Suzuran

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by Suzuran 10mo ago
Since GP might not have English as their first language (their post points out that they are European) I assumed the choice of "pure" was a translation of their language's equivalent to "whole" and therefore being t
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by Suzuran 10mo ago
Yes; A half-truth is a lie by omission. For example, "Mom, there's a candy wrapper under (my brother)'s bed!" is a true statement, but the pure truth is "Mom, I ate a candy without permission and put the wrapper und
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by Suzuran 10mo ago
That's just what management does.
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by Suzuran 11mo ago
In some older IBM-built processors (channel controllers, the various iterations of the CSP), an xor of something against itself also had the effect of safely clearing a stored bad parity without triggering a parity check from reading the op
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by Suzuran 11mo ago
Actually better idea - I'll call it Schrödinger's Sarcasm. Whether or not it's sarcasm depends on whether or not my political reliability is being investigated by the secret police.
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by Suzuran 11mo ago
God I hope. (Edit: I thought of a better answer.)
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by Suzuran 11mo ago
That's the old and broke GOP. The new GOP understands that the Constitution has been fatally corrupted by woke and liberalism, and our only hope is to crown a King who speaks the Truth of all things for all of time. When nobody can say
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by Suzuran 1y ago
That's not how this works. If you cannot prove conclusively that something is not the case ever, then you must accept that somewhere in the infinity of possibility it is.
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by Suzuran 1y ago
HACTRN is the (timesharing top level job) DDT.
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by Suzuran 1y ago
That was only true in very early systems. By the time of the PDP-10, HACTRN will nag you to log in if you run most commands and the gunner would kill off your job after a relatively short interval (the exact interval differed from machine t
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by Suzuran 1y ago
The passwords were only if you were connecting over the network. If you were using a directly attached terminal, you didn't need one. RMS insisted that everyone use their UNAME as their password, but he wasn't widely listened to b
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by Suzuran 1y ago
ITS had no file permissions, but even before PWORD was installed to keep randoms from the network away there were means of keeping the turists out when the system was to be reserved for Real Work. Other parts of the system that were conside
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by Suzuran 1y ago
We can yell at junior engineers and make them fix the problems they've created. You can't yell at an AI, and it can't understand that it's created any problems.
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by Suzuran 1y ago
You're a programmer, not a rubber stamp? The unemployment line is over there then, you aren't wanted.
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by Suzuran 1y ago
Penetrations of this sort happen differently. If I want the ID of a bunch of Discord users, I don't go after Discord directly, I find some bot that the targeted users have on their discord servers, or third party service that Discord u
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by Suzuran 1y ago
The simh maintainer kicked Bob out a couple years back in a spat over containerization (no, not that kind) and changed the simh license to non-Free over it. A new fork has emerged that Bob is involved in, but it's not the same simh tha
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by Suzuran 1y ago
Someone will make it easier. All the stuff you use today used to be a lot harder and more complicated than it is now. People worked to take the difficulty off, usually because they wanted to do the same thing and the difficulty annoyed them
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by Suzuran 1y ago
It's worse than that; Null-terminated strings both predate C and were considered harmful when C was created.
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by Suzuran 1y ago
The answer isn't material; You just rewrite it in Rust, and then if anything goes wrong it's not your fault because you did The Right Thing. Rust cannot fail, it can only be failed.
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by Suzuran 1y ago
The swap partition does not have a filesystem, it is a linear list of blocks.
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by Suzuran 1y ago
/var/tmp is not allowed if you wish to pass security audits, it MUST be a bind mount to /tmp
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by Suzuran 1y ago
I noticed this awhile ago and assumed it was a deliberate move by Microsoft to suppress use of competing products.
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by Suzuran 1y ago
Try being a business where you are obligated to answer the phone in case it's a customer. We easily average a hundred junk calls for every one valid customer call. I have taken to speaking like a robot, repeating two sentences in a loo
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by Suzuran 1y ago
Not to mention the bad actors that use ad networks to drop malware, and the ad networks that don't give a shit because all money is green.
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by Suzuran 1y ago
We don't even want to pay $100k a year per developer for developers.
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by Suzuran 1y ago
I made the mistake of open-sourcing something that attracted a large mob angry that an outsider had intruded upon their space. Got doxed, death threats, and my employer was also harassed. Even after I publicly abandoned and repudiated the p
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by Suzuran 1y ago
It's not the nation state actors that you need to worry about, it's the for-profit botnets. The nation-state actors have to at least pretend to have plausible deniability and so on; The botnets are so persistent and omnipresent th
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by Suzuran 1y ago
It doesn't have to work on a technical level. Just grab a few people at random, torture them until someone admits guilt, then televise the guilty verdict and life-destroying sentence. Do this two or three times and fear will do the res
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by Suzuran 1y ago
This is not collateral damage, this is the intended effect - decreasing their competition, legal or otherwise.
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by Suzuran 1y ago
Is this the part where we start victim-blaming because platform? I feel like this is the part where we start victim-blaming because platform.

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