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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/notnerd; my proof: https://keybase.io/notnerd/sigs/Wn8HUUlh61LAAZjnHHgXf5it3k79oFU4tmo6PmCVmks ]
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voidmain0001··on Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches Allow SSH As Root
A Nexus 9K is an expensive piece of kit, and is not a trivial switch to deploy what with VPC and other configurations being commonplace, so just powering it on will not deliver a workable product. I suspect most if not all deployments follow best practice and have a management VLAN with access lists control limiting the source address of the connecting client, and blocking access to port 22 from other networks.

* Edit * Plus the Nexus the backdoor is only relevant if the switch in using ACI, and not standalone NX-OS mode. ACI training is a 5 day course for advanced engineers. https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certi...

voidmain0001··on Symantec and Trend Micro rumored to be 2 of the 3 hacked US AV companies
As Boston sang: "More than rumor!" https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fxmsp-chat-lo...
voidmain0001··on Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO
This developer, Gerhard Lazu, states otherwise regarding Kubernetes as he describes the infrastructure that he built for changelog.com based on Docker Swarm rather than K8s: https://changelog.com/podcast/254
voidmain0001··on .NET 5
Thankfully there's Google Translate. That's a great start, thanks!
voidmain0001··on .NET 5
Fascinating! By chance, do you have any write ups on your stack elsewhere?
voidmain0001··on I Sell Onions on the Internet
In a number of situations that I have been involved in (Canada), the builder cannot get funding from traditional sources because there's no tangible asset to fund, and the builder still hasn't obtained permits from the municipality, etc (the necessary boilerplate to get going on construction). In these cases some builders will seek out a lawyer that will pool together funds from various investors and the loan rate is typically 15%-25% which makes for a nice profit, but with the knowledge that it could blow up. Once the permits are in place, then traditional funding comes a lot more readily.
voidmain0001··on The Healing Power of Gardens
I am fortunate to have a house on a larger plot of land considering it's in a dense urban environment, and on the land are very impressive trees such as an oak, a maple, a few birch, and a black cherry. Regrettably the birch are short lived, and while they still produce leaves they are getting weak and I will need to bring them down in a few years. The cherry still produces leaves and may even flower this year, but its wood is very brittle and it will probably come down this fall. It truly is sad as their loss will definitely impact why I moved into the house.
voidmain0001··on Dog Breed Identifier: from Keras program to Android app
The movie "Best in show" certainly plays on that drama in a hilarious way.
voidmain0001··on Visual Studio 2019 Time Travel Debugging with Azure VMs
Based on a search for the keywords "time travel debugging" [1] of HN I'm not sure how innovative it is as there are a number of articles for other environments. Still, it seems like the inclusion in VS 2019 makes it easier to perform this, with the caveat that you're using Azure. I'm surprise that it's not available for a local production stack. UPDATE: I was wrong. This is available for a local stack: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/debugging-net-apps-wit... The announcement is more related to working with Azure VMs.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=time%20travel%20debugging&sort...

voidmain0001··on Norsk Hydro ASA Suffers Extensive Cyber Attack
Ah the immunity of non-Microsoft operating systems:

https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/osxshlayer-new-mac-...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/eset-discovers-21-new-linux-ma...

voidmain0001··on Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
I don't understand your confusion. What I would like to see is the iPhone to support the use of its native Bluetooth radio to connect to another device with a Bluetooth radio and implement the native Bluetooth file transfer protocol. Why would I want to use a 3rd party app/program which incurs a data charge to download, and possibly an account setup which means information leakage.
voidmain0001··on Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
Beyond AirDrop which only works between like devices, how else can files on an iPhone be transferred to another device without iTunes, and without using a 3rd party? I'm not being adversarial, I really want to know.
voidmain0001··on Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
I'm onboard as a regular user of send.firefox.com. How does Mozilla have the money to offer this for free?
voidmain0001··on Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
Argh! I just went through this with a friend's iPhone when he asked spur of the moment to have a video on his iPhone displayed on some monitors for a presentation. The monitors are driven by a Win10 computer. My first thought was to transfer the file from the iPhone with Bluetooth to the computer, but apparently an iPhone can't be paired in that manner. So lame. The video was too big to email, so I used send.firefox.com and uploaded the video to it, and then downloaded the video to the computer. Thanks to the iPhone's protective wall that little stunt cost my friend 200MB of cellular data. The computer didn't have iTunes, and there was no Lightning cable available so direct hardwired transfer wasn't an option either.
voidmain0001··on We Need Chrome No More
This is what I remember about Chrome's release: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

The first change it referenced was a process per tab, and then on page 13 it referenced V8.

voidmain0001··on A Plan for Spam (2002)
I agree that greylisting was the cat's meow back then. I setup a VM running CentOS with Postfix and Postgrey as a MTA for our "work" email server and the result was a massive reduction in spam.
voidmain0001··on Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe
Mmm...I dream of bringing a diesel quad cab Toyota Hilux or a Hiace from Central America up to Canada. The Hiace is the coolest minibus. Heck, I would even take a Ford Ranger quad cab diesel.
voidmain0001··on Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app
Is there a OneNote, Evernote, <insert program/app name> that has the same feature set as ProtonMail? I like the idea of centralized cloud storage of notes for synchronization across devices with the same app/program, but with at rest encryption of the stored content that can only be decrypted on the client with the client's key.
voidmain0001··on Photograph Your Work
Unrelated to the content, but related to the website, Cisco Umbrella / OpenDNS tells me that etbe.coker.com.au is blocked due to a security threat. Yet, I threw the URL at VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing and they both returned with a clean analysis. Either Cisco TALOS is ahead of the curve, or way off.
voidmain0001··on iOS Menu
I don't agree that touch is lacking. I use a Samsung Galaxy Book Win10 device which has a detachable keyboard and touch screen and I think it is great. Granted, it is far heavier than a tablet, but when I need a terminal or console to get some scripting or programming done it is ready as I don't have to use an on screen keyboard to get the pipe or carat keys. By removing the keyboard the tablet has an acceptable weight. Plus it naively supports and comes with the S Pen for on screen drawing. The touch and drawing capabilities in W10 are fluid and always accurate for me. I enjoy having a desktop OS which brings computing without caveats in such a portable format. Kudos to Microsoft for continuously advancing Windows.
voidmain0001··on Belize’s thriving Afro-Caribbean community
When i lived on the north coast of Honduras i got to know some Garífuna people. It is a challenging language to learn to speak and to read. Courses are limited. I remember a religious group putting a lot of effort into translation into the Garífuna language - good for them to keep it alive.
voidmain0001··on Helm: Personal Email Server
It was enough to answer user jawns' question.
voidmain0001··on Helm: Personal Email Server
In Ontario, Canada I know that Bell, Rogers, and Teksavvy all block outbound TCP 25 for their residential service. I can't comment on inbound TCP port 25 though.
voidmain0001··on Helm: Personal Email Server
I found the answer by clicking Technology from the top menu, and the explanation is the very first paragraph to be read.
voidmain0001··on Building a Tetris Game using TypeScript and Angular (2017)
I haven't checked the App/Play stores for Tetris-like games, so I'm sure that my suggestion to override the volume button as the rotate button in Tetris is probably old-hat. If it's not, then perhaps this is the key (excuse the pun) to providing it to the mobile world. Note, that the touch screen would be required to move the blocks left-right and accelerate down.
voidmain0001··on A Dutch first: Ingenious BMW theft attempt
A Motherboard article appeared on HN about a rogue Tesla mechanic. Here is his channel to help you get started: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCfV0_wbjG8KJADuZT2ct4SA#
voidmain0001··on Hello World on z/OS
Agreed! How could anyone consider Tandem Nonstop[1] boring when it let you rip and replace RAM, and CPU, etc on the fly with no downtime. Fun, fun!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NonStop_(server_computers)

voidmain0001··on Hello World on z/OS
Me too! I setup a couple of Linux LPAR on AS/400 - iSeries running OS/400. The distro was RedHat for PowerPC. One LPAR was for a Linux/Apache/PHP stack that used the DB2/400 database on the iSeries, and the other was to host an Oracle 8i instance. DB2/400 was a great RDBMS but there was an application requirement for an Oracle database, so the director of IT at the time said that if a DB is required then it must go on the iSeries since it hosts the primary DB the company used. I didn't care for his rationale, I just thought it was fun to be working with LPAR on the iSeries.
voidmain0001··on Show HN: Amatino – A double-entry accounting API
More is required than a db schema; the double entry would have to be in app logic, permission model, aging, etc. Reports are nice, but in my experience I have always had to provide additional reporting on top of what is provided by an accounting system because the business had its own requirements. I see this being useful where you are trying to avoid a traditional accounting system because you willing to provide more customization.
voidmain0001··on Show HN: Amatino – A double-entry accounting API
It's an accounting environment, and every system that provides goods and/or services needs to record the transactions in an accounting system. You can either use an existing accounting system such as Quickbooks, Freshbooks, Microsoft Dynamics, but then you're writing a document to those services rather than the underlying accounts forcing you to define the sales document's properties in the accounting system. In this case you should be able to keep your documents (sales invoice/credit memo) internal to your application, and the underlying account structure. In addition using Amatino should let you create accounting schedules in your application based off the ledgers. I guess you would use Amatino where you want more control over your accounting system, and I would imagine it costs less than the full-blown commercial offerings.
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