.
fensipens | 8 years ago | on: NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
> Big data helped New York's cops bust Bobby Shmurda
So glad Palantir helped getting Bobby Shmurda (best known for Shmoney Dance) off the streets.
fensipens | 9 years ago | on: Carl Bildt: The truth about refugees in Sweden
The new ones are always "completely different" from the old ones.. until someone digs up old articles that say the same thing about the old ones.
fensipens | 9 years ago | on: Native virtualization for macOS
I never tried VMF so it may be faster, sure. The thing about VBox is, like I wrote, features. VBox is basically a full-featured Virtualization-Suite, has multiple UIs and an API. It is also available on Win7,8,10/macOS/Linux and Solaris.
You may add: excellent documentation and friendly support (board, irc, list).
If I'll ever have to switch, I'd first need feature-parity.
fensipens | 9 years ago | on: Native virtualization for macOS
better than Virtualbox
Just take a look at VBoxManage --help for a crazy list of settings and features that VBox has accumulated during the past ~10 years.
It even supports ATA TRIM so your fs-driver can discard blocks and keep the VDI-file deflated at all times.
Performance-wise: Compiling stuff within VBox on an i7 quad-core (-j5) is almost as fast as native. X on Linux-VMs feels native too, especially when running in fullscreen.
fensipens | 9 years ago | on: Native virtualization for macOS
Bridging to a wireless interface is done differently from bridging to a wired interface, because most wireless adapters do not support promiscuous mode. All traffic has to use the MAC address of the host's wireless adapter, and therefore VirtualBox needs to replace the source MAC address in the Ethernet header of an outgoing packet to make sure the reply will be sent to the host interface. When VirtualBox sees an incoming packet with a destination IP address that belongs to one of the virtual machine adapters it replaces the destination MAC address in the Ethernet header with the VM adapter's MAC address and passes it on. VirtualBox examines ARP and DHCP packets in order to learn the IP addresses of virtual machines.
fensipens | 9 years ago | on: How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools
> Ex Google Zürich
Badge of Honor
fensipens | 10 years ago | on: Reflections: The ecosystem is moving
So what? Many standards originated from some particular need of one or two companies popular at that time. Look at the current IETF WGs and the authors of the drafts they produce.
fensipens | 10 years ago | on: Reflections: The ecosystem is moving
what Facebook did with email
What did Facebook do with email?
fensipens | 10 years ago | on: Farewell, App Academy. Hello, Airbnb – Part 2
130K + something that at some point may be sold for a currently unknown value.
fensipens | 10 years ago | on: Farewell, App Academy. Hello, Airbnb – Part 2
> close-minded and pessimistic attitude
I would call it healthy skepticism.
fensipens | 10 years ago | on: Another Vietnam – Unseen images of the war from the winning side
You are trying too hard and thanks to your recent comparison with the capital of a country that has been / is currently governed by military dictatorship, I really can no longer take you seriously.
fensipens | 10 years ago | on: Another Vietnam – Unseen images of the war from the winning side
the US was maintaining a kill ratio of 134:1
This ratio makes no sense and would imply almost 8 million dead NVA/Vietcong combatants by the end of the war.
fensipens | 10 years ago | on: Another Vietnam – Unseen images of the war from the winning side
but the only commentary it seems to offer is by Vietcong themselves
Yeah, nobody cares about the point of view of a 60kg Vietcong soldier. They are not supposed to have a face and keep quiet beneath that 2+ million bodycount. The brave war stories are reserved for the american GIs.. and hollywood.
fensipens | 10 years ago | on: Cloudflare Introduces Universal DNSSEC: Secure DNS for Your Domain
> This is the fourth time in the last 30 days I have seen some blog post about DNSSEC on the front page. Three overtly pushing Cloudflare DNSSEC and one about email and DNSSEC written by a Cloudflare employee.
Absolutely, this is getting out of hand.
Would be easier to just buy HN and replace all top stories with your crappy DNSSEC ads..
fensipens | 10 years ago | on: Your own Debian Mail Server (part II): how to prove you are not a spammer
Again: SPF, DKIM and DMARC are no indicators of spamminess of a source. These systems have a completely different purpose.
fensipens | 10 years ago | on: The Hostile Email Landscape
> this server was configured perfectly: (...) SPF, DKIM and DMARC policies in place
SPF, DKIM and DMARC are no indicators of spamminess of a source. These systems have a completely different purpose.
fensipens | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Passbox – Another password manager using Bash and GPG
the standard unix password manager
Annoying amount of hubris.
This pile of unattractive bash-snippets is neither unix nor standard. Just call it what it is: A very dependent script that will probably work on most GNU/Linux distributions.
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