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HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2017 19:26:07 EDT HN Tooter

“Use of open source software has been declining rapidly in the private sector”
https://github.com/GSA/modernization/issues/41
(submitted by bcantrill)
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1. Comment from email: Oracle's response -- IT modernization Request for Comment · Issue #41 · GSA/modernization
  
  from GitHub
  
  On behalf of Oracle, thank you for the opportunity to respond to the White House IT Modernization Request for Comment. Attached please find our comments. We look forward to discussing this further....
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2017 18:22:41 EDT HN Tooter

White House wants to end Social Security numbers as a national ID
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/white-house-wants-to-end-social-security-numbers-as-a-national-id/
(submitted by rbanffy)
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1. White House wants to end Social Security numbers as a national ID
  
  from Ars Technica
  
  US government is examining the use of a “modern cryptographic identifier.”
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2017 14:16:04 EDT HN Tooter

Judge Recommends ISP and Search Engine Blocking of Sci-Hub in the US
https://torrentfreak.com/judge-recommends-isp-search-engine-blocking-sci-hub-us-171003/
(submitted by davidgerard)
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1. HTTP_Request2 needs an absolute HTTP(S) request URL, ':///images/wall-feat.jpg' given
  
  Judge Recommends ISP and Search Engine Blocking of Sci-Hub in the US
  
  By Ernesto from TorrentFreak
  
  Sci-Hub, which is regularly referred to as the "Pirate Bay of Science," faces one of the strongest anti-piracy injunctions we have seen in the US to date. A magistrate judge in Virginia has recommended a broad order which would require search engines and Internet providers to block the site.
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2017 12:15:50 EDT HN Tooter

Vegas Shooter Had 'Bump Stocks' to Convert Rifles to Full-Auto
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/news/a28479/vegas-shooter-bump-stock/
(submitted by molecule)
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1. Vegas Shooter Had 'Bump Stocks' To Convert Rifles to Full-Auto
  
  from Popular Mechanics
  
  The replaceable stocks greatly increase a semi-automatic's rate of fire with no permanent modification.
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2017 22:55:48 EDT HN Tooter

Securing Network Time
https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/news/blogs/2017/09/securing-network-time
(submitted by jwilk)

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HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2017 22:55:47 EDT HN Tooter

Corporate Gibberish Generator
http://www.andrewdavidson.com/gibberish/
(submitted by vinchuco)

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HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2017 12:35:18 EDT HN Tooter

Alice in Python projectland
https://veekaybee.github.io/2017/09/26/python-packaging/
(submitted by dsr12)

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HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2017 12:35:17 EDT HN Tooter

NPM is unexpectedly taking up 10gb of storage on computer
https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/18680
(submitted by _Marak_)
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1. NPM is unexpectedly taking up 10gb of storage on computer · Issue #18680 · npm/npm
  
  from GitHub
  
  I'm opening this issue because: npm is crashing. npm is producing an incorrect install. [x ] npm is doing something I don't understand. Other (see below for feature requests): What's going wro...
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2017 07:39:49 EDT HN Tooter

‘Daily Stormer’ Termination Haunts Cloudflare in Online Piracy Case
https://torrentfreak.com/daily-stormer-termination-haunts-cloudflare-in-online-piracy-case-170929/
(submitted by vespian)
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1. HTTP_Request2 needs an absolute HTTP(S) request URL, ':///images/featcloud.jpg' given
  
  'Daily Stormer' Termination Haunts Cloudflare in Online Piracy Case
  
  By Ernesto from TorrentFreak
  
  ‘Daily Stormer’ Termination Haunts Cloudflare in Online Piracy Case
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2017 11:23:12 EDT HN Tooter

Wozniak and Copps: Ending net neutrality will end the Internet as we know it
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/09/29/ending-net-neutrality-will-end-internet-we-know-steve-wozniak-michael-copps-column/704861001/
(submitted by doener)
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1. Wozniak & Copps: Ending net neutrality will end the Internet as we know it
  
  from USA TODAY
  
  The FCC should not let a few giant gatekeepers speed up and slow down their preferred sites and services. It should move us all into the fast lane.
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2017 10:35:37 EDT HN Tooter

Why kernel development still uses email (2016)
https://lwn.net/Articles/702177/
(submitted by pmoriarty)

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HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2017 10:46:07 EDT HN Tooter

How the CIA Stole a Soviet Satellite
http://warisboring.com/how-the-cia-stole-a-soviet-satellite/
(submitted by vinnyglennon)
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1. How the CIA Stole a Soviet Satellite
  
  By Michael Peck from War Is Boring
  
  This story originally appeared on July 22, 2014. In a scheme worthy of Mission Impossible, CIA agents hijacked a Soviet spacecraft and probed its secrets. When did this happen? That’s classified, as is the country where the caper occurred. In the declassified article on the subject in Studies in Intelligence,...
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2017 09:59:00 EDT HN Tooter

The Equifax Hack Has the Hallmarks of State-Sponsored Attack
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-29/the-equifax-hack-has-all-the-hallmarks-of-state-sponsored-pros
(submitted by rayuela)
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1. The Inside Story of Equifax’s Massive Data Breach
  
  from Bloomberg.com
  
  The intruders broke in and then handed off to a more sophisticated team of hackers, the hallmarks of a state-sponsored operation.
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2017 04:16:02 EDT HN Tooter

Apple reminds the FCC that it can’t activate imaginary iPhone FM radios
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/28/whose-fcc-is-this/
(submitted by helloworld)
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1. Apple would like to remind the FCC that it can’t activate imaginary FM radios that iPhones don’t have
  
  By <a href="/author/matthew-panzarino/" title="Posts by Matthew Panzarino" onclick="s_objectID='river_author';" rel="author">Matthew Panzarino</a> from TechCrunch
  
  Apple responded today to FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, who issued a statement that “urged” Apple to activate the FM chips that he claimed are in iPhones in the name of public safety. The recent hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria were the hook for the reasoning. The only problem? Apple hasn’t even included FM radio chips in iPhones since the iPhone 6s.
  
  That’s right, Pai called on Apple to activate radios that don’t even exist.
  
  As John Gruber astutely points out, the statement has the stink of trying to shift blame or attention off of the FCC’s own response and readiness issues. Pai has been banging the drum for months now and it’s been a talking point of the NAB for years. When ostensibly asked for comment by Bloomberg, National Association of Broadcasters spokesman Dennis Wharton said “The notion that Apple or anyone else would block this type of information is something that we find fairly troubling.”
  
  Again, the radios do not exist in iPhones and haven’t for over a year now. It’s important to note here that the FCC must test all radio devices thoroughly before they are eligible for sale in the US. It is very likely that the FCC already knew that the FM radio was not present in new iPhones. It’s also worth noting that there is no regulation that says any phone manufacturer must do this — which is why there is a shaming campaign going on involving the Chairman of the FCC and a radio broadcasting organization to get Apple to enable radios that it does not possess so that more devices can receive radio.
  
  I went and asked Apple about it and they said, very clearly, that iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 do not have FM radio chips in them at all. Here’s the statement.
  
  Apple cares deeply about the safety of our users, especially during times of crisis and that’s why we have engineered modern safety solutions into our products. Users can dial emergency services and access Medical ID card information directly from the Lock Screen, and we enable government emergency notifications, ranging from Weather Advisories to AMBER alerts. iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 models do not have FM radio chips in them nor do they have antennas designed to support FM signals, so it is not possible to enable FM reception in these products.
  
  I understand that’s true of the iPhone X as well, by the way.
  
  The response from Apple came in earlier today but I still had some questions about this so I did some poking around. The chips that Apple uses for its radio comms are actually fairly easy to identify once you’ve opened the case. That has made it easy for those who do teardowns to figure out what parts from Intel or Broadcom or whoever Apple is using in iPhone 8. Running purely off of that information it could be easy to assume that a certain part number is identical to other parts that are used in phones like the Samsung Galaxy S8.
  
  But that’s not true at all in the case of Apple. Even if a part seems to be the spitting image, for instance, of a Broadcom BCM4357, it is assuredly not. Apple does not buy off the shelf parts and never has. It works closely with manufacturers to get the exact specifications it needs based on the capabilities it wants. Even though parts may appear very, very similar to those used in other phones, they are usually not.
  
  The FM block is simply not there in current iPhone radio chips. It may look the same but it’s not on the chip at all. Broadcom would need to re-spin the chip to add the stuff Apple would need back in. They’d also need, of course, to connect it up (which it never was even in the older phones) and build in an antenna and change its WiFi chip and add back in a headphone jack to use the headphones as an antenna.
  
  Which brings us to a final point: Apple has actually not had workable FM radios in iPhones in a very, very long time. Much further back than the iPhone 7. Even when the FM modules were included in the chip, they were not connected, had no antennas and no support was built in to other radio components. Basically, Apple can’t switch on the FM radio in the iPhone 7, iPhone 8 and iPhone X because they don’t exist. And it can’t switch on many older FM radio chips because the iPhone’s hardware simply does not support it.
  
  We’ve reached out to the FCC to see if they’re aware of any of this. No response yet.
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2017 02:36:01 EDT HN Tooter

A 1 KB Docker Container
https://blog.quickmediasolutions.com/2017/09/28/a-1-kb-docker-container.html
(submitted by nathan-osman)

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HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2017 18:05:52 EDT HN Tooter

Text-only NPR
http://thin.npr.org
(submitted by mrzool)

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HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2017 17:09:15 EDT HN Tooter

Twitter to Test Doubling Tweet Length to 280 Characters
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/technology/twitter-280-characters.html
(submitted by tysone)

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HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2017 17:09:14 EDT HN Tooter

Giving you more characters to express yourself
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-you-more-characters-to-express-yourself.html
(submitted by coloneltcb)

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HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2017 10:20:07 EDT HN Tooter

Show HN: Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual
https://redditgrid.com
(submitted by epenance)
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1. Reddit Grid - Better image browsing
  
  Reddit Grid is a website made to make it easier to browser subreddits with a high amount of images.
HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2017 16:37:56 EDT HN Tooter

68% of total Ethereum transaction value controlled by one system
https://blog.cyber.fund/huge-ethereum-mixer-6cf98680ee6c
(submitted by bmj1)
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1. Huge Ethereum Mixer – cyber • Blog
  
  from cyber • Blog
  
  68% of total Ethereum transaction value controlled by one system

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