TheLoneWolfling

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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1205/
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Some sites require JS because they do weird things like rendering stuff clientside. This site "requires" JS because... The opacity of the article is set to 0? Everything's there, everything's rendered, but they have a CS
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
I've heard the phrase "just-before-time" (or JBT) for this, i.e. compiling on the target machine.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
First off, kindly reread what I actually said, as opposed to what you skimmed :) Secondly, now that you have actually done that, you'll note I did not said JITters are inherently insecure. I said that "Trying to write a language t
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
I would, except that I couldn't without JS. Interesting catch-22 there. (Like people looking at website statistics collected using JS and then saying "see? Everyone runs JS")
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
I am not referring to archive.org as insecure, I am referring to JS as insecure. And it is. Look at the percentage of exploits for FF or Chrome that require JS and/or are in their JS engines. Trying to write a language that is compiled
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
I do not "rent" software. Full stop.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
I, personally, don't care about blocking ads. I wish to block a few things, and ads tend to fall under these categories. If ads did not fall under these categories, I wouldn't mind them: -I wish to minimize my attack surface. -I w
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
That's the processor I am looking at, as a matter of fact. That is, assuming that the next gen won't have anything better for my needs.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
And then the ad-blocker starts examining the screen itself with OCR as opposed to just fonts. Again, the cat and mouse game continues. And the ads cannot win while the user has control over their own computer.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Personally, I wish two things: 1) that rm had a (configurable) number of files / directories above which it'll ask you to double-check. 2) that files had a "pleasedontdelete" flag that rm would check and ask about.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
And so the cat and mouse game continues. That being said, ultimately as long as the user has control over what runs on their computer, they have control. Period. Things like this are doomed to failure.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Major bias here. That being said, among me and my peers I don't know of anyone who has a (non-apple) laptop without a dedicated graphics chip.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Unfortunately, they tend to be released after the other versions. And also, they seem to often be "other parts with the iGPU disabled".
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
> You give up on overclockability So let's see. Xeons are what I want now. Except for absurd prices. And that they aren't available. And that they don't overclock. And... And... As I said, I wish there was something that w
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
At an absurd price compared to their desktop lines. And also generally they come out a while after the equivalents with integrated graphics.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
This highlights one of my pet peeves with the integrated versus discrete debate. The reason why typical GPUS have high power consumption is because they are generally designed for the desktop market where they can. But you can have low-powe
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
X - ε, for very large values of ε.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
And? That still leaves a website open to doing that sort of thing on a click. (I can see it now: "like <website X> on Facebook today!" or somesuch copied to your clipboard every time you visit a site) User-initiated != user-
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Call me crazy, but I want a processor that's just that - a processor. No integrated GPU that's just sitting there taking chip resources (die space, power leakage, etc) that could be used for better things (designing things for low
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
X - ε, for very large values of ε.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
And then ad blockers will snip out the ad portion of the stream and the cat and mouse game will continue.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
So what happens when you pass something like `(?!.?|(..+?)\\1+) Or does it not support lookahead?
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Extending arbitrage with other markets, perhaps?
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Read the linked article: https://zyan.scripts.mit.edu/blog/backdooring-js/ It has the answer to your question. Namely, you can write bugs that are exploitable that aren't present in the original source , tha
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Anyone who has ever pushed a patch to the project that you're running through the minifier.
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Doesn't a sorted array trigger the worst case in that case? Either ascending or decending. It's one of the reasons not to choose the first element as the pivot, iirc. A much more interesting case is the median-of-three pivot. (Nam
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Wait. People actually visualize faces / etc?
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
It's bloat. Memory use, startup time, attack surface, terms of use (although this is more with Pocket than Hello), number of things that need to be configured on install, etc. I have no problem with Hello as a concept. I have every pro
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by TheLoneWolfling 11y ago
Sum of products is surprisingly hard to do for something like ammonium nitrate. Among other things, there are actually multiple distinct breakdowns: NH4NO3 ----> HNO3 + NH3 5 NH4NO3 ----> 2 HNO3 + 9 H2O + 4 N2 2 N

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