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> * All: switch the fallback implementation of the ed25519 signature algorithm used when libcrypto is disabled from SUPERCOP ed25519 to libsodium. The libsodium implementation includes a number of strictness checks over the original reference implementation we have used to this point and a more ergonomic API.

blodornon A Modern Web App in C

The BCHS stack is OpenBSD, C, OpenBSD's httpd, and SQLite.

Is that the stack you are referring to, or something else?

blodornon Using Gorilla glass for home building

100 year old windows were designed for easy maintenance and repair. Are the double hung windows? If they are, you can make sure to have storm windows on which effectively work as a double pane window. If this new glass were available, you could replace every pane in your window without removing a nail.

blodornon OpenBSD: Removing syscall(2) from libc and kernel

I think pledge(2) and unveil(2) would help to prevent "what can be done if a bug is exploited", yes?

blodornon OpenBSD 7.4

> Soft updates (softdep) have been disabled for future VFS work [See earlier report].

Hopefully some acceptable filesystem will be added in the near future.

blodornon OpenBSD 7.4

There is also gefs https://orib.dev/gefs.pdf with the other thinking about porting it to OpenBSD.

blodornon FreeBSD at 30: Its secrets to success

20 years later, who made the right call?

blodornon Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam

What is the purpose of the ? here?

blodornon Vitamin D Resistance as a Possible Cause of Autoimmune Diseases

Ugly: Yes

Wix: Yes

Book: Free

So not _too_ much peddling, at least.

blodornon Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii

Pure asafoetida is fine to use, it doesn't smell bad, it doesn't give you stomach problems. You dilute it with the food you cook with it. It doesn't need it adulterated with flour and turmeric. Here is a good brand that I like, "Best Hing Ever". Hing is another name for asafoetida.

https://www.pureindianfoods.com/hing-asafoetida-powder-p/hin...

blodornon Quad9 public DNS moves to Switzerland

Next time you feel that way just look at Nepal. By far the most unique country flag.

blodornon Some Arabic and Persian accounts of the export of tin from Cornwall

A happy little accident.

blodornon Why the Service Mesh Should Fade Out of Sight

Your RHEL/Debian/etc hosts can be just as much locked down cattle as your CoreOS (which is also Linux). I find it very interesting to go on about the technicality of correctness when the entirety of kubernetes is dependent upon Linux.

blodornon Linux Hardening Guide

Ahhh, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question!

blodornon Linux Hardening Guide

> The ipv6 module is used for more than ipv6.

Would you tell me why the ipv6 module used for more than ipv6? If you don't want something running, disabling it at the kernel level makes sense to me, so I am curious as to why that is not the case. If things don't work with it disabled in the kernel, but DO work with it disabled via sysctl, what is actually being disabled?

blodornon Elephant decline revealed by shipwreck cargo

One way to check for real v fake ivory is to heat a pin in a lighter and then try and poke a little hole. Real ivory doesn't melt at all, and a lot of imitation ivory does, and that is a very easy and expedient test.

blodornon The Persian Art of Etiquette (2016)

Or trying to shop somewhere where nothing has a fixed price and instead you must haggle.

blodornon Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust

xhtml?

blodornon Low latency tuning guide

I thought it was "Additions I would have benefited from" but then reading them it is clearly "Additions I have benefited from".

blodornon Weird Shell – Structural Regular Expressions Unix Shell Made in Rust

Linux vi like text editor using Structural Regular Expressions too https://github.com/martanne/vis

blodornon Lua 5.4.0

Am I wrong? I thought the author of LuaJIT has been pretty well over it for the last 5 years and no one else picked it up.

LuaJIT had a beta release 3 years ago and hasn't been updated since.

blodornon The State of the AWK

Regarding AWK being cross-platform, it is part of the POSIX standard.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/a...

blodornon The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (2018)

I thought this was a really good example. I see the word, whataboutism, thrown around a lot and have a hard time understanding what is/isn't. So, thank you.

blodornon Guide to Software Defined Radio

HIPAA doesn't apply to individuals, it only applies to health institutions and their employees and business associates[0].

[0] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/guidance-materials...