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by IcePic 6y ago
I think those built-in RNGs should be treated like RDRAND on x86, you may mix them into the pool along with all the other sources of entropy your platform supplies, and then generate cryptographic streams seeded out of the pool. Using them
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by IcePic 6y ago
Do you have a guarantee that random() will give you the same sequence on different endians, on different libcs, on different 32/64bit arches, on different OSes or even dists? The expectation of reproducability is probably lost if you s
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by IcePic 6y ago
It will cost a cycle or three extra, but given the great cost to make syscalls in the first place (especially if you have to do flushes and mitigations for the 'recent' security bugs on x86) it probably won't matter much. 100
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by IcePic 6y ago
There are different types, which I think is buffers vs cache in top. The read caches would be fine but the delayed writes in ram are quite another thing. The one that eats your ram (the reason for the site to exist) would mostly be the read
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by IcePic 6y ago
OpenBSD uses clang/llvm on most arches by now for the system compiler.
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by IcePic 6y ago
I guess its not just indentation that matters here, but also if you can compare if strlen(szNotVeryImportantTemporaryStringWithSomeCharsInIt) > ui16MyConstantThatHoldsTheLenIThinkIsSuitable on one line or not, if you are limited to 80 ch
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by IcePic 6y ago
Ask yourself the opposite: Could there perhaps be a measurable difference if I am the only VM on the host, versus a ton of busy VMs next to mine?
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by IcePic 6y ago
The site didn't want visitors, kept bugging me with popups.
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by IcePic 6y ago
Linux-m68k required a 68020/030+68x51 MMU, or a 68040/060 with built-in MMU.
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by IcePic 6y ago
Yeah, I didn't see the questioning as "is there really war someplace right now?" but rather "is there really a place where you (or your grandparents) can get bread and milk for bitcoins when normal money collapsed?"
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by IcePic 6y ago
How about being able to transmit data undistorted from A to B? I mean, it's not about emails must be ugly or must be read in white-on-black 80x25 terminals, it's about them not being distorted/broken on delivery. If you can&#
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by IcePic 6y ago
Might be a good idea to not use the phrase "kernel module" since it means something very specific (code you insmod on linux, kldload on fbsd and so on) which isn't supported on OpenBSD since 2014.
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by IcePic 6y ago
at the time, lots and lots of scripts would place things in /tmp/scriptname-$PID so you could race them, since you can know where it will write things, other scripts would use PID for random which is equally bad, especially for th
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by IcePic 6y ago
And I think it is rather obvious. Pledge lessens the amount of syscalls available to a program after it has called pledge(), so the threats it means to protect against is if someone tries to trick "ls" into opening a socket and do
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by IcePic 7y ago
Given that Apple survived m68k to ppc to x86 to x86_64 I think they may have the ability to predict the obstacles needed to win over and the price for it.
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by IcePic 7y ago
But that mostly means it wasn't ok (as in not faithfully emulating the hw bug) to begin with, and that it was super hard to fix, not that the VICE code rot'ed over time.
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by IcePic 7y ago
But you can use your awesome vim skill to feed text into a OpenOffice document, and while the OOo internals are probably 100x more complicated than vim, the user interface for "text on my screen" stays the same, and transition is
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by IcePic 7y ago
But that is policy and nothing technical.
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by IcePic 7y ago
nice, then someone would just port rust and go and whatever to all the obsd arches, and not just to the main 2-3 platforms. Breaths not being held.
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by IcePic 7y ago
Try having more than one IKE responser behind same nat gw. Gets tricky to have both/all respond to udp 500...
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by IcePic 7y ago
Just to take one (small) example, the Arduino IDE is C++, and you will not mmap() a lot there.
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by IcePic 7y ago
$ host sprint.net sprint.net has address 208.24.22.50 sprint.net has IPv6 address 2600:: wonder which one is easiest to remember? =)
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by IcePic 7y ago
So given the rate at the time, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#/media... with some 1M ips given out PER DAY, how long would two /8s last? 4 weeks, or 33 days. That is not "quite a b
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by IcePic 7y ago
So, in the speeds ipv4 was handed out before they ran out, how long would two /8s last? Weeks? Months? You'd be able to slack on moving to ipv6 for those weeks, months. Whee.
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by IcePic 7y ago
and the JIT is written in...
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by IcePic 7y ago
I think MSIE and the Windows Media player appeared for Solaris for a really short while at least. Outlook Express too, it seems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX
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by IcePic 7y ago
I know these are dist-specific issues, but it seems far easier on linux dists to end up with an installed program (from rmp/debs) and still don't have the manpages, OR, getting a dud manpage that tells you to run "info gnufro
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by IcePic 7y ago
Then again, for things like C64 picture formats, you need to work within the various limitations and the cheat programming one can use to extend the palettes and forcing badlines more frequently and so on which makes the artist need a lot o
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by IcePic 7y ago
GoT (gameoftrees.org) did just that. Built another tool similar but not same, using the same storage method underneath.
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by IcePic 7y ago
> Please don't enable anything by default unless it's actually working Then again, we know news of v4 running out and v6 being the only usable replacement has been running for .. 20 years? If people start _now_ and test what v6

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