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by anjbe 9y ago
The White Hat’s Dilemma, by Alex Stamos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEeHTQHTSgE Stamos has been in the news recently for quitting as CSO at Facebook. Before that he quit as CSO at Yahoo after the government scanning sc
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It’s not like I’d be running everything over Tor. DNS requests for newly‐visited domains would slow down, but unbound’s prefetch feature would keep popular frequently‐used domains cached. Adding one of those advertising domain blacklists mi
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Lately I’ve been thinking about some concerns about domain name privacy: • My ISP can spoof DNS responses. • My ISP can sniff DNS requests. • My ISP can sniff SNI. • My ISP can look up reverse DNS on the IPs I visit. DNS over TLS is nice—I
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Another entry for your list: vulnerability to file descriptor exhaustion attacks. This (and the chroot issue) is why OpenBSD promotes their arc4random() interface for generating random numbers rather than /dev/random.
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Correction: hyphen is U+2010, not U+2008 (which is punctuation space).
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In TeX, inter‐sentence spaces are visibly wider than normal spaces, including those that come after abbreviations. And when justifying text, they stretch faster than spaces between words.
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I use UTF‐8 except when I have reason to stick to ASCII. (One such situation is public mailing lists, where people’s misconfigured mail clients constantly butcher any non‐ASCII characters when replying.)
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There was a fascinating article recently about sentence complexity and embedded clauses in language: https://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/the-rise-and-fall-of...
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Here in New Mexico ñ is very common in place names. And I’ve known people with accented names who, though they don’t insist on it, appreciate (sometimes visibly brightening) when their names are spelled accurately.
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> (no compose for π) You can create your own compose sequences in ~/.XCompose. I mapped pi to Compose * p, taking the idea from Plan 9: https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man7/keyboard.html
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Pretentious? Come on. There’s nothing inherently wrong with spacing your em dashes. It’s even part of the AP style guide. I personally wrap them in thin spaces (U+2009), except in fixed‐width fonts, where I use an en dash with full spaces
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In OpenBSD, we have true hypertext manuals today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16089300
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BSD man pages (and many Linux man pages, though a minority) are written in semantic “mdoc” macros, rather than the classic “man” macros that are strictly presentational. If you’re using mandoc ( http://mandoc.bsd.lv/ ) as you
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A compromised unprivileged user could download an empty vulnerability list. A compromised root user could download an empty vulnerability list or do anything else root can do .
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For the record, of that list NetSurf is an independent browser with its own rendering engine (and is correspondingly less… full‐featured).
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Sure, but the Game Boy’s pseudo‐Z80 has no branch prediction, register allocation, or instruction reordering. The assembly is almost one‐to‐one to the machine code, and the CPU basically does everything in the straightforward way you’d expe
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Unfortunately, it’s on an internal USB 2 bus, which makes SD access extreme slow. All the external USB ports are at least 3.0, so I use a slim 64GB flash drive.
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In troff you can escape “ ” ‘ ’ as \(lq, \(rq, \(oq, \(cq respectively. If you’re writing manpages, though, you should be using the -mdoc macros ( https://manpages.bsd.lv/mdoc.html ), which have “Dq” and “Sq” macros that wrap
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> because of the BSD license, they aren't obligated either. No free software license that I know of would obligate them to donate money to FreeBSD. I know you didn’t say otherwise, but in license discussions a lot of people (particu
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I’ve always liked troff/eqn, which had a focus on human readable equation input. Here’s that example in eqn: verbose but very natural, almost how you would say it out loud. .EQ W sub {delta sub 1 rho sub 1 sigma sub 2} sup {3
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I’m going to share my experience with commuter (not high‐speed) rail: the New Mexico Rail Runner. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trainroadrunner.jpg The Rail Runner was built in 2006 primarily due to Governor
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One of my favorite computer security talks is this one, given by Alex Stamos in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEeHTQHTSgE The whole talk is very worthwhile, and I recommend watching it. Near the end of the talk, he
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Worth mentioning also that in the early through mid 90s, projects hosted their own version control servers, but you needed an account on the development machine to actually have access to the repo. Most people only had access to release tar
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Kanjipad does a decent job whenever I try it, and it’s available in my package repos: http://fishsoup.net/software/kanjipad/
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Heirloom Doctools is maintained by Carsten Kunze at https://n-t-roff.github.io/heirloom/doctools.html .
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LibreSSL documentation status report(undeadly.org)
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> There's a reason we all agreed to stick to standards and make our HTML verbose in the mid-2000s. I think the failure of XHTML shows that this was in fact not universally agreed. Seriously, when’s the last time you saw a page serve
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HTML 4 didn’t require optional tags either. That culture was limited to XHTML.
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The difference is that your example is ambiguous. “<p>Paragraph 1<p>Paragraph 2” is not ambigous, and never has been.
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Perhaps, but I suspect writing a portable Makefile is not as difficult as you think. Speaking as a packager, I have to patch many CMake build systems for portability issues. And don’t even get me started on SCons. Autotools is better in t

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