tuzakey
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1 year ago
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on: Starlink and T-Mobile open satellite texting test to all
Find a SAR team in your area, they usually have a recruiting page. SAR is not a casual volunteer commitment they tend to train a lot. The process here (alameda county ~ bay area) is take orientation class, apply, pass fitness/skills test/oral interview/background check, attend meetings and basic training, then train more while waiting for a call out. They want 6+hrs/mo to stay active. This will be different for every jurisdiction so ymmv.
tuzakey
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5 years ago
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on: Man has $250K vanish from checking account
"Wipes it every few weeks" probably means he has his data on a flash drive or external hard drive that he plugs in everytime. Of course it's probably far simpler than that~insider threat at the bank committing Wells Fargo style upsell fraud or simply password reuse.
tuzakey
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5 years ago
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on: All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
This is typically used for agricultural/off-road fuel which is not priced with road taxes and as a result much cheaper. Off road fuel is dyed red in the US. If you get caught running dyed diesel on road you will be fined. Thus the switch on the dash, when you leave the highway to drive on your farm you flip over to dyed fuel to save $$.
tuzakey
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5 years ago
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on: I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months
> Going back to games;.... That might be a model for new typed of education going forward.
I think this is how 42 school works. I've known a couple people who started the program there but none who completed it. However 42 is afaik not accredited and WGU(where the OP attended) is. 42 probably lands more in the coding bootcamp end of education the spectrum.
tuzakey
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5 years ago
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on: AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
Sonic has their own fiber in some parts of SF/Santa Rosa and you would know if you were on it, all Sonic DSL products are essentially resold AT&T uverse.
tuzakey
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5 years ago
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on: Douane: Linux personal firewall with per application rule controls
Right!? That's the first thing I looked for in the project page. I'm really surprised it isn't using ebpf, but netfilter and a kernel module let them run back on 2.4 (but why?) I'm waiting for a bpf based solution to pop up as I think it will be superior in performance, ability, and maintainability.
tuzakey
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5 years ago
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on: If it ain't broke: Share your oldest working gadgets
I buy film from Film Photography Project, B&H, Adorama, and FreeStyle Photo. Most of the brick and mortar camera stores that still exist sell some film. For development I do black and white at home and send color out to thedarkroom.com because I don't shoot enough color to make the chemistry cost effective. I print black and white in my bathroom darkroom.
I'm still able to find 35mm, 120 and 4x5 film easily. I have a 127 camera that is a bit harder to find film for.
tuzakey
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6 years ago
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on: Teens don't have a clue about IT? (2016)
tuzakey
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6 years ago
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on: Snowmobiler finds family of five stuck in frozen wilderness
I'm an extra and a VE. I take a radio with me on all of my back country camping trips and have a solar+battery repeater set up in my 4x4. I've ended up many places where neither radio could get out to anyone simplex and no repeaters were in range. Amateur radio works great when you have a communications plan and know you'll be in range (like when you're working with a group) but for small groups/solo back country and new areas I'll be picking up either a PLB or an inreach for this season. Others mentioned HF, I don't think you can expect to be able to string a wire dipole up and transit if you break your ankle or something ~ assuming the solar conditions allow you to get out anyway.
Also I meet lots of people who have taken the test and bought the $30 radio but don't know how to use it. Practice, practice, practice. I look at group camping trips as an opportunity to practice wilderness protocol and usually come back with a bunch of notes on what worked/didn't.
tuzakey
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Which headphones are you using?
I bought a pair of the Sony wh1000mx3 and let my coworkers try them out, as we have a noisy open floor plan. Everyone who tried them bought a set in spite of the price tag.
My only complaint is that they don't support multiple device connections. I can wear these cans all day without discomfort too.
tuzakey
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7 years ago
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on: Berkeley HS student tried to rig his own election, exposing cybersecurity flaws
In my experience with banks that did this it was to allow a mapping to 10digit keypads for bank by phone access. I haven't tried it recently, and they allow complex passwords now. When I noticed this several years ago I was able to log into my bank account via the website with the 10digit equivalent password. At least your bank balance is insured...
tuzakey
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7 years ago
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on: Mail Loop From Hell (2012)
tuzakey
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7 years ago
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on: Why I'm usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us
I had a bunch of Crucial SSDs die a few years back, they'd work for an hour then disappear from the bus. Reboot and they'd work again for an hour. It turned out Crucial had a small counter tracking uptime by the hour, it would increment the counter to an overflow and crash. This failure could just have easily occur on a spinning hdd.
tuzakey
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9 years ago
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on: USPS Informed Delivery – Digital Images of Front of Mailpieces
I just tried to turn it on for my USPS PO Box, it doesn't work. They require you to verify your identity via an online option that just reports that it didn't work or in-person verification. To verify in person you need a us government issued ID (passport, military, but not state gov) and if the address there doesn't match you need a secondary document (mortgage, bill, etc.) The only things I receive at my PO are amateur radio documents and domain registration scams. There are less stringent identification requirements to buy a handgun in California (State ID + supporting document)
That said, I'd really like it to work because it would save me trips down to the post-office only to collect junk mail and the previous PO box tenants non-forwarded correspondence.
tuzakey
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11 years ago
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on: Schwab password policies and two factor authentication
It may be much worse than you think. Another large brokerage company I know of has similar password requirements. They also have a phone banking system, to use it you have to touch tone in your password. On a whim I tried entering the keypad version of my password on the website and surprise! it worked. Luckily for me there is zero customer liability for fraud on their retirement accounts.
tuzakey
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11 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What is the best Linux Laptop in 2014?
I have an Asus ux31a zenbook prime (i5/4g/256g), running Ubuntu 13.10 currently, everything works fine except for the ambient light sensor. I had to have the keyboard fixed under warranty about 4 months in, otherwise it has been great. You can pick up a refurbished model in your price range.
tuzakey
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11 years ago
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on: A tiny group of people can see ‘invisible’ colours that no-one else can perceive
tuzakey
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11 years ago
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on: Chumby is back
The Chumby was cool 4 years ago... When the Chumby services started getting flaky as their business died I replaced mine with an Android tablet in a sound dock. The Android tablet is more reliable, has more apps, and doesn't turn into a worthless brick when the internet goes down. I still have the Chumby in a box somewhere, maybe now that services are back up I can sell it and recover some of my cost.
tuzakey
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12 years ago
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on: Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a Good Idea
Thats where fail2ban is useful, pick a number of failed auth attempts on any service you care to integrate, lets say 8 PAM failures, and trigger a rule that inserts an iptables rule to drop/reject the attackers IP for 5minutes. That will time out the ssh scan for all but the most patient scanners. If you shared the fail2ban database across hosts you could inject null routes for the offender into your router or block them at your firewall.
tuzakey
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12 years ago
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on: Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a Good Idea
Its kinda silly to move the port, a targeted attack is going to start with an portscan of you box, the attacker is going to say "oh what’s this here on port 2222?" and promptly discover that its ssh listening on a high port. Port knocking would make that discovery less likely I suppose but its still all treating a symptom of a bigger problem.
So why not solve the problem with something a little more proactive like turning off password auth and go for sshkeys only. Maybe toss in something like fail2ban if you want to interrupt kiddies scanning your boxen.
That said high port ssh can be nice if you're frequently on restrictive networks and getting out on port 22 is impossible.
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