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by alxlaz 8y ago
It wouldn't be that difficult, it would only require some libc-related magic (but I haven't read much of the asmttpd source code to know how much of it is in there). IIRC, environment variables are passed from the parent process
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by alxlaz 8y ago
It's not stating your opinion that's taken badly, it's your opinion that's taken badly. I think everyone in their right mind can agree that in most cases it's bad for society if you break into someone else's
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by alxlaz 8y ago
The predecessor of the Champions' League used to be called the European Champion Clubs' Cup. That's a mouthful in many European languages, but especially in many of the Eastern languages. It used to be referred to as the Euro
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> China doesn't excel at soccer because of authoritarianism and because the sport is not well understood by anyone and central planning doesn't help It's hard not to be mean to someone who calls it soccer :-), but this b
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> What I will say is that if you build a web app right now and you utilize CSS and the DOM, you at least have the option of making a user friendly experience. If you compile with Qt and publish to the web with the implementation they hav
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> WebAssembly lets you bypass Javascript - it should not be viewed as a license to build web apps that ignore user-defined shortcuts, don't work with screenreaders, aren't responsive on mobile, can't be customized with use
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by alxlaz 8y ago
If we're talking about changes to the software that's used to manufactures vehicles that are driving on public roads, I sure as hell hope the odds are zero.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
In a normal company, you could absolutely not create a fictitious account that way, or re-use the credentials of someone who just left. But more important, there is a very, very long way from having created a fictitious person to being ab
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by alxlaz 8y ago
You can manage people and organize access without actually having the ability to gain access to their credentials. In fact, that's how it's supposed to work in safety-critical environments.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
You don't keep someone with wheel access from doing anything on the server. You: 1. Sign every review 2. Use the review signatures + the manufacturer's keys to sign reproducible builds of the production image (i.e. you cryptograph
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> Some manager asks IT multiple times over the course of a few weeks to create an account for a contractor, then give them permissions to access production type machines. And -- keeping in mind that production type machines operate machi
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> So he was able to sidestep the normal review process. He should not have been able to sidestep the normal review process . That's the problem in the first place. Even if you're from the sysadmin side. It should not be possib
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by alxlaz 8y ago
They have, and broadly speaking I certainly agree with how they choose to engineer their software, to an even higher degree than (whatever I still know about how) the FreeBSD team choose to engineer their software. (FWIW, that's why I
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Yeah, I remember reading that. It was a little horrifying to read but, in my experience, stuff that's written in an inflamatory tone is about 50% less dangerous than it seems.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
FreeBSD was my first real introduction to Unix and, even though I don't use it anymore, I'm still very fond of it. This was about 15 or 16 years ago, I think. That was back when hardware support, both in Linux and in FreeBSD (and
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Obviously, not all details are available, but the wording in the email suggests that the parent comment is anything but naive: > This included making direct code changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false usernames a
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by alxlaz 8y ago
You can already have an arbitrarily-powerful instance do the heavy lifting in these cases. Cloud-based instance, if you want to do it on someone else's computer. The first time I've seen it (not used it, though), Sun workstations
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> Made me wonder if it would make sense on these SoC targets to dynamically load a program from external storage and write into internal flash for execution, then start running it without a reboot. There is less reason for this today b
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by alxlaz 8y ago
It does, and, well... possibly. MIPS has been relevant only in the embedded space for the last 10 years, if not more, and even saying that it is relevant in the embedded space is kindda pushing it at this point. The widespread availabilit
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Joel Spolsky has a good story about Gates and his understanding of engineering. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev... Edit: there's a tl;dr on the particular topic of Gates&#x27
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by alxlaz 8y ago
In this particular case, you know the result has to be a subpath under /sys/class/net/... and, specifically, an interface name. I'm 95% sure that, if it's not alphanumeric, you can safely throw it out (and the
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by alxlaz 8y ago
It's not unexpected. Serious projects need more than a few days to move off Github; and there's some overlap between HN users and users who would move their tiny projects off Github on a Sunday afternoon. That being said, it'
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> Now if it were Europe style civil law, it would be different. We don't punish anyone for crimes that have not yet been committed either :-). Microsoft weren't punished because they were going to be killed Google. They were pu
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I don't use it, but I do have an installation on an older computer around here and I occasionally browse through the source code because what these guys managed to build is really damn impressive.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> In my case, if KiCAD were hosted on github, I would have already contributed by now. I suppose it's useful never to underestimate the role of culture and tradition when it comes to these things. For the Gnome project, it's pr
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> Connecting and disconnecting projectors and external displays on the fly? It's been doing this fine since back when it was Gnome 2. > HiDPI displays? AFAIK, basically, just as well as Gnome 3. They use the same UI toolkit.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Black phosphorus sheets are great but they are pretty hard to fabricate and they degrade very quickly when they come in contact with air (in a matter of hours). There have been various attempts to solve this, some of them successful (as far
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by alxlaz 8y ago
That stuff is completely ridiculous. If your news aggregator ran a ML-based application to filter out science-related articles so as to keep out click-bait, bogus articles, you'll be able to continue running it without any problem. It
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by alxlaz 8y ago
No one but us computer supernerds makes that distinction. On the consumer market, an email address is an excellent way to identify a person over a very, very, very long time. No one but the tech-literate change their email too often.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
1. Is this for real? 2. Here are exactly two things that you need to memorize in order to make this sort of talk productive: a) I don't know what X is, sorry. Can you tell me what that is/Can you explain to me what it does? b) I&#

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