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beefhash
8y ago
From the news page[1]: > The MH development repository has moved from https://github.com/glguida/mh to https://github.com/mhsys . > Now that we have multiple external projects, like rumprun-mrg, a
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8y ago
Convenience link to said issue: https://github.com/glguida/mh/issues/1
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Sourceforge Decommissioning CVS for Commits (2017)
(sourceforge.net)
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I'd have to go with Monocypher. It makes very tasteful use of comments, functions and macros to maximize readability and clarity. https://github.com/LoupVaillant/Monocypher
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8y ago
Which directly contradicts one of the core value schools want to instill today (at least they do where I live, YMMV of course): Being a team player first and foremost.
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Solving Google Foobar and hacking it along the way
(govanify.com)
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Swiss Post Online Voting Protocol [pdf]
(post.ch)
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> From the look of things, most of it. Just look at the decision to use markdown (md) for github instead of the ubiquitous troff which is installed by default on every *nix machine to date so you can read man pages. This is particularly
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Unix Text Processing Transcription Project (2004)
(home.windstream.net)
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The Loom Communications Network: Public Access to 1980s (emulated) Unix
(loomcom.net)
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I find it easier to write man pages directly. Admittedly, I write mdoc (not the ancient "man" macros), which has been around only since the 80s. It's easier for me to remember the semantics ("Is this a flag/command&
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8y ago
1. When you have no choice in languages: Homebrew development for, say, the Nintendo Game Boy happens by and large in assembly language. 2. Optimization: Some critial code sections or cryptographic operations can be massively sped up with h
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> strlcpy is designed to solve the null-termination problems – it always null-terminates. It’s certainly an improvement over strncpy, however it isn’t natively available in VC++. Let's not forget that it's also not natively a
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Do Open Source Developers Respond to Competition?: The (La)Tex Case Study (2007)
(papers.ssrn.com)
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I've made a clarifying edit. Maybe this helps capture what I'm trying to say.
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8y ago
There's no realistic way to combat the heavy lobbying that's going on around intellectual property questions, copyright in particular. Thus, to make reality and laws match, enforcement must be adjusted instead.
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I don't see why this method in particular would be a problem with regards to achieving the goal. Enforcing copyright laws through traditional lawsuits and criminal law enforcement has been, by and large, a failure. We do need a change
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Portable Runtime System: a preemptive scheduler purely in userspace
(github.com)
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> Quoting the Sentry documentation, system.secret-key is “a secret key used for session signing. If this becomes compromised it’s important to regenerate it as otherwise its much easier to hijack user sessions.“; wow, it looks like it’s
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Your argument can be made about more or less any popular chat platform to have ever existed. At least you can set up your own IRCd, so you and your friends don't have to trust nobodies on the Internet.
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No, it hasn't. Copyright expires a couple of decades after the death of the/all author/s.
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As a side note: Some of the license changes also block Debian from updating their intel-microcode package[1]. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906158#14
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Debian not updating Intel microcode package because of licensing
(bugs.debian.org)
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Qb.js: An implementation of QBASIC in JavaScript
(stevehanov.ca)
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I need 27 seconds on Firefox 52.9 ESR (Debian) and about 20,287 kbyte of data transferred in 148 requests just to reach an idle GMail tab. What is all this stuff even doing?
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To add to the arguments already made: You don't have to figure out serialization. In particular, writing out structs in C and C++ can break even between compiler versions if padding changes.
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For those interested: https://hackmii.com/ is still up and has a lot of interesting notes on the Wii.
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Breaking Full Disk Encryption from a Memory Dump
(blog.appsecco.com)
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> How do you stop both hate speech and censorship? You don't. You instead crank up the censorship and -- more importantly -- the social stigma against bigotry. Change does not happen naturally and people don't get better, but i
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> It looks, from their site, like they are getting close. Does it? It looks to me that the last commit was almost five years ago[1]. [1] http://www.freevms.net/gitweb/?p=FreeVMS.git;a=summary
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