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by claudius 13y ago
That is a critical security flaw in Chrome (and your toy OS there with the fancy graphics). Arguing that someone else made a mistake which renders your mistake unimportant under some circumstances is neither excuse nor justification, in par
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by claudius 13y ago
No, they are evil because they are lying to me . When Mozilla put them in my browser, they promised “we will make sure that only people who own the domains get certs for them”. Now there are a bunch of people with leaked private keys and S
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by claudius 13y ago
My point was that it is not an unreasonable thing to have some sort of #include directive in a data format, and certainly not in a markup language. The problem here was the same as in the rest of the software industry: programmers are far f
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by claudius 13y ago
> loading external entities pointed in an XML automatically? what kind of joke is that? Your browser does much the same when parsing (X)HTML. LaTeX naturally includes ‘external’ resources when building an output file. There are tons of e
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by claudius 13y ago
It’s not the job of the browser to secure your data against OS-level adversaries, that’s the job of the OS (e.g. by using file permissions to protect against other users and ideally also MAC to protect against other software). It’s not even
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by claudius 13y ago
As a user, I much prefer that my browser and my OS never ever again show a StartSSL-signed cert as valid over even just one compromised cert being displayed with a fancy lock. How StartSSL is going to achieve that, I don’t care, but neither
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by claudius 13y ago
At least in my Bash (4.2.25(1)), there seems to be a difference between "2>&1|" and "2>&1 |" – the latter works as expected, whereas the former doesn’t give any output. $ echo -e "quit\n" | o
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by claudius 13y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/977/ And ‘wrong’ is certainly too hard a word, or at least there is no projection method that is less wrong than, say, Mercator (or Robinson, for that matter). But, hey, you can only e
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by claudius 13y ago
The patent system was introduced to solve the latter problem: By openly specifying a solution to a problem, more people could benefit from that solution. Combine that with a period of time where only the original inventor is allowed to bene
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by claudius 13y ago
> If the difference between the best winter and the worst is a 40% longer duration (admittedly, not pleasant) and 15 degrees centigrade... there's plenty of room left for real variation. ;) But if you do allow for that larger variat
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by claudius 13y ago
Tunneling your email through yet another service which then converts it into an image hosted by that service and keeps track of when that image was requested over public internet is not my definition of ‘privacy’. If you need expiring email
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by claudius 13y ago
Nobody trusts a Moscow-based company with a lawyer and PR office in the US. To see this, simply set up a single webpage with a Paypal button advertising for this product. You will get money, but probably not 1M$. On the other hand, people s
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by claudius 13y ago
Non-optional bicycle lanes make this unavoidable and motorists still lobby for cyclists to be kept of ‘their’ road.
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by claudius 13y ago
There’s an ‘Expand all comments’ link. Personally I find the community there to be a nice complement to HN. Less serious, less important issues, more usable when tired.
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by claudius 13y ago
> We'll be better out of the EU, and the EU will be better without us. I don’t know and don’t care about the former, but being able to implement remotely sensible policies without an American outpost sitting at the table will be a n
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by claudius 13y ago
> There will be an absolute landslide victory for UKIP in the may elections, and the government will have to take note. If around 80% want to withdraw from Europe, you're going to have to do what they want at some point. Yeah, I cer
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by claudius 13y ago
> Which developed nations have gone to war with each other since WW2? Which non-European developed countries have previously gone to war with each other as regularly as European nations? Also compare the situation in Europe to that in e.
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by claudius 13y ago
1 June through 31 July is two months?
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by claudius 13y ago
Building your own mudlib is always the most ridiculously amibitious part of any project of which it is a part :P But don’t most MUD clients follow these principles? Playing with tf5 does give you quite a few advantages over playing with pla
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Transgressing Boundaries: Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity [1995](physics.nyu.edu)
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Tallis review of "Intellectual Impostures" [1999](physics.nyu.edu)
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by claudius 13y ago
> It keeps phishing attacks from being able to cross services (since if you get a citibank email to your coinbase email that would be a big flag) and it reduces the attack surface on other sites. Or, more importantly, it lets you authent
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by claudius 13y ago
I use _, not "+" and anybody else might use "." or "-" depending on the configuration of their mail server. Sure, you can always add the full email and every possible stripped email to your lists, but in practi
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by claudius 13y ago
That sounds an awful lot like DRM with all its failed approaches…
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by claudius 13y ago
Floating point values with a given precision and some integers. We’ll have to buy a proper supercomputer before the latter take more than seven digits :\
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by claudius 13y ago
TSV is nicer for output (on stderr/out or a logfile), so tends to crop op if you want to parse the output/logfile of something. I haven’t seen Excel in use at my workplace yet.
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by claudius 13y ago
I still hibernate from time to time when away from power for long periods of time without use. Once a year or so, maybe :)
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by claudius 13y ago
The tar.bz there has a CSV file which looks pretty sourcy to me.
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by claudius 13y ago
rsyslog can be configured to send certain kinds of messages to all logged-in users, usually emergencies. These end up in all currently open terminals for me, i.e. each and every tab of every xfce4-terminal I have open at the time. I’d guess
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by claudius 13y ago
It renders a bit weirdly in w3m (indentation is shown as * and plusses and such), but apart from that, it seems to work just fine, so there is probably little reason why it shouldn’t work in any other browser that understands basic HTML? (p

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