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There are circular dependencies within AWS, but also systems to account for this (especially for cold starting).

Also there really is no one AWS, each region is its own (Now more then ever before, where some systems weren't built to support this).

Re:Harnessing chaos in Cloudflare offices on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:15PM (#39644995)
Compromising a single seed source for randomness doesn't mean you have control over the output. That's the whole point to using multiple sources.

Thanks Microsoft for taking away one of my simple pleasures (Minecraft)

I have an old laptop running Ubuntu 20.04 and after trying off and on now for over a year (life is busy) to get this game I used to enjoy playing so much working, I just can't.Minecraft used to just work, sure there were issues but I could throw it on anything and get it working with very little fuss. I just had to go through 5 emails of various resets and one time codes, install dependencies...

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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever switched cloud? on Thursday April 07, 2022 @11:59AM (#30946300)
Netflix is hosted on AWS to name just one such instance. I have heard that internally the customer names are obfuscated, including other Amazon services. Indeed it would be a death sentence to prioritize themselves.
Re:IRS to adopt Login.gov as user authentication tool on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @05:10PM (#30434595)
Issues with login.gov don't make me very confident.

Try putting in 2 lower security passwords but then backspace deleting them and you get.

zxcvbn.feedback.use_a_few_words_avoid_common_phraseszxcvbn.feedback.no_need_for_symbols_digits_or_uppercase_letters

visible on the screen. I get it isn't a technical issue but still, doesn't give me confidence

Ask HN: Is the web slower to load nowadays or is it just me?

Specifically I am speaking to the non-mobile web experience but this discussion can include that as well.Is it just me or is the page load times and response time worse now than it was 5-10+ years ago? This is something I continue to notice across multiple machines and varying internet access speeds/latencies.

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Re:SHA-1 collisions now cost $45k [pdf] on Friday May 29, 2020 @02:06PM (#23353419)
I understand not wanting to use SHA-1 now for security reasons, but is it still an OK practice to use it as a general hashing function for a uuid/data checksum?
Didnt' China try to do this a few years back but was shutdown for some reason? Also, this would double as a great military weapon so I am sure that is being assessed as well.
Re:Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs. USB-C Chargers on Friday February 07, 2020 @04:59PM (#22271466)
otg
"The downside is that Google owns you."

I think it is more of a question of who/what the actual product is.

You can look at any major natural disaster and find good examples.
Re:Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi? on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:09PM (#20266533)
- Hosting personal website from my DMZ at home.

- SDR and packet radio (Direwolf) projects

- Kodi

- rpi zeroW with usb serial for connecting back to my house from work/travel.

I had more projects, but I've been able to replace them all with ESP8266's. Rpi is overkill to do simple things like toggle a gpio pin or take temperature readings. Use it if you have it, but it's nice freeing up extra rpi's with a $2 ESP.

Re:Practical Linux Hardening Guide on Thursday January 24, 2019 @05:45PM (#18993824)
Additionally having a non-standard port does help defend against 0day exploits before patches are available or before you are able to disable the port.
Another reason. If encryption was allowed then you would have a lot of commercial use on public bands but you couldn't enforce it, etc. It would ruin the public bands for everyone.
Re:Reliable, Secure and Universal Backup for U2F Token on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:56PM (#17767587)
So basically U2F clones. It would be neat to have some sort of CA between U2F devices, device A could sign device B and be put away, and device B could store the signing and share that with sites. This would allow device A to revoke device B completely, but would require a change of u2f support.

I understand the counter piece, but let's say someone steals your primary U2F, can't they just increment the counter to 1000002 and it would keep working even if you have used your backup token?

Re:Dropbear SSH, a lightweight alternative to OpenSSH on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:15PM (#17767194)
"raid" 1/0 and 10 are stable, others are not. Theoretically btrfs can protect against bit-rot where other fs's typically don't.
For the sake of a debate, why wouldn't you? (just sticking to drug kingpin and not including the murder for hire stuff...)
You can't live off of just fat.

Also, you are a collection of organisms that work together to keep "you" alive. Punishing your gut bacteria/etc just because you can is not healthy.

Re:Parallel tasks in Python: concurrent.futures on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:23PM (#16738250)
Would this allow separate GC'ng for each task?
Re:Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:39PM (#16317844)
> I personally stay far away from password managers

I am curious how you manage your passwords.

I've always wanted to make an open source autonomous watercraft to collect data. I also think some open source uplink buoys would be sweet. Then your craft could offload lots of data to them (which would be pushed to the internet) instead of paying for satellite time or trying to coordinate picking up your craft manually.
Re:Facebook open-sources Detectron on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:46PM (#16211069)
Amazon will have a new captcha asking how many boxes of cheeze-itz this person is holding on their way out of a store.
Re:NOAA kicks off 2018 with massive supercomputer upgrade on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:40PM (#16109834)
Didn't Dell acquire EMC?
| Do you consider that a CAPTCHA? Yes:"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"

But funny enough, I believe that data is used to help with machine learning to identify the objects, so we are CAPTCHA'ng ourselves into harder and harder CAPTCHA's.

The "I am not a robot" types are interesting because they don't just test you, they monitor your behavior. "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

Redstone Arsenal/NASA/Aerospace in Huntsville

Mercedes in Vance.

Hyundai in Montgomery

Honda in Talladega

Toyota in Madison

Airbus Mobile

I always thought linear actuators would be cheaper, stronger, and more reliable than this and the satnogs versions of satellite tracking.
Re:Tesla Semi Truck Unveiling on Thursday November 16, 2017 @03:14PM (#15716173)
Battery packs could be swapped out and charged out of the vehicle. This would make a lot of sense.
Re:Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools (2015) on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:18PM (#15536120)
Bandwidth and local storage considerations are missing from this. All of those features are great, but if my decentralized application uses all of my available bandwidth and disk space, then it is not very great.

This is very relevant because decentralized means that all that centralized storage and bandwidth needs to split up and amplified to account for offline users.

Re:Choosing between names and identifiers in URLs on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @12:04PM (#15500288)
kind of like, 'aol keyword'?

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