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It's possible to shake off OpenVPN and TLS without shaking off use of tun/tap. I use a tun/tap based "VPN" (overlay) and I quite like it. One could even add NaCl to it if they were…

Here's another solution, a little better than rlwrap: socat readline,history=file exec:q

"Nothing stops you..." Except my lack of creativity using k at this point. Thanks for this. As a k noob, I wonder: is thinking of solutions using iteration and control structures a…

What if someone took c.c, k.h, linenoise.c and linenoise.h and made a tiny k4 REPL for UNIX with commandline history? Would the k community appreciate this as useful, pragmatic sol…

I know that capstone, keystone and unicorn are marketed to the "security community" but these projects are some of the most promising I've seen for programming in general, e.g., fo…

Silly question: Historically, did anyone ever attempt to create the APL primitives as separate utilities? The crazy idea that keeps recurring in my mind is that one could have a UN…

The AS Macroassembler by Alfred Arnold (1992) still compiles on the unpopular OS I'm using, with a quick edit to sysdefs.h.

What do you think of SRS?

Easier: Add /amp before /articles. (This has been posted on HN before.) In fact, "amphtml" is the first link on the page. Follow this link to see the full article. However the /amp…

Where does the lMyQjAxMTA2NzEyNzAxNDc5Wj come from?

Fortunately the two approaches are not mutually exclusive. There are no rules about how the "distributed Web" must be constructed. As the old saying goes, there's more than one way…

I think there's a lot of historical evidence over the last few thousand years that people naturally form small communities, or at least small groups within large communities. Today…

Sybil attacks do not work in small communities that members may choose to form where the members already know each other. If a system forces all users to be part of some large, Bor…

"To be honest, they're probably buying the users, not the product." I thought the same when they invested in "Facebook" and gave some kid with a website 17M or so. And then when th…

Older computers are getting more valuable ever day.

AWS is fine as long as... you do not want to control it with shell scripts and without a large scripting language. (No Perl, Python, Ruby, Go, etc.) I tried this when I first exper…

This is common not just in Intel chips but in all electronics. Instead of making several versions, each with with more features, only one version is made that contains all possible…

Generally, do development boards have ME, too?

FreeBSD. Got it. But not OpenBSD, NetBSD, or Solaris. Interesting how even with a relatively simple utility like tr, changes were made.

That's GNU, I'm guessing. BSD is a little different.