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Re:Show HN: Dungeon Map Doodler – Free online map drawing tool
on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:50PM (#24192609)
This looks to be a mapping tool rather than a full virtual tabletop. You could use this to export a map and use it with roll20 or foundry or a big printout or whatever you like.
Re:Show HN: Preemptive Multitasking on an AVR Microcontroller
on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:47AM (#23322347)
If you are gonna go through all that work with this chip in particular, you'd probably be better off putting four of them on one board. It's all kinda moot with more powerful chips available for cheaper anyway.
Re:GitHub Actions: Organization secrets
on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:40AM (#23203279)
This would be great. Then we could reliably use something like vault to store secrets with individual acls per-workflow, and have reasonable confidence that only that single workflow can access them.
Re:Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?
on Monday April 20, 2020 @05:55PM (#22929108)
While the current administration is turning a blind eye and I wish they wouldn't, the Russian connection here was only discovered after many layers of digging, and is still just conjecture.
After a few more iterations, they will learn how to close the gaps and be more and more untraceable. I don't know how it is possible to combat that.
Re:Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t
on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @09:53AM (#22803192)
"Yeah, we know it is wrong, but that single decision made 10+ years ago is too hard to change now without unknown side effects. Microsoft owns it now, so nothing too bad will happen"
Re:U.S. retailers plan to stop paying rent to offset virus closures
on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @08:13PM (#22680512)
Hopefully the landlords realize there is not going to be anybody lining up to take over these leases if they evict. Forgiving a couple months so a business doesn't have to close is almost certainly the shrewd business choice as well as the moral one.
Re:The accusations were lies, but could we prove it?
on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:14PM (#22648499)
I would love to read this, but keep getting blocked by paywalls.
Re:Total Cost of Her Covid-19 Treatment: $34,927.43
on Saturday March 21, 2020 @12:39PM (#22647745)
There is no minimum number of missiles that must be produced no matter what. I think op was simply suggesting that fewer missiles total should be made across the board.
Re:The Warby Parker clones are imploding
on Monday March 09, 2020 @08:53PM (#22531646)
I've offered to pay the person who watches my dog directly, and she declines exactly because of the value add of Rover insuring her. Seems a fair model.
Re:Revoking certain certificates on March 4
on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:17PM (#22478347)
4 A's for ipv6 of course, and 1 A for ipv4. How could that possibly be confusing?
Had I been given a vote we would be using AAAA and AAAAAA records.
Re:Revoking certain certificates on March 4
on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @02:56PM (#22478171)
Kinda frustrating having certs revoked when there have never been CAA records for any names involved. I know they can't know that to be true historically, but I wish they could do some additional filtering.
Re:DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M
on Thursday February 20, 2020 @07:50PM (#22380063)
Didn't they just have layoffs recently?
Re:Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the en...
on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @09:32AM (#22309068)
You do not have to use your registrar's dns. You can register wherever you like, and host dns from cloudflare, route53, gcloud or whatever you want.
Re:Is This Site Secure?
on Saturday January 25, 2020 @10:29AM (#22146619)
Security is about being paranoid in imagining what different actors can do with varying levels of access. In this case, MITM is not always easy, but once they have access they can do bad stuff. As a webmaster, an attacker with this access can break your site by messing with your users.
By taking the simple step of using https, you can successfully reduce your attack surface and increase the difficulty of messing with your site.
Re:Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS (2018)
on Saturday January 25, 2020 @10:22AM (#22146577)
That makes sense. I wonder if any web servers have smarter decision making for that. Like give a hard 301 to modern browsers, but let older or nonstandard clients get a standard http response.
Re:Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS (2018)
on Saturday January 25, 2020 @10:15AM (#22146545)
It is interesting that the main argument against staying http is one of social responsibility. Your static site isn't any more susceptible to attacks with http only, but your users are. A bunch of MITM techniques are thwarted by only visiting https sites. Is that your problem as a webmaster? Since LE, I have taken up the position that it is easy, and I prefer https sites as a user, so I really don't have a good reason not to enable https.
Also, an attack on my end users is an attack on my site. Anytime someone wants to see my content and gets something else, that is bad. If I can significantly raise the difficulty of doing that, why wouldn't I?
Re:The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org
on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:14AM (#22125033)
This is a big problem for me. I will buy novelty domains on sale, then abandon them after a year because the renewal price is so much higher than the 1st year promotion. At least com and net are fairly consistent year to year.
Re:Algorithm for Drawing Trees
on Saturday January 18, 2020 @04:40PM (#22087465)
If you do that, you quickly run into the feasible depth limit for what you can show in a fixed space. Especially for sparse trees. Consider something like family trees, where you generally don't know anything about certain lines, but may have 20 generations or more on selected lines. No way could you show 2^20 nodes in a fixed format rendering, but you can make something kinda pretty by eliminating the empty space and organizing things to fill it intelligently.
Re:Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:18PM (#21985702)
A USB bootloader and a standard footprint with a line of addon shields. 10 years ago, the only choices I saw were to buy an uno or get a pic and somehow figure out how to program it with crazy dongles and things. It was an easy choice.
Re:Uber plans to start audio-recording rides in the U.S. for safety
on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:33AM (#21595095)
How can you "refuse to pay" with uber? You have to have a card on file to order a ride. Not having a payment interaction with the driver is half the appeal.
Re:The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790
on Saturday November 09, 2019 @09:11PM (#21495967)
That is a really great idea. Every time this comes up it boils down to "phones are old and complicated, and there are a billion unique telcos". Great. But if I only do legit business over 3 of them, why not indicate if I am leaving the "trusted zone"?
Re:Lack of cdnjs activity
on Friday November 01, 2019 @08:14AM (#21417918)
Possibly privacy. If I host a copy of a popular site's Js, I can watch download patterns and have a pretty reliable "has this user logged into site X" detector.
Re:Xfinity Is Man-in-the-Middle Attacking My Internet
on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:26PM (#21390487)
This is orthogonal to data caps. We could debate separately if people should be allowed to have contracts with those limits, but the actual problem here is that the ISP is modifying the traffic I requested before they deliver it. In this case it was for data cap notices, but next time it might be for ads or malware or anything else they want to inject.
Re:Uber makes JFK airport helicopter taxis available to all users
on Sunday October 06, 2019 @10:25PM (#21176795)
I've paid more than that for a regular uber to lga, just getting stuck in traffic the wrong time of day.
Re:A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World
on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:15PM (#21161495)
It seems to me that security at the venue is extremely inconsistent. They care enough about cheating to time-delay the stream (even to the announcers), but players are allowed to have phones and keys and things at the table? Maybe don't allow that?
Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete
on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @06:30PM (#20762616)
I feel like I've seen some maps for past elections done hypothetically like this. I can't recall the conclusions though. I think the Senate situation still gives disproportionate power to small states in that model, even if it is slightly less dramatic than the winner take all in each state we have now.
Re:Turning the Nintendo Switch into Android’s Best Gaming Hardware
on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:51AM (#20706268)
This only works on units manufactured before Nintendo fixed some of the SoC vulnerabilities. Finding older unpatched units is becoming increasingly difficult.
Re:Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York
on Saturday August 10, 2019 @10:35AM (#20662280)
The suicide narrative is perfectly reasonable. The fact that he was on suicide watch already is what raises questions of corruption and coverups.
Re:Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
on Saturday July 13, 2019 @04:15PM (#20429918)
And some kind of index that lists possible "request" locations? Perhaps even with some kind of "hyperlinks". I think we may be onto something big here.
Re:Developers don't understand CORS
on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @10:35PM (#20408660)
Wouldn't part of this be solved by using a real domain that resolves to 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost? Then you can get a real cert and embed it in the client to make local requests work properly?