Speaking of Linux, OpenBSD’s hypervisor (vmm) supports it so I managed to get docker and containers running on my server via Alpine Linux. Opens the door on all the latest ‘modern server stuff’ running happily on an OBSD box.
Yep. There’s a safe engineer on YouTube who was explaining the history of dial combination locks commonly used for government filing cabinets, etc. He pointed out that you can drill them in minutes but you’d need several hours to make good the damage such that the break in wouldn’t be easily detected. The combined time is therefore the ‘strength’ of the security. (Also, why it might be a good idea to have open sensors on safes, cabinets, etc)
He is a great source of knowledge on physical security for laymen and professionals alike, and leaves an impression of an extremely amicable and well-rounded human being.
Cloudflare aren’t a bad registrar (imo) - they sell and renew domains at wholesale cost, forward emails, can do website landing pages with a Worker (etc). Understand the product in depth and would seem like a reasonably safe bet. (Not shilling for them, just personal experience).
Cloudflare does not allow you to use other nameservers. That makes them a bad registrar since they forbid using a different service for a unrelated thing.
You can roll your own email if you can get your head around setting up an OpenBSD box and configuring OpenSMTPD and the correct domain DNS records - but the issue will be email deliverability. Gmail etc are going to treat as spam most emails that turn up from a residential or VPS linked IP address.
Personal email servers will communicate with each other happily but you need a middleman one for important recipients if you want to be sure it gets into an inbox.
Having hosted a small mail server for friends for over a decade now, I can only think of this as a myth.
Gmail has specific bulk (!) sender requirements, which to my knowledge don’t include a blanket downranking of residential and „VPS“ IPs (the latter are just datacenter IPs anyways). You need TLS, SPF, DKIM, DNS and reverse DNS entries that align, ideally DMARC and that’s pretty much it.
At one point I misconfigured a relay as unauthenticated and we got abused by spammers for a day. We got put on all sorts of blacklists within hours and got our IPs cleared self-service immediately after fixing the issue.
If you just send emails completely unauthenticated, yes they will be blocked.
In my experience deliverability to gmail is not that hard if you configure stuff correctly. You need a clean IP and domain, rDNS and the usual email stuff like DKIM, DMARC, SPF, but not much else.
Also not sure why you would choose OpenBSD and OpenSMTPD unless OpenBSD is your style. For example I run maddy on linux, which is pretty easy to configure.
> My pet idea is to make some use of longwave! […] At 60 kHz the wavelength is 5 kilometres long …
Dim memory from my Ham Radio days that you’d need an antenna length of 1/4 the wavelength, which wouldn’t be very convenient for portable devices, unfortunately.
Only for most efficient transmission. Reception just scales with antenna size, so as long as your transmitter is powerful enough in terms of effectively radiated power, you can make the receiver arbitrarily small.
Many wristwatches are capable of receiving these LF time beacons, despite usually having antennas more compact than several kilometers.
The 1/4 wavelength is derived from the half-wave dipole. It's not necessary to have an antenna that is 1/4 wavelength. It'll probably perform better if it is closer to that size, but it isn't required.
I remember the Jaguar - a very square aircraft in cross section (as I think of it) and it was a French/British collaboration.
It (Jag) wasn't really about mixing it in the hand to hand combat thing - it was a trainer and a few other things. I remember the landing gear being really long but not robust.
Any device with a Government service (eg NHS) or a Banking app knows who and old the primary user is, so seems the obvious technological solution is some kind of securely anonymous attestation that websites can request from the OS.
And I think this is right. If Apple and Google can add a thing that lets us track Covid exposure they can surely figure out secure age attestation.
As it is, you can use your mobile phone for simple age attestation in the UK anyway, since mobile phone companies block adult content by default until they are unblocked, as a parental control measure.
> Very interesting. Relates to conversations I've had recently regarding trans people in sports. Turns out that conversation isn't simple, because gender is way more complex than the binary M/F options society has tried to act like it is.
Using the word “gender” to refer to the concepts of both “reproductive sex” (chromosomes, gametes, genitals) and also “gender” (socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities, and expectations associated with femininity and masculinity) certainly makes it very complex to reason about and discuss, particularly if it feels socially distasteful to separate the two.
Without getting the soapbox out, it seems to me that there’s an infinite number of possible “genders” as each unique individual can construct whatever permutation of supposedly feminine and masculine coded things that suits them. But broadly speaking, there are two sexes - the one that went down the developmental pathway to produce and ejaculate semen, and the one that went down the pathway to be able to ovulate, incubate fertilised eggs, give birth and nurse with milk.
So in considering sport, given the physiological consequences of reproductive role causes female performance to be on average significantly lower than for males, does it make sense for sporting categories to be gendered (how people look or act) or sexed (how people are constructed)?
There’s a inclusivity argument for “yes” from the point of view of the interests of one group (transgender people), but it seems to come at the cost of preventing female athletes from doing anything other than merely participating in many competitions, rather than being able to win them.
dang, I think you’re getting this badly wrong - there’s nothing intellectually curious happening on this thread, it’s just a hate-fest.
(Don’t feel obliged to reply as I know you’re very busy. I just wanted to give some feedback and it appears flagging is being disregarded for this submission)
I'm mostly just seeing people discuss what Israel's military is doing, with people on both sides adding historical context. It's sure as hell not a "hate-fest."
There’s literally “We need to kill all the Jews” posted by FreePalestine12. If what’s being left visible is anything to go by then what’s being deleted must be horrendous.
This thread is completely outside HNs norms. I get people have really strong feelings about I/P but this type of submission isn’t what HNs is for, at least as I understood it.
