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871.
by avian 10y ago
Quote from the kickstarter video: "there are adblockers out there, but they make money by selling your data". Citation needed. Which adblockers are selling my data?
872.
by avian 10y ago
> What's worse in the case of Debian and other distros is that they have no incentive to coordinate their patches with upstream. They do have an incentive: patches against upstream need to be maintained. Maintainer has much less wor
873.
by avian 10y ago
I like how "Am I affected by the bug?" part checks your user agent string for "Linux" and says "yes" or "no" accordingly. As if I wasn't reading that page from a phone while running Linux on a se
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by avian 10y ago
Time is on the vertical axis (labeled with kernel versions that were released at that time instead of date). Horizontal axis is just an arbitrary bug number. It seems bugs are ordered first by severity and then by time they were fixed.
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by avian 10y ago
Seems to be a Debian-specific bug with Fira Sans font. I filed a bug report here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841293
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by avian 10y ago
Title sounds interesting, but your website does not show any text. Both Firefox 49.0 and Chrome 54.0.2840.59 (on Linux) look like this: https://i.imgur.com/dxxoU7a.png
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Security bug lifetime(outflux.net)
84 points by avian 10y ago|28 comments
878.
by avian 10y ago
> 1) Distrust certificates chaining up to Affected Roots with a notBefore date after October 21, 2016. > ... > 4) Remove the Affected Roots from NSS after the SSL certificates issued before October 1, 2016, have expired or have bee
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by avian 10y ago
The cast is the problematic part, not the subtraction.
880.
by avian 10y ago
I was referring to this part: Y = *(uint32_t*)s - 0x30303030; By casting a string to a uint32_t, you are assuming the memory layout of uint32_t. Y will have a different value depending on architecture. E.g. on a typical little-endi
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by avian 10y ago
This is quite clever. The catch is that it assumes implementation specific details (like a little-endian architecture) while OP's code is (probably) portable C.
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The Web Bluetooth Security Model(medium.com)
3 points by avian 10y ago|0 comments
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by avian 10y ago
> The talks remind me somewhat of TEDx events, but primarily focused on technology. All tech meet-ups in my corner of the world seem to have devolved into these TED style talks. These days everyone wants to be a visionary discussing big
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by avian 10y ago
This is somewhat similar to swell paper that Ben Krasnow showed in one of his videos recently. The difference is that there the chemical is in the paper, not the ink. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvudn0skIuI
885.
by avian 10y ago
Considering the rate people are losing their private PGP keys, I wouldn't trust a message that was encrypted today to be decryptable a year from now. Everyone I know that uses PGP has lost their key at least once (including myself - I
886.
by avian 10y ago
> Where I'm from, plastic bags are no longer the norm for supermarkets to pack groceries in, and so most people carry their own re-usable bags to the store This used to be the case here as well (Slovenia), until supermarkets started
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by avian 10y ago
SATA won't happen (unless they use USB-SATA bridge, like in Orange Pi - but then it will be all but fast) As far as I know, there are no modern low-cost ARM SoCs that have an integrated SATA peripheral. AllWinner was the only vendor t
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by avian 10y ago
Interestingly, it seems dial-up is still an option for me, technically speaking. My laptop (a ~4 year old HP EliteBook) came with a built-in analogue modem (never used, but I do see a /dev/ttyACM that responds to AT commands) and
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by avian 10y ago
Let's not forget that http://news.ycombinator.com is also still IPv4 only.
890.
by avian 10y ago
It's not a simple text encoding. Almost all byte values are present with an approximately uniform distribution. No strings of 2 bytes or longer repeat in the sequence. There is no apparent structure if you show the data as an image. If
891.
by avian 10y ago
We used to have an old EPROM (the UV-erasable kind) programmer in the lab. I remember it also had a mode for testing 74xx series logic. I don't think it was ever used in that capacity though.
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by avian 10y ago
> you can clone it on your local machine, read through our code to verify that it is not malicious, and then install it I like that the authors share my concern about installing an extension that would by design record every page I visit
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by avian 10y ago
> The printer industry is a catastrophe. There is zero innovation I agree with you that printers are still terrible and a pain to work with from the user's perspective. However, I don't think it's true that there has been
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by avian 10y ago
> filtering out anything thats not letters, numbers, slash or dot is probably a good idea. This is highly non-trivial once you realize that the world speaks more than ASCII and things like http://www.xn--n3h.net exist.
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by avian 10y ago
I'm sure it's not like that. Pressure relief valves aren't exactly rocket science.
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by avian 10y ago
If that would be the case, SpaceX wouldn't tweet explosion videos on every failure or have live streams of their launches. They would take the approach of Blue Origin that only publishes carefully edited marketing footage where everyth
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Linux loader for DOS-like .com files(tablix.org)
6 points by avian 10y ago|0 comments
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by avian 10y ago
1) adopt a standard for specifying MIME type. 2) realize people are not using the standard correctly, disregard the specified type and auto-detect the type. 3) realize this creates a security problem, adopt a new standard that adds a strong
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by avian 10y ago
Debian documents mention that "BXA revised the provisions of the EAR governing cryptographic software" in October 2000. Debian no longer has separate non-us repositories for crypto because of that. https://www.debian.or
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by avian 10y ago
Indeed https://github.com/avian2/linux-com-loader

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