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> My ISP changes the prefix on a regular base (and on request) I found this was the case (with Telus) until I reconfigured the DHCPv6-PD client on my gateway, mainly to stop it fro…

I don't believe rms is seriously in favor of child sexual exploitation, but that's a red herring. The concern for me is has been the accounts of far more directly-relevant behaviou…

Well, a compromised google.com main page could return malicious search results for certain queries. How many Windows sysadmins install PuTTY by googling "putty", and then installin…

The important thing is that tags are signed and up-to-date, like how git tags work or how Debian signs its entire repository as a unit (via the Release file) rather than having dev…

I think yall are using the terminology differently from each other in this thread. "Checksum" historically did not imply resilience against intentional modifications. Nowadays, it'…

Just fix it in the parser. ;)

It'll be great precedent for when Iran, China, Russia, etc. want to do the same thing.

Yes, apparently Canada has something called the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board: http://pmprb-cepmb.gc.ca/about-us/frequently-asked-questions

Yeah, Matthew Garrett also gave a pretty detailed talk about it Linux.conf.au 2012, which reaches a similar conclusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U

Foreign journalists? Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras are both American.

The "auto" in "autopilot" stands for automatic, not autonomous. Autopilot systems have existed for decades, and they've always referred to systems that automate the most tedious pa…

I'd like to see a good CLI design involving sandboxing-by-default, and handling object-capabilities (e.g. file descriptors) as first-class objects. Right now, "convert a.jpg b.png"…

I live in Canada. AS6939 is Hurricane Electric.

You do when you work at a job that doesn't offer flexible hours.

Error 1005 Ray ID: 2bc55074399a2a5b • 2016-07-02 21:50:36 UTC Access denied What happened? The owner of this website (www.fas.org) has banned the autonomous system number (ASN) you…

You also want the passphrase to be easily changed, separately from the master key (because changing the master key is slow and resource-intensive). Even if you have a strong passph…

Is there any way to see exactly what this system does, aside from faking a suicidal episode on my timeline and getting friends to report it? I've heard that early versions of this …

How does this guarantee a secret ballot, i.e. that voters remain unable to prove to a third party that they voted in a particular way? Low-value elections don't necessarily need se…

The problem is harder than it sounds when you're talking about something as high-value as a national election (especially in the US). Have you read "Reflections on Trusting Trust"?…

I don't see the big problem. Lots of other libraries already work this way. Perhaps most of them. If you're shipping binary packages, you need to build them in a clean chrooted env…

Related to this, the W3C maintains a best-practices document about private ("capability") URLs: https://www.w3.org/TR/capability-urls/