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terry_hc

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About terry_hc

Terry H. Cocksworth. Bath, UK.

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    Comment #48197287

    I have now read all of the points in the mitigations section. Just like the slides, the commentaries to the mitigations willingly assert uselessness and imply a sense of absolute i…

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    Comment #48196186

    The slides are over 6 years old. The developers' attitudes haven't changed much, but are all of the arguments still valid? I've followed this discussion here and there over the yea…

  3. story
    Ask HN: How does one scrape a website?

    I wish to scrape and preserve the blog of a dead author, before their domain and writings expire. What would be the most accurate wget invocation for obtaining all their articles, …

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    Comment #45325463

    As noted in the ingress, the web browser is the primary application. It must work for an end-user lacking the technical facilities or even sufficient administrative access to insta…

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    Comment #45324521

    I want to note that I mean to use such internal hostnames to reach services inside a VPN. If solutions such as IPsec or OpenVPN can somehow push and manifest host->IP correlations …

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    Ask HN: Local hostnames without root/admin

    I'm looking for a simple way to locally define hostnames for internal use, think /etc/hosts, but without the requirement of superuser privileges. Running a resolver locally, or wit…