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nloon A fork on GitHub is no fork

If you want a mirror of a repository, self hosted Gogs/Gitea is a great way to do this in a way that makes you unbeholden to the upstream.

nloon Git git git git git

Fish shell like syntax highlighting for zsh: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

nloon Hit App Sarahah Quietly Uploads Your Address Book

Even with HPKP, many libs/apps behave like Firefox/Chrome in this respect:

""" Firefox and Chrome disable pin validation for pinned hosts whose validated certificate chain terminates at a user-defined trust anchor (rather than a built-in trust anchor). This means that for users who imported custom root certificates all pinning violations are ignored.

"""

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Public_Key...

nloon Open Source Storage Operating System FreeNAS

Recently released FreeNAS v9.10, based on FreeBSD 10.3: http://www.freenas.org/blog/freenas-910-released/

nloon Super Logout

Does nothing if the Chrome "Block third-party cookies and site data" is enabled, which means that setting is working as intended. :)

nloon curl | sh

This can be mitigated by wrapping your whole script in parens, as in:

  #!/usr/bin/env bash
  (
    # real work
  )

nloon Show HN: Configure domain redirects and URL forwarding with a simple DNS record

Clever! Thanks for making this open source. I really like small services like this written with Lua+nginx.

nloon Yet Another Modest Proposal: The Roentgen Standard (1980)

Trivia: A reversal of Larry's name is how Magic: the Gathering card Nevinyrral's Disk was named - http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver...

nloon Google's new unit conversion widget

Screenshot in case this is a partial feature rollout: http://i.imgur.com/eieHM.png

nloon New Features in Xcode 4.3

I found xcodebuild broken after installing Xcode 4.3 and the CLT. If you find yourself in a similar situation, run `sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer` to fix the newfound lack of a /Developer directory.

nloon Spotify now requires a Facebook account to sign up.

Hear hear. Unfortunately I /just/ paid for Spotify premium yesterday evening. While I have a grandfathered non-Facebook account, I've had no end of problems with their mobile client, and I think I'll be switching back to Rdio (which has a vastly superior [existent] web and mobile cilent, IMO.)

I wonder if this move is related to the problem I'm having using my login on the desktop client (error code 410, stuck in offline mode. Mobile app on the same wifi networks works fine.)

nloon Lady Gaga's $0.99 Album Download Overwhelms Amazon

Not entirely so. I keep latency monitors running on Amazon.com and all of the sites I have hosted on EC2, and noticed a distinct spike in latency across the board corresponding with yesterday's offer.

nloon Web App Hacker's Handbook 2nd Edition - Preview

Someone who creates web apps should be intimately familiar with the techniques used by people who break into web apps.

Dafydd Stuttard (book author) / PortSwigger created the Burp Suite web application security testing program, which I've found invaluable in performing security analysis of web apps during development.

nloon Amazon Web Services are down

"AWS randomize the zones per account"

Interesting. This is news to me.

I found some more info here (Google cache since alestic.com is presently unreachable): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0jxzyFj...

nloon How little you know, and some useful commands.

Within the past year I discovered dig's +short parameter, which let me retire some scripts I had for parsing just the IPs out of dig's output. e.g.:

dig +short google.com

nloon Give HN: Free project/startup idea. Please make this.

For Safari there's a great extension that reskins Google Reader and reclaims some wasted screen real estate:

http://mariusth.channelwood.org/SafariExtensions/

In use: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2282834/SafariReaderExtension.png

nloon Blizzard continues to innovate on the security front

http://bnetauth.freeportal.us/specification.html

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2010/Sep/160

nloon IOS Safari 6.5MB hard limit for html images

I think I've ran into this limitation when using Google Reader on my iPhone 3GS running iOS 4.0.2. Images will eventually stop loading after viewing a series of image-heavy entries, but will load OK after a page refresh. Very annoying when you generally do heavy browsing on WiFi, where ~6.5 MB is no big deal. It's good to see a potential cause/fix that can be brought to their attention.

nloon Visualizing performance from the server logs

Good approach. Any chance of your sharing the code used to generate these graphs from the %D-formatted Apache logs?