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The Silver Searcher: a fast code searching tool
(geoff.greer.fm)
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10y ago
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Why is there not a register that contains the higher bytes of EAX?
(stackoverflow.com)
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10y ago
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beefhash
10y ago
I might just seriously start to use that for the simple no-nonsense interface and weather report.
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beefhash
10y ago
Why this article had to be segmented into 10 pages is beyond me, however.
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beefhash
10y ago
Can people just stop with this whole spam-every-website-to-death thing? They can't, that's why there's an ever-increasing amount of verification.
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beefhash
10y ago
Is it just me or has gitlab issued a lot of critical security releases lately? I'm not sure if this is because they're particularly open about these things or because their product might be particularly insecure.
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beefhash
11y ago
Sometimes, people are also just asleep/on vacation and will miss the previous submission, even if their acount age is greater than the "X days ago".
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A good idea with bad usage: /dev/urandom
(insanecoding.blogspot.com)
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11y ago
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11y ago
Not only that the high-level information on the page has not been altered, but also just simply that no code has been injected that could possibly lead to a drive-by download or other malware shenanigans.
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11y ago
Wouldn't it be wise to wait for argon2 to get some more cryptanalysis and testing in the field before jumping on it, sticking to scrypt or bcrypt in the meantime?
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11y ago
Furthermore, their free certificates cannot be used for commercial purposes.
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beefhash
11y ago
Isn't this risky with regards to copyright laws? This seems to download some of the software (including Win 3.x itslef).
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11y ago
> ps: I'd love to see other beautiful C codebases. (ZFS ain't bad) See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11005003 -- It's not only C, but there are some C codebases on there.
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Why MySQL’s binlog-do-db option is dangerous
(percona.com)
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11y ago
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11y ago
> You go to log in to your Google account like normal, but instead of entering your email address and password, you provide just your email. Next, Google will provide a secret code — in Paul's case, the number 21 — and tell you to l
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11y ago
Additionally, the Nintendo 3DS uses a ARM9 and an ARM11; the Nintendo Wii uses PPC-based CPUs. Non-x86 are still present.
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11y ago
>It sounds as if the root of the problem is the C standard. Wouldn't it be better to fix that Isn't the reason for a lot of undefined behavior either in the name of performance through optimization and assumptions, portability
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11y ago
Personally, I believe this misses the point partially. The point of IRC with a bouncer is to have a way of combining synchronous (live chatting) with asynchronous communication (highlights and reading up logs). > What to do instead? Use
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A new generation of ransomware (2014)
(securelist.com)
3 points
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11y ago
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11y ago
Wasn't the first main Wii hack (trucha bug) actually a bad implementation of RSA signature verification (strncmp instead of memcmp)? I don't know about the other ones, but I thought they were all pretty much game-local.
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11y ago
And the length of this is exactly the reason why Johnny still can't encrypt and doesn't want to know how. Getting things right, including disaster recovery, should be done correctly and silently by default.
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11y ago
It may not be the advice OP is looking for, but it's the advice OP needs.
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11y ago
The title says "IRC inventor", whereas the article states: > In the mid-1980s he was a pioneer in developing Internet Relay Chat, creating a language that made BITNET Relay possible. Relay was the predecessor to IRC. "Jeff
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How I got permission to post VisiCalc (1999)
(static.userland.com)
12 points
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11y ago
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OpenNT: A Fork of the Microsoft Windows NT 4
(opennt.net)
8 points
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11y ago
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11y ago
MD5 isn't considered secure anymore in the first place; collisions have been found. See http://merlot.usc.edu/csac-f06/papers/Wang05a.pdf and http://www.win.tue.nl/~bdeweger/CollidingCert
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11y ago
> What’s the difference? It’s that -ful and -ly are Germanic endings, while -ity came in with French. French and Latin endings pull the accent closer – TEM-pest, tem-PEST-uous – while Germanic ones leave the accent alone. As someone lear
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11y ago
Medium-quality random binary garbage. randint is an alias for randrange,[1] which produces "slightly uneven distributions" according to the docs before version 3.2.[2] [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library
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11y ago
Obligatory "use HMAC over random tokens": https://neosmart.net/blog/2015/using-hmac-signatures-to-avoi...
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Bogobogosort
(dangermouse.net)
2 points
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11y ago
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