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by cperciva 2y ago
An adjective. He was saying "less of a PDF blob".
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by cperciva 2y ago
Yes. They have been notified about these attacks.
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by cperciva 2y ago
Right. I need to implement this and see if the performance is too painful.
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by cperciva 2y ago
Yes that's one of the things we're planning on doing. Doesn't help with small archives (or archives which don't contain much new data) of course. I was originally planning on having that as part of 1.0.41, but the imp
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by cperciva 2y ago
Yeah I considered submitting that, but all the interesting details are in the paper.
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Chunking Attacks on File Backup Services Using Content-Deﬁned Chunking [pdf](daemonology.net)
123 points by cperciva 2y ago|21 comments
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by cperciva 2y ago
Judges have a role in excluding evidence which is more prejudicial than probative. In the case of a fake voice recording, hearing someone who sounds like the accused participating in a crime may prejudice the jury even if they later hear e
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FreeBSD 13.5-Release Now Available(lists.freebsd.org)
8 points by cperciva 2y ago|0 comments
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by cperciva 2y ago
And before that, the Bank of Canada.
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by cperciva 2y ago
Yeah, I was thinking multiple slices. But I'm not a graphical designer so I deliberately didn't offer suggestions. :-)
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by cperciva 2y ago
Feature request: Overlapping time periods. I was a high school student from 1993-1998, but I was a university student from 1994-2000. (And then a student at a different university from 2001-2005.) Many people won't have high school a
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by cperciva 2y ago
Ok, I know this is a joke, but... in all seriousness, I recently moved FreeBSD releases to a quarterly calendar. The first month of the quarter, people are encouraged to finish up their works in progress and get them into the tree; the sec
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by cperciva 2y ago
as clandestine as mid-level bureaucrat slow-walking damaging policies Or stealing papers from the President's desk in order to prevent him from signing them.
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by cperciva 2y ago
Less than a full load certainly, but I wouldn't say "little fuel". 30 minutes fuel remaining is an automatic mayday call.
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by cperciva 2y ago
All you need is napkin maths. We gain energy by turning carbon into carbon dioxide. Now, we need the same energy to reverse it, but with a loss factor. In addition to the chemistry other people have mentioned -- if we burn hydrocarbons an
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by cperciva 2y ago
Sure. But having the legal right to do something doesn't mean that you should do it, only that you are allowed to do it.
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by cperciva 2y ago
Simple answer: Whoever the upstream decides should do it. For my code I'm very happy to have distributions shipping packages because it means the code is available more easily for users and with less work from me -- but if a distro wa
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by cperciva 2y ago
I'm not convinced. The black death had an effect on human evolution -- a single event with high mortality can be all it takes to shift the genome.
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by cperciva 2y ago
Right, when I said warring tribes I meant the period around 4-8 kya where valuable territories were being settled.
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by cperciva 2y ago
Being predisposed to distrust people who look different is one example from the recent past. Back when people lived in frequently-warring tribes, someone who looked different (either due to genetic differences or cultural differences) was
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by cperciva 2y ago
The noisiest spot in the absence of a dam is going to be where water is moving the fastest -- which is the spot with the smallest flow cross section, which is also the best place to drop sticks to impede the flow.
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by cperciva 2y ago
How do they know the reasons beavers build dams? Obviously it's a shorthand, but the interesting thing here is that different biologists come up with different implicit reasons. To an evolutionary biologist, the reason for a behavio
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by cperciva 2y ago
The morale of your troops is known. The morale of the opposing troops is suspected but not certain. WW1 ended because the influenza epidemic was devastating the troops on both sides but neither side knew for certain how hard it was hitting
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by cperciva 2y ago
Absolutely. They were described as "disastrous to morale" and units which had engaged in Christmas truces would routinely be moved to other parts of the front in order to avoid the issues you mention.
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by cperciva 2y ago
For captured senior/important figures were given all kinds of affordances and gestures made which contrast shockingly with the conditions we know people endured in concentration camps. It wasn't just senior and important figures
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by cperciva 2y ago
Christmas truces were absolutely a thing, but they came about through the action of troops on the ground -- and the commanding officers absolutely hated them.
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by cperciva 2y ago
In a remarkable piece of wartime diplomacy, German General Adolf Galland notified the RAF of Bader's missing right prosthetic leg and, with Hermann Goring's permission, the RAF was given safe passage to parachute in a replacement
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by cperciva 2y ago
I disagree -- this is a good idea, because trans people need a community especially in times like this. It just needs some attention paid to security.
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by cperciva 2y ago
I am very concerned about this being a target for malicious actors. I'd offer to help you with security but I've never even heard of some of your stack so I'm probably not in a position to help. Is there anyone here who is f
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by cperciva 2y ago
Why would you be able to bill for a service that you weren’t asked to provide? This can happen; if you're found unconscious and taken to the hospital, you can be billed for medical care which you didn't ask for, based on the doc

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