Seirdy

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by Seirdy 5y ago
You deserve every bit of it, and then some. The scope of Marginalia may be small, but it is one of the best examples of making the non-commercial web accessible to a much larger audience. I hope it inspires others to tackle similar projects
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Kagi's interesting. On the surface, it seems like a metasearch engine. But upon closer inspection, two of its sources--its news and "non-commercial" Teclis indexes--are actually developed by the Kagi team, and can be used ind
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by Seirdy 5y ago
I'm glad they brought up Marginalia; it's one of my favorite engines. Teclis[0] and Wiby[1] are similar contenders in the non-commercial search space. [0]: http://teclis.com/ [1]: https://wiby.me/
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by Seirdy 5y ago
It evolved into Butteraugli which was incorporated into libjxl, which powers the reference JPEG-XL encoder. It also optionally powers libaom's encoding, which is in turn used by libavif and libwebp2 (for the WIP WebP2 image format).
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WAI Web Accessibility Tutorials(w3.org)
1 points by Seirdy 5y ago|0 comments
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by Seirdy 5y ago
The only thing that the GPL family prevents is coercion, effectively reaching a local minima of coercion-by-others as a function of coercion-by-vendor. Granting the freedom to coerce doesn't reduce coercion.
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by Seirdy 5y ago
HedgeDoc is a FLOSS self-hostable collaborative markdown editor in the browser: https://hedgedoc.org/
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Then pick a standardized dialect. Commonmark is the lowest common denominator; GFM is useful for when you need some extra features. Markdown also allows HTML for whenever you need something fancy. The advantage of markdown isn't robust
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Yeah, in high school I and another student did our essay peer reviews using annotated diffs once. It was so much easier than Google Docs, since we didn't have to leave our editors. Wrapping version control with a non-tech-friendly porc
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by Seirdy 5y ago
> Closed-source software doesn't allow verifying it, so it's safest to assume it's insecure. The bulk of the article was a response to this claim: it covered how closed-source software can have its security analyzed throug
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Frugal Computing (2021)(wimvanderbauwhede.github.io)
102 points by Seirdy 5y ago|95 comments
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Mutesting has been my "new favorite thing" for a while. I hope that mutation scores replace flawed metrics like statement coverage in the future. Sqlite's test suite[0] is probably my favorite example of its power. [0]: htt
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by Seirdy 5y ago
I cited multiple pieces of FLOSS that employ and benefit from fuzzing, making an example out of a Linux bug that allowed sandbox escapes that was found through fuzzing rather than source analysis. Humans suck at finding subtle issues purely
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by Seirdy 5y ago
(am author) I'm actually going to touch on that Ken Thompson article in a follow-up about how sandboxing can improve not just security, but user freedom/control too (if implemented a certain way). It'll go over how software i
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Have you noticed a pushback against FLOSS? I'd be interested if that's the case. I went out of my way in this post to make it clear that I'm vehemently in support of FLOSS for a solid list of reasons; it's just that &quo
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by Seirdy 5y ago
This user copy-pasted my comment from lobste.rs without context and added their own unrelated link to the end. Original comment: https://lobste.rs/s/8ajhgl/right_thing_for_wrong_reasons_flo...
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by Seirdy 5y ago
There's no need for an extension; plenty of websites are part of webrings or feature blogrolls. I'm in the process of adding one to mine. Throw in some microformats2 and/or schema.org structured data and you're good to g
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by Seirdy 5y ago
I listed a few in the first paragraph, and a few relatively inactive ones near the bottom for a more slow-paced conversation.
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Ehhh... I'd say tildes.net, most project-specific forums (Discourse instances for FLOSS projects come to mind: Fedora, Let's Encrypt, F-Droid, Signal, and others), several mailing lists, and perhaps even lobste.rs are far more con
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The right thing for the wrong reasons: FLOSS doesn't imply security(seirdy.one)
37 points by Seirdy 5y ago|49 comments
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The right thing for the wrong reasons: FLOSS doesn't imply security(seirdy.one)
1 points by Seirdy 5y ago|0 comments
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by Seirdy 5y ago
A different language, most likely. I'd use Python for this if the work being done isn't too CPU-intensive and I can afford to make big tradeoffs. If you want to do data validation like this but for something with better performanc
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Many would argue that this mentality of scarcity is necessary to ensure that our ecological footprint is negligible.
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Chances are, if you've chosen Python for a new project today then you're willing to trade a lot of speed for developer convenience already.
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Firejail has had multiple sandbox escape vulns in the past. Firejail is an SUID executable in which sandbox escapes can lead to privilege escalation. In contrast, Systemd allows you to run services as unprivileged users, and even create use
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by Seirdy 5y ago
> On a system running primarily trusted open source applications I'm not sure how releasing the source code to a program alters its security state or makes the bugs disappear. Security audits typically rely on binary analysis and ru
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by Seirdy 5y ago
X11 has no GUI isolation which in this day and age is inexcusable in a desktop operating system. The only decent attempt at proper isolation for X that I know of is Qubes, done using Xen. Furthermore, Wayland can have lower input latency th
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by Seirdy 5y ago
It's more nuanced than that. If your goal is to have a desktop without screen tearing, you will beed a compositor. Wayland will do better at minifying latency than an X11 compositor due to having better frame scheduling. This is especi
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Falsehoods programmers believe about video(haasn.dev)
6 points by Seirdy 5y ago|0 comments
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by Seirdy 5y ago
This is like a less contributor-hostile alternative to your typical CLA: instead of being used to allow proprietization of contributions by taking rights to contributions from contributors, the DCO serves only to ensure that your contributi

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