swinglock (u/swinglock)

swinglock commented on The Day the Telnet Died labs.greynoise.io/grimoir... · Posted by u/pjf

EE84M3i · 4 days ago

I've never really understood why it's a thing to use a telnet client for transmitting text on a socket for purposes other than telnet. My understanding is that telnet is a proper protocol with escape sequences/etc, and even that HTTP/SMTP/etc require things like \r\n for line breaks. Are these protocols just... close enough that it's not a problem in practice for text data?

swinglock · 4 days ago

Because it's there.

swinglock commented on Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days github.com/NVIDIA/open-gp... · Posted by u/tosh

spuz · 21 days ago

So what was the programming error in the TPM?

swinglock · 21 days ago

Something breaking after 49.7 days is a classic. Someone counted milliseconds since start with a 32 bit unsigned int and some code assumed it couldn't wrap.

swinglock commented on A tab hoarder's journey to sanity twitter.com/borisandcrisp... · Posted by u/borisandcrispin

wintermutestwin · a month ago

Subscription Bookmarking apps will never be part of my workflow.

swinglock · 25 days ago

There are self-hosted options too. I can't vouch for any of them but many look competent.

swinglock commented on Wine 11.0 gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wi... · Posted by u/zdw

radarroark · a month ago

I want to go back to making desktop programs the way we used to before they turned into web apps that bundled chrome. I know I should just use Qt but I have some experience already with win32, and all the programs I have fond memories of are written with it (foobar2000, winamp, Everything, etc).

swinglock · a month ago

Win32 and Wine being a lightweight alternative to HTML and Electrum is a fun idea.

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swinglock commented on A tab hoarder's journey to sanity twitter.com/borisandcrisp... · Posted by u/borisandcrispin

swinglock · a month ago

This is why I used ReadItLater and now Instapaper. It's integrated in my ebook reader too.

swinglock commented on Linux kernel security work kroah.com/log/blog/2026/0... · Posted by u/chmaynard

Am4TIfIsER0ppos · a month ago

> JavaScript

Why do you allow that RCE in the first place?

swinglock · a month ago

Most users have JS enabled nowadays. Much of the web doesn't work without it. It was just an example.

swinglock commented on Linux kernel security work kroah.com/log/blog/2026/0... · Posted by u/chmaynard

psnehanshu · a month ago

TCP ensures what gets sent on one side gets received on the other side. TLS just encrypts the data. So even without TLS, random corruptions won't happen unless someone does MITM attack.

swinglock · a month ago

No it does not. I've had this happen in legacy systems myself. The checksums of TCP/IP are weak and will let random errors through to L7 if there are enough of them. It's not even CRC and you must bring your own verification if it's critical for your application that the data is correct. TLS does that and more, protecting not only against random corruption but also active attackers. The checks you get for free are to be seen only as an optimization, letting most but not all errors be discarded quick and easy. Just use TLS.

swinglock commented on Linux kernel security work kroah.com/log/blog/2026/0... · Posted by u/chmaynard

juliangmp · a month ago

Honestly, until encrypted client hello has widespread support, why bother? I mean I did it for fun the first time and now with caddy its not a lot of effort. But for a personal blog, a completely static site, what benefit do you get from the encryption? Anyone monitoring the traffic will see the domain in clear text anyway. And they'd see the destination IP, which I imagine in this case being one server that has exactly one domain pointed at it.

swinglock · a month ago

Men in the middle including predatory ISPs can not only spy but also enrich. Injecting JavaScript and embedding ads is the best case scenario. You don't want that.

In addition even without bad actors TLS will prevent random corruption due to flaky infrastructure from breaking the page and even caching those broken assets, preventing a reload from fixing it. TCP/IP alone doesn't sufficiently prevent this.

swinglock commented on IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world theregister.com/2025/12/3... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

iso1631 · a month ago

IPv4s have been bought and sold for years

https://auctions.ipv4.global/prior-sales

Prices have been going down in nonimal terms for years, let alone real terms. In terms of investment they're a terrible asset.

swinglock · a month ago

IPv6 and CGNAT growth has finally started to suppress IPv4 prices. There was a huge pump when hyperscalers decided they needed more. But IPv6 keeps growing and is the majority of traffic in many networks. If you own significantly more IPv4 addresses today than you need, I would dump them on the market yesterday. Spend some of the profits to move to IPv6 if still needed.

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KarmaCake day1272March 28, 2013View Original