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chtitux commented on I Am Mark Zuckerberg iammarkzuckerberg.com/... · Posted by u/jb1991

I propose we use UUIDv4 to interfere with any attempts to build demographic databases.

chtitux · a month ago

I strongly suggest UUIDv7, with our birthdate encoded as time.

Ordering the world population by birthday becomes so easy. Plus no endless discussion on wether or not we should use UUID as primary key.

chtitux commented on I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer drobinin.com/posts/how-i-... · Posted by u/valzevul

chtitux · 4 months ago

It could be interesting to understand the actual content of the qrcode. part1 is a static id, so likely linked to the membership.

part2 seems to be a timestamp. Maybe we can try to forge the value to "now - 10 seconds".

And if the implementation has been done right, the "part3" should be a signature of part1 and part2, not a "salt" (so forging part2 should be detected and code rejected).

chtitux commented on NASA believes it understands why Ingenuity crashed on Mars arstechnica.com/space/202... · Posted by u/thunderbong

chtitux · a year ago

Getting the device speed right seems way more difficult without a Global Positioning System.

Hopefully it will eventually be deployed [0]

[0] https://techport.nasa.gov/projects/146938

chtitux commented on Google releases smart watch for kids store.google.com/US/produ... · Posted by u/goeldhru

scotty79 · 2 years ago

Aren't phone numbers longer than they used to be?

chtitux · 2 years ago

Wait until we'll be assigned IPv6 as phone number.

chtitux commented on What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/th... · Posted by u/ingve

ViewTrick1002 · 2 years ago

Starlink can act as a backup for the ground station utilizing the laser links.

chtitux · 2 years ago

Maybe just use Starlink from the satellites, so we don't rely on a specific ground station.

Starlink Ground Station Network is global, spread in many different countries and look more resilient than a single one.

chtitux commented on Sunlight, a Certificate Transparency log implementation letsencrypt.org/2024/03/1... · Posted by u/ben_s

phasmantistes · 2 years ago

I'm super excited about Sunlight. The CT ecosystem is really fragile right now, with current log implemetations being expensive to operate and very difficult to operate correctly, as evidenced by the recent failures of multiple logs[1][2]. And if too many logs fall over, it becomes infeasible to include the requisite number of SCTs in certificates, or worse, already-issued certificates can become effectively untrusted.

With Sunlight reducing costs by a couple orders or magnitude and significantly easing deployment complexity, it will be a huge boon to the whole ecosystem. I really hope log monitors begin crawling sunlight logs and browsers accept them as trusted in the near future.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy/c/6mvSo...

[2]: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy/c/_dhkS...

chtitux · 2 years ago

[1]: a delete command was wrongly issued to all Cassandra servers during a planned maintenance

[2]: a database server had its disk full that lead to a corrupted database

SRE is tough.

chtitux commented on Don't fuck with paste github.com/aaronraimist/D... · Posted by u/zettabomb

amarant · 2 years ago

Jesus holy Apple pie!

ASCII only in 2023 seems positivity antique. And this from a supposed tech frontrunner! Wth...

chtitux · 2 years ago

Limiting characters can also be a feature, so users can't use emojis in their password (this is so fun), to realize later they can't login, because they don't know how to input emojis from their desktop computer.

Hopefully passwords will be gone soon (at least that's my hope).

chtitux commented on Trying to Decode Lev-1 destevez.net/2024/01/tryi... · Posted by u/unwiredben

chtitux · 2 years ago

The technical investigation is impressive.

I'm wondering if the author contacted the JAXA team. Maybe they would share how the data is encoded?

If the information is secret, it's probably encrypted (SpaceX eventually did that once radio amateurs decoded the video stream), but if it's not, maybe JAXA would be happy to help?

chtitux commented on Merkle Town: Explore the certificate transparency ecosystem ct.cloudflare.com/... · Posted by u/1970-01-01

chtitux · 2 years ago

The number of certificates issued/inserted on 25th December, which is almost the same as any other day in December, while being a bank holiday in most Western countries, makes me happy: the industry successfully made certificate renewal fully automatic.

For LetsEncrypt, all renewal requests are done with ACME clients, so this is not a surprise.

I'm curious to know which part of DigiCert and Certigo certificates are actually renewed with an ACME request (both support it).

chtitux commented on Pollution in 1/8 (2010) labs.ripe.net/author/fran... · Posted by u/vincent_s

ggm · 2 years ago

They didn't "take ownership" the range is vested with APNIC labs (check the whois record) they route it with permission and share data.

chtitux · 2 years ago

Given the number of people now relying on Clouflare 1.1.1.1 to "get Internet" (ie using 1.1.1.1 as recursive name server), I can't imagine APNIC deciding to stop Clouflare using this range.

It seems "too late" to revert this decision. Otherwise people will experience "Internet stopped working", blaming their ISP.

APNIC may decide to keep a working DNS server on 1.1.1.1, but ethically, routing traffic to someone else than Cloudflare is not great.