PeterWhittaker

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by PeterWhittaker 1y ago
I tend to do something like this. Normally, I wouldn't include the extra jobs calls and extra echo calls, these are just to show what is happening. #!/usr/bin/env bash runUntilDoneOrTimeout () { local
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by PeterWhittaker 1y ago
It would be cool to be able to pick a start time and a reminder period: starting at 9am, e.g., prompt me to exercise every 45 minutes, with a defer option.
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by PeterWhittaker 1y ago
Does X10 for plank and jogging mean 10 seconds, or get into the position, hold, and return to rest 10 times?
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by PeterWhittaker 1y ago
Also, it's lose your streak , not loose .
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by PeterWhittaker 1y ago
> I've never heard of queen Victoria having Habsburg ancestry AFAIK, the only Hapsburg to come near her throne was Phillip II of Spain, husband of Queen Mary (16th C). Ah! I just checked, and the article now contains the following:
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by PeterWhittaker 1y ago
> Man has a natural inclination to worship something. For most of human history, that has been the divine/supernatural/metaphysical. Nowadays, rationalism and materialism have become the main objects of worship. But rationalism
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by PeterWhittaker 1y ago
I find the article very interesting and informative but, honestly, of all of the approaches, I find the basic switch to be the most readable and likely the most maintainable, at least for this case.
98.
by PeterWhittaker 1y ago
Bwa ha ha ha ha, no.
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by PeterWhittaker 1y ago
True, but even those calls require appropriate permissions, and will fail if the program lacks said perms. (Just to emphasize the point that the original article doesn't provide a means of privilege escalation, nor exploit a vulnerabil
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by PeterWhittaker 1y ago
This isn't a "bypass" (and it certainly isn't "terrifying", as reported on /. and elsewhere). 1. The program can only do what it is permitted to do: io_uring just reduces the number of system calls require
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by PeterWhittaker 1y ago
I will definitely check out the sudo-bash deck, thanks!
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by PeterWhittaker 1y ago
Great presentation. I've been writing bash for waaaay too long, and, while I nodded and said yup, yup, a few times, I also learned some new tricks, so thank you! The social graces having been observed, if you were to update this presen
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by PeterWhittaker 1y ago
That. Is. Evil. Nuke it from orbit, or something like that.
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
No, though HMACs can play a role. It was a protocol developed specifically for establishment of secure, encrypted, authenticated, and integrity-protected sessions. I've been racking my brain trying to remember (rarely accessed memories
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
Interest article, but overlooks SPEKE, which solves problem #1. There is another protocol for authenticated and integrity protected key exchange, one that solved both the problem of authenticity and integrity attacks, but I cannot recall it
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
The Suzuki Method of violin training, perhaps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_method
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
There are applications where ncurses is still a great approach for a controlled, structured UI, e.g., certain security appliances with complex configurations where web UIs, e.g., are not, by default, permissible. (I spend a lot of time in n
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
If Bar inherited from Foo, Bar would have Foo's methods. So if you implemented Bar for Gum, Gum would get Bar and Foo. But Bar requiring Foo means that if you want to use Gum in a place that expects Bar, Gum must have both Bar's m
109.
by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
...as does parfait.
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
1) 2018 2) I recently discovered the implementation of free_on_exit won't work if called directly from main if gcc aligns the stack. In this case, main adds padding between the saved eip and the saved ebp, (example). I think this can
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
> But this? Too early. Part of me understands this sentiment, which I take to be rooted in a feeling that he was of such value and had so much potential remaining that why would he take himself away from us... ...and those last few words
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
The conflation of SIGINT and cryptology makes me doubt the writer's understanding of the field. While cryptography and cryptanalysis have long been important to the field, they are but one aspect. I won't offer a meaningless perce
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
That website misrepresents the RFC in a way that I can only describe as deliberate and egregious. To quote the RFC itself , "This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.&q
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
But surely any limits on formal systems apply to informal systems? By this, I am more or less suggesting that formal systems are the best we can do, the best possible representations of knowledge, computability, etc., and that informal syst
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
OK, try this for size, bearing in mind that it is a heuristic argument. No one can "know", with certainty, the location of any particle. Or, to be slightly more accurate, the more we know of its location, the less we know of its m
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
One reason I can guess: measured response (or more) against adversarial actions. Like when someone blows up something of yours so you hit something of theirs. We know that many state agents - and others - are conducting offensive cyber op
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
Canada says "you're welcome". (Quite some time ago US and Canadian researchers worked to trap and transport eagles from northern Canada, where there will still several thousand; those birds helped restore the population in th
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
I shall employ this to recast the why of my work-swearing: I am not swearing at or about the idiot who wrote this code (note: sometimes the idiot is me), I am swearing to increase my productivity/focus as I pickOneOrMoreFromList(&quot
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
Interesting. While I do appreciate that it runs on i386, I have to question its being aimed at students - or at least students of anything other than the history of computing. i386 implies BIOS, AFAIK, and requires pre-x86_64 assembler, whi
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by PeterWhittaker 2y ago
We absolutely do not and never have.

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