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by ackalker 11y ago
I'm wondering why Microsoft didn't add the unique serial number requirement to its WHQL driver testing, allowing vendors who realize too late that their shipped devices don't have a unique serial number to add the "magic
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by ackalker 11y ago
How about this one? mcoll - Modern API for python collections: https://github.com/nvbn/mcoll
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by ackalker 11y ago
Ergo: use a distribution like Arch Linux or Gentoo. Arch Linux has the advantage that you don't have to build everything from source yourself. Both have the advantage that the build scripts are easy to understand (Arch PKGBUILDs more s
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by ackalker 11y ago
From README.md: M/o/Vfuscator 2.0 is a complete C compiler, and will be available soon. Just be patient, or submit patches :-)
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by ackalker 11y ago
I'm filled with joy to see that PicoLisp runs on OpenWRT. I would love to see PilOS itself running on a wireless router, if only to be able to brag: "My router runs Lisp!" :-)
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by ackalker 11y ago
Atom runs as a Web app in Electron (formerly atom-shell), which is basically a stripped-down version of the Chromium browser combined with Node.js and some additions to ease interop between the Web app and the host OS. Npm uses Web protocol
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by ackalker 11y ago
> ... they don't have google's keys Assumptions, assumptions.
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by ackalker 11y ago
Moments after hitting this article, I was 'greeted' by the most awful, full blast, in-my-face, nausea-inducing swinging pop-up begging me to sign up i've ever seen. Please take it down asap, thank you.
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by ackalker 11y ago
Just for the record: Arch does have testing and staging repositories for testing new versions of packages that may cause major breakage if they have bugs or packaging problems. AFAIK new versions of glibc, other major libraries, systemd, Li
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by ackalker 11y ago
Those are some very useful oneliners, thanks! :) Please consider adding them to the Arch Wiki (if they're not already on it).
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by ackalker 11y ago
I believe an important reason why Arch is easier to maintain has to do with its minimal package customization: Applications already have their own learning curve, custom packaging only adds to this. Just reading the documentation or googlin
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by ackalker 11y ago
I'm wondering if that question was meant to be rhetorical or merely self-referential. :)
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by ackalker 11y ago
Cool stuff! I'm wondering: are there other fun things people have done with Git repositories? Things that come to mind are: - Family trees, genealogy - Electrical circuit schematics - Storylines for books, movies, RPG - Accounting, led
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by ackalker 11y ago
Have you watched the movie "Eagle Eye"? How about "WarGames: The Dead Code"? If not, please do. Both, in their own way, have some interesting points regarding the risks involved in using A.I. in warfare, as well as the r
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by ackalker 11y ago
It is quite possible that the regex doesn't match anything useful. From the looks of it, I would say it was generated using a fuzzing tool, in much the same way as what lead to the discovery of the Shellshock vulnerability.
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by ackalker 11y ago
From the changelog: ** The preference do_braindead_shortcircuit_evaluation is now enabled by default. Yup, that put a grin on my face that is going to stay there at least for the rest of the day.
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by ackalker 11y ago
Correction: for a small minority of those potentially interested, see my previous comment. For everyone else: welcome to the world of the hacking underdogs :)
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by ackalker 11y ago
Irony isn't lost on those of us who are not USian (that's 95.5% of the world's population, last I checked), some of whom may feel compelled to take their first steps into the world of hacking (monkeying around with IP anonymi
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by ackalker 11y ago
Very interesting, but personally I would look for some kind of aesthetic beauty in an algorithm, not just a notorious history, before I would consider it "art". Take this one for example: it is an implementation of the Quicksort a
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by ackalker 11y ago
Reading the title, I was worried for a moment that I had clicked through a time portal. GIFs. Aren't they as old as CompuServe? Then I read the body text, thinking: "Do I know anyone who hasn't turned off GIF animation in t
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by ackalker 11y ago
Ah, okay, but that would imply that GitTorrent doesn't make any use of the swarming capability which makes BitTorrent special. Not using swarming brings back all of the old problems of NAT traversal, asymmetric upload/download ban
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by ackalker 11y ago
The problem is not with deltas between revisions (i.e. the commits themselves) but with the Git packs spanning multiple revisions. At the time of a `git pull`, a user's repository can be at any revision between initial and latest. Who
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by ackalker 11y ago
A very interesting idea, GitTorrent, but I have one question which comes to me whenever I read about a delta-based distribution scheme: who is going to generate and share all those deltas? Some Linux distributions have experimented with del
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by ackalker 11y ago
The economic context of copyright, in particular the current system of compensation based on royalties, is bad because it creates an unrealistic multiplier effect. The classic example: for every loaf of bread a baker bakes, the variable cos
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by ackalker 11y ago
I cannot help but say that this reminds me (an awful lot) of the Umbrella Corporation. Except for its involvement in bioengineering that is, but who knows what's yet to come. The truth may yet turn out to not be that much stranger than
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by ackalker 11y ago
New ideas go through stages of acceptance, both from within and without. From within, the sequence moves from “barely seeing” a pattern several times, then noting it but not perceiving its “cosmic” significance, then using it
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by ackalker 11y ago
Too bad that for some reason in my browser (Chromium version 43.0.2357.65 (64-bit) on Arch Linux), HiDPI setup (which was added to Chromium very recently), the fonts look extremely blurry, giving me the irresistible urge to squeeze my eyeli
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by ackalker 11y ago
Joy! After the speedy download from Github (which weighs in at more than 40 times the capacity of the hard drive which held my first *nix system), I was able to locate a patch I submitted to FreeBSD in less than 12 seconds from running gitk
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by ackalker 11y ago
Just how does using `git init`, `git add`, `git commit`, `git push`, `git merge`, `git pull` force one to know Git's implementation details? Even thinking of Git as a security camera watching your shop (working tree), a VCR (record, fo
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Health risks of firmware-based attacks: Real or tin-foil hattery?
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