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exciteabletom··on Fail2ban – Remote Code Execution
I should have been more explicit, you're right it's not necessary for SSH with keys.

I was thinking more about preventing spam on web servers.

exciteabletom··on Fail2ban – Remote Code Execution
Is fail2ban obscure? I was under the impression it was a must have for any server exposed to the internet.
exciteabletom··on Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)
Is "foo" used to mean any string, or is it literally only "../foo" that crashes it?
exciteabletom··on Mozilla HTTP Observatory
I was previously using https://ssllabs.com, but this is much more comprehensive! It even includes ssllabs as a third party test!
exciteabletom··on A nasty bit of undefined timezone behavior in Golang
>I demonstrated outstanding leadership and blamed him without any further evidence.

At least the Author seems to know it wasn't OK.

exciteabletom··on My dead dad’s journal
You should forward every email to an account on a different provider as well. For redundancy
exciteabletom··on How I Experience Web Today
> What is the point of trying to distract the user from the content of the article?

The article is merely bait to get you to look at the ads. Once you are on the page, they don't care whether or not you read the article.

exciteabletom··on Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
I've been using Spot[0], which is another Rust Spotify client using GTK.

[0]: https://github.com/xou816/spot

exciteabletom··on Element raises $30M to boost Matrix
> closed-source platforms such as Slack & Telegram

I'm pretty sure Telegram is open-source (at least the client)

https://github.com/telegramdesktop

exciteabletom··on 80% of my traffic is excluded from Google Analytics
I should clarify it isn't blocked in the traditional sense.

It loads a benign script that pretends to be GA but doesn't touch Google servers at all, to avoid breaking sites that expect GA to be available.

exciteabletom··on 80% of my traffic is excluded from Google Analytics
Also worth noting that recent versions of Firefox block GA by default
exciteabletom··on Hacker deleted all of NewsBlur’s Mongo data and is now holding the data hostage
A more complete answer using nmap and cron:

    MAILTO="youremail@yourdomain.com"
    */30 * * * * nmap yourdomain.com | grep open > nmap.log.tmp; diff nmap.log nmap.log.tmp; mv nmap.log.tmp nmap.log
exciteabletom··on Sorry everybody, I failed with you
>I am afraid that within GitHub I mostly use stars as a bookmark for projects I find interesting and may want to check out in the future.

Wouldn't it make more sense to use the "watch" button for this?

exciteabletom··on First Public Working Drafts: WebGPU and WebGPU Shading Language
A humorous example is the misspelling of the referer HTTP header: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer#Etymology
exciteabletom··on Open source retro ISA video card
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27171100
exciteabletom··on Erlang/OTP 24 highlights
I love the new error messages. Rust seems to have started that trend, Python also added better errors recently.
exciteabletom··on There’s no place for expensive laptops with 8GB of RAM anymore
Telegram runs on qt: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop#third-party
exciteabletom··on I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
Onions are quite nice to eat raw like an apple. The perfect combination of spicy and sweet.
exciteabletom··on LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online
web.archive.org
exciteabletom··on Vulture: Find Dead Python Code
Vulture has to also inspect the template files for this to work, which is probably out of the scope of the project.
exciteabletom··on Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)
What's even stranger is that they were actually favourable to 1st gen Ryzen processors when they came out. On their 1800x review[0] they call it: "A very welcome shake-up of the CPU market"

Then they did a complete 180 when AMD actually shook up the CPU market. Perhaps the site's owner changed?

There's a great video about the site here for those who are curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQSBj2LKkWg

0: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/AMD-Ryzen-7-1800X/Rating/3916

exciteabletom··on Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)
Did you mean the Intel shill site userbenchmark.com?

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/AMD-Ryzen-9-5900X/Rating/4087

exciteabletom··on “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
The Fedora docs[0] say:

> Packages including libraries SHOULD exclude static libs as far as possible

> In general, packagers SHOULD NOT ship static libraries.

[0] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#p...

exciteabletom··on So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain
These are good points.

I especially hadn't considered the commenting on individual tweets aspect. IMO it's a bit esoteric to click on an individual tweet to read the comments, because it breaks the flow of my reading. But I can totally understand the upsides of that.

After hearing your thoughts, Twitter could improve by removing the character limit BUT:

- Showing only the first 250 characters of a post on user's feeds.

- Putting a like button next to each paragraph

- Making it easy to inline quote sections of the text in comments by building it into a context menu when you highlight text

This UX would only apply to >250 character tweets, so the micro blogging aspect is not totally lost. Perhaps a option could be added to filter out long tweets for users who prefer micro blogging.

This way you wouldn't have to laboriously chain tweets together, and you would actually gain flexibility in quoting specific sections without breaking the flow of reading.

exciteabletom··on So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain
What's the point of being a micro blog platform if long-form text is written anyway? Twitter either needs to disallow long text in threads or just remove the character limit.
exciteabletom··on AI Dungeon will block certain words, review content flagged as inappropriate
Jesús is a popular name in Spanish speaking countries...
exciteabletom··on Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
If your issues were disk speed related, you should know that accessing files in NTFS using WSL2 is very slow. You'll have to move your files to the Linux FS first.
exciteabletom··on Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]
FWIW Telegram deletes your account if you are away for a year, and you cannot disable it.
exciteabletom··on Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree
nVidia works fine on Wayland on Gnome because Gnome implemented nVidia's EGLstreams as well as GBM
exciteabletom··on Wayland on Wine: A First Update
To me that name makes sense. It is a Windows Subsystem that adds support for Linux
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