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Deebster

@ Deebster @infosec.pub

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Mostly a backup account for now, other @Deebsters are available.

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  • The original doesn't explain the with b... part - is that another company or are they saying the security has weapons or dogs or something?

  • when you find out about gnuplot

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  • gnuplot is not related to the GNU project or the FSF in any but the most peripheral sense. Our software was designed completely independently and the name "gnuplot" was actually a compromise. I wanted to call it "llamaplot" and Colin wanted to call it "nplot." We agreed that "newplot" was acceptable but, we then discovered that there was an absolutely ghastly pascal program of that name that the Computer Science Dept. occasionally used. I decided that "gnuplot" would make a nice pun and after a fashion Colin agreed.

    http://gnuplot.info/faq/index.html#x1-70001.2

    So another punny name that was picked when it was assumed it didn't matter since no-one would really use it.

  • Is there any way to modify community subscription weight to push up quieter communities you want to hear from?

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  • Others have already pointed out scaled (my default sort) but I have often thought I would like to see a full feed for my quieter comms. Without making a new only-quiet-comms account or modifying a Lemmy client the only way I've thought of is to subscribe to the RSS feeds (but that means using a different app and managing two sets of subscriptions).

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  • I got that, I'm just picturing a world where Spain has Plaza de Toros, Russia has the Bear Cave and everyone gets their own version of this comic.

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  • The equivalent show in the UK is Dragons' Den, which would result in basically the same comic. Do other countries also have their localised versions?

  • What should countries do with their nuclear waste?

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  • It also has a decent chance of a rocket failure spreading radiation throughout the upper atmosphere in exactly the way we've figured out you shouldn't do.

  • NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service · Stan's blog

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  • This article is over five years old - is it still correct and relevant today?

  • Dolphin Progress Release 2512

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  • I had to look it up, Dolphin is an emulator for the GameCube and the Wii, supporting 1080p networked multiplayer on Linux, Mac and Windows.

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  • I've seen ones where they're clipped together so handle like a normal connector (and you don't have to connect individually). That should be standard.

  • Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach

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  • In the UK you can't be more than 70 miles (113 kilometres) from the coast, and the coast is mostly beaches.

  • xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet

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  • USB A doesn't support at the fancy high-power PD/PPS features.

  • xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers

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  • I think some will still understand it, although I can't remember the last time I heard anyone use it.

  • xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers

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  • Skrilla is from Philadelphia, where the police apparently don't use 10-67, but it's "Report of Death" in some areas so this still seems the most likely explanation.

  • Fish-Inspired Filter That Removes over 99% of Microplastics

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  • I never realised microplastics can be up to 5mm in size, I'd assumed it was referring to pieces that were microscopic.

  • Cruise control

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  • I hadn't seen the original meme and wondered why they'd removed "board".

  • Formal proofs expose long standing cracks in DNSSEC

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  • Off the top of my head, this will cause client lookups to always be as slow as the slowest server, as well as increasing server loads. You could perhaps request from more than three servers and use the first replies, but then you're increasing server loads even more and not necessarily even looking at the responses.

    Also, if the error/attack is higher in the DNS hierarchy, all the edge servers would report the same incorrect data.

  • Formal proofs expose long standing cracks in DNSSEC

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  • This is excellent work, I'm happy that these maths wizards are using their powers for good.

    Is the fix as simple as saying you can't enable both NSEC and NSEC3? Obviously, this will be problematic for clients using the disabled version.

  • Docker Hardened Images now open source and available for free

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  • This is great news, right? I know Lemmy tends cynical and anti-corporate but this makes it easy for containers to be a lot more secure by default.

  • Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere

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  • Also from the article:

    If the worst happens and the dome is punctured, 2,000 tonnes of CO2 will enter the atmosphere. That’s equivalent to the emissions of about 15 round-trip flights between New York and London on a Boeing 777. “It’s negligible compared to the emissions of a coal plant,” Spadacini says. People will also need to stay back 70 meters or more until the air clears, he says.

  • Is lemmy a good start to the Feiverse? or is there more that I'm missing?

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  • The Fediverse is quite varied, and often the platforms don't all talk to each other well/at all because they're doing different things.

    To explain in relation to the alternatives to big media:

    Twitter-like - micro blogging and following users/hashtags: Mastodon, Misskey etc, Pleroma, etc, etc

    Reddit-like - threaded conversation and content aggregation, following communities: Lemmy, mbin (mbin died), PieFed

    Youtube-like - video content: PeerTube (or Loops for Tiktok-style short videos)

    Instagram-like - sharing photos: Pixelfed

    Facebook-like - social media: Friendica (also Diaspora which is like Google+)

    Goodreads-like - tracking read books and sharing reviews: Bookwyrm

    And more: Funkwhale, Hubzilla, Jitsi, WriteFreely, etc