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deg4uss3r commented on Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens   studyfinds.org/digital-ov... · Posted by u/praveenscience
deg4uss3r · 5 years ago
If this was "Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at books" would that also be a bad thing? To me and my work/reaserch/fun it's the same...
deg4uss3r commented on Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs (2017)   blog.jessfraz.com/post/co... · Posted by u/gullyfur
deg4uss3r · 5 years ago
My only problem with this article is there is no such thing as "Legos". Jess is brilliant and explains things super well here.

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deg4uss3r commented on Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs   blog.mozilla.org/netpolic... · Posted by u/Vinnl
nullc · 6 years ago
I'm so sad to see Mozilla move forward with this massive attack on user privacy.

Firefox DoH is snake oil, plain and simple. It sends all the users DNS queries to Cloudflare, adding a new party which can surveil the user's traffic (and can be legally compelled to do so and not disclose this fact)-- providing a convenient choke point to save spies and hackers the trouble and exposure of extracting the data from tens of thousands of individual ISPs.

Simultaneously, it does not protect the user from monitoring by their ISP or parties situated there because the user's destination IPs remain unencrypted, as well as the hostnames via SNI (for cases of shared hosting, e.g. on cloudflare, where the IP alone wouldn't be enough).

At the moment you can disable this across your whole lan by blocking traffic to 104.16.248.249, 104.16.249.249, 2606:4700::6810:f8f9, and 2606:4700::6810:f9f9 and by DNS blackholing use-application-dns.net and cloudflare-dns.com.

iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -d 104.16.248.249 -j DROP

iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -d 104.16.249.249 -j DROP

ip6tables -t raw -A PREROUTING -d 2606:4700::6810:f8f9 -j DROP

ip6tables -t raw -A PREROUTING -d 2606:4700::6810:f9f9 -j DROP

And if you're using bind:

zone "use-application-dns.net" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.empty"; };

zone "cloudflare-dns.com" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.empty"; };

Or unbound:

local-zone: "use-application-dns.net" static

local-zone: "cloudflare-dns.com" static

But there is no guarantee that these mitigations will continue to work.

[Edit: Aside, this comment and many/most(?) comments on this thread were moved from a more recent thread with a headline "Firefox turns on DoH as default for US users". The new title which omits the on-as-default, is kinda burying the lead.]

deg4uss3r · 6 years ago
I use cloud nine because I dont' like CF: https://dns9.quad9.net/dns-query
deg4uss3r commented on iOS Screen Time setting blocks searches for “Asian”   twitter.com/charliestigle... · Posted by u/mortenjorck
deg4uss3r · 6 years ago
Sounds like their recognition model wasn't tested for false correlations...
deg4uss3r commented on Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?    · Posted by u/abrax3141
candiddevmike · 6 years ago
Aluminum beverage cans are an engineering marvel:

https://youtu.be/hUhisi2FBuw

deg4uss3r · 6 years ago
My dad worked in a plant growing up, right before college my summer job was cleaning the washing ovens to "make sure I value my education and don't drop out." Amazing to see the aluminum pucks and machinery and get up close and take it apart to clean it, I don't think my dad was worried after the foreman asked him if I was going to be mechanical engineer.
deg4uss3r commented on Thank You, Guido   blog.dropbox.com/topics/c... · Posted by u/pauloxnet
deg4uss3r · 6 years ago
Why did this take so long to load?
deg4uss3r commented on Ask HN: What are your arguments in favor of end-to-end encryption?    · Posted by u/rahuldottech
deg4uss3r · 6 years ago
> how do you respond when someone brings up concerns of E2EE platforms being used for child sexual abuse imagery or terrorism?

The majority of criminals caught in transit doesn't warrant me giving up my privacy. They will still be caught in the same manners they are now, and it still offers them little protection over what law enforcement typically does.

u/deg4uss3r

KarmaCake day60June 1, 2018View Original