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by comex 4y ago
> There is no crime in telling people to ‘vote this Wednesday.’ There is no crime of ‘misinformation.’ The Department of Justice would disagree with you: “Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference Stemming from Voter Dis
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by comex 4y ago
That is about J.K. Rowling, not about someone who said “I like Harry Potter”.
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by comex 4y ago
It returns a bool, but true means error, not false.
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by comex 4y ago
You have it backwards: it returns true on error.
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by comex 4y ago
The thing is that these legal threats are usually empty, as far as the chances go of actually winning. There might be more cause for the concern in the UK or other countries, but in the US it's very hard for a public figure to win a l
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by comex 4y ago
I just tried dragging a purchased book to Finder, and it only gives me a .webloc pointing to the book's store URL. On the other hand, if I manually locate the book in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/D
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by comex 4y ago
Huh. I always _hated_ that page turning animation, because it obscured the content and made it difficult to quickly swipe back and forth. It was also slow, interrupting my reading flow. When I'm reading something exciting, I always s
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by comex 4y ago
> why probably 90% of shell scripts fail to properly handle file names. Is this what we want? If you want to fix shell scripts, you need to ban not just newlines but also spaces . Well-written shell scripts handle spaces properly, but
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by comex 4y ago
To be fair, “you controlled the DNS records for the domain at some point and your entry has yet to be deleted” could also describe the HTTP-01 challenge. Admittedly, having the A/AAAA record point to the wrong place is much more like
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by comex 4y ago
Or Debian, which much of Ubuntu is derived from, and where Firefox is still offered as a regular apt package like always.
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by comex 4y ago
Yes. Signal should have taken your last sentence to heart and not implemented contact discovery. The feature actually compromises privacy even when used as intended, because anyone can see whether anyone else uses Signal (and, if you ch
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by comex 4y ago
> AMD had its own implementation of a trusted execution environment like SGX, the current AMD chips do not ship with it. As far as I can tell, AMD does currently ship a trusted execution environment supporting remote attestation, namely
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by comex 4y ago
It doesn’t matter what x is. Without prior undefined behavior, there is no way to justify “if (i >= 0 && i < sizeof(tab))” passing when (as demonstrated by the printf) i is not actually in that range. Edit: Though, incidental
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by comex 4y ago
That shouldn’t matter… homebrew supports the latest firmware as long as you’re on the original hardware.
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by comex 4y ago
Specifically, those two titles don’t have Mac releases for any architecture. Apple Silicon support is somewhat orthogonal, since there weren’t any major API removals between x86_64 and arm64. (Unlike in the old days, when, say, Carbon was
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by comex 4y ago
Or try to read numbers in a hex editor, and quickly obtain the opposite conclusion. :)
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by comex 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Delta_variant Delta was named at the end of May 2021 and started to become the dominant strain worldwide in the following months. As shown in the chart under ”Prevention” (an
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by comex 4y ago
What do you mean by ‘trust the call stack’? Do you mean trusting that a function you call won’t longjmp out or otherwise break out of the call without returning? (Plenty of native code already assumes that functions it calls won’t do that
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by comex 4y ago
> But with wasm, you just pull in csharp.wasm, python.wasm and java.wasm, so it's just one binding layer, not three. A bit of a rant, but there's nothing specific to WebAssembly about this. Whether you're using WebAssembly
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by comex 4y ago
Nice. Some questions: - How does this compare with rr? - Out of curiosity, have you ever looked at libTAS? (I realize it has a very different intended use case.) - Have you had an issues with behavior differences between CPUs? I know the
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by comex 4y ago
If you want ultimate control, it’s fully possible to self-host a Mastodon instance with yourself as the only user. I follow one person who does this, and I’m considering doing it myself, just so I won’t have to worry about the server I’m o
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by comex 4y ago
> It reminds me of when everyone was talking about “brogrammers” a while ago, and it had a pretty clear connotation of “programmer who loves keg stands, hitting the gym, and making misogynistic comments”. I think “crypto bro” and “tech b
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by comex 4y ago
> It'll be nice to know that any normal PC program we write will "just work" on Raspberry Pi and Apple ARM. All we have to do embed an ARM build of the emulator above within our x86 executables, and have them morph and re-
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by comex 4y ago
How does that work on the ARM based targets like Switch and Android? Some kind of binary translation?
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by comex 4y ago
He can relicense everything except the code from those patches, while keeping that code under the MIT license. He will be required to preserve the MIT copyright notice and license text, and if he wanted to initiate a copyright lawsuit he w
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by comex 4y ago
The article does in fact mention both reassembly and out-of-order packets.
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by comex 4y ago
Another example: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/426
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by comex 4y ago
Any software written for microcontrollers or other low-memory environments is probably not going to use mmap or, more generally, anything that dynamically manipulates memory mappings (if there even is an MMU in the first place). That said,
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by comex 4y ago
Personally I find it faster to use Siri for alarms, timers, and particularly reminders, than to use the apps directly. Though I don’t actually say Hey Siri, since I always invoke Siri by holding down the button (might be an outdated habit,
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by comex 4y ago
Musk also isn’t elected.

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