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Tweet from Garry Kasparov

2017 Jan 21, 11:21
Obvious lies serve a purpose for an administration. They watch who challenges them and who loyally repeats them. The people must watch, too.
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Tweet from David Risney

2017 Jan 19, 12:51
Playing The Witness again after seeing an area I hadn't visited in the Xbox trailer. Listening to a lot of Hall of the Mountain King now...
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Let's Encrypt NearlyFreeSpeech.net Update

2016 Nov 5, 8:59

Since I had last posted about using Let's Encrypt with NearlyFreeSpeech, NFS has changed their process for setting TLS info. Instead of putting the various files in /home/protected/ssl and submitting an assistance request, now there is a command to submit the certificate info and a webpage for submitting the certificate info.

The webpage is https://members.nearlyfreespeech.net/{username}/sites/{sitename}/add_tls and has a textbox for you to paste in all the cert info in PEM form into the textbox. The domain key, the domain certificate, and the Let's Encrypt intermediate cert must be pasted into the textbox and submitted.

Alternatively, that same info may be provided as standard input to nfsn -i set-tls

To renew my certificate with the updated NFS process I followed the commands from Andrei Damian-Fekete's script which depends on acme_tiny.py:

python acme_tiny.py --account-key account.key --csr domain.csr --acme-dir /home/public/.well-known/acme-challenge/ > signed.crt
wget -O - https://letsencrypt.org/certs/lets-encrypt-x3-cross-signed.pem > intermediate.pem
cat domain.key signed.crt intermediate.pem > chained.pem
nfsn -i set-tls < chained.pem
Because my certificate had already expired I needed to comment out the section in acme_tiny.py that validates the challenge file. The filenames in the above map to the following:
  • signed.crt is the Let's Encrypt provided certificate
  • account.key is the user private key registered with LE
  • domain.csr is the cert request
  • domain.key is the key for the domain cert
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Dec 30, 5:07
3 diff kinds of challenges: Three Trials https://supermariomakerbookmark.nintendo.net/courses/4B46-0000-00EC-E0CF … #SuperMarioMaker pic.twitter.com/B2rSxkjtiB
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Retweet of waxpancake

2015 Oct 29, 8:16
Starting at midnight, prepare for this Halloween's most terrifying horror game: TWITCH INSTALLS LINUX. https://www.twitchinstalls.com 
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Feb 8, 11:17
Analysis of 2011 DARPA Challenge tracks down the trolls who destroyed their competitors crowd sourced solution. https://medium.com/backchannel/how-a-lone-hacker-shredded-the-myth-of-crowdsourcing-d9d0534f1731 …
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Monty Hall Problem - Numberphile The Monty Hall problem made...

2014 May 22, 5:22


Monty Hall Problem - Numberphile

The Monty Hall problem made intuitive: instead of 3 doors, you have 100. You pick one door and then Monty opens 98 more doors and lets you switch to the remaining door. Well yeah now I’m going to switch.

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honeysweetsugaricklepie: Uhh has anyone notice Garry Marshall’s...

2014 Feb 24, 11:57


honeysweetsugaricklepie:

Uhh has anyone notice Garry Marshall’s Wikipedia page?

Hahaha

Wiki user ‘Gillian Marshal’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garry_Marshall&diff=prev&oldid=596787114) updated his page yesterday. Nice and subtle only editing the summary section on the right.

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STRIP SEARCH SPOILERS FOLLOW! BEWARE! jspowerblogger: WARNING:...

2013 Jun 19, 2:50


STRIP SEARCH SPOILERS FOLLOW! BEWARE!

jspowerblogger:

WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS RIDICULOUS STRIP SEARCH SPOILERS

So I lost. Wah, boohoo, etc etc. It doesn’t mean I’m going to give up. I love The Last Halloween. If you also loved The Last Halloween, don’t worry, it’s happening. But first I have to Kickstart it! The Kickstarter goes up within the next few days, and I hope you guys will fund it, if you’ll have me.

I’ll do a much larger post when the Kickstarter kickstarts so you’ll all know my feelings and how great everything is and how much you will be into backing it. 

I’m one of these guys being sshhhhhsh’ed. Abby had the best comics on Strip Search and so for my continued entertainment I shall help kickstart!

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A Slower Speed of Light Official Trailer — MIT Game Lab (by...

2012 Nov 13, 7:41


A Slower Speed of Light Official Trailer — MIT Game Lab (by Steven Schirra)

“A Slower Speed of Light is a first-person game in which players navigate a 3D space while picking up orbs that reduce the speed of light in increments. A custom-built, open-source relativistic graphics engine allows the speed of light in the game to approach the player’s own maximum walking speed. Visual effects of special relativity gradually become apparent to the player, increasing the challenge of gameplay. These effects, rendered in realtime to vertex accuracy, include the Doppler effect; the searchlight effect; time dilation; Lorentz transformation; and the runtime effect.

A production of the MIT Game Lab.

Play now for Mac and PC! http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/

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(via Comedy: Great Job, Internet!: Here’s Patton...

2012 Oct 31, 6:47


(via Comedy: Great Job, Internet!: Here’s Patton Oswalt’s Halloween costume)

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Web Security Contest - Stripe CTF

2012 Aug 27, 4:18

Stripe is running a web security capture the flag - a series of increasingly difficult web security exploit challenges. I've finished it and had a lot of fun. Working on a web browser I knew the theory of these various web based attacks, but this was my first chance to put theory into practice with:

  • No adverse consequences
  • Knowledge that there is a fun security exploit to find
  • Access to the server side source code

Here's a blog post on the CTF behind the scenes setup which has many impressive features including phantom users that can be XSS/CSRF'ed.

I'll have another post on my difficulties and answers for the CTF levels after the contest is over on Wed, but if you're looking for hints, try out the CTF chatroom or the level specific CTF chatroom.

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Microsoft Surface: a gentle kick in the teeth of the OEMs | Ars Technica

2012 Jun 25, 12:59

But if Surface is aimed at the OEMs—telling them “we can do this just as well as you can, if we have to”—and setting them a challenge—”your tablets have to be at least this good”—then the limited availability isn’t necessarily such a big deal. As long as the OEMs heed the warning and raise their game, so that Redmond can be assured that bad hardware won’t jeopardized Windows 8’s success, Microsoft could safely keep Surface operating as a small-scale operation, playing the Nexus role without upsetting the PC market.

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The Fiddler Book: "Debugging with Fiddler: The official reference from the developer of Fiddler"

2012 Jun 23, 9:19

THE Fiddler Book straight from the source, EricLaw - the developer of Fiddler!

Fiddler is a wonderful tool with never ending extensibility. With this book I shall master it!

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First Person Tutor | 7dfps challenge

2012 Jun 20, 3:45

First Person Tutor is a game about *grading papers*, lock, stock, and two smoking inkwells

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MPAA attacks Ars for "challenging efforts to curb content theft" (arstechnica.com)

2012 Jan 12, 5:12PermalinkCommentstechnical mpaa copyright ars-technica

“The Big Head by San Francisco artist Dan Rosenfeld is an...

2011 Nov 15, 11:54


The Big Head by San Francisco artist Dan Rosenfeld is an oversize video conferencing helmet that displays an enlarged version of the wearer’s face on a 24″ monitor at the front of the helmet. Rosenfeld debuted the helmet at this year’s Halloween” (via The Big Head, A Giant Videoconferencing Helmet by Dan Rosenfeld)

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Hey, Bethesda! Let's settle this! : The Word of Notch

2011 Aug 17, 4:52This is awesome: "I challenge Bethesda to a game of Quake 3. ... If we win, you drop the lawsuit. If you win, we will change the name of Scrolls to something you’re fine with." I could have been a lawyer if things worked this way.PermalinkCommentsminecraft game law quake3

IBM’s Watson Supercomputer As A Challenger on Jeopardy Game Show

2011 Feb 14, 6:59PermalinkCommentsibm Jeopardy game ai

YouTube - 2010 Dodge Challenger "Freedom" 60-Second Commercial

2010 Jun 12, 2:40The American's succeeded with the revolution thanks to the 2010 Dodge Challenger. This makes me eager for Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.PermalinkCommentsvideo humor via:jon america history george-washington car advertising dodge
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