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tasqa··on Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing
The WF-1000XM5 beta Bluetooth is pretty good in the latest firmware update. Even though it is listed as beta I use it all the time. And they are pretty decently priced at the moment
tasqa··on Improved Galileo Time to First Fix
I think these calculations are done in some specific part of a SoC (at least on mobile phones). So do you need new hardware to take advantage of these upgrades?
tasqa··on Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
Oh man, I wish they would stop showing the popup every time I exit a chat. When did it stop?
tasqa··on MinIO: A Bare Metal Drop-In for AWS S3
I found proxmox not to be very user friendly growing to such cluster sizes. Proxmox itself has been very stable and supports pretty much anything but the GUI is not that great if you have many nodes and VMS, and the API can be lacking. However, using ceph as a backing store for VM images is pretty easy in proxmox. I have not used the cephFS stuff. I used it in a separate cluster both physically and standalone (not using proxmox integration).

So RBD is easy, S3 is somewhat more complicated as you need to run multiple gateways, but still very doable. The FS stuff also needs extra daemons, but I have not yet tested it.

tasqa··on Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s
What I'd like to see for change is actually doing the bare metal part itself. I've seen so many k8s showcase posts of this or that, but never actually someone who's running it on actual servers they own and without using any big four cloud API's (I consider Equinix to be part of those too soon...) to handle the LB/Ingress/Network virtualization stuff they provide and still say it is easy to use..
tasqa··on Google outage – resolved
Looking at the other comments, it seems highly likely zanzibar[1] is down. Their auth service.

[1] PDF: https://research.google/pubs/pub48190.pdf

tasqa··on Jitsi Architecture – legacy desktop application (2011)
For more info check the Github issue with links to relevant issues in firefox bugtracker: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758
tasqa··on A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S/MIME
This seems way overblown. An in-depth explanation Werner as to why this is most likely not an issue if you're GPG is > 2.1.9 [1]

An (older) example of expected behaviour [2].

[1] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-May/06032... [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/538/#43ff

tasqa··on UK surveillance bill includes powers to limit end-to-end encryption
I simply cannot upvote your comment enough. Very consise and to the point IMHO.
tasqa··on Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow
Looking for a quick mitigation technique before patches start rolling out... Would it be wise to limit responses to 512 bytes so the payload cannot be loaded?

Configuring BIND to use a specific buffer size (only for BIND 9.3.2 and newer):

Add the following line to the "options" section of your named.conf file:

edns-udp-size: n

Configuring Unbound to use a specific buffer size:

Add the following line to the "server" section of your unbound.conf file:

edns-buffer-size: n

source: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/anandb/content-testing-your-re...

tasqa··on WebTorrent – BitTorrent over WebRTC
I've had the same issue. It seems h264 support is turned off by default in FF43. Just go to about:config and set

media.peerconnection.video.h264_enabled => true

tasqa··on How to access the Darknet. The safe way
While the advice is okay, the title is a huge turn off. There is no such thing as the Darknet. Please stop referring to the TOR network this way. It is harmful to the community and encourages journalists to write about TOR in a negative way!
tasqa··on Phones need 'bed mode' to protect sleep
As other said it is not necessarily about the using the phone it's about the light emitted from screens of all our devices. T he issue also applies to using other screens at night. Like watching TV right until you go to bed, or even in bed. I guess using your phone in bed to set an alarm and whatnot is a more common case and thus is used as the example.
tasqa··on Phones need 'bed mode' to protect sleep
For Linux users I can highly recommend Redshift[1]. The color temperature settings seem to differ some from f.lux but everything else works great!

[1] http://jonls.dk/redshift/

tasqa··on Phones need 'bed mode' to protect sleep
Lux is also an great option for Android!
tasqa··on UBlock Origin
All scopes import from higher level scopes. E.g. bl.com imports from * and www.bla.com import from * and bla.com.

I've made soem modifications to the * (global) scope to allow the minimal version of youtube to load. So whenever I visit a new website youtube just works.

tasqa··on How to Make Online Dating Work
Heads up I'm not familiar with these kind of sites. But to quote the Adultfriender hack article of last month:

Among the 26,939 users with a UK email address, for example, there are just 1,596 who identified as female: a ratio of one woman to every 16 men.[1]

[1] http://www.channel4.com/news/adult-friendfinder-dating-hack-...

tasqa··on Privoxy – a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities
I can highly recommend µBlock as a alternative on ABP. The developer has written a whole page on the github wiki regarding performance implications of ABP [1]. The more advanced extension µMatrix is also very much worth checking out. It is kind of a alternative of Noscript/RequestPolicy in one on chrome based browsers[2].The developer is very serious with the development and responds quickly on issues.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-... [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

tasqa··on Alchemist Release v0.8.0 Elixir Tooling Emacs Integration
Hi Chris, since I hear so many good things about evil-mode and Emacs on HN lately I would like try it myself. Do you have your emacs configs posted online somewhere? It would be of great help to me as a starting point since the main things I would like to try out are evil and alchemist :).