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I'm in the US and tried donating our child's potty chair. The donation spots I tried refused it because they weren't allowed to take anything which a child has to sit in or on for …

We (reddit) were blocked by AWS on this until 2017 or so. Since then it's mostly been an issue of reworking internal tooling and storage. There are a huge number of places we'd nee…

Not any immediate plans. Decent amount of development is necessary there. There are so many places in our various systems that work with IP addresses, and many of them don't suppor…

Thankfully, if someone is MITM'ing you, or has acquired the IP of your host, then the SSH fingerprint check against your known_hosts will prevent them from snagging your password i…

It's the code names of the exploits which are being released by Shadow Brokers. Likely the names which the original authors utilized. Equation Group is known to utilize code names …

To each their own. I've lived in cities and suburbs, and I personally greatly prefer the latter. I'm not alone - I promise. It's fine if some, or even most, think that suburbia is …

For those wanting something safer but similar, see the `fc` shell function.

The traffic surge from the Boston incident is extremely marginal compared to the DDoS which we're facing right now. It is far and above any form of possibly being compounded, unfor…

They're slamming over 20x our normal bandwidth with URL containing things such as "boston", "your_gay", etc.

Certain beyond any shadow of doubt.

We're mostly recovered, at this time.

FWIW, we're no longer under Conde Nast. Journalists were the first to reach out to us, not the other way around. While I do agree that there is a trend in online journalism to hunt…