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by IcePic 5y ago
One point could well be to see how your setup handles extreme overload? I guess different OSes and server software would handle it very differently, so using HN to trigger a huge overload would be a smart way to get some science done along
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by IcePic 5y ago
Neverwinter Nights was the same, spell effects (damage and so on) was one call from a script, the visual effect was another. If you wanted an ice-ball you would steal ice visuals from some other cold spell, then apply cold damage instead an
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by IcePic 5y ago
There are such countries and places in the world.
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by IcePic 5y ago
Yeah, Mad Max movies show people fighting in the sunny desert over drops of oil to run their cars when solar panels and an EV would have been royal. 8^D
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by IcePic 5y ago
If you have a single-pass compiler (for speed) then it will not know on pass #2 that the old value is to be used for something or not and can drop it. In a single-pass run, you must generate code to keep the previous value in case the line
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by IcePic 5y ago
There is a writeup in PDF here https://csdb.dk/release/?id=198357 about what actually happens on all the unimplemented instructions that still "run" parts of the CPU, some with decent results, and some with l
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by IcePic 5y ago
Worth talking to vendors still, to try to help them see the needs of Open Source.
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by IcePic 5y ago
According to the LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt [1], the rules permitted adding their non-open-source firmware into open source operating systems but such an addition (ironically) makes that open source operating system not entirely open sour
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by IcePic 5y ago
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=136724343006024&w=2
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by IcePic 5y ago
Poor idea in my view. Going from "I have a claim that this entity exists", and when this can't be shown, adding the next claim: "There is an alternate reality/dimension/magistrate and we cannot see into it, and
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by IcePic 5y ago
..and by then, the web bloat will make it a requirement in order to render a product webpage that still doesn't show you the price.
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by IcePic 5y ago
>> When they own all the v4 ips >... there won't be any value in them any more. and upto that point, it will be SUPER expensive for you to try to get one (or 256), which they can pay since they have monopoly on them, and you o
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by IcePic 5y ago
Then again, at the height of the times, the registries handed out one /8 per month more or less, so whatever small pockets of (seemingly) unused /8s, or /10s you can find, gives you weeks to delay your ipv6 transition.
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by IcePic 5y ago
Of course that is how it will end. Noone thinks that this is a bad idea, to only allow customers of those three to host a service, because that is the current mindset. When they own all the v4 ips, we will have no choice but to hot on their
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by IcePic 5y ago
Seems like few people rebuild gas engines in their cars when they become "a few decades old", apart from a _very_ small minority that like retro car stuff. If the battery pack was the only thing needing replacement in EVs and they
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by IcePic 5y ago
Obviously it hurts if your project gets bad rep from an old unmaintained fork. If "everyone knows $your_project is broken, don't use it" it will spill back on you. Somewhat like when powershell on windows had aliases for wget
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by IcePic 5y ago
True, but that would hold true for all common compressors, so beating them is still a huge win.
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by IcePic 5y ago
bits per byte?
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by IcePic 5y ago
> These days if you want to catch UB, compile with -fsanitize=undefined-behaviour. The program wll then trap if UB is actually detected at runtime. So, let me get this straight, someone wants to make sure pointer p is not null (in the wr
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by IcePic 5y ago
Well, I can imagine a program having something where new C comments ( // ) makes it not divide, like: a = 5 //* junk here */ 2 ; I'm sure there are ioccc or underhanded C contest entries doing this to make code
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by IcePic 5y ago
I still don't get it. The alternative would be for all OSes to run services X,Y and Z even if you install it in order to host service W. Also, you would then be "happy" to get remote rooted on your W service box, when attacke
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by IcePic 5y ago
Those may not be final, mirrors resync release files all up to the release day. They are probably as valid as all snapshots around release day, as long as the signify keys check out fine, but no guarantees for that set to be 100% identical
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by IcePic 5y ago
No, ipsec is its own protocol, so it would be most similar to "over UDP"
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by IcePic 6y ago
OpenBSD /dev/(u)random uses ChaCha20 and gives me a few hundred MB/s on recent hw.
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by IcePic 6y ago
Well, do ISPs suddenly allow 137-139,445 nowadays or is this still considered to be a hole wide enough for a truck to drive through? If those are still blocked, then the major OS in this world still proves that there are bad defaults and go
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by IcePic 6y ago
No, that would be the output of some hash/crypto stream(s) that in turn gets seeded by all the entropy sources the machine can find, mixed together.
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by IcePic 6y ago
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those..
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by IcePic 6y ago
> I like VLC because IT IS a file opener. I don't want a "media environment" to immerse in. And for us oldtimers, we know from history that all neat useful single-purpose projects that try to grow into something huge (wina
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by IcePic 6y ago
I think someone said it costs +50% in time to swap out pages when it was enabled, but as soon as you are swapping, such timings have very little bearing on your experience, since any time a program have to wait for a page to get in from a d
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by IcePic 6y ago
Redhat used to ship running pop2, pop3 and imapd running by default, all open. Windows was SO exploitable that ISPs to this day block 137-139 and 445 just so people do not get hacked immediately. Par for the course was to get owned within h

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