Hacker News: posixplz

New comment by posixplz in "OpenSSL 3.0"

posixplz — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 17:29:56 +0000

I assume you mean "validated" and not "compliant" -- the distinction is important. Yes, it will be 140-2 validated. It's being submitted for testing before end of month to make the 140-2 cutoff. (September is the last month for 140-2 submissions. After September, all new FIPS submissions must be for 140-3 validation.)

It's fair to assume it will take about 12-18 months from submission to certificate issuance.

New comment by posixplz in "Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord"

posixplz — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 15:37:15 +0000

>> memory safe

> That's an incorrect assumption if you haven't audited the code.

Audit the code? Simply `grep unsafe`.

New comment by posixplz in "One-Fifth of U.S. Beef Capacity Wiped Out by JBS Cyberattack"

posixplz — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 03:30:52 +0000

Spot on. Also worth noting that regulation and government administrative law are the only ways to restrict consolidation. (Anti-trust, FTC merger approvals)

New comment by posixplz in "W3.org Cert Expired"

posixplz — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 03:23:55 +0000

Serve the same content over HTTP and HTTPS. Many web admins today don’t serve content over http, instead they HTTP/301 redirect all http requests to https.

New comment by posixplz in "MUM: A new AI milestone for understanding information"

posixplz — Thu, 20 May 2021 04:10:42 +0000

I miss the days when punctuation marks were significant to google searches. And the days when you could use logic operands in searches like +&!

I’m glad I learned POSIX and especially Linux when searches were evaluated more literally. It was simple to locate relevant technical pages.

It’s a shame google doesn’t offer legacy search.

New comment by posixplz in "Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work"

posixplz — Sat, 15 May 2021 13:06:11 +0000

Really, slippery slope fallacy over employers providing food to workers?

The free food does a good job of keeping me in the building. I honestly can’t understand why anyone would be opposed to office perks.

New comment by posixplz in "Has UML died without anyone noticing?"

posixplz — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 18:32:52 +0000

PlantUML is an excellent tool for creating visual representations of system behaviors. Because diagrams are generated from plaintext, they’re easy to maintain and version control. I use it often when designing new features and systems. You don’t need to pay attention to UML semantics to create valuable diagrams.

New comment by posixplz in "Open letter from researchers involved in the “hypocrite commit” debacle"

posixplz — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 17:34:49 +0000

“I’m sorry if I hurt you,” is a very different statement from, “I am sorry I hurt you.” One makes responsibility conditional, and the other takes responsibility.

New comment by posixplz in "Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director"

posixplz — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 06:42:23 +0000

It’s a fair inference given the size and rate of known Bitcoin black market busts. In one search, I found a paper that estimates $76B worth of Bitcoin is used in illegal trade per year.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3102645

New comment by posixplz in "LG dryer traffic – 1GB+ daily up/down"

posixplz — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:37:44 +0000

FYI, RF paints are poor signal attenuators, even when applied in multiple coats. There’s no RF paint product that can stop commercial cell communication across usable spectrum.

New comment by posixplz in "A woman who took on Google and won"

posixplz — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 03:39:09 +0000

Yes.

Credit card companies do the same thing. They run ads stating you won’t be held liable for fraud. The implication is that the credit card company does this because it cares about you as a customer. The truth is federal law dictates cardholders can’t be held liable for fraudulent charges.

New comment by posixplz in "Ubiquiti accused of covering up ‘catastrophic’ breach– and it’s not denying it"

posixplz — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:49:22 +0000

Are MikroTik access points still a royal pain to configure and maintain? I use their switches, but not their APs.

Decades ago, I was a network engineer working in production data centers. I’m used to setting up switches manually. But I have no professional experience with setting up meshed WiFi networks. I like that the Ubiquiti APs “just work” for the most part.

I’ve started to notice weird AP/client failures with my ubiquiti gear and debugging is a nightmare. It seems that ubiquiti has hidden a lot of useful information in an overzealous effort to streamline UX.

New comment by posixplz in "Big Tech Has Helped Trash America"

posixplz — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 17:36:00 +0000

Does the cult of personality — its leader, followers, and traditional media amplifiers — bear no responsibility? In the context of this article, “big tech” seems only to be a convenient scape goat, given that this is hardly the first time masses devoted themselves to a truth-less strongman.

This article is filled with anecdotes and provides no real evidence to back its outlandish assertion. Mass delusion and political cults are not new phenomena.

I’m sure the printing press also “helped trash America,” by the author’s standard.

New comment by posixplz in "Facebook Incubated the Insurrection"

posixplz — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:27:45 +0000

Why bother providing an anecdote like this when we have mountains of empirical evidence about the content on Parler? And that evidence directly counters your assertion.

New comment by posixplz in "Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks"

posixplz — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 15:28:52 +0000

Facebook and Twitter don’t make the determinations alone. They contract internationally recognized fact checking organizations. Is it perfect? No. Do we need to curtail online disinformation at a platform-level? Yes, clearly we can’t rely on the critical thinking skills of the reader to make a rational determination — if we could, we wouldn’t have this problem in the first place.

This and several posts on this thread seem to think it’s impossible to discern fact from fiction, that every opinion, even if false and presented as factual, deserves equal time.

I fear that if we cannot have factual, cogent policy debates, our democracies are doomed.

New comment by posixplz in "Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account"

posixplz — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 08:13:29 +0000

Having a manufacturer-curated channel of apps is great. That channel should not come at the cost of consumer choice or competition.

New comment by posixplz in "Hackers post fake stories on real news sites 'to discredit NATO'"

posixplz — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 15:29:05 +0000

FireEye has provided their own evidence[1]. BBC has strong editorial guidelines for dealing with evidence from third-parties[2]. You, however, have provided nothing but conjecture and redirection.

Can you substantiate your claim? If not, it’s fair to classify your comments as obvious attempts to gaslight HN’s readers.

1: https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/Gh... 2: https://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidelines/accurac...

New comment by posixplz in "Hackers post fake stories on real news sites 'to discredit NATO'"

posixplz — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 15:09:27 +0000

Do you have any evidence that FireEye’s report is inaccurate or misleading?

You are making an outlandish claim, that the BBC is lying in conjunction with FireEye. Back it up with evidence, or abstain from gaslighting please.

New comment by posixplz in "SCI Runs OpenVMS on x86-64"

posixplz — Tue, 26 May 2020 01:15:57 +0000

Disclaimer: I work at OCI — Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

> Within an hour of receiving the kit, SCI had OpenVMS V9.0 running in the Oracle High Performance Cloud inside an Oracle VM VirtualBox environment.

This is confusing. OCI doesn’t have a “High Performance Cloud” product. We do have high performance compute, but that is simply latest and greatest hardware via bare metal instances. High performance compute is a standard and long-time part of our portfolio. Perhaps SCI is referencing one of the legacy Oracle cloud products? (I doubt it, Oracle is sun-setting the previous generation of IaaS and migrating all customers to OCI.)

To GP, I don’t think choosing Oracle Cloud is a strange choice anymore. 5 years ago pre-OCI, certainly. Perhaps even two years ago when OCI was still new. But it has come a really long way. From feature, performance, and cost perspectives, it’s a compelling product.

New comment by posixplz in "IBM to cut thousands of jobs as coronavirus plays out"

posixplz — Fri, 22 May 2020 14:30:15 +0000

IBMs cloud is on par? With whom? Certainly not AWS and Azure. Nor GCP. Not even with OCI.