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Re:NREL Map of US Datacenter Infrastructure (2025) on Thursday June 26, 2025 @08:42AM (#44386868)
This map illustrates the geospatial relationship between data center locations, transmission infrastructure, fiber optic networks, and metropolitan areas.
Hoppscotch - https://hoppscotch.io has been a good alternative for my use cases.
Re:Aks HN: GitHub's Home Page is so smooth, how? on Thursday September 30, 2021 @03:15PM (#28710133)
This might shed some light on what they did... Amazing work to say the least. https://github.blog/2021-01-29-making-githubs-new-homepage-f...
Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:30AM (#26888746)
An appropriate place to make a report: https://compliance.umn.edu/
Re:Ask HN: Should you roll your own auth? on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:14PM (#23463286)
If you're dealing with production traffic and live credentials... NO!
Re:Is there hope for IPv6? on Sunday January 06, 2019 @02:32AM (#18837115)
The recommendation is to assign a /56 to end users from an ISP. That would give you plenty of subnets to work with.

/56 == 256 /64s Each /64 == 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses

This. 100 times this.
Equifax? And no.

Their whole business model is based on selling your info. Only way they are going out of business is if companies stop giving them info.

Re:Show HN: I'll mail Equifax your arbitration opt-out for free on Sunday September 10, 2017 @01:16AM (#15210782)
Like keybase?
Re:Show HN: I'll mail Equifax your arbitration opt-out for free on Sunday September 10, 2017 @01:14AM (#15210772)
You could look at the alternate site: https://equifaxbreach2017.com
This is kinda how I feel. https://equifaxbreach2017.com/

FYI. That is not the real site.

Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack on Saturday September 09, 2017 @01:23AM (#15205685)
This is how I feel. https://equifaxbreach2017.com

FYI. That is a satire / parody site and not the real one.

Re:Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps on Friday July 21, 2017 @11:44AM (#14821398)
Web Browser: Firefox, Chromium, Chrome

Email Client: Thunderbird

Terminal: gnome-terminal

IDE: Atom, VS Code

File manager: Nautilus

Basic Text Editor: gedit

IRC/Messaging Client: None

PDF Reader: None

Office Suite: Libreoffice, Openoffice

Calendar: None

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: None

Photo Viewer: None

Screen recording: Recordmydesktop (Kali recorder)

I would send emails to [email protected] and [email protected]. In addition, you could perform a whois lookup on the domain to get the Technical Contact: https://who.is/whois/neiu.edu and send an email to [email protected]

If you wanted to take it another step forward, here are the folks you could probably contact: https://ssb.neiu.edu/mercury_neiuprod/GZKDIRL.P_DISPLAY_DEPT...

Hope this helps.

Re:Ask HN: That website with product/startup ideas? on Thursday July 06, 2017 @09:22PM (#14715308)
I think I know what you're looking for. demandrush.com

Failed to capitalize on a large number of eyeballs.

Re:Magma – An encrypted email server daemon on Thursday July 06, 2017 @02:53PM (#14712880)
I don't think the Python/Ruby/Node/VB developers are the intended contributors.

Source: I'm a Python/Ruby/Node/VB/C/C++ dev

Re:Ask HN: Best practices for log format? on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:48AM (#14209240)
As part of my current role, I setup and managed a unified logging infrastructure as part of a SIEM install. We're talking ingesting logs in the order of TBs a day (Lots). Here are my observations:

1. Syslog type logs are great when the volume is low, but field extraction can be a pain (unless you're a Regex savant)

2. Structured logs are nice to deal with. Fairly easy to read and a dream to parse. Make sure you have a good ETL process in place to process these logs so they are searchable. 3. If you have a lot of logs, they are only as good at the usability of the search on that corpus of text.

I use Splunk to ingest the logs and once the extractions are in place, it is a dream to search. Other options like ELK are available and work pretty well too.

Show the devs the advantages of having structured logs indexed and ready to search. No more: SSH > cat | grep | tail | less | more

Real-time functionality and the ability to alert on certain conditions is an added bonus.

You don't need an Office subscription. A regular Microsoft account works just as well.
Re:Ostinato – A Network Traffic Generator and Analyzer on Friday March 24, 2017 @10:30AM (#13949087)
This is such a classic. Used it in college and still use it to this day to find definitions / struct members.
Re:Ask HN: Secure estate planning on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @11:00AM (#13922741)
Most password managers like LastPass let you designate someone else who can retrieve your account.

Master Passwords /Keys / Encrypted USBs in sealed envelopes stored together with your will all seem like probable options.

I personally have a Master password and a USB with my private encryption keys stored securely and Google Inactive Account manager to send instructions if I don't access my account for a month.

Good luck and I would be curious to hear what you end up doing.

I think the title is a little misleading. The report states that the findings are from 2006-2014 and that is when the rapid militarization of police forces with DHS funds was widely reported.

I fear that HN attributes all these to the current political atmosphere and how the foundation laid by the previous administration.

Re:Show HN: HowDoYouPronounce.org – Made with AWS Polly on Monday December 19, 2016 @11:21AM (#13212399)
Can't seem to pronounce 'rural'
As someone who lives in Duluth, this is not surprising at all. It's a magnificent sight when Lake Superior freezes over and you are able to walk/drive over it.
Why would you not have your networking team deploy a Cisco ASA / pfSense / OpenVPN to your DMZ?
Re:Clinton Emails: FBI Recommends 'No Charges' on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @04:03PM (#12039114)
I'll just leave this here. Eerily similar: https://www.fbi.gov/sacramento/press-releases/2015/folsom-na...
Re:Penetration Testing Tools Cheat Sheet on Sunday June 26, 2016 @11:57PM (#11984141)
Lyonlim, Couldn't find an email in your profile. Feel free to send me an email (in profile) if you wanted to explore this more.
Re:GPS Hacking, Part 1 on Monday February 22, 2016 @11:12PM (#11156483)
Awesome. Thank you. I didn't realize they had a new version of the chart out now.

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