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by _wmd 11y ago
> The PRISM program collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google Inc. under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms
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by _wmd 11y ago
This is quite a cavalier recommendation for proprietary unaudited (for the public at least) spyware that uploads your phone book to a company participating in PRISM.
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by _wmd 11y ago
> As of today, the integration is fully complete. Users running the most recent versions of WhatsApp on any platform now get full end to end encryption for every message they send and every WhatsApp call they make when communicating with
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by _wmd 11y ago
I think you're misinterpreting that idea, it's about not granting the police privilege they did not already possess. In this case the police are offering to trade the privilege of airtight, forensically sound evidence collection i
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by _wmd 11y ago
It seems to me the risk is almost entirely on the police in this scenario, meddling with running equipment is far from forensically sound and potentially leaves ample room for doubt in court. Volunteering to comply with the police request w
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by _wmd 11y ago
Presumably most of the defences written for GCs are from people who haven't spent much time in C. Pool allocators are common elsewhere outside gaming, for example Samba's talloc, Apache httpd's APR and a bunch more places lik
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by _wmd 11y ago
https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz is another active fork of mutt with a whole bunch of improvements that haven't made it upstream yet. It's been accepting patches for most of the time mutt upstream had been
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by _wmd 11y ago
Sweetness, the license change means anyone can use mkbundle with --static. Essentially you can produce a single executable containing an embedded copy of the mono runtime, this wouldn't have been possible been possible under the previo
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by _wmd 11y ago
PHP has had an extension module repository since 1999
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by _wmd 11y ago
Pray tell, what is the minimum size that should be required before permitting a dependency? Constant-time string compare is only 5 lines or so, should we cutpaste security critical functions too? "We ran your code on $new_arch and disc
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by _wmd 11y ago
Writing a 15 line function shouldn't grant someone the right to break an entire language ecosystem I think the real issue though here is technical - does npm really allow mutation of published assets like this? That's a shitty sit
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by _wmd 11y ago
"I saw OLE, I saw Outlook Express, I wrote code for both, it's hard for me to believe in Microsoft" Shitty apps and shitty tech :) XUL was conceptually nice but in reality a nightmare for efficiency and pretty much it was jus
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by _wmd 11y ago
This would break the mandate of allowing C90 programs to run "largely unchanged" (see text)
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by _wmd 11y ago
I can't imagine Google is building clusters at such an alarming rate that it would justify manufacturing its own silicon for edge deployment, which suggests whatever commodity silicon is in the magic box can probably be found in a vari
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by _wmd 11y ago
So it was a mystery-inducing way of referring to some commodity SDN-related tech, thanks, that's far more informative than the paper :)
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by _wmd 11y ago
The paper talks a lot about pushing Linux out of the way in the receive path (including to avoid copies), only to have a demultiplexing thread steer packets once they arrive in userspace. Linux has PACKET_MMAP for a long time and modern lin
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by _wmd 11y ago
Commercially available?
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by _wmd 11y ago
> to build clusters at scale, we want to avoid the need to place Maglev machines in the same layer-2 domain as the router, so hardware encapsulators are deployed behind the router, which tunnel packets from routers to Maglev machines Is
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by _wmd 11y ago
ExternalProject is for the build itself to pull down dependencies, this looks more end-user (or end-dev) orientated
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by _wmd 11y ago
It's not difficult to mimic overlapped IO using a thread pool, and not that much less efficient either, assuming the pending request count is quite low
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by _wmd 11y ago
This is so far off the mark.. Even in the absence of variable-width fields, the presence of nullable fields causes the majority of database tables to have variable-width rows. In any case, neither of these are reasons why common databases d
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by _wmd 11y ago
You're asking for 2 major tech steppings in a single product. We don't even have many mass market NVMe drives yet, and that aside, they're undoubtedly pushing the limits of their existing controller tech just to handle the ca
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by _wmd 11y ago
I downvoted this comment because its style heavily encourages low value combative tit-for-tat replies, half of it is quotations from the parent comment, and the remainder is posing questions in favour of adding thoughtful commentary (parent
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by _wmd 11y ago
So in other words, crappy wifi?
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by _wmd 11y ago
Just because some concrete system call interface is missing doesn't mean you can't glue layers of code together from different languages, that's some logical jump I don't understand. The single language constraint you&#x
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by _wmd 11y ago
I can't help but respond to each of these incredibly myopic comments that suggest some deficiency with unikernels that doesn't already exist with a traditional OS: this exact same problem exists on Linux, except there you have mul
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by _wmd 11y ago
> The biggest problem with Unikernels like Mirage is the single language constraint Do you write all your software in C? Of course not. The single language constraint doesn't exist, for the same reasons we can write Go software that
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by _wmd 11y ago
> you could imagine a unikernel that did support fork() and preemptive multitasking but took advantage of the fact that every process trusts every other one No need to imagine, this is exactly how Microsoft Singularity worked (it benefit
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by _wmd 11y ago
I think the problems with this article are well covered already. Just a suggestion for Joyent: articles like this are damaging to your excellent reputation, would suggest a thin layer of review before hitting the post button! Some additiona
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by _wmd 11y ago
Agner Fog's PDFs are the closest thing I know of

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