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by chalst 5y ago
Thanks for linking to this. Given the amount of misinformation in infosec, we should not be linking to intermediate sources for this kind of story.
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by chalst 5y ago
It's worth noting that Aristotle was not a disinterested commentator on Sparta: he loathed the relatively high amount of freedom Spartan women had compared to Athenian women, and went out of his way to argue that when bad things happen
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by chalst 5y ago
Larry Sanger has made something of a career out of being "the cofounder of Wikipedia who thinks it's getting it all wrong". There's a point at which the latest iteration of his criticism ceases to be a stop-the-presses n
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by chalst 5y ago
€2900 is very high, higher than the Royal Society's open access plan. Which journal is it?
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by chalst 5y ago
> If you don't see how removing legal, organizational, and technical obstacles to controlled devices helps this modern policy, I cannot help you. As spijdar observes, with FreeBSD the legal and technical obstacles were removed long
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by chalst 5y ago
hkai's mind is like a hammer: whenever it sees an opinion relating to human choice, it sees a nail.
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by chalst 5y ago
After a summary about how most CEOs don't aim to excel at cybersecurity, but only be above average by following what consultants call best practices, Rob writes: There is a flaw in how CEOs think here. One flaw is that &quot
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How CEOs Think (2020)(blog.erratasec.com)
2 points by chalst 5y ago|1 comments
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by chalst 5y ago
To choose just one example, but one that illustrates the gulf between the two projects. For shell interaction, I use eshell, a UNIX shell written in Elisp, as often as I use anything else. It has some sharp edges, but it takes more sharp ed
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by chalst 5y ago
I like the NeoVim project and think Lua is a great scripting language, and so I wish the project all the best, but it is not attempting to scratch many of the itches that Emacs and Elisp do for many of us old timers.
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by chalst 5y ago
I read with showdead=yes as well and can vouch for your experience. You are not contradicting the parent post, IIUC, however: I take it seattle_spring was talking about how HN would be if it lacked the system or something like it at all.
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by chalst 5y ago
> I'd slowloris the hell out of this site I think most people who have the technical skill to do this effectively don't telegraph their intentions on what is, to all intents and purposes, social media.
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by chalst 5y ago
A former girlfriend of mine used to work in the archival department of the BBC, which covered content and legally sensitive communications. They had big archives and their system worked; their biggest problem was educating new employees thr
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by chalst 5y ago
The coverage of this story in the Guardian I found ever so slightly better: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/26/uk-to-ove... I'm generally somewhat skeptical of The Telegraph as a new
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by chalst 5y ago
This is a very nice combination to have for those students who want to go deep into language implementation and its interface with OSes. C is good for understanding how to write VMs, Scheme is great for code transformation.
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by chalst 5y ago
Richard O'Keefe (2013), erlang-questions mailing list: Once upon a time (about 1992ish) in a land where the moles have beaks and swim and the deer jump on their hind legs (Australia), a certain computer science department
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by chalst 5y ago
Annoyingly this article does not link to the FT story, which, while the FT has an annoying paywall, did break the story and plenty of people can access the content. It's "EU set to launch formal probe into Nvidia’s $54bn takeover
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by chalst 5y ago
I partly agree, but the "super" in "super careful" is going too far. It is OK to take risks when trying to rescue people from a burning building.
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by chalst 5y ago
Stop accusing other HN posters of "spreading lies", when they are, in fact, looking at the data and arriving at conclusions that differ from yours. Your approach may involve looking at data, but your shrillness shows that your att
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by chalst 5y ago
I find the answer of JuvenalUrbino very compelling: https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/90-netbsd-users-why-do-you-use-i...
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NetBSD users, why do you use it over FreeBSD and OpenBSD? (2019)(unitedbsd.com)
4 points by chalst 5y ago|1 comments
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by chalst 5y ago
What's the case for not transitioning to npf if you are using NetBSD? There's always inertia, I suppose, but are there positive reasons?
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Errata Security: Of course you can't trust scientists on politics(blog.erratasec.com)
3 points by chalst 5y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 5y ago
"They know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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by chalst 5y ago
I don't think you see the whole of the harm done here. Yes, the extreme opinions come from one side, but to deal with it, the non-extremists have to take opinion-suppressing measures. Just the process of recognising and flagging posts
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by chalst 5y ago
While I find the article and some of the comments interesting, I don't think it's a good fit for HN. Articles should provoke curious conversation; this one, judging from the number of dead posts, is provoking too much tribalism.
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by chalst 5y ago
The article could be better written but I didn't find it incoherent. The point made is that even if you don't use Emacs as the application you use to write code, it's still a useful tool for a software developer.
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by chalst 5y ago
I'm more impressed by 12 Principles for a Diverging Desktop Future [dd] which is the vision for the Arcan project. [dd]: https://www.divergent-desktop.org/blog/2020/08/10/principles...
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by chalst 5y ago
Oh, yes. I've had that tab open in my browser for days and not noticed. Sorry.
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It's the difference between 30% fucked and 75% fucked.

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