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timdoug

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About timdoug

https://www.timdoug.com/log/

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    Comment #39838019

    An absolutely impressive achievement. I echo sentiments seen in other HN threads recently -- "I'd never do in-place FS upgrades!" -- yet Apple pulled it off on billions of devices …

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    Comment #33381348

    You’re right re: implementation —- I’m drawing a conclusion solely from the coordinated disclosure that it’s a similar crypto/TLS issue. If the Go issues were distinct I’d imagine …

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    Comment #33381309

    I adore Go, but it seems to be impacted too: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/dRtDK7WS78g

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    Comment #32546593

    For a different perspective of the same issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624 (don't be fooled by the article's title, I regret I was the first time around)

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    Comment #31076685

    This one's pretty cool, example below per gzip-1.12/tests/zgrep-abuse: timdoug@box:~/gzip$ ls timdoug@box:~/gzip$ touch z timdoug@box:~/gzip$ echo test | gzip > 'z| p 1s|.*|chosen-…

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    Comment #22822097

    I'll throw in a plug for the tool I've written, unpkg: https://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/

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    Comment #17689784

    Earlier today I wrote some documentation on setting up WireGuard on macOS, it may be useful: https://www.timdoug.com/log/2018/08/04/#wireguard_macos Happy to answer questions if an…

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    Comment #17174450

    "Dry drowning is a term that has never had an accepted medical definition, and that is currently medically discredited." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drowning#Dry_drowning

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    Comment #11285111

    As the SRE writing the blog post on disk lifecycle, I can confirm it amongst others are in flight. :)

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    Comment #10115150

    Related: "The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) is a 1988 book by The Timelords (Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty), better known as The KLF. It is a step by step guide to…

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    Comment #7684247

    A bit of historical context: this paper came out in 2003, the same year NPTL (in RH9) and Linux 2.6.0 (first stable kernel with epoll, 2.5.44 introduced it in 2002) were released.

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    Comment #6913700

    It's an international standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

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    Comment #6545721

    Party on HN! Sorry I'm late. :)

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    Comment #5982581

    Nope -- I've had that exact app working like a charm across multiple devices and OS updates.

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    Comment #5826412

    Peninsula, Palo Alto, North Bay, and East Bay, I'd imagine.

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    Comment #5523325

    It's totally acceptable and very common: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit...

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    Comment #5365417

    What's the benefit of doing SSL/TLS in the application instead of using a dedicated terminator like stud?

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    Comment #5340718

    What's wrong with: find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \;

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    Comment #5198171

    http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/ or http://i-funbox.com , for example.

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    Comment #5171928

    To be fair, that line does work everywhere; the unrecognized ciphers are just ignored. In fact, on my Debian VPS with OpenSSL 0.9.8 it results in the exact same list of ciphers as …

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    Comment #5074484

    Love it. It would be nice to be able to subscribe to certain specific time frames, e.g., over the weekend; it's much easier to impulsively travel then while holding down a traditio…

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    Comment #5018262

    brocombinator.com -- anybody interested?

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    Comment #4889984

    It looks like it requires iOS 6, so I won't be able to play it on my 1st gen iPad. Sad times!