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lloydatkinson commented on I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero   blog.jakesaunders.dev/my-... · Posted by u/jakelsaunders94
3np · 3 hours ago
> I also enabled UFW (which I should have done ages ago)

I disrecommend UFW.

firewalld is a much better pick in current year and will not grow unmaintainable the way UFW rules can.

    firewall-cmd --persistent --set-default-zone=block
    firewall-cmd --persistent --zone=block --add-service=ssh
    firewall-cmd --persistent --zone=block --add-service=https
    firewall-cmd --persistent --zone=block --add-port=80/tcp
    firewall-cmd --reload
Configuration is backed by xml files in /etc/firewalld and /usr/lib/firewalld instead of the brittle pile of sticks that is the ufw rules files. Use the nftables backend unless you have your own reasons for needing legacy iptables.

Specifically for docker it is a very common gotcha that the container runtime can and will bypass firewall rules and open ports anyway. Depending on your configuration, those firewall rules in OP may not actually do anything to prevent docker from opening incoming ports.

Newer versions of firewalld gives an easy way to configure this via StrictForwardPorts=yes in /etc/firewalld/firewalld.conf.

lloydatkinson · 3 hours ago
> Specifically for docker it is a very common gotcha that the container runtime can and will bypass firewall rules and open ports anyway. Depending on your configuration, those firewall rules in OP may not actually do anything to prevent docker from opening incoming ports.

This sounds like great news. I followed some of the open issues about this on GitHub and it never really got a satisfactory fix. I found some previous threads on this "StrictForwardPorts": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42603136.

lloydatkinson commented on Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment   bbc.com/news/articles/ckg... · Posted by u/1659447091
Ozzie_osman · 2 days ago
It's worth noting that if the suspect is in Israel, and he nerds to be tried in the US it might be an uphill battle trying to get him extradited.

https://jacobin.com/2023/02/israel-law-of-return-extradition...

lloydatkinson · 2 days ago
It’s so predictable by this point
lloydatkinson commented on GNU recutils: Plain text database   gnu.org/software/recutils... · Posted by u/polyrand
lloydatkinson · 3 days ago
Tortoise sex is a bold choice for a logo, but certainly memorable.
lloydatkinson commented on Windows 3.1 in the Browser   pcjs.org/software/pcx86/s... · Posted by u/memalign
1970-01-01 · 4 days ago
Still easier to navigate compared to Windows 8 and Win 11. Everything has a label AND an icon.
lloydatkinson · 4 days ago
Also funny to note there is a clipboard viewer, which as far as I know from extensively using Windows, did not feature again in Windows till Windows 10's WIN + V.

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lloydatkinson commented on I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model   susam.net/fed-24-years-of... · Posted by u/zdw
pavel_lishin · 4 days ago
I made one for Hipchat at a company. I can't remember if it could emulate specific users, or just channels, but both were definitely on my roadmap at the time.
lloydatkinson · 4 days ago
I'm hoping someone can find it so I can bookmark it but I once read a story about a company that let multiple markov chain bots loose in a Slack channel. A few days later production went down because one of them ran a Slack command that deployed or destroyed their infrastructure.
lloydatkinson commented on What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?   louplummer.lol/nice-stran... · Posted by u/speckx
donatj · 4 days ago
I live in Minnesota and do not own a snowblower. Probably my mistake, but I always joke that I get most of my exercise in the winter. Snow is really heavy for those without context.

A couple years ago we had a particularly bad snowfall. The plow has a nasty hate filled habit of dumping all its snow in my driveway. I had a drift at the end of my driveway about 4 feet high and 6 feet deep. Literally up to my chest. I had spent a solid hour just chipping away at it trying to get my car out and had made very little progress.

Right as I was about to give up in frustration, a man in a bobcat drove by. Moments later he turned around, came back, and asked "would you like me to clear that for you?" I told him that would be amazing. Took him a couple minutes and then he waved and drove off before I got a chance to offer him any money or even thank him.

I think about this guy pretty often, it's absolutely the random act of kindness in my life I have appreciated most.

A recent lesser snowfall for context:

https://imgur.com/a/1un20s7

lloydatkinson · 4 days ago
I wish I could see the photo but I live in the UK…
lloydatkinson commented on Training LLMs for honesty via confessions   arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093... · Posted by u/arabello
lloydatkinson · 5 days ago
What is this?

> Assistant: chain-of-thought

Does every LLM have this internal thing it doesn't know we have access to?

lloydatkinson commented on Craft software that makes people feel something   rapha.land/craft-software... · Posted by u/lukeio
Schlagbohrer · 6 days ago
"So, I woke up today. Got my coffee, family went to sleep, and I have a free afternoon." What kind of schedule or different timezone does this author have with their family? I am trying to imagine a family that either goes to bed in the early afternoon or a person who wakes up in the evening to start their day.
lloydatkinson · 5 days ago
> I always use the example of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This game is so well crafted that I know people who don’t even like video games but bought a console just to play it — and once they finished, they sold everything.

I feel like with the part you highlighted and this quote here that we are reading a blog post from an alternate dimension or something.

u/lloydatkinson

KarmaCake day2481January 11, 2017View Original