EFruit

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by EFruit 11y ago
Back when the dynamic linking design doc was published, it included support for a 'plugin' build mode, wherein the package was compiled into a .so and a 'plugin' package to load and access said shared objects. Having wri
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by EFruit 11y ago
In the past month or so I've been using it astoundingly often. I really enjoy having such a site available and I appreciate the generosity of it all, but it could really (IMHO) use a cleanup. Perhaps a pass over the book URLs for 404s,
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by EFruit 11y ago
My questions are these: If there are two minds, and they come in to this form of contact, which survives? Would they be combined, leaving behind a new one which encompasses the qualities of both? Would they be combined at random? Would they
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by EFruit 12y ago
I would draw up some wireframes for my dream data storage platform/privacy firewall, then dream that I could actually build it. EDIT: Now that I think about it, I'd rather like to build a filesystem that understands that data can
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by EFruit 12y ago
I know this is completely unfounded, but the tagline "Always with you, always-on." is a little unnerving in this context. But this is coming from a guy with a bit of Post-it on all the front-facing cameras he owns.
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by EFruit 13y ago
A tin-foil hat would probably be better off for his situation. It prevents mind reading.
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by EFruit 13y ago
>I hope the companies listed -- Dell, Cisco, Juniper, IBM, Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, et al -- are happy with themselves. I'm not going to say that these companies are fantastic. I'm just not, but I will say that perhaps
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by EFruit 13y ago
I understand, but from my reading of the article, it looks like all of this is the inital badBIOS module But on the topic of modular malware, what would the initial discovery of Flame look like, if it were still in-progress after 3 years?
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by EFruit 13y ago
I could expect ONLY the DSP, ONLY the windows-individual portion, maybe 4 or 5 BIOS exploits and maybe 2 or 3 BIOS patches, about the same for Ethernet cards, maybe the CD controller, maybe 1 or two different USB firmware exploits and patch
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by EFruit 13y ago
So wait, it's a BIOS virus that covers the platforms he tested (multiple BIOSs to exploit/patch)... that can communicate via Sound (Requires DSP)... that can defend itself against the registry editor (Deep integration to the OS, f
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by EFruit 13y ago
I wonder how long until the Ara hardware DRM keys and gamification of Ara modules begin. And how long until some virus engages the hardware locks on the modules and forces you to pay a fine to upgrade your phone ("Vendor" lock in)
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by EFruit 13y ago
I can't wait for it. Oddly enough, it seems like valve used the earlier patent as flak. I just hope the Linux drivers are open source, if they're not piggybacking off bluetooth or something.
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by EFruit 13y ago
I for one am massively interested in Go NLP, and this project as a whole. I'd really love to see this project opened up.
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by EFruit 13y ago
You can actually upload .reg files to the wiki to create a skeleton page for whoever to fill in. To simplify things quite a bit, we made it require Win95 .reg format, But even Regedit 5 will export to that. The bot that does this is written
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by EFruit 13y ago
something nobody under 18 should be told about. But hey, what do I know?
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by EFruit 13y ago
Woah, we don't want to go there. If they can't get the data in transit, they'll go for the sources and destinations. Legally mandated keyloggers, anyone? An 'adversary' as markedly omnipresent as the NSA has had no
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by EFruit 13y ago
I'm 16. I agree with the second statement, but I'd like to point out this: if you're in the public school system and you aren't "shallow and passive", chances are good you'll be given hell if you show it.
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by EFruit 13y ago
You act like that's a good thing. I don't want some Google balloon watching me every step of my day. Even less so if what it's seeing is published near-instantly
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by EFruit 13y ago
>The briefing was meant to convince lawmakers that the surveillance programs are legal and necessary in fighting counterterrorism The Government/NSA is now a terrorist group? Are they fighting themselves? Why not just use the secr
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Ask HN: Backdoors everywhere?
3 points by EFruit 13y ago|1 comments
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by EFruit 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_%28TV_series... More detail of the theoretical system: http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/The_Machine
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by EFruit 13y ago
Soon: "Company claims patent on democracy; sues entire US Congress, executive branch "
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by EFruit 13y ago
From someone who has tried to pursue this path: The answer is no. If your parents have it ingrained in their minds that college == success, and the idea that there are no alternative routes has set in, enjoy your mental starvation with a si
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by EFruit 13y ago
I am scared, intrigued, worried, and overall frightened. Not frightened by the article, but by the fact that I can't decide if I am for or against this. I wonder at what phase 'Don't be evil' would break down, or alternatively, when their
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by EFruit 13y ago
Is what you're referring to something like Growl that pops up and says 'Hey, metrics.sessions.active just dropped by 70%", or something pre-configured to spin up additional VMs/instances/dynos when some metrics misbehave? TL;DR: How autonom
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Ask HN: Discussion with Ben Franklin.
1 points by EFruit 13y ago|0 comments
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by EFruit 13y ago
I'd use it. If it weren't hosted. And if it was Open Source. Otherwise, I just can't bring myself to trust it. The concept is a goldmine. You need to convince potential users of its security an privacy protection, should there be any. If th
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by EFruit 13y ago
As soon as you use something you did not make yourself, your project could theoretically be compromised. This ranges from drivers, compilers, OSs, hardware, to the text editor you wrote anything and everything with. In the real world, we ca
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by EFruit 13y ago
I spent relatively little time with VB (thank god). I had been messing with VBscript in powerpoint, then I abandoned VB for the C-flavor languages . Right now I'm working in Go. I like it a lot.
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by EFruit 13y ago
I started circa 2007 with Visual Basic. I am anything but "cool".

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