* Posts by Jamie Jones

4275 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jun 2007

TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version

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Good reporting

Cheers Liam, an in-depth, and well balanced article.

Linux for older phones postmarketOS changes its init system

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Re: people who are involved with developing and maintaining the various Linux distros

If you don't like any of the complaints in this forum, why don't you start your own?

Trump, who tried kicking TikTok out of the US, says boo to latest ban effort

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Re: Trump's like a 10-year old child with the name-calling.

I didn't realise that commentator DS999 was a candidate for president of the most powerful country in the world.

Congrats, DS999. I hope you win!

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Re: Sympathy for the Devil

If he gets in, he'll probably mandate it.

EU users can't update 3rd party iOS apps if abroad too long

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Re: Who are their lawyers?

Jon, it doesn't matter how accurate your post is, brexitters will downvote anyone who doesn't claim brexit was amazing. Yes, even at this late stage.

These people think that this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VxygMpm830 is a documentary.

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Re: Who are their lawyers?

We used to legally be EU citizens. Now we are not, thanks to brexit.

Your original message I replied to said "It's virtually impossible within the EU to strip someone of their citzenship once granted, unless malice aforethough, fraud, etc. can be demonstrated."

Yet they did strip us of citizenship. Ok, I'm still a UK citizen. but you were talking about the EU. If your comment mentioned the US stripping someones citizenship, no-one would think you were talking about them removing someones Australian citizenship"

And my original reply wasn't being pedantic - I really assumed you thought we had retained our EU citizenship.

EU citizenship and democracy

"Any person who holds the nationality of an EU country is automatically also an EU citizen. This enables you to enjoy certain additional rights and benefits, including participation in the democratic process."

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Re: Who are their lawyers?

It's virtually impossible within the EU to strip someone of their citzenship once granted, unless malice aforethough, fraud, etc. can be demonstrated.

Unfortunately, it's very easy. Just convince the plebs to vote for their version of brexit.

The federal bureau of trolling hits LockBit, but the joke's on us

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We're talking about what to do when you've been exploited - do you attempt a clean up, or do you purge and restore from before the exploit.

Whether it's a zero-day or not is irrelevant to that question.

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The downtime is worth the peace of mind that you haven't been trojaned.

A proper audit of security - fixing the holes, and also validating the backups, and then a full restore from last audited backup is the only way to deal with it. It's a hit, but you really have no choice.

X protests forced suspension of accounts on orders of India's government

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Re: "Topkat"

Yes, that's better!

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"Topkat"

> X (née Twitter)

I propose "topkat" - The Organisation Previously Known As Twitter.

Wyze admits 13,000 users could have viewed strangers' camera feeds

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Actually, yeah, fair point. The way they phrased it though made it sound like a poor overworked soul than a computer bug!

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Yeah, I call bollocks too. It's not as if it's a flustered human.

Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit

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Re: Which one to bin

This. I will never substitute my personal collection for a streaming service when stuff can be pulled at any time.

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Re: Query: the timing of ads

Remember "24"? Played on the BBC, they should have renamed it "16"

250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them

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I was just pointing it out to those who seem to think a NATed network with one external IP is more secure than an inherently p2p ipv6 network.

My point was, if that's their belief, then their argument against IPv6 still falls short, as NAT6 exists too.

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Re: Cover them all

Oh thanks. I'm glad everything was looked at.

As I said in another post just now, I know some of these would be quite difficult to achieve (like 127.0/16) but my point was just that changing the spec without actually promoting the need for updates would put us in a better position if these things reared their ugly heads again in 20 years time!

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Re: Cover them all

That's not the point I was trying to make.

I know loopback is 127/8 , and I know it would be more involved to achieve than the 240/4 change.

My point is that 20 odd years ago, 240/4 was deemed too hard to do. If the spec had changed, without even specifically force-upgrading kit, most stuff would be compatible now.

127.0/16 has been proposed many times. I'm just simply saying if you're going to change the spec, cover all possible use cases. Nothing has to actively promote change to with 127.0 or any of the others, but if in 20 years time, there is a sudden need for it, we'll be in a better position, just like if 20 years ago, the said "define 240/4" as part of the normal address space, and just did nothing else, natural churn would put us in a much better position today.

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Re: Cover them all

127.1-255.0.0/16`

WTF?

Oh, You mean all of the 127/8 except 127.0/16?

That's a really weird way of writing a network definition, partly because it's a horrible definition...

I dunno. It made sense to me; you understood it; and it was an obvious one-liner rather than your 8 CIDR routes.

I call that a win!

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Cover them all

What they should do is cover all the quirky cases, like the 0.0.0.0/8 block, the 127.1-255.0.0/16 blocks and any others.

They don't have to allocate them - just remove their reserved status from the RFC's, so that *IF* this 240/4 plan ever works, they should all be just as clean. The changes to the stack should be simple - the issue is having to change things at all, so may as well clear out ALL the quirks at the same time.

Curious tale of broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago

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Re: Obligatory

64K sheep, actually, but I'm Welsh, so even that's not a problem!

IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS

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Re: Stuffed Turkey

I guess the point is that the 6to4 will only be needed for those sites that don't have an IPv6 address - Ipv6 connected sites will work directly.

Windows 11 24H2 is coming so we can all shut up about Windows 12 for another year

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Re: Meh

I was just asking a question... Um, did I sleep with your daughter or something?

By the way where are these "people like me", and "my lot"? I'd like to make sure I avoid meeting that unkempt bunch, though fuck knows how the hell you would know what we're like, prick.

Now run along, It was just a question, get over it! Nadella doesn't love you back, you know.

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Especially for movie fans!

Is W11 24Hz especially designed for movie fans?

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Re: Meh

Didn't they say they'd stop releasing complete windows versions after 10?

ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x

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No it isn't. That was your take!

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Ahhh, you're too young to remember the free fax service by "the phone company" @ tpc.int !

https://hylafax.sourceforge.io/howto/tpc.php

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Re: what about .home.arpa

Thanks. You're right!

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Re: what about .home.arpa

Good point.

The IETF launched .home.atpa. because no standard existed under ICANN. (IETF controls .arpa)

I guess it's not really needed now that ICANN has announced .internal

Basically, 2 different organisations doing the same thing.

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Re: "DNS, however, can't prevent internal use of ad hoc TLDs"

Huh? By that argument, RFC1918 is pointless too.

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Where the speakers have a sneaky grasp of foreign languages?

Those cunning-linguists...

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No. Using .local in as a DNS TLD can cause problems because of precisely the reason you cite - it's officially used by mDNS and as mDNS configurations "own" that TLD, using it in the local DNS will cause issues if you're network also runs mDNS.

For this reason, it's already prohibited from being used in the DNS.

https://community.veeam.com/blogs-and-podcasts-57/why-using-local-as-your-domain-name-extension-is-a-bad-idea-4828

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Re: I use....

You'll be kicking yourself for this comment when Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch becomes its own country.

Mind you, at 58 letters long, when using the English alphabet, it's already too long to be coded in the Welsh alphabet via punycode, so I propose the limit is raised to 128 characters!

The Land Before Linux: Let's talk about the Unix desktops

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Re: No, FreeBSD lost out due to the legal issues, not the GPL

Maybe if you read the link I posted, you'd have your answer?

Also, huh? What do you think the "386" in "386BSD" stands for? It was "unavailable" because of the lawsuits, which was the whole point of my post!

Finally, like many GPL zealots, you don't even know your own license. Companies can quite happily take and use your "free work" if they want to.

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Re: Standards

Interesting and informative post. Cheers.

Ignore the downvote - it was probably from a systemd fanboy!

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No, FreeBSD lost out due to the legal issues, not the GPL

It's well established that the legal issues around 386BSD were what thrust Linux into popularity - even Linus has said if it wasn't for the lawsuits, he'd probably never have even created Linux: "In 1993, “If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened.“"

https://klarasystems.com/articles/history-of-freebsd-part-2-bsdi-and-usl-lawsuits/

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Re: Meet the New War....same as the Old War

No, Jumbotron64 is correct.

The Linux you describe is run in a virtual machine that runs on the main chrome OS.

If that counts, then you could also say that Windows runs Linux because of VMWARE, Linux runs FreeBSD because of KVM, FeeeBSD runs Linux because of Bhyve etc..

Next time you startup your chromebook environment, type "uptime". It will not be the same uptime as the host.

In fact, Android Apps are run the same way - the android-tweaked kernel and userland all run in a VM too.

P.S. Not my downvote!

Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe

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Re: The Microsoft defence

So, the give them a different SKU. That argument is meaningless.

And we're not talking about the difference between a PNG and an MPNG renderer, the OS and the web browser are obviously completely different, as Microsoft found out despite their many protestations.

In fact, attempting to integrate the OS and a browser is a security and reliability disaster, and I'm sure the Apple techs would confirm that this isn't actually the case.

Now, the app store may use HTML rendering, but that would make it a consumer of the browser-component, not tightly coupled to it.

> Like having to buy a full set of bricks for the inside of my wood burner rather than the one that cracked.

a) So what is the technical necessity behind that?

b) 2 of the same thing is not the same as 2 completely different things.

Finally, "everyone else is doing it so why can't we." is fortunately not a valid excuse.

The New ROM Antics – building the ZX Spectrum 128

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Re: Two head scratchers...

Ahhhh, the excitement at shaving off a couple of bytes or a couple of handcrafted z80 cycles. Lost on the kids of today, I tell you, LOST!

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Re: At one point...

lol you guys, shattering my memory of my achievement!

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Re: At one point...

I won a Merlin Tonto for my school at the time, from a BT sponsored competition!

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Re: CP/M on VAX ? interesting...

I still remember the phone number of my girlfriend at the time:

"CALL ... PUSH HL"

*BLUSH*

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Re: OPD

I won one for the school I was at at the time

It was never used, except by us pupils to try and make its rather limited vocal vocabulary say something rude.

I think "play under the table with my secretary" was the worst we could get out of it.

Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse

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Re: So who is building the successor to http and www?

Well, I do, but I do say "slash" not "solidus" (which I've never even heard of!) , so no extra bonus points for me!

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Re: I don’t buy this

I was surprised to find out that they only stopped printing it in 2019. I'm not sure the quality of their online version is though. Have you tried it? https://business.yell.com/yellow-pages/

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Re: Not just lower quality..

I dislike Quora, but it isn't an aggregate site.

<rant>

I deleted my profile there after admin power abuse, After them twice putting me on the naughty step for invalid reasons, I gave them a final warning: "3 strikes, and YOU'RE out." - I'm not providing content to them for free for them to behave all shitty.

I had some quite detailed and well received tutorial posts there too.

Also, their posting rules are so draconian, that you won't find decent discussions there, because everyone is either too scared to be anything other than fluffy - either the non-fluffy posts are deleted, or the non-fluffy posters have left. I'm not even talking about things like swearing or personal abuse, just some of the stuff you need to be allowed to air in a scientific or other forum.. Don't you DARE tell someone they are wrong on a subject. It's not nice, or something.

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Re: The only real test for AI

Ignore all of cloudflare? Nice, but I don't see it happening!

Anyway, they must have found a way around things, because I have sites that resolve to multiple addresses (not for nefarious reasons) and google cononicalises them: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/03/how-to-discover-suggest-google-selected

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Re: So who is building the successor to http and www?

It is pronouncable:

aitch tee tee pee.

Now get these young whipper-snappers off my lawn!

The 'nothing-happened' Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world's computers

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Exactly. If things had gone wrong, his tweet would have been complaining about all the money spent, and still the issues weren't fixed.