Hacker News: Cameron_D

New comment by Cameron_D in "Restream: Stream live to many social platforms at once"

Cameron_D — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 01:25:33 +0000

nginx-rtmp can take a source and forward to multiple outputs. Fairly more advanced is BBC's Brave which is more of an API-driven live video editor that can push to multiple outputs.

New comment by Cameron_D in "Level 3 Global Outage"

Cameron_D — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 11:46:36 +0000

It's not a just CloudFlare outage, its a global CenturyLink/Level3 outage

New comment by Cameron_D in "IPv6 Wall of Shame"

Cameron_D — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:41:16 +0000

It is, sounds like he was trying to port-forward for IPv4, but can't as his ISP uses a CGN or 464XLAT or something to provide IPv4 access - so port forwarding isn't an option.

All that needs to be done is add the appropriate firewall rules (probably on the router and computer) to allow traffic for that port and it'll be accessible from the outside over IPv6.

New comment by Cameron_D in "Optimizing and Securing Windows 10"

Cameron_D — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 01:01:00 +0000

This is probably a better guide for getting started with securing Windows:

https://decentsecurity.com/securing-your-computer/

New comment by Cameron_D in "Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest Accounts Hacked from Linkedin Breach"

Cameron_D — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 20:26:45 +0000

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

New comment by Cameron_D in "ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway"

Cameron_D — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 04:17:16 +0000

Cloudflare don't proxy mail though, which is ProtonMail's main business, so that wouldn't have done much for keeping their services up.

Additionally, I don't see ProtonMail as the kind of company that'll let other third parties terminate their SSL connections/proxy all their traffic.

New comment by Cameron_D in "Insufficient Sleep Is a Public Health Epidemic"

Cameron_D — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 13:02:15 +0000

Sleep Cycle also report 6:50-7:15 hours sleep on average http://www.sleepcycle.com/sleep-cycle-6-month-us-sleep-repor..., though technically that is time in bed, not necessarily actually asleep.

New comment by Cameron_D in "Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks"

Cameron_D — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 22:56:09 +0000

However, looking at Twitters front page I see it establishing connections to 6 different domains, that's one TLS session for each one.

New comment by Cameron_D in "Twitpic Data Will Stay Alive “For Now” Thanks to an Agreement with Twitter"

Cameron_D — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 02:16:39 +0000

ArchiveTeam has been, first we were grabbing full pages and images and storing them, but wound up with IP bans (Not unexpected), so a couple of people went through and grabbed the first 500 million images directly from CloudFront, they're still sitting on that 55tb of data.

Following that TwitPic then removed all images from showing on their site and required signed requests to load images from CloudFront so the remaining 300m images can't be fetched yet.

Today TwitPic restored the images and such to their site so AT is stepping back, rewriting their scripts to properly grab pages/images/metadata and will start from the most recent image working backwards and properly store them/removing the earlier grabs as we replicate them.

In the end the data will probably reside in offline storage at the Internet Archive until something happens to the TwitPic site.

New comment by Cameron_D in "Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years"

Cameron_D — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 06:56:04 +0000

I've been asked last month to rebuild my church website. I'm going to show them this and get their feedback on utilising it, it looks amazing!

New comment by Cameron_D in "EA is File Snooping with the Origin Client"

Cameron_D — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:29:35 +0000

It isn't sending ROT13 encoded data anywhere (Well, it may, but the screenshots do not have any evidence of this), all the screenshots show is Origin reading registry entries that Windows stores about opened programs.

Here is some info on what the UserAssist keys are: http://www.aldeid.com/wiki/Windows-userassist-keys

New comment by Cameron_D in "EA is File Snooping with the Origin Client"

Cameron_D — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:28:59 +0000

> Yes Steam I think tracks what websites you've been to, but they only do this when they are already suspecting you of cheating, and they only send a hash of the url to see if matches known cheat sites. That's just one of the things I remember.

And this is perfectly okay, but looking through a list of start menu entries isn't? In fact I'd consider shipping off lists of URLs and domains I've been to worse than looking through installed programs.

> In a perfect world EA would just use steam and give up on Origin.

I disagree, competition is a good thing. By this same argument we should all ditch every other operating system because most users run Windows, so using others isn't necessary. Sure Origin has had its' share of bumps, but so did Steam in its early days, now look at it - Steam is adored by gamers and anything else is immediately shunned.

> would be less than they spend on their own anti-cheat

I'm not sure about this, but from my understanding Steam doesn't really offer much anti-cheat, mostly just DRM. Valve games all have VAC, but I'm not sure how widely used VAC is for non-Valve games.

> It would definitely be worth it to the user as the Origin software is horrible.

I partly disagree with this. The Origin interface really isn't that bad, I actually find it a lot faster/more responsive than Steam's. Steam's interface is also far from great - although they do have great cross-platform consistency, it is at the expense of being inconsistent with the users operating system.

New comment by Cameron_D in "Goodbye, IPv4 IANA Starts Allocating Final Address Blocks"

Cameron_D — Fri, 23 May 2014 00:31:45 +0000

http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/images.html

This page has similar images from 2012

New comment by Cameron_D in "Free Your Android"

Cameron_D — Thu, 08 May 2014 13:59:57 +0000

Right, so Google end up with the IP address of the NAT gateway that my mobile provider puts me through. Hundreds, if not thousands, of other people will be sharing the same gateway.

In addition, DNS doesn't send my GPS co-ordinates along with the request, so it will just be IP geolocation data which Google will collate for their own stats on their DNS servers (So they can see/log what regions people access from, etc.).

Just because it mentions storing location doesn't mean they are trying to monitor every step you take when using their DNS.

New comment by Cameron_D in "Poll: Were you banned by AdSense? When in the cycle were you notified?"

Cameron_D — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:36:01 +0000

Mine was banned a month ago with around $300 in the account, I haven't tried to get it back due to how difficult they make it to understand why you were banned - how am I supposed to fix what they don't tell me is broken? Such a shame there aren't really any other good ad CPM providers for small or medium sites.

New comment by Cameron_D in "Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Coming"

Cameron_D — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 04:55:47 +0000

I find a clean install of Firefox to be almost as fast as Chrome, and in some places more responsive - particularly when opening the browser. Chrome will get the basic UI up on the screen very fast but take a moment before you can interact with it, Firefox is usable the moment it is on screen, even though that time is slightly longer).

Chrome does have preloading of certain things which make loading some things faster although there are addons that can replicate that on Firefox.

New comment by Cameron_D in "Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"

Cameron_D — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:52:01 +0000

There are torrent links on the Alternative Downloads page: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads

New comment by Cameron_D in "Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey"

Cameron_D — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 05:56:01 +0000

There was a huge increase in global usage at that time: https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=userstats-re...

New comment by Cameron_D in "Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey"

Cameron_D — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 05:48:46 +0000

My school did filtering on port 80 but allowed all TCP traffic out on port 443 so I just ran SSH there. I changed schools and it seems as though they did further filtering on packets (They close connections of 443 if the server sends data first - like happens with SSH), after some testing I managed to get OpenVPN using TCP on port 443 running great.

New comment by Cameron_D in "Tmux 1.9 released"

Cameron_D — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:53:38 +0000

Check the changelog again. Normal changes, point #4:

* Tmux now runs under Cygwin natively.