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by _wmd 10y ago
You can do what PGPfone did and encode the fingerprint as a series of dictionary words: Real gregkh: 647F28654894E3BD457199BE38DBBDC8 = style tactful newcomers file gallows adored insist flags athletics Fake gregkh: 497C48CE16B926E93F496301
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by _wmd 10y ago
Google are very good at pumping out "standards" that fill short term commercial goals while in the meantime making a fragmented pig's breakfast of the rest of the web. Aside from HTML 5 (which I'm coming to accept was ju
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by _wmd 10y ago
This hasn't really been true on Linux for a long time, glibc happily munmaps unused arenas when they empty and some dynamic threshold is reached
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by _wmd 10y ago
Hardly obscure, every modern OS has an equivalent feature, but only OSX and Windows unify it with the regular filesystem API. Streams and resource forks are a play on a now-standard UNIX feature that almost nobody uses because it has a shit
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by _wmd 10y ago
IIRC Chromium still requires significant patchwork and build time flags to fully disconnect it from the mothership, the engine itself has no such dependencies
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by _wmd 10y ago
Mailing customers a "3 click questionnaire" some time after purchase might be enough, it seems to work just fine for e.g. delivery food marketplaces.
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by _wmd 10y ago
Peppering your description with 100 uses of the word "arbitrary" and "crafted" does not cause expected behaviour to become a security vulnerability! That's not a "crafted" location header, it's a perf
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Pro Linux systems spelunking(pythonsweetness.tumblr.com)
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by _wmd 10y ago
It costs a fortune to map a file on every OS I've tried, it makes little sense unless you're consuming a lot of data from few files rather than little data from many files
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by _wmd 10y ago
Do ROMs come this big? SSDs make a shitty long term storage solution as they require continuous write cycles to keep the data alive which causes damage to the flash over time Can't imagine a 512GB ROM would ever be economical given the
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by _wmd 10y ago
In many locales by law businesses are required to maintain certain sets of documents at their registered address. For example in the UK this includes at least the company articles of incorporation, although the list is more extensive than t
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by _wmd 10y ago
IIRC you can use the search API to enumerate 1000 at a time, using a "created_at>=..." restriction to move the cursor starting position. I had to poke in the code to find out how to talk Amazon's search syntax directly
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by _wmd 10y ago
I've never experienced the entire machine locking up before (going back 10+ years), only IO becoming severely locked up when writeback can't keep up with new IO, and always happened on non-USB media too.
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by _wmd 10y ago
Is anyone qualified to comment on what this will do with my OS X address book and similar data should I open it? edit: on the plus side, looks like it's just their web app repackaged using Electron. Still not sure what all these helper
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by _wmd 10y ago
If you insist on drawing continuous attention to meta drama (this is something very new to HN since PG stepped back), then please at least document exactly what it is you're apologizing for rather than making some vague remarks then li
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by _wmd 10y ago
Initial steps toward DRM on the audio path?
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by _wmd 10y ago
Is there any practical limit to how much energy a device like this can buffer before springing into action? I'm just curious if it would be possible to quickly leech enough to power a peripheral like a solenoid, or at least ensure enou
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by _wmd 10y ago
Move to the US and pay taxes
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by _wmd 10y ago
Most pen testers I know wouldn't have the first clue about internetworking beyond what they learned from some Wireshark video tutorial
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by _wmd 11y ago
Usual ASN.1 caveat: parsing its specifications requires money and a lot of time, implementing many of its encodings (e.g. unaligned PER) is a lifetime's work, and even the simpler ones thousands of eyes haven't managed to get righ
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by _wmd 11y ago
Most of this comes from BSON also being the internal storage format for a database server. For example, at least the redundant string NULs make it possible to use C library functions without copying, the unpacked ints allow direct dereferen
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by _wmd 11y ago
Licensing and stewardship at the least. 7 years ago, back when Nokia's coffers were fat and they could afford to fund the original PySide, for some reason they could or would not just buy up Riverbank Computing. That's the (presum
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by _wmd 11y ago
Given recent history and the public reports of kernel developers, it may not run "out of the box" acceptably for its target market (low power devices) for quite some time after release. (see: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.or
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by _wmd 11y ago
You bundle or create it yourself.. $ apt-get source bash $ cd bash*/ $ quilt new my_urgent_patch $ patch -p1 < ~/my-urgent-patch.diff $ quilt add file1 file2 $ quilt refresh $ dpkg-buildpackage ...
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by _wmd 11y ago
> when things go wrong, you want to be prepared to patch source on a moment's notice, rather than waiting for the upstream synchronization dance This is IMHO the most backwards logic ever. Everything about dpkg and apt makes this pr
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by _wmd 11y ago
Which part of https://www.eriklundblad.com/log/post/lets-encrypt-on-freebs... is hard?
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by _wmd 11y ago
Got a reference for this? I literally just bumped into the rate limit today
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by _wmd 11y ago
Parsing a few bytes of extra text pales in comparison to sending anything across the network. For example in the time it takes to call an uncontended futex() on Intel Xeon, libxml2 can parse about a kilobyte of XML
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by _wmd 11y ago
Hey Brian, Just wanted to say thanks for Stomp, protocols that are simple enough to be easily reimplemented are definitely underrated. The Python story for Stomp is not so great, especially working with Twisted (e.g. there I think stompest
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by _wmd 11y ago
How does the app figure out another telephone number has a WhatsApp account? How does it fetch profile information for that telephone number without communicating the desire to fetch it to WhatsApp? Perhaps WhatsApp ships their entire profi

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