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  1. slashdot needs to fix their html code for displaying polls. https://imgur.com/a/HnX1CYV

  2. use mcedit from midnight commander instead.

  3. Re:Microsoft updates / apple updates - No proxy ca on Are App Sizes Out of Control? · · Score: 1

    > With web browsers deprecating cleartext HTTP in favor of HTTPS, how long will this remain relevant?

    Web browsers should and shall prefer HTTPS over HTTP. Have in mind that you don't know if the content served via HTTPS is secure or not. The protection that we get from HTTPS is that (hopefully) no one is listening to our communication between ourself and the server.

    If you would like to have HTTPS for TOECDN you will be required to distribute our private key to every single person on this planet! And that is just for one web site. And if you are re-newing your certificate, distribute that once more to everybody. The reason for this is that every house hold around the world is allowed to run their own http cache server. That's why you can't use HTTPS with TOECDN.

    If the web browsers had the capability to load for example a image file from a external host with the known checksum of that file, you
    can load that file from a HTTP host (read; over TOECDN) and you will know if the content match or not. If it does, well, treat it like you would if the content was served via HTTPS.

  4. Re:Microsoft updates / apple updates - No proxy ca on Are App Sizes Out of Control? · · Score: 1

    > The only reason I can think of is they don't want to lose control of distributing the application, which can be a big deal if you get a bad actor between you and the proxy or god forbid he takes over the proxy.

    You can use this argument for Unix distribution which are using voluntary mirrors around the world. I do believe they work around this with the help of checksums, which they sign with a signature know to them within their software for updating the operating system.

  5. Re:Microsoft updates / apple updates - No proxy ca on Are App Sizes Out of Control? · · Score: 1

    > it's a "concept", which sounds like "not runnable software".

    It is a concept! The required software to be able to run TOECDN is a authority dns server and a http cache server. My examples are with apache traffic server, which require no modification to their source code to be able to cache content with TOECDN.

    For the authority dns server, my own fDns (https://github.com/fredan/fDns) has been developed with TOECDN in mind. Having sad that, other authority dns server(s) could be modified to be able to provide the required TOECDN functionality at dns level.

  6. Re:Microsoft updates / apple updates - No proxy ca on Are App Sizes Out of Control? · · Score: 1

    > Are you the dev? Also what happened to the toecdn.org site?

    Yes I am. The site hasn't been updated since I've got no feedback for TOECDN. You can access the site at https://www.toecdn.org/

    There is no site at http://www.toecdn.org/ if that was you were trying to use.

    Right now I'm currently rewriting my authority dns server from scratch, which has the required functionality for TOECDN as Lua scripts.

    These script can be found at https://github.com/fredan/fDns under lua/toecdn directory. However, I have not been updated that for almost a year now.

  7. Re:Microsoft updates / apple updates - No proxy ca on Are App Sizes Out of Control? · · Score: 1

    > why are their no unix/proxy/gateway solutions ?

    The Open Edge Content Distribution Network, TOECDN, has been developed for exactly this.

    The whole purpose of TOECDN is that you, as a end user, can setup a cache server at your home, to be able to cache software updates like this. And its not just for software updates. Its for all static content.

    The thing is, nobody care about this solution.

  8. Re:Not really "free". on New Free O'Reilly Ebook: 'Open Source In Brazil' (oreilly.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  9. Re:fake news from cnn on Russia Extends Edward Snowden's Asylum To 2020, To Offer Citizenship Next Year (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    what the fuck has the inauguration to do with this?

  10. Re:fake news from cnn on Russia Extends Edward Snowden's Asylum To 2020, To Offer Citizenship Next Year (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Which part of that statement did CNN fabricate?

    All of them.

    That term is getting thrown around so much lately that it is obscuring the actual "someone just made this up without any regard to the facts, not because of errors, bad sources, or flawed methodologies but because of deliberately trying to pass off fiction as fact" fake news.

    You usually call this Fox News.

  11. Re:fake news from cnn on Russia Extends Edward Snowden's Asylum To 2020, To Offer Citizenship Next Year (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    none of what you provide in your reply to me is true.

  12. fake news from cnn on Russia Extends Edward Snowden's Asylum To 2020, To Offer Citizenship Next Year (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    sought asylum in Russia in June 2013 after leaking volumes of information on American intelligence and surveillance operations to the media.

    No he didn't seek asylum in Russia after he leaked volumes of information to media. He did seek asylum due to the fact that the US canceled he's passport.

  13. Re:We need to end the system as it is today on GlobalSign Error Causes Widespread Internet Issues (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    We need DNSSEC....

    No we don't.

  14. please don't link to apples site on Apple Launches the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus; Feature Water-Resistance, Lack Headphone Jack (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1, Troll

    dear slashdot editors.

    please don't link to apples site about iphone 7.

  15. first post on Next Generation of Wireless -- 5G -- Is All Hype (backchannel.com) · · Score: 0

    since I'm using 5G, bitches!

  16. use ipv6 to get rid of the spam on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Major Companies Exiting the Spam Filtering Business? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    put your mail server on a aaaa record only and you will see so little spam that you can filter it manually.

  17. Yep on Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015? · · Score: 1

    Are there any projects that made big leaps this year that aren't getting the recognition they deserve?

    My authority DNS server which I will release next week.

  18. The Open Edge Content Delivery Network, perhaps? on Netflix To Re-Encode Entire 1 Petabyte Video Catalogue In 2016 To Save Bandwidth (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    TOECDN would have fixed this shit already. We don't want less quality, we want more!

  19. Re:Start with this Password Verification Function on The 2015 Underhanded C Contest Has Begun · · Score: 1

    int passwordCompare(char* enteredPassword, size_t enteredPassword_len, char* validPassword,  size_t* validPassword_len) {

    if (enteredPassword_len != validPassword_len) {
    return 0;
    }

    if (timeingsafe_memcmp(enteredPassword, validPassword, validPassword_len) == 0) {
    return -1;
    }
    return 0;
    }

  20. Re: Just goes to show you UNIX SUX on Critical BIND Denial-of-Service Flaw Could Take Down DNS Servers · · Score: 1

    I'm using C with LMDB. Think of it as Tinydns on steroids. With Lua.

  21. Re:Just goes to show you UNIX SUX on Critical BIND Denial-of-Service Flaw Could Take Down DNS Servers · · Score: 1

    That's why I'm writing my own. Nope, I'm not kidding. It's called fDns and will probably be the fastest authority DNS server there is.

  22. Exhibit 1 - The actual emails on Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Revealed In MPAA Emails · · Score: 4, Informative
  23. The Open Edge Content Delivery Network, perhaps? on Netflix Hoping For Free Network Access From ISPs · · Score: 1

    TOECDN was made for this.

  24. TAI on June 30th Leap Second Could Trigger Unexpected Issues · · Score: 1

    so how do I run my linux system with TAI instead of UTC?

  25. 'nough sad.