Hacker News: faded242

New comment by faded242 in "Telnet BBS Guide"

faded242 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:08:18 +0000

Reminds me that I wanted to expose an old T.A.G. BBS to the web as a nostalgia project recently. Feel free to check it out, create an account, play some LORD, Trade Wars 2002, Usurper, Messages, etc. I just wanted the experience to live on as I remember it with nothing more than a modern web browser required. https://nightwatchbbs.com

New comment by faded242 in "Are women better than men at endurance running?"

faded242 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:08:40 +0000

Depends on the definition of "better".

"At the moment we are speculating".. nothing more to see here.

New comment by faded242 in "Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month"

faded242 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:10:44 +0000

Sounds like a you problem I've had multiple FreeBSD systems on vultr for over a decade and never had sshd issues. Of course I also use an alternate port and active fail2ban to block those who insist on any brute force for any protocol. 128K active blocks currently.

New comment by faded242 in "Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month"

faded242 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:06:15 +0000

Have been using vultr with very good stability for BSD systems since 2015 or so, highly recommend.

New comment by faded242 in "Kyanos: eBPF-based network issue analysis tool"

faded242 — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:33:23 +0000

So.. like trafshow.

New comment by faded242 in "FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge"

faded242 — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 12:30:46 +0000

I met Ajit shortly after he started in his role. I specifically told him how we can track and trace back these robocalls via SS7 (at least once they hit the PSTN - SIP ingress even easier to track back to the trunks they originate), and I even had proof of concept code and examples. He seemed really excited, then did nothing. No follow-up, etc. It would only work if mandated by the FCC because there is no financial incentive for the telcos to do it.

New comment by faded242 in "The Pacific Ocean is so acidic that it's dissolving Dungeness crabs' shells"

faded242 — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 19:57:23 +0000

https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/paleo_CO2_2018_1...

New comment by faded242 in "Route Leak Impacting Cloudflare"

faded242 — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:51:36 +0000

We'll get right on that after everyone has IPv6 deployed.

New comment by faded242 in "MAC address age tracking"

faded242 — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 12:52:32 +0000

You are correct. The date of allocation doesn't indicate the age of the device, just the age of the allocation to said company.

New comment by faded242 in "MAC address age tracking"

faded242 — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:28:24 +0000

Neat, I shall incorporate this into my little side project that I did for fun: https://macaddresslookup.info

New comment by faded242 in "How I Fail – Ian Goodfellow"

faded242 — Sun, 06 May 2018 14:03:51 +0000

... That's how he fails.

New comment by faded242 in "Facebook acquires anonymous teen compliment app tbh, will let it run"

faded242 — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:16:36 +0000

Well then, if everyone else is doing it!.. I don't buy it. People don't have friends based off of if they're on social media, or play specific video games. If they do, you don't want them as friends. It's the same reason I don't let my 3rd grade boy play FPS games even though he REAAALY wants to, and all his friends do. An 8 year old should not be running around in a realistic game shooting people. When his brain is more mature, he will have plenty of time to play such games.

New comment by faded242 in "Facebook acquires anonymous teen compliment app tbh, will let it run"

faded242 — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 21:36:49 +0000

My middle school aged daughter wanted this installed on her phone the other day. I said no way. The last thing she needs her electronic devices doing is serving up tinder for kids, leaving her obsessing over popularity contests, or another avenue for anonymous bullying.

New comment by faded242 in "Cyber expert who stopped 'WannaCry' attack arrested in U.S. on hacking charges"

faded242 — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 03:19:17 +0000

Yes, this is probably a better example..

New comment by faded242 in "Cyber expert who stopped 'WannaCry' attack arrested in U.S. on hacking charges"

faded242 — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 02:37:09 +0000

If he actually hacked people with his code, then then they have a case. If not, then he's in a similar boat to gun manufacturers in my opinion.

New comment by faded242 in "Anonymity and Abuse Reports"

faded242 — Sun, 07 May 2017 21:46:57 +0000

Ignore was perhaps a poor word choice. They do get responded to, but the response results in no action being taken to stop the abuse, which is what I meant by ignore.

New comment by faded242 in "Anonymity and Abuse Reports"

faded242 — Sun, 07 May 2017 21:18:08 +0000

Cloudflare has always sidestepped their responsibility by claiming not to be a "hosting provider". They claim not to host the content, so they claim not to be able to stop any abuse related to it. If the DNS points to cloudflare, if the content to the rest of the world looks and feels like it comes from Cloudflare, then you're responsible for the content whether you consider yourself a "hosting provider" or not. Providing bullet-proof hosting to scammers, spammers, etc. and then ignoring abuse reports and throwing their hands up in the air because it's not their content has left a pretty terrible impression of Cloudflare to me.

New comment by faded242 in "The threat of technological unemployment"

faded242 — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 18:59:04 +0000

Thanks to Google Street View, we don't even have to take a few days: http://bit.ly/2hKM8Yi

New comment by faded242 in "The Daily DDoS: Ten Days of Massive Attacks"

faded242 — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:16:37 +0000

Good thing there's no such thing as links contained in email. /s

New comment by faded242 in "The Daily DDoS: Ten Days of Massive Attacks"

faded242 — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 18:48:32 +0000

I don't think you've tried to report abuse to CloudFlare before, have you? Your analogy is actually further off. CloudFlare IS aware of the abuse and illegal activity. They DO condone it through their inaction. They claim since they aren't the actual source of the content, they don't have to do anything about it, effectively letting the criminals and scammers continue their abuse behind their shield. They have all the capability in the world to respond to valid abuse complaints, and actually stop the abuse, but they actively choose to allow it.