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New comment by esdf in "CVE-2024-54471: Leaking Passwords (and More!) on macOS"

esdf — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:08:50 +0000

And more!

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758032

https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/354

New comment by esdf in "Interview with gwern"

esdf — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:22:54 +0000

Hosting large datasets can be expensive but the hosting for the danbooru datasets was not. It's "only" a few terabytes in size. A previous release was 3.4TB, so the latest is probably some hundreds of GB, to a TB~, in size larger. The download was hosted on a hetzner IP, which is a provider known for cheap servers. You can pay them $50/m for a server with "unmetered" 1gigabit up/down network + 16TB of disks. $600 a year would not be difficult.

New comment by esdf in "WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader (Proof of Concept)"

esdf — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 03:03:11 +0000

Cloudflare does allow R2 (& some other "Developer Platform" services) for non-HTML content. They made some TOS changes in the past to be more explicit about it.

New comment by esdf in "What to do when someone clones your site?"

esdf — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:43:29 +0000

And DMCA takedowns to the webserver's hosting provider

New comment by esdf in "Safe curves for Elliptic Curve Cryptography [pdf]"

esdf — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:26:30 +0000

Windows had an ICMP CVE last year and also just released a patch for an IPv6 CVE. OpenSSH on Linux had a CVE recently too. Security in depth is reasonable and not baseless.

New comment by esdf in "How WASD became the standard PC control scheme (2016)"

esdf — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 12:29:36 +0000

I've got to agree with you on this

New comment by esdf in "C Isn't a Programming Language Anymore (2022)"

esdf — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 11:10:39 +0000

You can issue syscalls directly on Windows too but updates often change the syscall numbers so you never see them used legitimate software.

New comment by esdf in "Understanding HTTP/3 – Features, Benefits and Impact"

esdf — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 01:28:53 +0000

Probably about the protocol being more complex with less implementations or the forced encryption which means acquiring certificates for TLS. Spoofed IPs for DDoS is a bit more troublesome for UDP protocols, though smaller players will get smacked down by any DDoS anyway. I hope to see more applications and games wrap their traffic in QUIC/HTTP3 to "defeat" firewall filtering.

New comment by esdf in "What's the deal with the blue "robins" in gacha games?"

esdf — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:17:54 +0000

There is actually a blue/green language quirk in Japanese and they even have blue traffic lights because of this

New comment by esdf in "You can help Anna's Archive by seeding torrents"

esdf — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:29:11 +0000

They did deny involvement so it'll be interesting to see what happens (you probably know this though) https://torrentfreak.com/key-defendant-in-annas-archive-laws...

>It’s weird, because it feels like important work, rather than criminal — someone should put into words exactly what the distinction is.

Important work can be criminal

New comment by esdf in "You can help Anna's Archive by seeding torrents"

esdf — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:09:54 +0000

A lot of english-advertising hosts from the regions in my comment are going to advertise DMCA-ignore, freedom of speech, and/or privacy. And you basically can't go wrong with any of them. Seedbox-as-a-service providers specifically are going to be generally be fine too although many of those are hosted in Netherlands which is slowly becoming less copyright-infringement -friendly.

One specific host I'll mention is vsys.host (UA) (which anna's archive uses too) but they're not going to be the cheapest option.

New comment by esdf in "You can help Anna's Archive by seeding torrents"

esdf — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:55:37 +0000

I think Turkey would be fine but I don't know or have anything to base it off of

New comment by esdf in "You can help Anna's Archive by seeding torrents"

esdf — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:42:34 +0000

Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Romania, Vietnam, Africa. Often anywhere near those too

New comment by esdf in "Show HN: I created a reverse search engine to find the source of anime clips."

esdf — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:28:40 +0000

For reference another site that does this with images is https://trace.moe/

New comment by esdf in "Scandal at America's top science fair"

esdf — Wed, 22 May 2024 10:01:29 +0000

Also a (not south park) movie! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_and_Derby

New comment by esdf in "Vanguard just went live and LoL players are claiming it's bricking their PCs"

esdf — Fri, 03 May 2024 02:51:08 +0000

I've never heard of a kernel-based anti-cheat from Valve. Can you provide a source for that

New comment by esdf in "Akiya houses: why Japan has nine million empty homes"

esdf — Thu, 02 May 2024 04:21:48 +0000

I'm not looking to buy property but I wanted to let you know that it seems hard to look you up. You don't have an email or name on your profile and the username isn't very unique online.

New comment by esdf in "World's Smallest CSV Parser (C#)"

esdf — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 23:46:34 +0000

Where are they implying this and why would the strings not have the same length? Is there normalization implied somewhere?

New comment by esdf in "Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search"

esdf — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 09:14:49 +0000

1000, not 10000

New comment by esdf in "More than 2M research papers have disappeared from the Internet"

esdf — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:09:55 +0000

A lawsuit is underway with a named defendant for Anna's Archive https://torrentfreak.com/lawsuit-accuses-annas-archive-of-ha...