valkum

30 karma · joined February 9, 2017

valkum··on GitHub Advisory Database now powers NPM audit

looking at the latest illissued lodash CVE they seem to deliver CVEs that are withdrawn in GH Advisory Database

valkum··on GitHub repository for Sedgewick's Algorithms is taken down

This site even links to the now taken down Git repo.

valkum··on Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard

Hosting my Wireguard server on a scaleway instance, I encountered a very slow performance. Some web pages didn't load at all. Server was under no load. Lowering the MTU on the client and the server from 1500 to 1360 solved the problem. FYI

valkum··on Tell HN: Archive.is inaccessible via Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1)

that is not censorship.

valkum··on Entity–component–system (ECS) back and forth

Here is a talk by Blizzard about Overwatch which uses ECS: https://youtu.be/W3aieHjyNvw

valkum··on Show HN: We made a podcast search engine with 12M podcast transcripts

Any plans for non-english podcasts?

valkum··on Chrome lets hackers phish even 'Unphishable' Yubikey users

hmm. I assumed U2F does not protect you from phishing. It just adds a second layer of protection to your account. Protecting you from credential theft. U2F antiphishing stuff implemented by chrome is just a neat little extra. Is this behaviour of checking the origin in the spec?

valkum··on How Many Tesla Model 3 Cars Have Been Made?

Except this one was already build and tested in Germany iirc. It should be debugged and taken apart into modular pieces and sent to Tesla. I assume installing these modules should be easier than debugging an assembly line in factorio ;)

valkum··on ‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin

That is where a thief would search too. You have the possibility to store those things at a bank for example but this leads to other problems (what is it your are on a run). Or you dig a hole in your garden only to forget the exact location. There is no distinct answer to where should I store those I think.