Genghis_9000

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by Genghis_9000 4y ago
yeah part of google worship has created common misconceptions like that things that appear in its automatic index are true answer to whatever question you have in mind (computers cant read minds). "this is the official link for some
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by Genghis_9000 4y ago
where is the list of these open source projects that get funded? i dont want to use any of them. of course no sane person would use node in the first place
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by Genghis_9000 4y ago
when will browsers learn and just replace ssl/tls with one line of code to verify that the public key portion of the URL matches the session established by the website? C is only a hundredth of the problem here (that 100th is still big
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by Genghis_9000 4y ago
its hilarious how HNers on the "pro memory safety" side of the fence have this moronic attitude that memory disclosures are likely to happen in memory-safe languages. its simply false. you may be right in 1% of cases, but no more.
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by Genghis_9000 4y ago
i remember when this site came out and the author posted it on 8chan /tech/.
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by Genghis_9000 4y ago
and where do we get the checksum? HN has a hall monitor mentality issue
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by Genghis_9000 4y ago
> blocking pasting is bad because it blocks my password manager again this is just a very ad-hoc opinion, theres nothing stopping a password manager from faking keyboard inputs, or the browser from having a mechanism for supplying a pass
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by Genghis_9000 4y ago
linux is such garbage security-wise that it had to be a niche "hardening patch" to make processes not be able to see the argv of other processes. this normally wouldnt be a problem, except for the fact that linux and its proponent
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by Genghis_9000 4y ago
this is good. there should be more services to pool DNS, email addresses, and cell phone numbers. this should be a basic tool for the hacker to get around the muggle.
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by Genghis_9000 4y ago
this post demonstrates how laughably highly specific and ad-hoc the current infosec religion is > first example everyone will freak out here because the password is therefore stored in plaintext (well not necessarily but maybe depending
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by Genghis_9000 4y ago
Yes. I thought this was another "I have OCD and can only program if I sit at the computer in a 5 hour session" thread, but it seems you just have a job without a standard 9-5 schedule. Most software engineering jobs are 9-5, perha
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by Genghis_9000 4y ago
> You may have heard of bisecting from geometry or from git bisect1. Those are the two places I heard about it I heard of it from when I first started programming and I cut the code in half (maybe 3rds or other units, close enough) until
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by Genghis_9000 4y ago
So much this, it's not even funny. Anyone who is concerned about "enemy posters" is either a nazi or SJW (or some other category) in my opinion. There are exceptions but in general it's true. They have some specific caus
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by Genghis_9000 4y ago
Amazing that HN of all places are taking this childish LARP seriously. > Guys they are trying to disrupt my obscure forum about some niche technical subject! > Who? > Them!