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by _wmd 8y ago
I logged in for the first time to see what it was.. same deal here, have stopped adopting new Google products since 2013 (the Reader debacle naturally)
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by _wmd 8y ago
My bet is this decision is driven somewhere by marketing morons who want 'www.google' (presumably a domain that will at some point exist, the TLD already does) to render as simply 'google'
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by _wmd 8y ago
A cursory search ( https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22patched+zero-day%22 ) reveals many industry sources misusing it following that definition. How can a 0day ever possibly be considered "patched" if the vendor
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by _wmd 8y ago
I don't know what communities you hang around, but there has never been some strict definition of 0day in infosec. 0day colloquially applies to anything circulating that didn't follow reasonable vendor disclosure, as was the case
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by _wmd 8y ago
Anything involving larger-than-cache sized graph walks will usually be memory limited, be it compilation or iterating an XML document
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by _wmd 8y ago
Please avoid commenting without first reading the article. > If we want a break, why not turn off our phones? > “Does anyone do that?” Morenstein asks. > What about tossing our phones into a shoe box?
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by _wmd 8y ago
Picking just the most fun aspect to reply to, because this is too long already :) > would this look? I'm interested by what you mean by this One area UNIX fails at is a single global flat system interface, it makes evolutionary chan
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by _wmd 8y ago
Upstream still defaults to compatibility, but some distros appear to be doing this now: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/34301 You could say Linux maintained binary compatibility which it does, but for the
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by _wmd 8y ago
I admire experimentation, so below comments should preferably be considered constructive.. > I want the binary modules any user of Olin would upload today to be still working, untouched, in 5 years, assuming its dependencies outside of t
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by _wmd 8y ago
I'm not a networker, but sounds like from a correctness standpoint, a problem on Fastly's end -- they're reusing frontend IPs for distinct sets of machines, and traffic directed to the 'wrong' PoP is dropped hard ra
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by _wmd 8y ago
I'd love to read what this page has to say, but somehow it managed to load with some click-grabbing Gawker-type theme? Half expecting a "100 Surprising Cloud Facts, And Number 12 Will Shock You" link to appear in that inexcu
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by _wmd 8y ago
As I recall, it was only finally resolved by Subversion moving to a home-built database backend, the issues with BDB were never 100% solved.
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by _wmd 8y ago
You make a fair point, it is hard to read as a bystander. However I disagree the burden of proof lies with me. I'm not here to convince you of anything, if you want to be sure of something, you must put the effort in like everyone else
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by _wmd 8y ago
That is not an opinion based on any marketing material - 389DS is an unreliable dog, and even today it's still built on top of an Oracle-owned database engine. There is no need to attack Symas for selling a supported variant of OpenLDA
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by _wmd 8y ago
This is a real shame, Howard is an absolute asset not just for his LDAP work, but for the LMDB database engine borne from it and the ton of supporting technical materials surrounding it. Symas (Chu's consulting company) have a far clea
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by _wmd 8y ago
> What do you mean by this? OP's comment is n the context of an article describing extensions to AIO to support polling, one of the benefits of that mechanism is a single call can submit new IO operations simultaneous to registering
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by _wmd 8y ago
Not sure how old your experience is, but I tested from Python via epoll a few minutes after posting (never used that option before!) and it worked as described.
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by _wmd 8y ago
I downvoted this because you provided no evidence either IOCP or kqueue were the one true solution, any evidence the epoll designer was even aware of the existence of kqueue, and if they were, whether it was relevant to his work at all. The
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by _wmd 8y ago
I might be missing something, but Linux caters to this already: SO_RCVLOWAT and SO_SNDLOWAT Specify the minimum number of bytes in the buffer until the socket layer will pass the data to the protocol (SO_SNDLOWAT) o
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by _wmd 8y ago
Kqueue doesn't support submission to begin with, no kernel<->ringbuffer support which is the point of this article, I'm not sure if it can be nested, and the cross section of features it supports differs fairly wildly from e
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by _wmd 8y ago
Thanks for clarifying.. it sounds thoroughly tragic, and the kind of endemic overengineering that made so many people (myself included) run screaming from the original App Engine over the years. I guess GCP really turned a page in Google cu
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by _wmd 8y ago
Am I correct in understanding the new environment is built on essentially a ptrace sandbox? How does that impact performance? Is it still single threaded? If you're moved beyond single threads, how does the it cope with security proble
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by _wmd 8y ago
This is why I use Django :) Not one option, but at least 14: https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/messaging/
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by _wmd 8y ago
They withdrew from China due to the scorn of their security team having their asses handed to them by the people's liberation army ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora ). 3 years later the exact same t
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by _wmd 8y ago
Seems US distance selling laws are stuck somewhere in the 1800s
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by _wmd 8y ago
See also the Transcend cards ( https://hackaday.com/2016/06/30/transcend-wifi-sd-card-is-a-... ) They're super easy to mess around with
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by _wmd 8y ago
are we talking about Google or Baidu here?
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by _wmd 8y ago
I'd offer you one blindingly obvious explanation for why it's putrid: because it is a machine deciding which of my human relationships I should pay the most attention to. Machines can't do that, silly. They can only promote h
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by _wmd 8y ago
I think you maybe missed the idea in my original comment -- opening up the platform to business and marketing in any of its guises whatsoever causes the dilution.. as is so often repeated, tech can't solve social problems, and I really
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by _wmd 8y ago
Back when I was a WhatsApp user, I for one enjoyed the refreshing total absence of notification spam. If I got a ping, it was because a real person I know had something to say. Just a cold, focused person-person messaging app. Even Facebook

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