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by als0 6y ago
There's been a surge of activity in the last year or so due to the re-release of WoW Classic, also known as Vanilla. There are rumours that Burning Crusade will also be re-released soon. I suspect the potential revenue is too good for
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by als0 6y ago
While you make good points about the potential defense-in-depth aspects of Xen, the reality is that features like stub domains and dom0less have been very experimental and aren't enabled by default or used in production. They were firs
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by als0 6y ago
Has anyone tried comparing Xen's performance on the Pi against KVM? Any reason to choose the former over the latter?
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Spamtoberfest(drewdevault.com)
144 points by als0 6y ago|64 comments
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by als0 6y ago
Does anyone know why there's been a long delay for x64 support? Performance problems? Or did some specific x86 patent expire?
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by als0 6y ago
Is there a way to use this without the remote? The microphone is a dealbreaker.
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by als0 6y ago
AArch64 also has a larger number of registers, which can make a big difference for workloads.
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A Story of Two Libc's(drewdevault.com)
13 points by als0 6y ago|2 comments
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by als0 6y ago
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by als0 6y ago
Yeah I'm surprised HTTPSEverywhere with EASE isn't a part of the Tor browser. Maybe a contributor on here can comment?
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by als0 6y ago
> potentially impersonating the SSH service Assuming the remote client has authenticated the host in ~/.ssh/known_hosts and assuming your unprivileged user hasn't got access to the host's private SSH keys in /etc
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by als0 6y ago
Sorry, I misread your comment.
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by als0 6y ago
> Bug 11154: Disable TLS 1.0 (and 1.1) by default I'm still a little shocked by this. It's 2020 and we were still allowing these old protocols?
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by als0 6y ago
I think it remains the best in class for private browsing. They have to make difficult trade-offs that achieve acceptable levels of performance while not leaking metadata like a sieve. They do also have a good track record of handling secur
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by als0 6y ago
You can't guarantee security of anything, ever. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to prevent attacks. Of course timescales and assets are important. For the movie streaming industry, it's a certain number of months
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by als0 6y ago
> I generally tend to think that an attacker with hardware access will compromise that hardware sooner or later, and you should design your security measures around that assumption. There are two types of hardware attackers. Those who ha
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by als0 6y ago
In theory an unprivileged user can't obtain privileged port numbers through programs because the permission would be denied.
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by als0 6y ago
And Fail2ban if you want to temporarily block an IP after too many authentication attempts.
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by als0 6y ago
Microsoft bought the legendary game company Rare some time ago. That acquisition didn't go well, so I hope this works out well for Bethesda.
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The unrealized potential of federation(drewdevault.com)
194 points by als0 6y ago|197 comments
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by als0 6y ago
> As of changes made in March - before that Croc sent the key in the clear to the relay That doesn't instill me with confidence about its development
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by als0 6y ago
It's sad that 365 support is made by various independent projects who aren't working together to make a library that every mail client can take advantage of.
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by als0 6y ago
ARM has a design center in the USA, which means they are under obligation to prove that their technology isn't illegally exported.
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by als0 6y ago
> Essentially they will have a full overview of the Arm ecosystem - will lots of confidential information This is the real danger among everything.
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by als0 6y ago
> If they want a world-class CPU team for the data-center, ARM isn't that (Graviton Graviton uses Neoverse CPU cores, which are designed by ARM. To say that ARM is not a world-class CPU team is unfair. Especially as Ampere just anno
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by als0 6y ago
Disk controllers have been "smart" for the last 15 years. There's just a desire to run Linux instead of a barebones RTOS.
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by als0 6y ago
The new parts are 64-bit instruction set and MMU.
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Google Search Appliance(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by als0 6y ago|1 comments
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by als0 6y ago
RTLinux is a special supervisor below the kernel that allows you to run "hard-realtime" programs outside of the Linux environment with a lot of restrictions. Everything within the Linux environment is soft. As far as I can tell, i
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Arm’s destiny is vital for Britain’s future(ft.com)
1 points by als0 6y ago|0 comments

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