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keeperofdakeys··on Sshmuxd: SSH proxy to replace jump hosts
ssh-add has a -c option, which uses ssh-askpass for confirmation. Unfortunately it doesn't give much information, but you hope you would notice it coming up when you didn't initiate it. You may also be able to do something with gpg-agent, it seems to have more options.
keeperofdakeys··on Sshmuxd: SSH proxy to replace jump hosts
Personally I have a confirmation dialogue for any agent forwarding request. When I require it, this seems like the best compromise. (I still have my key decrypted in memory, I just get a "Use key?" window that I need to hit enter for).
keeperofdakeys··on Sshmuxd: SSH proxy to replace jump hosts
Try formatting it like this:

    ProxyCommand ssh jumpHost -W %h:%p
-W is essentially the same as using nc, however it doesn't require executing a command on the jumphost. This project uses that fact to make the jumphost more secure (you can't execute arbitrary commands), and do destination white-listing for each user.
keeperofdakeys··on Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big language [pdf]
As someone who is relatively new to perl, I think perl 6 is definitely a positive direction. It removes lots of inconsistencies, while providing a clean base for future expansion. For something like the sigils, what's more important - to know that a variable is a scalar, or that it's some kind of hash/array? The second would definitely be less confusing when learning the language.

There are also definitely some good things coming out of perl 6, like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpqnNCx7wVY

keeperofdakeys··on Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
That's the great thing about Daala, they are exploring alternate ways to build a video codec.I'm really hopeful that one day it will be as successful as Opus.

There was a great talk about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmho4gcRvQ4

keeperofdakeys··on Using ssh-agent with ssh (2002)
For those who were interested in details - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Proxies_and_J...

SSH on the gateway host turns into a relay to forward your SSH traffic to the other host.

keeperofdakeys··on Using ssh-agent with ssh (2002)
Personally I configure ssh-agent to have my key decrypted in memory, but to bring up a simple yes/no confirmation dialogue whenever an ssh connection requests the key. While it doesn't prevent the problem, it certainly increases the sophistication required - I'm not likely to click on such a box when I haven't done something that would need it.
keeperofdakeys··on YouTube is preparing to launch two subscription services
I've found using "site:youtube.com" on google can often improve the searching experience of youtube.
keeperofdakeys··on OpenWRT vs. FCC – Forced Firmware Lockdown? [video]
From my experience, you'll also lose DSL functions when you do. It's all proprietary from what I've read.
keeperofdakeys··on OpenWRT vs. FCC – Forced Firmware Lockdown? [video]
All the fancy wifi stuff is part of the wifi chipset, which most router vendors tend not to have any hand in - especially for consumer stuff. (also, beamforming is a very misleading term). You can basically buy a card that does all this stuff 'off the shelf', and could even plug it into a laptop. Though, antenna placement may be something you'd need to do some research on.
keeperofdakeys··on 50 years ago today the word “hypertext” was introduced
Even after all these years, Project Xanadu is still kicking, trying to do something like this - "the longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry". http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/xanadu.html
keeperofdakeys··on WebExtensions FAQ
It really depends how many resources mozilla puts on this internally, which from what I've been reading may actually be quite a bit. But I don't think they'd move the schedule any more than a few releases, there will likely be a whole bunch of addons ported at the last minute, and they likely need the motivation.
keeperofdakeys··on WebExtensions FAQ
> The entire point of announcing WebExtensions so early...

Their current schedule only gives a year to build an api, mature the api, get a significant number of popular ported addons, and deprecate their old api. There will either be mature apis and many casualties, or half-conceived apis and lots of addons that will need to be changed with these apis.

With enough time and design, I'm sure this move would result in many positives at the cost of some negatives. But this time frame is just too short for such a huge undertaking.

keeperofdakeys··on Our Brave New World of 4K Displays
Most 2D rendering paths are already accelerated, for example you have DirectWrite in windows (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd3...). There is even a linux 2D driver that uses GL to accelerate 2D drawing, and they are/were even experimenting with caching fonts in surfaces.
keeperofdakeys··on Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec
There was a great talk about Daala at Linux.conf.au 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmho4gcRvQ4). It has both general, and technical information about Daala, so it's well worth a watch.
keeperofdakeys··on A message from the FFmpeg project
From what I understand, it was mainly the way Michael ran the project. Some developers tried to (forcefully) take over the project, but in the end they had to fork it. Here is a recent article with some comparisons, now that it's been four years https://lwn.net/Articles/650816/.

There are two questions now that Michael has left, will they still actively merge libav patches (which he was mainly doing), and will development continue at the same pace.

keeperofdakeys··on Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
Have you tried pgadmin, it even has a 'visual' query builder.
keeperofdakeys··on VnStat – A network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD
I'd hope it does, considering the man page says it literally reads the kernel's interface counters from /proc (or in other words, the kernel does all the counting). The daemon has its own polling time as well.
keeperofdakeys··on The anatomy of a credit card form
I know a banking site that inserts dashes. However, if you type too fast, then it inserts them into the wrong places :/
keeperofdakeys··on The little ssh that sometimes couldn't (2012)
Besides debugging, would this help though? A corrupt packet is the same as not receiving the (correct) packet at all. It will be retransmitted when no ACK is received. If the problem is ephemeral, it will be resolved on the retransmission. If it's not, timing out the connection is the only course of action.
keeperofdakeys··on Firefox 41 will use less memory when running AdBlock Plus
uBlock and Adblock Plus are built around filter lists of urls (in fact, both use essentially the same lists). So if something is blocked in one but not the other, it's probably a difference in the filter list subscriptions. This is easily configurable in both.
keeperofdakeys··on Ioke is a folding language
Here is the definition the creator has.

https://ioke.org/wiki/index.php/Guide#Introduction

I imagine they are trying to create something that could take the roles of both low-level and high-level, like C++ and Lua in a gaming engine.

keeperofdakeys··on Windows 10 “WiFi Sense” automatically leaks your wifi password to strangers
Radius is an authentication protocol that is quite widely used, including in WPA-Enterpise. Here there is no fixed password, but a system that allows multiple users with separate passwords.

By using WPA-Enterprise, this wifi sense feature will likely do nothing.

keeperofdakeys··on All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem
19 January 2038 will be a very interesting day, since that's when signed 32 bit unix time will overflow. I don't want to think about how much software would rely on that, especially critical embedded hardware.
keeperofdakeys··on Abstraction without overhead: traits in Rust
There are some key differences, like Rust traits using generics, and Go interfaces using an empty interface for generic code.
keeperofdakeys··on UK Election: What difference would proportional representation have made?
In Australia the 'above or below the line' voting system is used for the upper house (senate), which is state-based representation (and you can only select a single party, or number 40+ boxes below the line).

For the lower house, we have optional preferential voting. So you number from 1 to something, and stop when you want. Then a slightly complex counting system occurs where votes for least-voted candidates are redistributed to the next preference, and repeated until you get a result.

The upper house voting system does have some issues though. Most people consider voting below the line complex, and you can only mark one party above the line. Then independent senators only appear below the line, since they are in no party (which has caused an independent senator to make a party, just to appear above the line).

keeperofdakeys··on The compiler flag that time forgot
The worst bit is that when you do use the XHTML MIME type, most browsers would give a big error message about parsing errors. And then there was the bug in IE7 or IE8 where both the doctype and xml deceleration had to be on the first line to have an effect.
keeperofdakeys··on Reenix: Implementing a Unix-Like Operating System in Rust [pdf]
I know no specifics of the situation, but llvm optimisations can be manually toggled through rustc. Maybe there are more special-case optimisations that could help.
keeperofdakeys··on The Invisible Hand of Super Metroid
While the game may feel linear from a casual play through, the speed running community have developed many sequence breaks (intended or not), to finish the game faster. With these you can grab items early, out of order, or not at all. If you were curious, you should look up a super metroid speedrun on youtube. Some of them even have a running commentary of glitches, techniques, or general information while they are being played.
keeperofdakeys··on The future of flying
A rather long, but relevant comic http://existentialcomics.com/comic/1
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