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discreditable

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Sysadmin at a high school.
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discreditable··on Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates
Chrome's dev console shows a warning for affected certs.
discreditable··on MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers
I could be wrong or things may have changed. I think the core issue was the 88u used a different broadcom wireless chipset which has very poor Linux support.
discreditable··on MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers
Same case for me. I had an AC88U. I got tired of it because the 5GHz 802.11ac radio seemed like it'd be forever broken in OSS firmwares. I felt asuswrt was pretty crappy too. I went ubiquiti. Their management is nice, and they actually seem interested in fixing bugs in their firmware.
discreditable··on Inside the Business of Dog Cloning
As a rescue dog owner this article made me wonder how different he could be if I had the chance to raise him with love instead of neglect. Then I realized a clone would look the same but it could be an entirely different dog otherwise.
discreditable··on Cyber Security Awareness Challenge
> Get Adobe Flash Player

This one's tough.

discreditable··on What can defend against off-the-shelf drone weapons?
Action from distance could allow several drones set to fire on a target from different locations and calculate the projectiles to arrive at the same time.
discreditable··on Cracking WPA-2 Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
WPA2's day is past imho. It's a shame that WPA3 looks like it might have its own problems thanks to closet development.
discreditable··on Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs
Even better, a phone DID is a very centralized identifier, whereas this refers to a decentralized identifier.
discreditable··on PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years
Most shooters are imho.
discreditable··on Show HN: Pesky Adblock – Blocks site access to visitors without an adblocker
Its origins are in gaming. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/git-gud
discreditable··on Show HN: Google Drive as a file system
Yes, you can get it with a G Suite account, but regular @gmail.com users cannot.
discreditable··on With more students boasting flashy GPAs, academic honors lose their luster
At the high school I worked at some years ago we pushed the margins for letter grades up a little. For example, where a C used to be 70-80% it became 72-82%, up to A which is 93-100%. Whether or not that affected the overall GPA distribution I could not say.
discreditable··on Show HN: Google Drive as a file system
Backup and Sync lacks the coolest feature of File Stream. File Stream allows you to download files when you access them instead of keeping them all on your PC. For someone like me with lots of photos, a smallish SSD, and a fast internet connection it's very convenient.
discreditable··on Show HN: Google Drive as a file system
Same here. I wish they offered it for personal accounts. I would happily start paying for Drive to use it.
discreditable··on Amazon, the Brand Buster
It's hard for the pricing to work out unless you know you'll use them for a while. A 48-pack of Amazon AAs is $13.29 [1]. A 16-pack of Amazon rechargable AAs is $24.99 [2]. Ignoring the cost of a charger, the rechargables won't pay for themselves unless you go through 4 recharge cycles. If you add the $14.99 charger [3] for your first order, then you need 5 cycles on all of the batteries (80 cycles total) for it to be worth it.

1. https://amzn.com/B00MNV8E0C

2. https://amzn.com/B007B9NV8Q

3. https://amzn.com/B00TOVTZ7K

discreditable··on Toshiba to Close the Book on Its Laptop Unit
I work with a lot of ThinkPad Yogas. They are decent. The business machines are not terrible on bloat. I would still download a Win10 installer and nuke the factory image.
discreditable··on Ask HN: "Creative" ways to handle abusive http traffic?
Maybe tarpit[1] the connections? By rejecting them quickly you help them move on, but if you instead make the pages load as slowly as possible that would waste a lot of their time.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)

discreditable··on Senator requests better https compliance at US Department of Defense [pdf]
Their page is pretty light. It's served over http2 and about 1MB of mostly images. There's only 60K/200K (compressed/uncompressed) of Javascript.
discreditable··on Extracting SSH Private Keys from Windows 10 ssh-agent
As I read the article I thought it was more silly they didn't simply use burner keys as PoC.
discreditable··on Manufacturer 'make worthless' users devices after some stolen from a warehouse
If you unintentionally buy a blacklisted phone online, do you try to break the blacklist or report the seller and get a refund?
discreditable··on Tarballs, the ultimate container image format
The problem is that to know what files are in the tarball you have to read the whole thing. If the archive is large that's a lot of reading just to get a file list.
discreditable··on I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore
I feel like the death of dedicated servers has in part led to the rise in toxicity in games. In community servers, if someone was being rude or annoying they would get kicked. Nowadays you just hit the report button and hope eventually they are dealt with. In the meantime you're stuck with them until the next game.
discreditable··on Project 5050 [video]
It would be nice if the site had some text describing what it is.
discreditable··on FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition
The PDF whitepaper should also be an image instead of text to prevent anyone from using find or selecting text.
discreditable··on Mounting partitions from a dd image
I commonly use loopdevs to create and partition bootable disk images for clonezilla. I like that I can create them sparse so that they take up less space.
discreditable··on Mounting partitions from a dd image
I'm not sure. All I can think is that partprobe is provided by parted and I have noticed people tend to gravitate towards using fdisk or parted and ignoring the other. Notice the author of the article is an fdisk guy.

I might be mis-remebering but I think parted used to be considered lame before fdisk lagged to support GPT.

discreditable··on Mounting partitions from a dd image
This is doing it the hard way. Make the image a loop device:

   losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/your/image.img
Now you can use /dev/loop0 like it's a normal disk. If you're not seeing your partitions (/dev/loop0p1, etc.):

    partprobe /dev/loop0
When you're done, detach the loop device:

    losetup -d /dev/loop0
I use this trick to transparently compress ddrescue images with brtfs: https://brashear.me/blog/2017/11/14/how-to-create-a-compress...
discreditable··on Amazon Froze My Account and I Still Don’t Know Why
Did you maybe miss out on installing the firmware update for the store prior to the deadline? https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

Iirc they were disabling some old SSL stuff (either sha1 or weak ciphers) that the old firmwares relied on. If that's your problem you just need to manually update and it should work again.

discreditable··on High Speed Networking: Open Sourcing our Kernel Bypass Work
I used to have a fiber + TV package. It was definitely multicast. I found that when I swapped their router for my own I had to make sure IGMP was handled in order for TV and on-demand to work.
discreditable··on I've spent the last two years building a new email client
For comparison, my Thunderbird install with over 60k messages stored locally hits about 220MB.
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