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Why would one want this? Are there particular situation(s) that it's desirable to detect a TCP proxy? Does presence of a TCP proxy indicate some adverserial behaviour? E.g. surveil…

There was https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection earlier this year. It sends highly compressed output of /dev/zero. No overlapping files or recursively compressed payloads.

Around 1999 I interned at Philips Semiconductor. I worked with one of the first or early engineers of Teletext (aka BBC Ceefax) - a system designed in the 1970s that encoded text p…

It crashed the browser tab for me - Firefox desktop on macOS.

In https://github.com/patrick-kidger/tinyio/blob/main/tinyio/__... there's from ._core import ( Loop as Loop, sleep as sleep, ... ) Does using ` as ` change the runtime behaviour a…

I wasn't trying to suggest they wil. I emphasised Gossi's If because I missed it on my first read. I didn't want others making the same mistake.

> The Legal Aid breach is, I’m told, a ransomware/extortion group (not mentioned in the notice). If it looks like the UK gov are going to pay, or pay via third party, this one will…

Semi related, I created linesum a few years back https://github.com/moreati/linesum to line by line sha256.

UK, near Luton, Dunstable Downs Radio Club car boot sale https://dunstabledownsradioclub.org/bootsale/

UK is first inspection (called an MOT) at 3 years, then every 1 year until the car is considered 'classic' - after 40 years with caveats

For those seeking something multiplayer https://play.typeracer.com/

I'm pleasantly surprised there are any devices supporting SD Express. I thought the standard had died on the vine. So Apple, please pull your finger out and include SD Express in t…

I don't know the current draw of either. I don't know if newer designs are better, I only have one I bought around 10-15 years ago. For mine a bettery left in the calipers depletes…

Recommend you take the CR2032 out when not using the calipers. Cheap/no name ones (atleast those sold 5-10 years ago) have a relatively high standby current, even when the LCD scre…

What's in that 4.5 TB? e.g. message metadata? Message text? Media? What time window does it cover? A rolling N day window? Everything since year dot? Can it be pruned? e.g. only da…

Was fully expecting wcurl to be an alternative name for curl on Windows, because Microsoft made "curl" an alias for their own http downloader command in Powershell.

Assuming the theme you mean is hobbyist machining, then https://www.youtube.com/@Blondihacks

Runny C. > Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is a type of bacteria that can cause diarrhoea https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/c-difficile/

I thought it might be Generations, but that was 257.4 MHz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A9IZHWz45Q&t=20s

https://diode.zone has been running many years. It was the first peertube instance I came across. Edit: https://tilvids.com/ is another

At a guess: that hash is performed relatively few times, so any performance difference is lost in the noise floor. Never having to answer "why did you use this insecure hash" or el…