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by archi42 5y ago
Tapes are offline and even require manual loading, so I think it's feasible to mitigate this by just powering down the backup system. At least that's what I do (with my primary NAS). But yeah, disk idle usage should not be underes
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by archi42 5y ago
Something not mentioned by the author, but what I was told here on Hacker News some years ago: If your drive has too much wear (or misalignment of the drive head?) you might end up with tapes that you can only read with exactly your drive.
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by archi42 5y ago
> The NearlyFreeSpeech.NET member site you are attempting to reach appears to be temporarily unavailable. https://archive.is/XvE2X
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by archi42 5y ago
The most expensive films Peter Jackson ever did (at the time of filming, that is) features that story hook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braindead_(film) (too be precise, Wikipedia is says it's a rat-monkey hybri
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by archi42 5y ago
AI upscaling? Yes. Seems like some fans used AI upscaling for the older Star Gate SG-1 seasons, since these were direct-to-VHS and hence shot on low quality media (by now there are official bluray releases which are also somehow upscaled, b
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by archi42 5y ago
Might be part of the joke ;)
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by archi42 5y ago
Strictly speaking, they're wrong about the keyboard layout. "ENG\nIN" means something like "English (India)" - the layout selector only shows the currently active layout (if more than one layout is configured). The
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by archi42 5y ago
Thanks for taking the stand here; generally new laptops are fast and especially the M10 max seems like a nice rig that beats some desktops for some programmer workloads. Maybe even many desktops for most programmer workloads, IDK. But besid
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by archi42 5y ago
Depending on your needs(!), you can just use the laptop as a frontend for a much more powerful machine. I did that for a while with a Sandy Bridge (core i7-2xxx gen) dual socket server in the basement, and it did work quite well. No matter
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by archi42 5y ago
Yes, absolutely. log4shell is a pwn fest that makes the recent Exchange debacle look rather innocent (and that was already quite bad). But I can envision scenarios like unencrypted rsyslog on a LAN being relevant during pentests, or misconf
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by archi42 5y ago
You're essentially saying "sanitation" equals "filtering". Looking at CWE-707 ( https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/707.html ) I'd rather say that "sanitation" is what MITR
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by archi42 5y ago
Hah, linking to OWASP is a good point. I have now put some more thought into "how would I EXACTLY classify this, if I had to list it as a finding for a customer". Now, I think format string is not entirely right, either. That&#x27
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by archi42 5y ago
Huh? I understand "sanitation" to mean "a transformation of data that makes the data safe for use in the subsequent program". Escaping is one way of doing that transformation, and it's good because it's not los
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by archi42 5y ago
I disagree with you: IMHO "escaping user input in the application constructing the query" is one possible form of sanitization. Why do you think it is not? Also I said "similar class", not "strictly equivalent"
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by archi42 5y ago
In other news: If I can intercept the log messages (unencrypted remote syslog, or log file public accessible, log messages also shown to the user) I can still just inject stuff like "${env:DATABASE_PASSWORD:-xxx}". Lots of people
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by archi42 5y ago
The value to Ubisoft? It is to extract more money from the customer. From the technical perspective I suppose they know pretty well that they could have done the whole "unique" items including a marketplace using "traditional
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by archi42 5y ago
No, if you're looking for strict FOSS ideology, they're probably not what you want ;-) It's all enterprise grade: Proprietary hardware (they have some ASIC for security processing, probably helped with GPs issues) and you onl
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by archi42 5y ago
There is a second link that's also popular right now: https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/hcert-spec/issues/103 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29011537 (1 comment) T
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by archi42 5y ago
Uh, plenty of true things, but sometimes just "I have a special case that's a problem": "Certain applications that exist both for Windows and Linux start up faster in Windows than in Linux, sometimes several times faster
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by archi42 5y ago
It's all fun and games until you write (or review) C/C++ test cases for a compiler or disassembler ;-) It never stopped to amaze me how good the compiler was to figure out that I actually wrote very complicated "return 0&quot
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by archi42 5y ago
Isn't this common knowledge? nVME disks run pretty hot under load. A heatsink gives more thermal mass and better cooling, so the disk can sustain its high speeds for longer time. Though I doubt a heatsink [significantly] increases peak
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by archi42 5y ago
The subsidies still exist. And while in absolute numbers they seem low, the reduced costs for solar modules still make them worthwhile. If you don't feed into the grid as a normal person you're right (that's either "Klei
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by archi42 5y ago
Fun fact: At least in Germany you often end up paying taxes on self-consumed solar. They calculate the tax based on what you would have payed your regular supplier (or 20c/kWh). But otoh you get to declare your "solar plant"
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by archi42 5y ago
Source? For solar heating you'll want one to store excess heat collected during the day. With (grid sourced) electricity as the only energy source for the heat - and in absence of a "smart grid" - storing hot water adds losse
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by archi42 5y ago
I agree, lots of possibilities there, making the "widespread cannibalism" theory indeed pretty weak overall: It's quite possible that neanderthals only reverted to cannibalism in times of severe famines - which are not that u
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by archi42 5y ago
They're usually at least reported. At least that was the case for all the compiler-bug related papers I've read.
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by archi42 5y ago
Finland has 230V, so if you're from the US with 110V the low current rating might be confusing ;-) I'd also guess that in Finland they also run three phases into each house/unit (we do in Germany), meaning that's 3*63A =
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by archi42 5y ago
You can mirror the video feed ;-)
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by archi42 5y ago
Neat! The comments are an issue, though. But it can be solved: Just parse the comments as AST nodes, too. I did just that for a converter/transpiler which "updated" code written in an old DSL into a much newer variant of that
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by archi42 5y ago
Seems so. Just that it works "automagically" and reserves some cores for certain priority groups. Maybe one can write a script/daemon that `taskset`s all tasks with a certain niceness range (or by additional rules) to a few &

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