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by arp242 1y ago
Some very hairy babies from a very hair baby-maker, or so I understand.
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by arp242 1y ago
Yes, this is literally the entire job description of a judge: to "judge" if someone broke the law. Details on what judges have jurisdiction over differ (in some countries they can't rule on constitutional matters), but this i
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by arp242 1y ago
I added a --complex flag so it's easier to use the complex animations on tmux: https://github.com/e6a5/zenta/pull/5 But yeah, I agree – I think this might be rather too conservative.
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by arp242 1y ago
It's needed a lot less than people think unless you live out in the countryside. While it can be a bit inconvenient at times, in general it's perfectly feasible to not have a car in car-dependent Ireland. In the US on the other ha
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by arp242 1y ago
> Audible for well over a mile in normal conditions That doesn't strike me as a feature. Also a solved problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rwJ5NCf1Vw Tesco delivery trucks have them here in Ireland; it's
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by arp242 1y ago
> Car dependency and car-centric development is almost everywhere It's the degree of things. I live in Ireland, in a village of a few thousand people a few km outside the city, what you might call a "suburb" in the US. I d
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by arp242 1y ago
> It's not really "Who knows". We actually do know. I'm not so sure about that to be honest. A few years ago (around 2020 or 2021 IIRC) autotools switched from the old deprecated backquotes to $(..) to run programs in
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by arp242 1y ago
Well, I guess I live in some other universe, because X11 really does "just work" for everything I want it to do. I don't really care about X11 vs. Wayland as such, but I have a bunch of WM-related tools that only work on X11
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by arp242 1y ago
By that standard almost any bug could be considered a "security bug", including things like "returns error even though my XML is valid" or "it parses this data wrong".
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by arp242 1y ago
Or 24h disturbance. Or indeed taking the entire system down at all. And no one is talking about safety-critical systems. You are moving the goalposts. Does a gas pedal use a markdown or XML parser? No.
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by arp242 1y ago
> what sort of shims would get used if the check ever failed. Most programs will probably just fail to compile: "#undef HAVE_STRING_H" gets added to config.h, but it's never checked. Or something along those lines. It&#x27
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by arp242 1y ago
If a panic or null pointer deref in some library causes your entire business to go down long enough that you go bankrupt, then you probably deserve to go out of business because your software is junk.
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by arp242 1y ago
Many of these issues are not the type of issues that will bring down an entire platform; most are of the "if I send wrong data, the server will return with a 500 for that request" or "my browser runs out of memory if I use a
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by arp242 1y ago
I had a look at the bash source code a few years back, and there are tons of hacks and workarounds for 1980s-era systems. Looking at the git log, GETCWD_BROKEN was added in bash 1.14 from 1996, presumably to work around some system at the t
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by arp242 1y ago
> Looks like a human reviewer can check your code at any time. Yeah, not entirely sure how this works. I've been doing this for a few years with a bunch of extensions, and thus far it's always just been automatically approved (
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by arp242 1y ago
A lot of these "security bugs" are not really "security bugs" in the first place. Denial of service is not resulting in people's bank accounts being emptied or nude selfies being spread all over the internet. Things
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by arp242 1y ago
libng seems to get regular updates? A release just a few days ago. There's a PR for APNG: https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/pull/706 – it seems there was some work for HDR in e.g. https://git
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by arp242 1y ago
I don't know about that; I use just one screen (laptop or HDMI, not both at the same time which is presumably what you're referring to) and it works for that. That's not really what the previous person was talking about eithe
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by arp242 1y ago
You can use private extensions; you just need to use web-ext to sign it. Doesn't need to be published. Also the "developer edition" allows installing unsigned extensions. No need to build your own.
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by arp242 1y ago
I get why they do it; for better or worse, the browser is a major way many people interact with email, banking, etc. etc. A malicious extension would be a world of hurt. Some of that is moving to mobile, but with 5 billion people on the int
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by arp242 1y ago
> It's just another hermetically sealed product. Everything is open source, mostly under a fairly permissive license. You can still do quite a lot with extensions or various tweaks (more than most programs, including open source one
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by arp242 1y ago
You can already use web-ext to sign it; it doesn't need to be published (you can keep the extension private). It's just that you need to be logged in to download it and can't really provide a "share link" (but you c
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by arp242 1y ago
In the end a privacy policy is little more than the proverbial "ink on a piece of paper". It's doesn't actually prevent anything. Where and how it's published seems like a minor detail.
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by arp242 1y ago
So on my laptop I've been doing: xrandr --output eDP --scale 0.8x0.8 For years and years, and I never really noticed any problems with it. Guess I don't run any "bad" scale-unaware programs? Or maybe I just never
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by arp242 1y ago
This does not address anything from the article and is a (seemingly copy/pasted) generic tangent about X11.
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by arp242 1y ago
round(29 years) is three decades. This is hyper-pedantic to the point of being obnoxious.
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by arp242 1y ago
Opera Presto didn't use it, and had a User-Agent like: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux zvav; U; en) Presto/2.12.423 Version/12.16 Didn't seem to cause that much problems. It did keep the version at 9.80, presumably be
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by arp242 1y ago
"But this time it's different!" IMHO the Israeli policy of punching everyone so hard they're reeling is a massive mistake for Israel in the long term. It works great short-term, but 50 years? 100 years? Who knows what
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by arp242 1y ago
> Blair and Bush lying about Iraq, doesn't mean Iran isn't working towards weapons You're correct. However, Netanyahu also claimed that Iran was behind the two assassination attempts on Trump during the campaign trail. A l
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by arp242 1y ago
North-Korea has had a bunch of conventional artillery aimed at Seoul since the 50s. They've had a "we will completely fuck your shit up"-type deterrent way before nukes, which is also why they've been able to do their nu

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