awordnot

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   Dumb_ptr: A partial implementation of C++ smart pointers in GNU C(github.com)

   2 points by awordnot 9y ago|0 comments
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   by awordnot 9y ago

   As roblabla said, multiple people are in the process of reverse engineering the Switch and they have all confirmed that the OS itself is NOT FreeBSD based. The network stack may be, but the kernel itself is an iteration on the 3DS' ker
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   by awordnot 9y ago

   Recent AMD and Intel systems with AES-NI provide a hardware RNG. Although as far as I was aware this is not used on OpenBSD for fear of hardware backdoors.
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   by awordnot 9y ago

   The OS is going to prevent you from running a userspace telnet daemon? Sounds unlikely.
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   by awordnot 9y ago

   What does that have to do with Linux though? Surely it's the manufacturer's fault for leaving telnet open and not updating? How would a new OS solve any of these issues?
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   by awordnot 9y ago

   This is what AMD's new Epyc server CPUs are rumored to have.
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   Show HN: Rudo – A toy sudo clone written in Rust(github.com)

   3 points by awordnot 9y ago|1 comments
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   by awordnot 9y ago

   But this bug literally couldn't crash any modern OS as the feature is not available in 64-bit mode.
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   by awordnot 10y ago

   I would be careful, a critical buffer overflow vulnerability was just found in the Douane kernel module: https://github.com/Douane/douane-dkms/commit/61023b91fbafab8...