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by aneutron 7y ago
I had a similar thought when I read that : "Try live patching kernels in production, that'll get you going"
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by aneutron 7y ago
While I do agree with you on the IBM truck remarks, I find myself heavily disagreeing with the "PGP / SMTP over TLS" is LARPing" gentleman. For one, he makes the argument that it's all a theater. Is it broken ? Yes.
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by aneutron 7y ago
It's particularly in systems like these where they usually leave SSH w/ password login, or an oudated Teamviewer install. [1] Realistically, I can see this working. For Disney. For use in action movies. In fact, "23 tons of c
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by aneutron 7y ago
That is one beautiful snarky back-and-forth with Facebook. Thanks for linking this amazing project.
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by aneutron 7y ago
While that is true, when one says "hiring", it generally refers to a somewhat "tenured" or "continued" position. At least that's what I understood from your original comment.
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by aneutron 7y ago
Microsoft doing shady stuff again. It's really a shame. The engineering that the teams at Microsoft put to the kernel and the actual operating system at large is amazing. But then some Product Management division decides to shove this
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by aneutron 7y ago
I do believe this is what OP meant. The LLVM IR is very well documented, and can in theory be plugged into a back-end that supports it.
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by aneutron 7y ago
I was thinking the exact same thing.
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by aneutron 7y ago
I'm not perfectly okay with what you are suggesting (and that's okay of course). But essentially, coming from a 3rd world country where censorship was the norm before Internet came along, and seeing how TLS and DoH is giving simil
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by aneutron 7y ago
Everyone used to say the same about every product ever created. Until the new market player came into town and proved it could be done. The answer is pretty simple actually. You make a couple of billions a year. Invest a single billion in a
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by aneutron 7y ago
Very cool idea. I do however have some comments: - The "appstore"-like experience already exists in the ecosystem, in a sense. You have package managers with post-install and configuration scripts (Installing slapd for example yie
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by aneutron 7y ago
I was put off at the very beginning of the article by the claim that it was a "backdoor". None of the sources I read even alluded to this, and in fact, it was, as far as I understood, a very "classical" buffer overflow p
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by aneutron 7y ago
Everyone here is speaking like there HAS to be a backdoor for the messages to be auditable, forgetting that they could modify the application to abide to some sort of device management strategy that uploads a backup to some server when conn
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by aneutron 7y ago
For the sake of the argument, let's assume the following: - If you factor all the man-hours required to keep the site up and running (ignoring the setup costs), then you'd have about one engineer for a whole year. - If we go for a
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by aneutron 7y ago
I would have never gotten the wordplay at hand. Thanks ! Very clever.
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by aneutron 7y ago
That is some absolute bullshit. Internet use was the single most important reason I got to learn what I did today. Let me put it this way: Third world country, absolutely useless professors who are in the job because it simply pays (even ra
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by aneutron 7y ago
I specifically wrote it was besides the point of the article, and that it was something I noticed and I thought was worth pointing out after reading the whole article and not having anything in particular to say about it.
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by aneutron 7y ago
This is besides the point of the article, but the link is in HTTP (no TLS but available with a correct certificate), and the report site which has the information linked in the article is also in HTTP (but has a bad TLS certificate).
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by aneutron 7y ago
Extremely unlikely. With the amount of surveillance I imagine the world is directing towards Iran (think sattelites and radars), I find it hard to believe the current US administration wouldn't jump to take that chance to declare war a
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by aneutron 7y ago
While I do get the "spirit" of this, I feel it's highly inaccurate and/or misrepresentative in some cases. An example would be Javascript. Sure he implemented a prototype in 10 days, but the whole implementation was prob
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Tetris Implemented as a BPF Program(github.com)
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by aneutron 7y ago
SuperMicro, if you're listening ....
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by aneutron 7y ago
You generally do not enable the level of logging that I imagine would be necessary to find this bug, on the enduser version of the software. I could be wrong.
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by aneutron 7y ago
This is a new level of copyright trolling.
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by aneutron 7y ago
Reminds me of the time we found out a team was running O(n^2) code, but in terms of SQL Queries, that is to say, not O(n^2) of comparisons or anything, and were trying to blame the other team when a client sent a request that never ended. A
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by aneutron 7y ago
Exactly what I was thinking when I read the parent at first, but I'm assuming the parent is asking about all-in-on SoC chips.
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by aneutron 7y ago
Bold of you to assume that that ancient software doesn't have some hardcoded IPv4. I wonder if moving to IPv6 will in fact mean more cyberwarfare.
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by aneutron 7y ago
Again making a case for alternative app stores. Yes having a centralized software repository has its benefits, but it's starting to show it's limits ...
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by aneutron 7y ago
Wait til someone hijacks the nfs driver repo on npm. That's where the real fun begins.
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by aneutron 7y ago
This smells like more lives are about to be lost if Boeing doesn't get their act together

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