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by K0nserv 3y ago
I did it with custom parsing[0] and treated the numbers as 16 bit integers, the representation in the file is not a constant number of bytes which complicates the table approach. If you end up computing a hash I think it might be slower tha
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by K0nserv 3y ago
My blog works like many of those described in others comments, it's: - Jekyll(any static site generator would do, I'd probably pick Zola or Hugo if I was starting from scratch. See list[0]) - GitHub to host source code - GitHub ac
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by K0nserv 3y ago
Sweden has had a carbon tax since 1991 and has almost halved co2 emissions since. Sources: https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/sweden https://government.se/government-policy/swedens-carbon-
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On the Costs of Syscalls (2021)(gms.tf)
105 points by K0nserv 3y ago|87 comments
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by K0nserv 3y ago
I work on str0m along my colleagues at Lookback. We use it it to build something akin to a SFU(Selective Forward Unit) i.e. a services that forwards media between many clients in a conference setting. There are other people using it for the
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by K0nserv 3y ago
I largely agree, but this seems quite unfair to Linux. > But damn, if Linux had been built with safety in mind security would be a lot simpler. Being able to trust the kernel would be so nice. For its time, it was built with safety in mi
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Couple's Life Savings Stolen in 'Trojan Horse' Mobile App Scam(bbc.co.uk)
14 points by K0nserv 3y ago|6 comments
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by K0nserv 3y ago
Shorter patch cycles - at least historically, I haven't kept pace with the Android ecosystem. That said, with Android you can use a different OS and keep the device secured
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by K0nserv 3y ago
Yeah I know some devices already support this, the point of forcing it via legislation would be for those that don't. I think this is also the answer to "the app store question". It feels unfair to force Apple to change a cor
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by K0nserv 3y ago
Apple, in my opinion, does a very good job of supporting old devices. Buying an iPhone and keeping it for 6 years is a great strategy and when amortising the cost of the phone over those 6 years, it's price competitive with Android. I
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by K0nserv 3y ago
This is just how push notifications work on iOS and Android. The app requests a push token from the operating system, sends that to its backend and stores it against the user's identity. To send a push a message is sent from the backen
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by K0nserv 3y ago
Two things about this: 1. Firefox blocks various analytics and tracking quite aggressively by default. Additionally, users of Firefox are, by and large, privacy minded and will have further mitigations. Any count of Firefox users is likely
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by K0nserv 3y ago
As others have mentioned PostNord is owned jointly with the Danish government so it's not quite a government services, well the postal delivery is, but the mechanism that achieves it, PostNord, is not. I think you are also missing som
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by K0nserv 3y ago
The author seems to be serving it from their home network at 7Mbps upstream, which probably isn't quite up to handling HN front page levels of traffic
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by K0nserv 3y ago
My standard is consistent. Apple and Google control their respective OSes. They are not general purpose OSes and there's nothing wrong with locking down the software users can run. Having a store and charging a commission is also fine,
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by K0nserv 3y ago
I guess I'm usually in this camp with regards to Apple and I suppose it's strictly okay for Google to do this. However, since these markets are so dominant, I'd like any discounts to be transparent and offered to everyone at
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by K0nserv 3y ago
I agree with much of this post. I managed to avoid async Rust for three years of writing it. I do think it's the least beautiful part of Rust. My journey has been one of reaching for Arc and Mutexes and then running into problems with
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by K0nserv 3y ago
I'm quite bullish on this method of cross-platform i.e. a common shared core leveraging native UI toolkits. Every incarnation of cross-platform on the market today sits somewhere between mediocre and bad in terms of the resulting UX. T
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by K0nserv 3y ago
Instead of complicated schemes that attempt to be locale aware, it seems simpler to use a general scheme that will apply regardless. Collect two values: 1. What do you want to be called? e.g. if we send you an email we'll say Hello {na
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by K0nserv 3y ago
I didn't realise the details had been published. Agree this is more informative, maybe the submission URL could be replaced, if you see this @dang.
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by K0nserv 3y ago
> I'm a little confused about the presentation of this - I think a fair bit of work has been put into the presentation and make it look "hacker" rather than actually required for the exploit, which doesn't fill me wit
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by K0nserv 3y ago
With the root hash you can crack the root password using tools like John The Ripper[0]. More generally, I assume, this exploit can be used to read any arbitrary files on the system, bypassing regular access control, and plenty of other stuf
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by K0nserv 3y ago
The ~~three~~ two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors EDIT: Doh, I can't believe I messed up the joke
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Inception: Leaking the root hash from /etc./shadow on AMD Zen 4 [video](youtube.com)
42 points by K0nserv 3y ago|4 comments
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by K0nserv 3y ago
Your's is an interesting angle that I hadn't thought of. I think the counter to it would be: Brave inadvertently helps Google, by improving Chromium, and it would be better if they inadvertently helped Mozilla, by improving Gecko.
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by K0nserv 3y ago
Fork or not, they obviously integrated almost everything from the upstream. Keeping a long-running fork that's increasingly diverging is not a simple task. Does Brave have the man-power to sustain their fork if it diverges sufficiently
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by K0nserv 3y ago
Not my area of expertise and I agree with your concerns about lawmakers, but with the input of experts, such as yourself, would it not be achievable? What I described is, after all, how desktop computers work. I can buy off the shelf compon
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by K0nserv 3y ago
I think this is the legislative way forward. Mandate that all devices should be unlocked and allow installing alternate operating systems, with the requisite documentation to build such operating systems published. This address two problems
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by K0nserv 3y ago
This just isn't true, have look through https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ and check the authors of some of the proposals Mozilla are negative about. There's even a post on front page right now ab
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by K0nserv 3y ago
Not really so, I have a friend who did lots of complicated modelling to estimated the effectiveness of ads in the real world for the their job.

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