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hexa-

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About hexa-

NixOS committer, infra team lead, security team member

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    Comment #45396114

    Hi, I'm hexa (from the mentioned page), and this so-called context is irrelevant in this matter. This is also hosted on an unofficial community wiki, if anyone wonders. Instead, th…

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    Why can't the base image receive those patches as well?

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    Distros are backporting security patches into their releases, so no harm done. If you rely on the python.org releases and don't build from source, then yes, that is a bit sad. Case…

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    Comment #18560875

    Those come from a WHOIS daemon that is reachable in the network as whois.dn42. There's also an authoritative DNS system for the .dn42 TLD with anycasted resolvers % dig whois.dn42 …

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    Comment #18560669

    DN42 is very easy to get into, if you have some networking knowledge. If you're familiar with Linux I'd recommend Bird as a BGP speaker and using Wireguard for L3 tunneling. Either…

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    Comment #13632228

    I was recently hit by an IPv4 routing outtage and had only IPv6 available to connect to the internet. I was therefore unable to connect to github.com, as there is no IPv6 support a…

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    Comment #7614998

    This looks nice. Any chance this is going to be open source?

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    Comment #7453172

    There already exists a mirror list at https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/mirrors.html.en . Of course this is hard to come by, when the whole torproject website is being censore…

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    Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey

    After having censored the turkish people via DNS and thus restricting their access to Twitter everyone moved on to other DNS Services like Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) and …