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bogantech··on Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
Should I have to watch marketing events to make sure I'm not being spied on?
bogantech··on Ghostty 1.0
Looks really out of place for me on KDE, big fat gnome title bar and buttons etc...
bogantech··on Why GCC 1.42 on the Tektronix 4404 – with a C compiler from 1979
> (and of course eventually dropping support for Motorola 68010 on which the Tektronix 4404 is built)

I don't think it ever did? Looking here[1] it still seems to be supported.

I know m68k support was going to be removed at one point but it was saved in the end[2]

Nice work though! I wouldn't even know where to start with something like this! you're a wizard

[1]https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/config/m68...

[2]https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-11-m68k-Is-Safe

bogantech··on Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences
> You should travel a bit around the world, you would then understand how high NZ stands globally

They come from Europe to NZ - that is literally travelling the world.

There's a reason a large proportion of kiwis move to Australia and not the other way around.

bogantech··on Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences
> per capita

So France is over 10x richer then

bogantech··on Static IPs for Serverless Containers
It's not authentication. People aren't using static ips for authentication purposes

But if I have firewall policies that allow connections only to specific services I need a destination address and port (yes, some firewalls allow host names but there's drawbacks to that)

> IP addresses aren't authenticated, they can be spoofed

For anything bidirectional you'd need the client to have a route back to you for that address, which would require you compromising some routers and advertising it via BGP etc.

You can spoof addresses all you want but it will generally not do much for a stateful protocol

bogantech··on Static IPs for Serverless Containers
Firewalls exist, many network environments block everything not explicitly allowed.

Authentication is only part of the problem, networks are firewalled (with dedicated appliances) and segmented to prevent lateral movement in the event of a compromise

bogantech··on The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
> Typical Amiga fanboyism and Apple envy, if a Mac does something they have to prove the Amiga outdid it.

I think we're envious that Apple did a better job of engineering their systems

bogantech··on Australian House passes bill to ban children under 16 from social media
It'll just mean every Australian will have to provide ID and lose the ability to remain anonymous online - no biggie!
bogantech··on The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
Classic Commodore Quality :P

They also had backwards caps on the CD32 and A4000

bogantech··on WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration
> Pretty much everybody can get WireGuard working in minutes.

You can get anything working in minutes, even IPSEC if you are using static keys with no authentication or authorization involved

bogantech··on WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration
> The point of the WireGuard design is to be agnostic to "upper-layer" concerns like this;

And there will probably never be any standard (non-commercial) "upper-layer" because of this.

The project prides itself on being much simpler than IPSEC etc but that's easy when you leave out half of the functionality

bogantech··on Linux connection tracking and (Slow) DNS
> This sounds like bad advice

Please elaborate.

As they say a typical DNS request comes in as one packet and is replied in one packet, there is no ongoing connection so there's no point keeping tracking information.

The implication of not tracking the connection is that any packets will have to match a more specific rule than the "allow established,related" at the top of the firewall chain.

> they would be better off trying to make DNS a TCP-only service to stop amplification attacks.

Sure, lets get literally everyone on the intenet to agree to a new version of DNS that uses TCP...

Even if you do that - the problem moves from conntrack filling up we can fill up on ephemeral ports stuck in TIME_WAIT because some genius thought a service that doesn't maintain a connection should use TCP

bogantech··on Costco’s butter recall, explained
If you were deathly allergic to milk you'd probably know that butter is a milk product
bogantech··on MikroTik and Ampere co-developing a product line with server-class CPUs
With the benefit of flexibility - a decade later your router will continue to get updates adding new features and protocols
bogantech··on M4 MacBook Pro
* As long as you don't want to use any external displays
bogantech··on Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris
Because he owns the paper and they don't
bogantech··on Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris
> But that's not what happened here. The editors did their normal endorsement process, but the owner of the paper stepped in and personally overrode their process for this one particular endorsement.

He owns the paper, they just work there.

bogantech··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
> My Tesla routinely tries to kill me

Why on earth would you continue to use it? If it does succeed someday that's on you

bogantech··on Do not use secrets in environment variables
> Don't use secrets in environment variables, but use this secret in environment variables, but this one gives you access to all secrets.

Not much use to an attacker if the token / approle is restricted to a specific IP / EC2 instance id.

Auditable too

bogantech··on Router Security
If your internal infrastructure is not internet routable nobody would be able to ping it anyway
bogantech··on Router Security
People who block ping should get swirlies
bogantech··on Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
> I'm not sure why you think the VSCode situation is so different.

I'm not sure how they're related? How is something MS allegedly did with Office over 20 years ago related at all?

It's not like they can make plaintext source files incompatible with other IDEs

bogantech··on Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
It's a bit of a reach to invoke EEE for a piece of software they wrote in the first place.

Of course it's a post relating to MS so there will be at least one such comment

bogantech··on Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS
Link to the OP for those that haven't seen it: https://x.com/evilsocket/status/1838169889330135132

Hyped it up to be some massive thing but it turned out to be a massive nothingbuger for me at least

bogantech··on Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding (2023)
If it makes you feel any better, ProxyJump was only added in 2016
bogantech··on Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash
Does that give the police free reign to steal it?
bogantech··on Amazon bans its drivers from moving their own lips too much at work
Unfortunately they won't, people want their cheap crap right now no matter how much suffering it causes for the underprivileged.
bogantech··on Show HN: 789-Zip – A native macOS app for 7-Zip
Why would GitHub even care?
bogantech··on Emulating the Early Macintosh Floppy Drive
On my Mac Plus the cursor lags horribly when the floppy is being accessed
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