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peter_tonoli

Australasian New Car Assessment Program https://www.ancap.com.au/
Re:Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”? on Sunday November 24, 2019 @08:49PM (#21624850)
In Australia, it's called 'recommended retail price'.
Re:More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive on Sunday October 13, 2019 @11:54PM (#21245156)
There's Conan for the Apple //e https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Conan ?
Not sure where you've got the 'few dozen' number from - that's not to my experience. Tandberg quote "1,000,000 passes on any area of tape, equates to over 20,000 end to end passes/260 full tape backup" http://www.tandbergdata.com/default/assets/File/Data_Sheets/...
Re:Show HN: Ackee – Self-hosted website analytics on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @09:58PM (#20873297)
Have you considered Matomo? https://matomo.org/
Re:QEMU VM Escape on Sunday August 25, 2019 @09:44PM (#20796882)
Slirp was the equivalent of a userland, and user accessible version of SLIP. It allowed end users, to have IP equivalent connectivity if they had a shell account.

This was in the days when people had dial-in accounts to a shell, and wanted to use Mosaic web browser on their machines.

Re:Apple’s use of Swift in iOS 12 on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:19AM (#18091586)
> The memory diagnostic app shows the "Other" section constantly growing and not being released.

Sure it's not 'the memory diagnostic app' that's wrong?

Re:STARTTLS Everywhere on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @01:53AM (#17398199)
And how many just use self-signed certificates?
Re:STARTTLS Everywhere on Monday June 25, 2018 @11:35PM (#17397685)
Under 'about', the rationale for STARTTLS is listed, which includes, but isn't exclusive to the HSTS like list:

  - Increase STARTTLS adoption
  - Increase the number of mailservers that actually validate certificates
  - Maintain a STARTTLS Policy List to help prevent downgrade attacks on email services.
Re:STARTTLS Everywhere on Monday June 25, 2018 @11:33PM (#17397679)
Thanks for the suggestion - Done :-)
lobste.rs is my go to..
Wildcard certificates.
Before we get the pitchforks out, what was on your repo? Is there a copy of your repo somewhere else?
Re:Facebook is down on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @06:01AM (#15080062)
Not for me (AU).
Other jurisdictions, such as Australia, require identity checks http://acma.gov.au/Citizen/Phones/Mobile/Prepaid-mobiles/new...
Re:SSL on GitHub pages with a custom domain for free on Monday May 08, 2017 @07:49PM (#14296616)
Tried the default how-to from GitHub? It's pretty good - https://pages.github.com/

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