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Re:Upgrading OpenBSD on a Pentium 133
on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @10:06AM (#23906866)
While this article is about OpenBSD's floppy support, if you already had OpenBSD on the machine and working networking, upgrading it without any external devices is as easy as:
ftp -o /bsd.rd https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.7/i386/bsd.rd
On 6.6 and newer, just type sysupgrade and that's it.
Re:My dad got scammed for $3k worth of gift cards
on Monday July 06, 2020 @02:56PM (#23751412)
Seems like the FTC or some other government agency could save a lot of people a lot of heartache with a PSA targeted at elderly people. Commercials during daytime TV basically saying no one will ever legitimately call you and ask you to buy gift cards as a method of payment.
Re:Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive
on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:33PM (#23709357)
As is Heaven's Gate's website - http://heavensgate.com/
Re:Updating the Language of SPI Pin Labels to Remove Casual References...
on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:17PM (#23691622)
Re:GE Fridge DRM Workaround
on Thursday June 11, 2020 @09:14AM (#23488472)
I think we're supposed to call them "allowlists" now.
Re:Audio Engineers Built a Shield to Deflect Police Sound Cannons
on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:01PM (#23479378)
And making a video about how to defend against them can get you sued.
Re:Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @03:37PM (#23470022)
I've tried Haiku a few times and liked it, but it feels like the beta label has been around forever and is not doing them any favors. It's 2020, you're not publishing software as a big-box release in stores, just cut a release already and then keep iterating!
From Wikipedia:
It wasn't until September, 2009 that Haiku reached its first milestone with the release of Haiku R1/Alpha 1. Then in November, 2012 the R1/Alpha 4.1 was released, while work continued on nightly builds.[8] On September 28, 2018, the Haiku R1/Beta 1 was released.[9] On June 9, 2020, Haiku R1/Beta 2 was released.
Almost 11 years and it's still not out of beta?!
Re:Playing around with the Fuchsia operating system
on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:59PM (#23468357)
Google is king of NIH.
Re:OpenBSD is more to blame for Pale Moon absence, due to their hatred...
on Saturday June 06, 2020 @07:32PM (#23443291)
So one hack that forks a project and just changes the name on everything to call it their own, talking about a browser fork that did the same thing. Do these people actually contribute any useful code?
Re:I made a font based on my handwriting
on Saturday June 06, 2020 @10:08AM (#23439275)
There was a free website many years ago that I used, where you print out a form with blocks on it and write each letter, then scan it and upload it and it gets turned into a font. I can't seem to find it now (or maybe it went paid).
Microsoft has an app that lets you do this with a Windows tablet:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/microsoft-font-maker/9n920...
Re:Why I Use Suckless Tools
on Saturday June 06, 2020 @08:13AM (#23438610)
Seems like having to use a bunch of popular patches is counter to the author's other praises about how simple and minimal the software is. Why doesn't upstream integrate them and let everyone use them without having to patch?
Re:OpenBSD 6.7
on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:10PM (#23236461)
Which of the hundreds of Linux distributions that have free/volunteer resources split amongst them do you run?
Re:Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
on Thursday May 07, 2020 @01:32PM (#23105662)
Immediately sold them and kept the cash
Re:IoT Emergency Alert Button with RPi and Notify17 (who launched on H...
on Sunday April 19, 2020 @04:06PM (#22918393)
Notify17 seems really expensive for just proxying push notifications. You only get 75 free per month?
Re:Apple's MacOS Server has a 1.5/5 rating on the Mac App Store
on Friday April 03, 2020 @11:37AM (#22770299)
Because macOS Server was a large reason why companies bought the Mac Mini.
The Purism Librem Mini
Re:Senate leadership pushing a surveillance bill as Americans focused ...
on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:33PM (#22610037)
Which was largely written by Joe Biden in 1995 after the Oklahoma City bombing.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/surveil...
Re:A backup rotation filter for the Unix shell
on Saturday February 29, 2020 @01:13PM (#22451976)
tarsnap desperately needs something like this included with it.
Re:Stop Using Encrypted Email
on Thursday February 20, 2020 @06:32AM (#22374319)
If you consider PGP something that mostly works, and Signal the fringe contrarian view
We're talking about email here, so yeah, the number of encrypted emails I've received with PGP is non-zero and through Signal is zero.
Re:Stop Using Encrypted Email
on Thursday February 20, 2020 @05:20AM (#22374027)
Typical security industry contrarianism.
"Stop using that thing that mostly works as intended and is integrated into lots of email clients and systems, and has a number of independent implementations, and has the decentralized properties that match email."
"What should we use instead?"
"shrug You can send encrypted stickers in Signal, isn't that neat?"
If you're going to advocate for everyone to stop using something that they rely on, make sure there's a viable alternative for them to switch to first (or throw your weight behind making/enhancing one). Otherwise you're just telling people to stop using plastic straws and giving them shitty paper straws in exchange. People know they're bad but the alternatives are worse to them so they stick with the bad thing.
Re:Flight Simulator 2020 โ New Development Footage
on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @12:00PM (#22237948)
It's the Boss Level.
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Adds WireGuard Support
on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:45PM (#22207938)
Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?
on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:47PM (#22206730)
Now take that F-ckwad, and remove the Anonymity by requiring them to use their real name. And bingo, now you live in Interesting Times.
https://www.reddit.com/r/insanepeoplefacebook/ would like to disagree.
LPE and RCE in OpenBSD OpenSMTPD
Re:Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programming for iOS...
on Sunday January 26, 2020 @02:40PM (#22154221)
I wish I would have not fought the tools so much.
I started Android programming from the command line using make/ant and testing on a device because I didn't like Android Studio. This ended up wasting a lot of time and energy over the years as I had to integrate more 3rd party libraries (including Google's own crap).
Same thing for iOS. I didn't like building GUIs in Interface Builder so I did everything in code. Over time as iOS devices came in different sizes, this became harder to do properly. I should have given in early and learned to use Interface Builder, auto layout, etc.
Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
on Saturday January 11, 2020 @07:27PM (#22023483)
The title on this story makes it sound like OpenBSD stopped updating Firefox altogether. That's not the case, it just stopped backporting non-ESR Firefox updates to its -stable branch.
Re:Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool
on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @11:10AM (#21981280)
On OpenBSD:
$ ls -l /dev/*random*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Dec 10 15:05 /dev/random@ -> urandom
crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 45, 0 Jan 6 15:30 /dev/urandom
Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD
on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @09:42PM (#21709529)
That you primarily know of Tavis from his FVWM config and not his security work is really weird.
Re:A tiny pharmacy is identifying problems with common drugs
on Sunday November 10, 2019 @02:39PM (#21499740)
It's in ports/packages now, but it used to be in base.