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If you look at the incident details it also claims most services were impacted. > Git Operations is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. https://ww…

The whitepaper says: > all the admins and owners — those who have the ability to change the team — must be on the same home server Maybe with easy multi-accounting it could be made…

Anubis is not meant to fully stop bots, only slow them down so they don't take down your service. This kind of bot detection is meant to prevent automation.

The hash-based one (SPHINCS+) is probably the easiest to understand as its security hinges on hashes being secure, and some statistics. I found https://er4hn.info/blog/2023.12.16-s…

I think the author misdiagnoses the problem, and the proposed solution simply hides the centralization instead of removing it. The reason AWS is expensive is not because of IPv4, o…

Wouldn't there be exactly twice (or twice + 1, if you allow negative fractions) as much fractions, since fractions are represented as two positive numbers (plus a bit if you consid…

You can't purchase .com domains on ENS, only import them by providing a DNSSEC-based proof of ownership. This doesn't solve any of the problems with TLDs (ENS won't prevent the TLD…

It's listed, but under geographic TLDs[1] because it's Catalonia's TLD. Interestingly this TLD only allows website that "to serve the needs of the Catalan Linguistic and Cultural C…

Interesting RIPE labs article about a more foundational change that could be made: https://labs.ripe.net/author/hausheer/scion-a-novel-internet...

You can have both (control over your data and expert backing) if you use open source solutions with an enterprise support plan (RedHat's model).

https://github.com/laverdet/isolated-vm is similar, and used by a competitor that has a similar offer

git creators refuse to migrate because they selected sha1 in the start and because of backwards compatibility its harder to just change it. Also git is a situation where its harder…

Why choose SHA1 and not something that is collission-resistant like SHA256 or SHA3?

Its a digital collectible game where you can breed cats, and some of them are special (fancy cats). This cat was part of theni initial batch auctioned by the developers.

They bought a cat from the developers, sold with a decreasing price auction (400 ether to 0 ether)

I still wonder why use XOR? Is it to give fake sense of security? One-byte XOR is as safe as caesar cipher... specially when you get big chunks of null bytes AND the model is in th…