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directionless··on Osquery 4.0 Is Out
https://github.com/osquery/osquery/releases/tag/4.0.1

This is the first stable release since transferring to The Linux Foundation. It represents a huge amount of work across many community members.

directionless··on Shipping wind turbines is not a breeze
Y'all may be interested in http://keystonetowersystems.com/

They're a small company that uses a neat system to manufacture the towers onsite, cutting down the shipping for it.

(Disclosure -- they're friends of mine, but I have no direct experience with them)

directionless··on Fastly S-1
What's the purge time like?
directionless··on Better security achieved with randomly generating biological encryption keys
Paper is downloadable from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329423153_Biologica...
directionless··on Better security achieved with randomly generating biological encryption keys
My read on the paper, is that it's suggesting using this as an RNG for a pre-shared key. I found this sentence especially striking:

> Alice and Bob, secretly, exchange their private key, X, generated using the spatiotemporal randomness of the T cell population.

It's always interesting to read about new RNG methods, but that seems pretty far from a crypto system.

directionless··on Ask HN: Does anyone actually use Keybase?
It has mostly replaced gpg in my usage. It's not common, but it's present. HashiCorp Vault has a nice integration.
directionless··on Ex-Apple Employee Stole Secrets for Chinese Firm, U.S. Says
Some perspective around the different ideas in IP https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
directionless··on Ask HN: Why is Docker so popular in comparison to other containerization tech?
It's got a good name, and was an early mover in the field.
directionless··on FreeOTP – An open-source solution for authentication soft tokens
FWIW These days 1password supports TOTP directly, pretty smooth in the browser.
directionless··on Beijing Sinnet says it will buy Amazon Web Services’ China business
A somewhat misleading headline. Only the "Amazon Web Services' China business"
directionless··on Breaking into 1Password, KeePass, LastPass and Dashlane
The google text cache works. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
directionless··on Post-Detection SETI Protocols and METI: The Time Has Come to Regulate Them Both
Any else read _Three Body Problem_ ?
directionless··on GlobalSign OCSP Incident Report [pdf]
Quote:

Delegated revocation responders incorrectly determined that all Root CA R1 Intermediates were “bad” due to the cross certificate being revoked by Root CA R2 as the cross had the same Public Key and Subject Name details with a more recent date.

directionless··on Certificate Revocation Issue
Updates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12712279 https://downloads.globalsign.com/acton/attachment/2674/f-06d...
directionless··on Show HN: Stout – Go-based Static Website Deploy Tool
Er... pushing a directory to s3 is about 100 lines of python. (if not less) Not sure what else this is?
directionless··on Firefox Bug 111373 - don't allow animated site icons
My "favorite" ancient bug report, is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91337 (and its duplicate https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259109)

It's why I stopped using thunderbird, and mostly gave up on mozilla products. Here we are, about 14 years later.

directionless··on “I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metaphone 3”
I'm a little disappointed to see the original PR locked due to lphilips54's inconsistent statements.

While I think the OSS community should be polite and inclusive, I also think that we are all poorer if we ignore contributions due to author behavior. I'm confident that many authors have abhorrent political views and actions. While we should not elevate them as role models, there are times it's reasonable to just use the code.

directionless··on ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems
You may also be interested in http://aphyr.com/posts/291-call-me-maybe-zookeeper
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