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div72

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About div72

I like cryptography, programming languages and stuff.

Feel free to say hello on Matrix. (@div72 on matrix.org)

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    Comment #45580092

    It'd be far more acceptable to block the CG-NAT IPv4 addresses if you knew that the other non-compromised hosts could utilize their own IPv6 addresses to connect to your service.

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    Comment #43902973

    Have you seen headscale? It's a bit of work if you don't have a selfhosting setup but it enables you to use the service without being at the whim of Tailscale.

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    Comment #43848954

    > The largest portion of all languages in Common Crawl https://commoncrawl.github.io/cc-crawl-statistics/plots/lang...

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    Comment #43411108

    What? Why is your NVIDIA modules even in the boot partition? My largest /boot is on Fedora and that's 454MiB, 87MiB on Arch and 30MiB on NixOS. EDIT: "With grub, the situation vari…

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    Comment #43091804

    Except TLS-SNI sends the hostnames in plaintext during the handshake and you can't disable it in at least Firefox AFAIK.

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    Comment #42605656

    Are you sure you were informed by Thunderbird and not by your SMTP server?

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    Comment #40544543

    Only for the optional "read time travel and world domination plans" module.

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    Comment #40088249

    Copyleft licenses are restrictive as obligations are restrictions. "You must provide a source code to your users" is equivalent to "You cannot use this software if your source code…

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    Comment #39805871

    Isn't ARM's TrustZone equivalent to ME/PSP on Intel/AMD?

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    Comment #38978604

    > This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.

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    Comment #38605563

    The post is about unsolicited requests at startup, Tor Browser does not connect to Tor unless you click Connect or enable the auto-connect option.

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    Comment #38384649

    Weird thought, but have you tried using Selenium? Seems like launching a browser tab with: from selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver.Firefox() and navigating to duckduckgo.…

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    Comment #38205246

    > When are we going to talk about how openly corrupt Mozilla has become? It's routinely discussed on HN, whenever a topic about Mozilla/browsers comes up. The real question in my o…

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    Comment #36965791

    Probably because of attribution. I assume that most Wikipedia articles are licensed under a version of CC with attribution requirements.

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    Comment #36736025

    For something to be used in PoW, it needs to be both hard to solve and easy to verify. Protein folding checks the first box but not the second. As an example, prime number calculat…

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    Comment #35201253

    I agree with your conclusion but the example you gave of Magnus Carlsen doing an illegal move is a pretty bad one imo. That was clearly a trap from his opponent as he did an illega…

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    Comment #34663453

    Seems like a typo, dropping the s at the end works.

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    Comment #34323277

    Probably should add that it's faster with PyPy as it might not be obvious on how an interpreted language like Python can beat an AOT compiled language like Go. Interesting results …

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    Comment #33814935

    Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33798604 .