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by cesarb 2y ago
> The freezing happened BEFORE the block order, to my knowledge. I like going to original sources when possible, instead of depending on hearsay. You are correct. The order freezing the SpaceX assets is not public, but the rejection of t
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by cesarb 2y ago
> why do X and SpaceX comingle assets and feuds like this? My understanding of the case, from reading the original orders from the judge, is not that their assets are comingled, but rather that both are under direct control of Elon Musk
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by cesarb 2y ago
> None of the weird arg[0] examples can happen on the shell (without escaping), only when using system calls. $ help exec [...] Options: -a name pass NAME as the zeroth argument to COMMAND Even in shell, you can explicitly
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Each applet uses the same amount of disk space (0 blocks, i.e. the content fits into inode). Is that really the case? AFAIK, OpenWRT uses SquashFS by default, and a quick web search tells me that "[...] In addition, inode and dire
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by cesarb 2y ago
That is not Twitter, vt.social is a Mastodon instance.
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by cesarb 2y ago
It's been so long ago, that it's hard to find all the discussions I had seen back then. I recall that it was after a long time without any zlib release, so looking at the zlib history, I think it was this one fixed in zlib 1.1.4 f
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by cesarb 2y ago
> They, and most others, have been doing that since their respectively beginnings As I explained on another comment of mine ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409199 ), it's not since their beginning, but since
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by cesarb 2y ago
> rust does not support dynamic linking of rust libraries. All rust applications are statically linked. That's not true. $ ldd /usr/bin/rustc linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fde30c44000) librustc_driver-adb68da129cf
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by cesarb 2y ago
> The problem is that Debian doesn't allow it. Vendoring used to be more common, even in Debian. But then there was an important zlib vulnerability (which IIRC could be exploited through manipulated compressed data), and they had to
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by cesarb 2y ago
> AFAIK there is no other distro that does this, what they do is that they would download crates from crates.io (`cargo vendor` is a command that does this automatically) and build against that. AFAIK, most traditional distributions do t
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by cesarb 2y ago
I couldn't find the original order anywhere, but I could find a later order rejecting Starlink's request against this order: https://noticias.stf.jus.br/postsnoticias/stf-rejeita-acao-c... (direct link: http
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Books yellow and age and rot. No content you have ever bought lasts forever. Many libraries all over the world have books which have lasted for centuries, far longer than a single person's lifetime. The books I bought as a child c
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by cesarb 2y ago
Does anyone know where we can find a copy of the official order? So far, I only found the previous one ( https://noticias.stf.jus.br/postsnoticias/stf-intima-elon-mu... has a link to it). (The twitter link isn't wo
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by cesarb 2y ago
Here's a source from one of the biggest newspapers in the country: https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/noticia/2024/08/29/moraes-...
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by cesarb 2y ago
> we kinda expect you to know tech. Technology is a vast field, you can't expect everyone "in tech" to know all corners of "tech". This one is well-known if you're looking for alternatives to the current sma
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by cesarb 2y ago
Or rather, why you don't use ccTLDs of other countries for your business. Using your own country's ccTLD is perfectly fine, and has an advantage over a gTLD of not being potentially subject to the whims of a foreign country.
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by cesarb 2y ago
I still haven't seen anywhere reporting what, exactly, was the issue, and why would using the "true Administrator" account on Windows (or using Linux) avoid the issue. My own uninformed guess, given that the "true Admini
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by cesarb 2y ago
The parent comment is not comparing coal and nuclear. The parent comment is comparing hydroelectric dam failures with nuclear power plant failures (on normal operation, neither nuclear power plants nor hydroelectric power plants leak any si
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by cesarb 2y ago
> While that's horrifying, the dam doesn't bleed radioactive particles Another way to put it: if the worst case happens, and a dam breaks and floods a large area, you can immediately go there and walk all over the damaged area
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by cesarb 2y ago
I knew you could reformat NVMe drives to have 4096 byte instead of 512 byte logical sectors, but didn't know there was a standard command to also do that for non-NVMe drives. I might try that next time I get a new non-NVMe SSD.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Question for somebody who doesn't work in chips: what does a software engineer has to do differently when targeting software for RISC5? Most of the time, nothing; code correctly written on higher-level languages like C should work
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by cesarb 2y ago
> but we not only need reliable base load energy but lots more of it than we have now—and that base load will continue to increase The term "base load" is not that useful; it's just the amount of load which can be supplied
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by cesarb 2y ago
> the NSA can grab your laptop If the NSA grabbed your laptop, you've already lost. For instance, they could replace all input and output devices (keyboard, mouse, screen, audio, etc) with ones that not only log everything you do, b
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Or does installing Windows contaminate the TPM module permanently? It's not the TPM, it's a simple UEFI variable. AFAIK, there's a way in the BIOS to reset all these variables to their original default value, though you
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by cesarb 2y ago
There are two separate Secure Boot keys Microsoft uses: one which they use to sign Windows, and another which they use to sign everything else (the "Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI CA"). AFAIK, some recent laptops with Windows preinsta
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by cesarb 2y ago
From what I understood, the parent's question is not about Microsoft updating grub; it's about a person hit by the bug, and thus in a situation where Windows boots but Linux doesn't, using Windows to copy the correct file (pr
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by cesarb 2y ago
Well, it wasn't there when I first learned SQL by reading the PostgreSQL manual. I recall that this was back when the size of TEXT columns was limited, so it was before version 7.1 (which introduced TOAST tables), released 13 April, 20
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by cesarb 2y ago
WITH clauses are a somewhat recent feature, at least on PostgreSQL. If you learned SQL before they became commonly available, it's unsurprising if you tend to think of other SQL techniques first.
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by cesarb 2y ago
This is a risk common to all "fat clients", when the same team develops both the server code and the client code: it's easy to forget that, unlike the server code, the client code cannot be trusted.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> What's the process to bring it back up so fast? It's called black start ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start ), and power companies plan for it, and the necessary components are regularly tested. It

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