armitron

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by armitron 10y ago
If only it was a reliability/robustness/simplicity beast instead. Instead, it's evolved to be this atrocity of unspeakable proportions that continues to wreak havoc (security bugs, technical debt, complexity) pretty much ever
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by armitron 10y ago
One should not need good working experience of how Lua works or how JITs work in order to rapidly achieve a basic understanding of the codebase. I am being downvoted because people can't look past personal likes/dislikes and are c
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by armitron 10y ago
SBCL is enormous compared to LuaJIT, true. But most of SBCL is written in Common Lisp which is extremely easy to understand (statically and at runtime). It's also not a JIT compiler (in the deterministic sense). LuaJIT source is terrib
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by armitron 10y ago
What are your favorite works of written fantasy that you find better than LotR?
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by armitron 10y ago
Well the assumption of an objective external world I find a bit silly. We can assume that other minds exist since we have direct experience of our own. It's a small leap from one mind to many (a leap nonetheless). But to assume an obje
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by armitron 10y ago
There is no proof of an external world, since nobody has ever experienced it. Everything you consider to be a part of that external world is mediated through your mind. In short, you exist in virtual reality which is really manifested by yo
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by armitron 10y ago
That is mysticism (direct experiential knowledge), not religion which can serve many masters. I agree with the rest of your post.
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by armitron 10y ago
Makes sense if you think about memory in the same way you think about time, as creations of the mind. I read somewhere once about a story written in a book. The beginning and the end is there, everything superimposed together. For the chara
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by armitron 10y ago
Xwidgets is little more than a gimmick, which: + Is not cross-platform and never will be + Depends on X and GTK (bad!) + Substantially reduces the stability of Emacs due to GTK memory leaks and bugs (terrible!). This is also the reason t
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by armitron 10y ago
It is preposterous to expect people to write their own HTTPS support on top of something as primitive as GnuTLS! This attitude towards practicality, if you will, that runs rampant in scheme-land is one of the major barriers for adoption. If
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by armitron 10y ago
How can you loathe Krokodil without coming to loathe it? You have to try it first to be sure...
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by armitron 10y ago
He is also factually wrong in what he writes, regarding Neuromancer and using phone cables to jack in. Then he goes on a tirade about obsolete tech. It's amusing to see such a degree of cluelessness on display here. I'm wonderin
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by armitron 10y ago
Would be great to have english subtitles for this.
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by armitron 10y ago
This is pretty much useless. Attackers have moved on to using information leaks in order to determine memory layout and placement of objects. So in practice, this doesn't really deter anything. Information leaks are everywhere.
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by armitron 10y ago
There are two forms of nihilism, active and passive. Passive nihilism can be found in Schopenhauer, Zen, Buddhism, Vedanta, detachment from the self and the fulfillment of idle fantasies [desire]. It is related to a monastic/ascetic li
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by armitron 10y ago
You are simply piercing through what the mystics called the Veil of Isis. Introspection will help you I feel, more than consensus reality or various manufactured illusions and delusions that those close to you cling to in order to distance
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by armitron 10y ago
You are deluding yourself when you think you actually have a choice. A chaotic dynamical system moving between (or sitting at) attractors doesn't leave much room for Free Will.
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by armitron 10y ago
In my view, this is the naive outsider perspective. Security vulnerabilities are everywhere. The old adage 'seek and ye shall find' is king and it doesn't take particular expertise or resources to enter this arena. Moreover,
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by armitron 10y ago
It doesn't have to be a Federal Bureaucracy. Consumer Reports is one example. Mudge _already doing_ it in the cybersecurity domain is another.
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by armitron 10y ago
Except that demonstrating a flaw _by predatory profit-driven entities that have a direct stake in said flaw_ leaves plenty of room for spin and hype. This is already obvious if you read the MW report, some of the "vulnerabilities"
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by armitron 10y ago
This, so much this. During conversations in everyday life, I can not believe how many (well-educated) people I meet that are completely ignorant of the humongous elephant in the room even when they've been caught multiple times with t
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by armitron 10y ago
This is far from an objective point of view and extremely misleading. Opium war in china had nothing to do with social cohesion, but trade and geopolitics. Same for the war in Afghanistan. You don't need to go that far in order to co
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by armitron 10y ago
I do not share your optimism re: Servo, partly because everything that has ever come out of Mozilla has been a disaster and I can't shed my prejudice, partly because Rust allows "unsafe" code (some feel this is all it takes)
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by armitron 10y ago
At least as far as pwn2own is concerned, browsers are targeted without any access to plugins. Plugins are usually introduced (some of them separately) on different days and are considered different targets.
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by armitron 10y ago
That may be the case (and the scores from Mudge methodology may be interpreted in such a way), but it is still a grey area, qualitative rather than quantitive, and it is perilous I feel to use them in such fashion. After all what does &quot
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by armitron 10y ago
I think that the most important outcome is the pressure that will be placed upon software engineering teams to improve their products and start paying attention to security. They've gotten away without doing it for _far too long_. We m
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by armitron 10y ago
TOR de-anonymization can be factored into a working OPSEC strategy. The OP article itself _demonstrates a pedophilia ring that did not get compromised due to correct usage of TOR and other measures_. I also love your constant assumptions ab
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by armitron 10y ago
This was never about the "average person" (that has clearly already lost, especially in USA) but the _dedicated_ practitioner with domain expertise. Most physical risks that one would need to mitigate, completely disappear when on
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by armitron 10y ago
You are making wide proclamations and generalizations with nothing to back them up, this is not the mark of someone with a deep understanding of the subject matter. You're also all over the place, rather than concentrating on the point
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by armitron 10y ago
"My scheme was covert communications embedded in HTTPS to blend in, remailers through various jurisdictions that don't cooperate, face-to-face for most stuff, dead drops, calls with lineman's headset, snail mail of CD's

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