PeterLGummybear

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   by PeterLGummybear 8y ago

   The XNU networking stack is complete garbage in general. Have you ever seen all the crazy hard-coded stuff they have for different types of network mediums -- wifi vs cellular vs etc -- and in the kernel? It's bonkers. Plus a weird evo
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   by PeterLGummybear 8y ago

   And indeed it's time to give up on the web being a document format only. The internet is about loading remote applications in your local sandbox. That's what it is. It sucks, but it is what it is. As part of loading remote applica
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   by PeterLGummybear 8y ago

   The first comment in there is really gold. Get rid of sysvinit, but please do invest efforts in advancing init systems. The problem is clearly not "solved" and we need diversity.
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   by PeterLGummybear 8y ago

   I'm all for rewriting things into safe languages, but I do like the battle-tested nature of C things, like unbound. For example, I'm interested in replacing my smtpd daemon with something better. I'm most tempted to go with p
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   by PeterLGummybear 8y ago

   The other day we saw an article about someone embedding a .zip in a jpeg that survived twitter's thumbnailing. What about doing similar things with the eicar string or other false positives that make antivirus freak out? This seems lik