Karellen

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by Karellen 3y ago
> I more surprised an os would let you make a user with "../../" in the name though. There may be protections at some levels, but eventually a username is just an entry in a database. Admittedly, you do have to be on
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by Karellen 3y ago
The ability to specify limited groups of commands that a subset of users can run, among other things. The "Examples" section of the sudoers(5) man page is probably a good place to start to get an idea of the sorts of ways it can b
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by Karellen 3y ago
> NO! Poor people are crazy, Jack. I'm eccentric . -- Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper), Speed , 1994
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by Karellen 3y ago
That hasn't been incorporated into the model yet, because, unlike the others it hasn't been around since the days of yore.
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Isn't this something you can just configure at the server level Oh, yeah. I mean, you have to configure the server to treat extensionless files as html/cgi/php/whatever anyway, so you could just have it load extensi
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by Karellen 3y ago
I prefer not using an extension. That way if I change my site infrastructure from, e.g. static html, to php, to mediawiki, to cgi-bin, to asp, to ruby on rails, all my URLs can stay the same (because cool URLs don't change ) throughou
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by Karellen 3y ago
I'm actually kinda surprised that even a single-threaded implementation isn't bottlenecked by I/O speed limits.
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by Karellen 3y ago
> if it detects its compiling a compiler it inserts a back door routine, That's going to be hard . If you're compiling yourself, sure, you know how the compiler is structured and what the source code looks like, so it's e
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by Karellen 3y ago
Yes, I also read the article. But, as an English speaker, I found their link to the BBC coverage of the same incident more useful.
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by Karellen 3y ago
What on earth is Linux doing with generating Windows binary (PE) headers? ...oh, EFI boot stuff. Almost forgot it's all FAT filesystems and PE binaries. That'll be an interesting bit of greyhair lore on Linux systems 40 years from
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by Karellen 3y ago
Hmmm....men are fairly highly pressured by (modern western) society to not get attached after sex, and are somewhat likely to deny or at least play down feelings of attachment that they might naturally feel - even to themselves. I'm no
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by Karellen 3y ago
The problem isn't that tools make jobs easier, it's that when jobs get easier the benefits accrue to the owners of capital - by erasing jobs - instead of to the people doing the jobs - by allowing them to create the same amount of
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by Karellen 3y ago
And psychics don't pretend to get into long-running feuds with each other, and pretend to settle those feuds with drop-kicks and suplexes, in front of mass audiences. (At least, not to my knowledge) Did you think I thought, and was imp
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by Karellen 3y ago
For me, the answer is "because native mail clients are so much snappier and responsive". As well as being able to choose my client based on the interface I prefer, rather than whatever UI the webmail provider decides to give me. A
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by Karellen 3y ago
Also Claws Mail for Windows: https://www.claws-mail.org/win32/ (The URL is /win32/, but there are 64-bit builds there too)
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by Karellen 3y ago
DRM is enabled by copyright law. DRM only works because talking about how to break it, and collaborating on tools that enable breaking it, is illegal - because of copyright law. DRM relies on giving people the ciphertext, and the decoder, t
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by Karellen 3y ago
What usability features of Gnome do you find indispensable that prevent you from moving to a lighter-weight DE, like LXDE, XFCE or Cinnamon?
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by Karellen 3y ago
> But the fact remains that a lot of people still believe. But also, a lot of people still believe in professional wrestling. Are pro wrestlers ripping people off? Were pro wrestlers ripping people off worse in the '80s and earlier,
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by Karellen 3y ago
> As regulations are written, drones are aircraft navigating through federal airspace in the same way as fixed-wing, helicopters, ultralights, hot air balloons, etc. That airspace extends from your shoelaces to the heavens. I'm not
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by Karellen 3y ago
One clock may be an easily changeable thing, but is it really that much easier than changing one sign? Besides, if you knew you'd be changing your opening times throughout the year, then when you ordered a sign you'd just order bo
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by Karellen 3y ago
The root of the word "degree" basically means "units" or "subdivisions" or "measurements" or "amounts". We didn't really have a better word for units of temperature, as "Celsiuses&
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by Karellen 3y ago
* /etc/resolv.conf
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by Karellen 3y ago
Because most "free speech absolutists" don't actually care about free speech; they just want to be arseholes without consequences, and "but muh freeze peach!" is a handy rallying cry.
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by Karellen 3y ago
> there are a bunch of different movements all using the "defund the police" moniker. That leads to a lot of disagreement about what it means, and the most extreme types (who really mean eliminate the police) use it too. It mig
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by Karellen 3y ago
> A door handle affords opening. It's a bit more subtle than that. From my copy of the 2002 edition (p.9): > Affordances provide strong clues to the operations of things. Plates are for pushing. Knobs are for turning. Slots are f
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by Karellen 3y ago
> No, but don't try to assert conjecture as facts. I hedged with "I wasn't aware", "pretty sure", "ordinarily", and ended with a question mark. I don't know how I could have been more guarded
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by Karellen 3y ago
Cool, TIL. I was kind of there, but I don't feel like this is something I should necessarily have been aware of: > apart from one diagnostic tape available from IBM, there seems never to have been any software sold on tape, and th
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by Karellen 3y ago
Huh. I wasn't aware that cassette tapes were used on the systems that PKZip ran on either. Pretty sure DOS didn't have tape drive support ordinarily, and I wasn't aware that PKZip was widely ported to anything that wasn'
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by Karellen 3y ago
It was a well-established tradition before PKZip came along https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_MZ_executable
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by Karellen 3y ago
Tape drives were used on a lot of early computers, including the hardware that ran early Unices (e.g. 16-bit PDP-11) and which tar/gzip were written for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7-track https:/&#x2F

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