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jamieweb

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March 3, 2018 (8y ago)
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Security Engineer

Email me: blog [at] (my HN username) [dot] net

Read my stuff: https://jamieweb.net/blog

My projects: https://jamieweb.net/projects

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/jamieweb; my proof: https://keybase.io/jamieweb/sigs/3Z1Yj4UoT3Wh1aHF-usg2CGzRzZriqrT-vGRsS5A5FM ]

  1. Tell HN: YouTube have discontinued email notifications

    I just logged on to my email to find no YouTube notifications for the past 12 hours, which is very rare/unusual. It turns out that they have discontinued the feature, with little to no notice for users:…

    6 points 4
  2. Self-Surgery (en.wikipedia.org)
    1 points 0
  3. Using Tor as a SysAdmin Tool (jamieweb.net)
    4 points 0
  4. SONiC – An Open Source Network Operating System (azure.github.io)
    116 points 44
  5. Using SPF Macros to Solve the Operational Challenges of SPF (jamieweb.net)
    1 points 0
  6. Pop OS 20.04 LTS (pop.system76.com)
    269 points 173
  7. Connecting to Decentralized Network 42 (jamieweb.net)
    2 points 0
  8. DNS CAA Records (jamieweb.net)
    2 points 0
  9. Show HN: How good are you at spotting lookalike domains? (jamieweb.net)
    18 points 10
  10. Show HN: Test how good you are at spotting potential phishing domains (jamieweb.net)
    2 points 0
  11. MTA-STS and Starttls-Everywhere – HSTS and HSTS Preload for Email (jamieweb.net)
    2 points 0
  12. A Look at PureDarwin – An OS Based on the Open Source Core of macOS (jamieweb.net)
    244 points 105
  13. Ask HN: How can I ethically reach out to potential blog sponsors?

    I've been running my small security blog for about 3 years with monthly articles. It has been successful so far in regards to bringing opportunities and gaining industry contacts, but I've never directly made any money…

    7 points 3
  14. Ask HN: How do you handle your local machine OS build?

    I've noticed among tech communities that there is an apathy towards rebuilding/reinstalling your local machine's OS. Common explanations are that it would be too complicated, time consuming, or that people don't want to…

    3 points 2
  15. Security.txt draft v.05 adds the Canonical and Preferred-Languages directives (tools.ietf.org)
    1 points 0
  16. Ask HN: A service where newsletter operators can advertise their newsletter?

    Around a week ago I came across a website where newsletter operators can advertise their newsletter, and people can visit to find new newsletters to subscribe to. The service wasn't posted to HN a week ago, it was older…

    6 points 3
  17. Ask HN: How can individuals or small businesses acquire IP addresses?

    Due to IPv4 address exhaustion and the IPv6 lack of adoption, the days of owning your own IP address range seem long gone... It's no longer feasible for individuals or small businesses to purchase their own ranges,…

    10 points 15
  18. Show HN: Anonymize web server access logs using a Bloom filter (gitlab.com)
    3 points 0
  19. Ask HN: Privacy-centric and ethical analytics solutions?

    I would like to gain some high-level insight into the traffic accessing my website. For example: - Unique visitor counts - Most viewed pages - Referring sites - Activity per time of day/week/month I do not want to be…

    1 points 7
  20. How do you, personally, receive notifications when people blog?

    RSS, subscribe via email, IFTTT, just check the blog regularly, something else?

    6 points 13
  21. Ask HN: Do you like to see “Back to top” buttons on websites?

    I'm talking about the ones that are pinned to the bottom right and scroll along with you. I use a low mouse sensitivity so they're useful for getting back to the top. Do you find them annoying, useful, don't care? What…

    17 points 32
  22. Ask HN: Is it feasible to run your own DNS name servers nowadays?

    I'm talking for a small operation (personal blog, startup, etc). Currently my DNS is hosted by Cloudflare, however I would like to have more fine-grain control over the zones, including DNS failover and GeoDNS. I am…

    5 points 8
  23. Sec-Metadata (chromestatus.com)
    2 points 0
  24. What's the deal with sites that require JavaScript to render any content at all?

    I use Google Chromium, and I have JavaScript disabled by default. I then whitelist specific trusted sites that require it. There are a large number of websites that display nothing but a blank, white page when visiting…

    8 points 8
  25. Booting a physical Windows 10 disk on Linux using VirtualBox (jamieweb.net)
    25 points 16