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by DHowett 3y ago
> (sells?) An accusation like this would benefit from some evidence. By not offering any evidence, you get all the benefits of sowing doubt without having put in any of the work necessary to have an actual discussion about it.
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by DHowett 3y ago
Given that the entire linear chain of comparisons (therefore, every instruction) needs to be evaluated for 2^32-1, it would indeed need to read and execute the entire 40GB file. The fact that it does so by faulting in each page before instr
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by DHowett 3y ago
This is an outstanding write-up! I’m glad to see you’re still active in the community :)
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by DHowett 3y ago
Looking over the landed patch ( https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... ), I cannot find a hardcoded list of user.* xattrs that will be accepted. It looks like it will sto
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by DHowett 3y ago
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/wri... Chromebooks are among the better-documented and more open hardware platforms. The document above indicates how to disable firmware write pr
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by DHowett 3y ago
Windows includes BSD tar, which can produce ZIP files. tar -c --format=zip -f foo.zip path/
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by DHowett 3y ago
Indeed, that is what the parent is referring to when they say this: > Ideally signing and enrolling in the UEFI the key to a signed Unified Kernel Image (UKI) makes more sense (It's much more useful to have a link to it, so thank yo
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by DHowett 3y ago
Most televisions do not continue playing audio when they are turned off. From the project page: "That second paragraph hints at why this is important, despite the app’s simplicity." and the second paragraph on the simulated displa
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by DHowett 4y ago
Some terminal emulators[1] strip control characters (C0, C1 or both) out of clipboard or paste buffer contents when paste bracketing is enabled to avoid exactly this. I believe[2] that xterm is not among them, which presents an argument tha
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by DHowett 4y ago
Terminal emulators typically only enable it in response to a request from an application. I’m not aware of one that enables paste bracketing by default . If some shell or other line editor turns it on and doesn’t actually support the brack
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by DHowett 4y ago
The first iPhones were AArch32, and there was likely a sizable contingent of iOS software that was written to target the only existing bitness at the time :) The same reasons GP offered still apply there. The amount of software directly por
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by DHowett 4y ago
> Could anyone seriously imagine an x86-based phone? > ... Atom? Indeed! The Motorola RAZR i was Atom-powered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_RAZR_i
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by DHowett 4y ago
I believe you're talking about "SSHFP," a DNS RR that contains SSH fingerprints. This article is discussing "SSHFS," a userspace filesystem driver that uses SSH/SFTP as a transport to expose remote files locall
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by DHowett 4y ago
I'm curious whether the "new"(ish) segment heap would address some of the author's issues. It's poorly documented, so I can't find a reference explaining what it is on MSDN save for a snippet on the page about
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by DHowett 4y ago
Whoa, thanks! It looks like I’ve got some reading to do.
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by DHowett 4y ago
I think rbanffy is referring to vttest[1], but I'm not certain. [1]: https://www.invisible-island.net/vttest/ EDIT to add: vttest is maintained by the current maintainer of xterm. It's the "torturiest&qu
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by DHowett 4y ago
So, one of the cool things about this repository (Hi! I’m the engineering lead for the Terminal/Console/… team. I’m biased!) is that it also contains the source for ConPTY and the rest of the Windows console host[1]. Every chang
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by DHowett 4y ago
Another day, another Casey post dunking on my team. Hi! This tweet misses the mark only a little bit; in a previous blog post, we apologized[1] pretty frankly to everyone involved in this discussion. I'll admit that we didn't list
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by DHowett 4y ago
This is PowerShell’s remoting model! It supports different transports (SSH, WSMan), keeps interactive elements on the client side, and effects actions on the server side.
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by DHowett 4y ago
> Why the help viewer does anything as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM is beyond me. I don't think it does . The report states that they achieved execution as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM using psexec from "SysInternals"; arguably, running so
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by DHowett 5y ago
Funny enough, it’s a bit of both. The msys2 runtime is a fork of the Cygwin runtime, and they keep parity pretty well. https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime
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by DHowett 5y ago
All console subsystem executables on Windows are hosted by the same application (today known as “conhost”[2],) which provides the UI and terminal emulation facilities and implements the Win32 console APIs. PowerShell, therefore, uses the sa
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by DHowett 5y ago
Hey! This is awesome. I’m the engineering manager for the Windows console subsystem team. I’d be happy to help out with your ConPTY issues! Feel free to file a discussion issue over on GitHub at microsoft/terminal, or email me at duhow
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by DHowett 5y ago
The article you linked reports that third party docks —not cables—can cause an electrical short in the Switch. OP should be fine plugging in their Switch via spec-compliant cables.
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by DHowett 5y ago
For simple matches against one pattern, you may prefer... > ls -rec . -filter *substring*` ... as filtering can be offloaded to the "provider" when Get-ChildItem (ls) knows about it. Even if the filesystem provider doe
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by DHowett 5y ago
I’m guessing that you are referring to the “coding ligatures” in the author’s font selection for code blocks? You can likely configure your user agent to ignore site-specified fonts.
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by DHowett 5y ago
Fun fact! Earlier versions of the Quectel modem firmwares supported a more direct method for running code as root: AT+QLINUXCMD="/sbin/reboot"
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by DHowett 5y ago
The JSON::XS documentation linked above reports that YAML 1.2 is not a strict superset of JSON: > Addendum/2009: the YAML 1.2 spec is still incompatible with JSON The author also details their issues in, ah, getting some of the au
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by DHowett 5y ago
This seems exactly backwards, though. “testserver4.mycorp.example” (no trailing dot) is not fully-qualified and as such could refer to any number of things of differing identities, e.g. “testserver4.mycorp.example.atthomenetwork.com”. On th
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by DHowett 5y ago
> That was possible on nearly all laptops some years back. Not necessarily in this size class/with this chassis design. "Ultrabooks" as a class haven't been nearly as user-serviceable as you're suggesting. > m

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