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by beefhash 11y ago
Disclaimer: I don't know how the downvoting privileges are actually assigned. The necessary karma threshold for downvoting is already prohibitively high, but submission karma and comment karma seem to be shared. That means if you get o
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by beefhash 11y ago
Then the bad reputation of PHP was the second wave of non-programmers building web apps?
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by beefhash 11y ago
This made me realize just how big a 128-bit key in cryptography really is.
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by beefhash 11y ago
Pretty sure this is an export of a Google code project[1], at least the date and message of the latest commit matches the github version. Previously on HN for the Google code project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=113
785.
by beefhash 11y ago
You graduated comedy school with magna semen laude, didn't you?
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by beefhash 11y ago
It could be worse; like getting sued by an ISP named Cox[1]. [1] http://www.cox.com/
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by beefhash 11y ago
This is all fine and dandy for seeding a CSPRNG, but we still don't actually have a CSPRNG in the C stdlib or glibc. getrandom(2) seems to target exclusively getting entropy for seeding, looking at the man page ("These bytes can b
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by beefhash 11y ago
If I may ask a potentially silly question, does this have any security implications for RC4-based random number generators (notably, FreeBSD arc4random[1] and libbsd arc4random[2]; OpenBSD and NetBSD seem to have replaced their arc4random w
789.
by beefhash 11y ago
Using a loop of that length (for ($i=0;$i<10000;$i++)) on a site allowing people to execute code, and then linking it to HN effectively amounts to a do-it-yourself DDoS. I don't think I wanna be the host of that site right now.
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by beefhash 11y ago
One might argue that good physical controls just don't matter that much for the audience that casually plays a game on the train.
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by beefhash 11y ago
How does the Vita compare to the 3DS with regards to security and -- from a developer's point of view -- overall system architecture?
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by beefhash 11y ago
> (I don't write Ruby so I don't know if this is overloadable somewhere.) Ruby allows overriding the == operator[1], but OpenSSL::HMAC.digest returns an instance of String[2], rather than returning a special subclass of string
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by beefhash 12y ago
Previously on HN with some speculation about why those measures are in place and how some could be written off as optimizations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8808754
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by beefhash 12y ago
Why not combine? Potatoes vs. Goats!
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by beefhash 12y ago
It'd be interesting to know which of those screenshots is the one not taken on OpenBSD-CURRENT.
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by beefhash 12y ago
I wasn't aware the C++ bashing season had ever stopped. Did I miss something?
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by beefhash 12y ago
> All property contained in this repo, including Intellectual Property, Financial Property, and Legal Property, is owned solely by the Autonomous Software this repo contains. No other entities, whether biological, legal, or digital, may
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by beefhash 12y ago
> they even invented a whole ecosystem, .NET, designed to draw a hard line between Microsoft users and non-Microsoft users I guess this wasn't written last week; the author gets to update that part with the recent developments with
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by beefhash 12y ago
Depends, actually. In Switzerland, you do write "Buße" as "Busse", despite the different pronounciation indicated with ß. The German written in Switzerland just doesn't know the ß character and uses "ss".
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by beefhash 12y ago
Am I missing something or is there not supposed to be a link here?
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by beefhash 12y ago
Are SSL connections to the remote IRCd (usually via port 6697 or 9999) supported?
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by beefhash 12y ago
The problem I see is a false sense of security: Users will just see a lock in their address bar and think they're safe -- even if they're on a phishing site with a self-signed certificate. It appears that users have been condition
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by beefhash 12y ago
One day we'll get strlcpy and strlcat for sure. Just not here, not now.
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IRC Software Archive(archives.darenet.org)
1 points by beefhash 12y ago|0 comments
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Fish Plays Pokémon(twitch.tv)
10 points by beefhash 12y ago|1 comments
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by beefhash 12y ago
The mods of each subreddit are also what kill it. There are people who squash subreddit names just for the lulz[1]. Furthermore, moderator hierarchy is solely based on the date of when they accepted the moderator invitation, which cannot be
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by beefhash 12y ago
https://pdf.yt/tos -- You might want to get a lawyer to check if there are any pitfalls when using tongue-in-cheek terms of service and whether you wouldn't need to require people to accept ToS in a more nagging way.
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by beefhash 12y ago
>Today, KDE is no longer a Unix Desktop Environment. Today, KDE is people: Us. You and me. Compare this with: >GNOME: People-focused[1] Is it just me or is this focus on humans/people good at creating unpopular software? [1] htt
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by beefhash 12y ago
Regardless of the meaning of the underlying domain, I believe it to be important to watch for easy typos or possibly lost meaning. Personally, but that may be just me, I feel as though "openmined.com" is easily confused or typoed
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by beefhash 12y ago
Well, it was WONTFIXed in 2004, which is just ten years ago: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178 Maybe it's worth reheating the debate?

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