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If you're a felon, you typically can't get traditional employment. For most people, it's a shorter jump to "criminal" than "consultant".

I moved from San Francisco to South Florida as an experiment in being fully remote. It's been pretty good so far, but if I was looking for another job, I'd hit up everyone I know i…

It's not bad faith, and it's not flamebait. 1) He's technically correct, the best kind of correct. 2) That's tptacek you're suggesting to ban. He's a fixture here and has been an o…

How would that help though? If you have a compromised USB interface, and you're entering your pin on that machine, you could just capture the keyboard input anyway.

I just got a yubikey and found this guide today. It's quite good. One thing that I still haven't found a good answer for that's not mentioned in the guide: what's KDF for? The new …

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox

You produce some of the most interesting threads I've read on Twitter. Thanks for sharing as much as you do. Out of curiosity, why not mastodon? Do you see a path from Twitter to a…

So what you're saying is if work is already lonely, isolating, exhausting, precarious, with little support, then I might as well go into leadership?

That does sound awful. Here's what I do: block all ads. I can't stop the data collection, but I can stop ads. If I ever see an ad, I stop what I'm doing and figure out how to remov…

As best as I can tell from this thread, if you make use of any service in any way that could be interpreted as unintended by the service provider, you're a criminal. It makes me wo…

Is it also theft if I run sshd on udp 53 and I happen to be able to connect? How about if I run sshd on tcp 22 and it's not blocked? Is it illegal if I just want to see if a dns ch…

I suppose adblock is theft too?

I'm floored that this is apparently how people are reasoning about the world now. Especially on HN. There is no circumventing of any access control here. If a service is giving a p…

Can I use my solar powered calculator under a street light? Or is that theft of service too?

Or even just let those users alone. Users aren't stealing service if it's not even the same service. It's much slower than buying wifi from the captive portal. DNS tunnelling is no…

How can it be theft of service when they can deny you service at any time automatically by identifying abnormally heavy users and removing them? This isn't like bypassing the elect…

> Note: this is most likely illegal .. in every jurisdiction. So .. don't actually do this. Sad if true. If a service is providing public DNS access without any service agreement, …

Just out of curiosity, why awk? I've only ever used it for simple text splitting and didn't really know people did more with it. Is it a tool worth learning?

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes

I've had fantastic experience with airvpn. They're cheap, fast, reliable, and support all the configuration types you could want. I'm not affiliated with them but I'm surprised nob…

I don't understand how solving a new problem that you haven't solved before is somehow development instead of research. All software is research. If someone had already solved it a…

BBC showing timelapse: https://youtu.be/HyzT5b0tNtk

I can think of a few: free speech advocates, libertarians, and long-time RMS supporters. The thing I feel bad about with RMS is that he's clearly not able to read the room, which u…

Society seems to be settling in on global norms due to the rise of social media. The more engaged you are with it, the more you know what's cancelled and what's trending. > Just pr…

Yup, that's what I meant.