#comments | Logs for 2019-10-05

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[00:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Turns 15 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:17] <exec> 08└─When you can't get away with blood doping, you have to resort to rubber doping.
[00:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Turns 15 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:18] <exec> 08└─Will I get nanotube cancer?
[00:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The SpaceX Starship Pushback: NASA Administrator's Scolding and More - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:33] <exec> 08└─Mmmm-hmmm. But, NASA does have it's embarrassments. Are they still responsible for outreaches to that alien Muslim thing? https://www.telegraph.co.uk [telegraph.co.uk]
[00:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The SpaceX Starship Pushback: NASA Administrator's Scolding and More - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:34] <exec> 08└─But if Starlink is successful, they will have access to a lot more funds.
[00:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Largest Unofficial Dice Roll in History: 216,000 Dice Spill from a Truck - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:31] <exec> 08└─Ah never mind. My comment mainly applies to rolling a single die. I'm sure you could plug the case for 216,000 dice into the formula easily enough but I haven't got time right now.
[00:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Largest Unofficial Dice Roll in History: 216,000 Dice Spill from a Truck - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:32] <exec> 08└─It's rumored the truck had been on its way to the unveiling of a secret project code-named Beta. Moments before the incident one witness claimed they heard a ghostly voice whispering "Fuck Beta" into their ear.
[00:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Contractor Targeted Homeless People to Improve Pixel 4 Facial Recognition - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:38] <exec> 08└─We had a dark skinned employee named Willy. We had to stop saying N*****-Rigged so we started saying Willy-Rigged instead.
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[01:12:12] <exec> 08└─Nanobots to get rid of graphene poisoning.
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[02:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Issue of 2600 will be Released Digitally in Non-DRM PDF - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:17] <exec> 08└─Guess I'll be downloading this for free (the best hack).
[02:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If You Owned the Samsung Galaxy S4, You're Entitled to Some Cold, Hard Cash - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:23] <exec> 08└─I have the Galaxy S3, no joke.
[02:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Encryption-Busting Reductor Malware: Manipulates Browsers to Snoop on TLS - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:35] <exec> 08└─You meant 2^16, not 2^64. Unless your reality is quirkier than mine.
[02:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Largest Unofficial Dice Roll in History: 216,000 Dice Spill from a Truck - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:55] <exec> 08└─The truck was on the way to the Georgia Secretary of State for the 2020 Election.
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[03:11:55] <exec> 08└─Looks like they still are selling the paper version. Can still buy that with a bit more anonymity.
[03:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Issue of 2600 will be Released Digitally in Non-DRM PDF - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:57] <exec> 08└─All paper money contains tracking devices now. You are never anonymous.
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[05:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Defense One Journalist Claims Harassment by U.S. Customs Officer at Dulles Airport - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:07] <exec> 08└─Too bad we can't fire them on the spot.
[05:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defense One Journalist Claims Harassment by U.S. Customs Officer at Dulles Airport - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:08] <exec> 08└─the journalist wasn't shot, or detained, so that's a win, right?
[05:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defense One Journalist Claims Harassment by U.S. Customs Officer at Dulles Airport - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:11] <exec> 08└─Get used to it...we are now living in a Franz Kafka novel. With DHS bureaucrats running their own interpretation of Her Donald's rantings.
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[06:12:12] <exec> 08└─> the journalist wasn't shot, or detained, so that's a win, right? Or cut into pieces with a bone saw (it's been a year since Khashoggi was last seen).
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[07:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Defense One Journalist Claims Harassment by U.S. Customs Officer at Dulles Airport - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:07] <exec> 08└─When the POTUS himself keeps asserting publicly that journalists write fake news and are on the coutry's ennemies' payroll to undermine democracy, and does so for many years, it's not exactly surprising that a border control monkey can end up spewing out the same shit. I suspect DHS and customs offi...
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[08:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene Turns 15 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:47] <exec> 08└─God The patriarchy Ancient aliens did it!
[08:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WordPress Sites Hacked through Defunct Rich Reviews Plugin - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:27] <exec> 08└─Hadn't spotted Bolt before.. Fsck me, having done a number of Wordpress installs, Bolt was a (mostly¹) painless install and configure, even when running on nginx, and now the culture shock of driving a CMS begins.....unless I make it SEFP. -- ¹ Mostly, as my existing php install had most things di...
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[09:12:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Defense One Journalist Claims Harassment by U.S. Customs Officer at Dulles Airport - 456 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:20] <exec> 08└─When the POTUS himself keeps asserting publicly that journalists write fake news and are on the coutry's ennemies' payroll to undermine democracy, and does so for many years, it's not exactly surprising that a border control monkey can end up spewing out the same shit. I suspect DHS and customs offi...
[09:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If You Owned the Samsung Galaxy S4, You're Entitled to Some Cold, Hard Cash - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:49] <exec> 08└─Australia now has 70c stamps for a standard letter..
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[10:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Surprise! Copying Crummy Code from Stack Overflow Leads to Vulnerable GitHub Jobs - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:05] <exec> 08└─Primates are learning by imitation and failures. I consider stackoverflow be a generalized code injector. Do not deploy what you do not understand?
[10:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defense One Journalist Claims Harassment by U.S. Customs Officer at Dulles Airport - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:32] <exec> 08└─The South will lose Again! How many times do I have to say this? The right-wing nut-jobs who even know how to work a weapon are too old and disabled to be able to do so, and Liberals are much better Shots, because we hit what we aim at, instead of spraying and praying like conservatives and jihadis....
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[10:12:33] <exec> 08└─Her Donald's rantings
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[12:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surprise! Copying Crummy Code from Stack Overflow Leads to Vulnerable GitHub Jobs - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:07] <exec> 08└─Something ain't right.
[12:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Surprise! Copying Crummy Code from Stack Overflow Leads to Vulnerable GitHub Jobs - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:08] <exec> 08└─Also, real men keep a public github for employers to look at, and a private one for making all of those nice things they use over and over again in their careers. Also: Fuck Jews.
[12:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Defense One Journalist Claims Harassment by U.S. Customs Officer at Dulles Airport - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:45] <exec> 08└─"No, I don't work for the government."
[12:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada's First Sabre-Toothed Cat Fossil Found in Medicine Hat - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:54] <exec> 08└─Nope, humans killed off most of the large herbivores that they preyed on and IIRC they weren't very great predators in the first place. Smaller, more energy-efficient animals took the forefront almost overnight in evolutionary terms.
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[13:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Largest Unofficial Dice Roll in History: 216,000 Dice Spill from a Truck - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:52] <exec> 08└─In how many million years? I think it more likely BTW that the final destination of these dice will be some landfill reprocessing plant within a century from now.
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[14:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surprise! Copying Crummy Code from Stack Overflow Leads to Vulnerable GitHub Jobs - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:26] <exec> 08└─Nope, has nothing to do with the NDK. [...]The research echoes an academic paper from 2017 [arxiv.org] that found 1,161 insecure code snippets posted on Stack Overflow had been copied and pasted into 1.3m Android applications available on Google Play.
[14:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Defense One Journalist Claims Harassment by U.S. Customs Officer at Dulles Airport - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:08] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid the slur was "commie." Cops and others of that bent would call journalists that. It's a thing low-level people with some authority do, and have always done. So for a "journalist" to get his panties in a bunch over it only points up what pantywaists they have all become. For him to b...
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[14:13:10] <exec> 08└─You mean like using the IRS to harass groups whose beliefs you don't like? How about using the intelligence agencies to spy on your political opposition and subvert the electoral process? How about using the media to smear and denigrate you 24/7? Yes, we are living in a Kafka novel, but not for the...
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[14:13:12] <exec> 08└─When the media themselves keep making things up and get caught doing it over and over again, the charge of "fake news" sticks. Remember the Covington Kids? Yeah, the media totally got that one right (not). Remember Jussie Smollett? Yeah, the media totally got that one right (not). How about the girl...
[14:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Defense One Journalist Claims Harassment by U.S. Customs Officer at Dulles Airport - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:14] <exec> 08└─Hair Donald.
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[14:13:50] <exec> 08└─That's an incredibly dumb thing to say. There are all kinds of things, wonderful things, they can do with graphene. The challenge has been to produce it in large enough quantities, cheaply enough. Once they crack that nut they'll go to town. The best part is it's all carbon, which is ubiquitous. It...
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[15:11:53] <exec> 08└─FBI: "It's totally cool, dawg. Pay money to terrorists. We won't bag you and put your name on our '50 terrorists we caught this year' list."
[15:12:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google Sanitizer Identifying Race Conditions in the Linux Kernel - 512 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:22] <exec> 08└─Basically, there are certain activities that the kernel does that look like race conditions, but are not. The sanitizer cannot tell all of these apart for various reasons. In addition, some races are actual races, but it doesn't really matter because it doesn't affect anything. For example, if the v...
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[15:13:03] <exec> 08└─The reason why it's a big deal is that it doesn't take much imagination to see a near future where the rights of the press have been eroded so far that anyone putting out "propaganda" is jailed. Trumps war is a war on language itself. This war has consequences. The rate at which journalist's have be...
[15:17:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fishscene [4361] 02 - 06Header Aches in Firefox, Tor, Brave and Chrome as HTTP Opens New Security Holes - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:17] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the problem here is HTTP/2, where we save 0.5 milliseconds on connection speed, but the ads and trackers are tripled. :P (By no means is this factual)
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[17:13:47] <exec> 08└─There are Department of Homeland Security (DHS) charter schools. The border patrol folks come from the DHS middle/high schools in poor/working class neighborhoods-- these schools act as vocational training centers. The DHS middle/high schools in middle class neighborhoods steer their students into c...
[17:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Largest Unofficial Dice Roll in History: 216,000 Dice Spill from a Truck - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:06] <exec> 08└─But what are the odds of it having whatever actual value it did? :-)
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[18:14:09] <exec> 08└─Trump has done more to destroy... His popularity is far more destructive than he himself is. If the trend continues, his replacement will be much worse. We sure as hell don't want antifa running the country! American voters need serious introspection.
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[18:14:10] <exec> 08└─libertariantard? No, just plain old neo-liberals, merchants and bankers...
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[18:14:12] <exec> 08└─Bring out your dead...
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[19:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Singapore Controversial 'Fake News' Law Goes Into Effect - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:16] <exec> 08└─They're very keen to censor. They control Singapore now so this is no surprise. They even censor far outside their borders via TOS, it should surprise no one to see them doing it inside the area they control.
[19:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Singapore Controversial 'Fake News' Law Goes Into Effect - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:18] <exec> 08└─It's the opposite of freedom. It's used to control the populace, which makes it even more sad when some people support laws that are basically censorship. You can declare anything "fake", "racist", or "offensive" which means you can silence ANYONE you want.
[19:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Softens Stance On Ransomware: It's (Sort Of) Okay To Pay Off Crims To Get Your Data Back - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, exactly my comment / question above...
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[19:12:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly what I was thinking and commented above. And the next question: if a ransom payer is guilty of crime (or summary or civil offense), is "The FBI told me to do it and said it was okay" a defense?
[19:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Softens Stance On Ransomware: It's (Sort Of) Okay To Pay Off Crims To Get Your Data Back - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:39] <exec> 08└─I'll take things that can get you on the no-fly list for 500, Alex.
[19:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pigs Recorded Using Tools for the First Time - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:53] <exec> 08└─We're at a partcularly advantageous period in our history where we have cheap storage and effective video. Record everything unusual you see and document it somewhere. This would make an excellent citation for wikipedia for instance.
[19:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pigs Recorded Using Tools for the First Time - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, who do you think these stairs were made for? https://i.redd.it [i.redd.it]
[19:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surprise! Copying Crummy Code from Stack Overflow Leads to Vulnerable GitHub Jobs - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:15] <exec> 08└─69 vulnerable snippets out of 72,000? Those are pretty good odds. Probably even better than if I was to wrote the code myself, if I'm being honest.
[19:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Defense One Journalist Claims Harassment by U.S. Customs Officer at Dulles Airport - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:33] <exec> 08└─anyone who defends the main stream media is a special kind of stupid.
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[20:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Govt Explains the Risks Behind DNS-Over-HTTPS Move - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:15] <exec> 08└─DNS addresses are already "leaked" to ISPs people use often over an unencrypted connection so to suggest sending DNS queries over HTTPS to a cloudfare server is a major downgrade is laughable and absurd, it actually improves matters. But Mozilla/Chrome must allow people to choose to use local DNS co...
[20:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene Turns 15 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:30] <exec> 08└─If they made wind turbine blades out of it they could kill three birds!!
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[21:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Govt Explains the Risks Behind DNS-Over-HTTPS Move - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:07] <exec> 08└─And cloudfuck is not?
[21:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Govt Explains the Risks Behind DNS-Over-HTTPS Move - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:09] <exec> 08└─DNS is not strictly necessary for the Internet to operate. It is only names. A new, completely different method for resolving names to addresses could be invented and better protocols implemented. There is no need to stick with broken stuff forever. Yes, a Titan's quest, but let's get to start think...
[21:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Govt Explains the Risks Behind DNS-Over-HTTPS Move - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:11] <exec> 08└─DNS addresses are already "leaked" to ISPs
[21:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Govt Explains the Risks Behind DNS-Over-HTTPS Move - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:13] <exec> 08└─This is not security, the whole HTTPS thing a charade... like so many things in the news these days. It's a three legged emotional support pig (couldn't eat 'im all at once!). It is a tracking trojan.
[21:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pigs Recorded Using Tools for the First Time - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:08] <exec> 08└─Not if they can be turned into bacon. Mmmm.
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[22:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Govt Explains the Risks Behind DNS-Over-HTTPS Move - 1568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:15] <exec> 08└─Try thinking about it from the perspective of a luser or corporate network admin that expects their security package to prevent browsers from inadvertantly visiting harmful sites. Typically, these tools work by intercepting DNS requests and URLs, comparing them with the security vendor's blacklists,...
[22:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Govt Explains the Risks Behind DNS-Over-HTTPS Move - 3476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:17] <exec> 08└─Namecoin? There have been alternate roots for almost as long as there has been DNS. The recent court case over NN could have fixed this whole thing by acknowledging that DNS is a switching algorithm (not unlike a routing protocol) that just happens to use readable glyphs (not unlike vanity phone num...
[22:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Softens Stance On Ransomware: It's (Sort Of) Okay To Pay Off Crims To Get Your Data Back - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:56] <exec> 08└─Paying a ransom is, generally, legal. However, you can be charged with a crime under a couple of related charges. For example, if you pay for a ransom to someone you know is an enemy of the state, a recognized terrorist organization, "axis of evil," or certain other recipients along those lines, you...
[22:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surprise! Copying Crummy Code from Stack Overflow Leads to Vulnerable GitHub Jobs - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:37] <exec> 08└─Experienced professional programmers also use Stackoverflow not because they don't know the basics, but because open source software doesn't bother creating documentation or if it does exist, it is patchy CRAP. No, I am not going to waste hours digging through all the source code to reverse engineer...
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[23:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Govt Explains the Risks Behind DNS-Over-HTTPS Move - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:32] <exec> 08└─There should be an encrypted standard developed. In parallel, a distributed system, like old OpenNIC. Then, more and more servers go "secure". And then not only browsers, but entire operating systems switch. Now it looks like a previously rogue company forces users to share visited addresses with th...
[23:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Govt Explains the Risks Behind DNS-Over-HTTPS Move - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:34] <exec> 08└─DNS over HTTPS might be great, but browsers are supposed to ask the OS to do that. The OS needs to make the change. It is nasty to have a situation where different programs on the same computer are getting different DNS results. Firefox, Chrome, Pidgin, Xchat, fetchmail, ncftp, wget, curl, apt-get,...
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