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Re:Ubiquiti Networks Breach on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:24PM (#25738360)
I'm unsure if you're referring to open-source software or hardware, but for software pfSense [1] and OpenWrt [2] are both popular open-source routers.

[1] https://www.pfsense.org/ [2] https://openwrt.org/

Re:To defund the police, activists rewrote city budgets on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:01PM (#23423497)
If, as you're saying, a complex system of corruption has affected where public money is spent, isn't that actually a great reason to question the legitimacy of police budgets and consider pushing for that money to be spent elsewhere?
> In the past, the "Internet speed record" was measured in units such as "terabit meters-per-second":

I like this unit better, because then a jetliner full of hard drives could be a valid competitor.

Re:Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @11:34AM (#19255732)
Sorry, I left that part out. My browser sends DNT=1, and I get 1/1.67, which should mean that 1/1.67 browsers send DNT=1. This means that the total share of browsers that send the DNT header at all is at least 1/1.67, but probably higher.
Re:The Internet’s Back-to-the-Land Movement on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @11:31AM (#19255686)
An increase in efficiency does not necessarily mean a reduction in total consumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Re:Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:14PM (#19227005)
https://panopticlick.eff.org/ reports that 1 in 1.67 browsers send the DNT header, so the best option fingerprinting-wise might be to leave it on, at least information-wise.

Of course, that ratio will likely change when Safari drops support for DNT entirely. See discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19101156

Re:How to Grow Old (1951) on Monday December 17, 2018 @01:34PM (#18700931)
> As regards health, I have nothing useful to say as I have little experience of illness.

I interpreted this sentence as a disclaimer that what follows is explicitly not advice.

Re:Why Aren’t Rich People Happy With the Money They Have? on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:05PM (#18650312)
Maybe the making of the thing deprived no one, but once it's made it could always be given to someone else, so owning it means that someone else who could own it doesn't.
Re:AWS now supports U2F/Yubikeys on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:53PM (#18077862)
What do you mean by a MITM phishing attack?

U2F credentials are tied to a particular domain, and so do not rely on the user making sure they are on the correct website. As such, they are not susceptible to typical credential phishing attacks.