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A Ransomware Operation(cybernews.com)
1 points by ctur 5y ago|0 comments
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by ctur 5y ago
This is inscrutable to anyone not familiar with whatever that site is and the underlying systems and terminology. Someone should write a blog post or something to explain it, then link that here so we can all be in awe, or outrage, togeth
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by ctur 6y ago
Not including Zstandard is a lost opportunity -- it is far more appropriate than XZ or LZMA for real-time applications like serving web pages. Should be easy to add, though, and likely would be a very nice compromise between space, memory,
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by ctur 6y ago
That is an incredibly long winded way of saying very little. Which is ironic as that is literally the opposite of the Perl programming language itself.
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by ctur 6y ago
Every update requires you to redo this. It's so repetitive that I keep a copy of what I want `/etc/sudo` to look like in my homedir and, whenever I get the prompt for a sudo attempt, I instead sudo to cp the file. Then I go
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by ctur 6y ago
There is an excellent podcast, You're Wrong About, which goes into the disparity between things we fear and what actually happens. Similar and relevant topics they cover: - Satanic Panic - Human Trafficking - Murder - Stanford Prison
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by ctur 6y ago
Do you feel the same way about seatbelts? If people choose to be safer by wearing masks, judging them is pretty extreme. This kind of attitude is what made the early days of the pandemic a mess.
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by ctur 6y ago
This seems like GPT-3 generated content or something. Or maybe just some notes written in a vaguely prose-like manner. No real content either way.
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by ctur 6y ago
We documented some of this in our Engineering blog posts on Zstandard. Check this one out and search for "Managed Compression" for the system we built. https://engineering.fb.com/2018/12/19/core-dat
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by ctur 6y ago
That's a little snarkier than I intended. It is good to share this method of handling what is otherwise very awkward code. It just is unfortunate the language itself doesn't have constructs that lend to proper syntactically sc
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by ctur 6y ago
It's beauty in the sense that it is addressing a language deficiency ("destructor" behavior, awkwardness of the "with" construct) with a library, sure, but this is ultimately working around a gap in Python itself.
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by ctur 6y ago
There is a good book about the evolution of written communication as the Internet evolved. "Because Internet" by Gretchen McCulloch goes into some of the subtle implications of using punctuation such as periods ending sentences,
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by ctur 6y ago
Even better -- use this script, paste anything into stdin. It will come back out quotable and pasteable into a shell. #!/bin/bash printf '%q' "$(cat)" echo
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by ctur 6y ago
This truly will lead to the next generation of unicorns where engineering is combined with marketing to innovate entirely new business models from the to-be-realized latent synergies of the previously divergent disciplines.
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by ctur 6y ago
This post just seems to be to draw semi-sensational attention to a self-help book. The site isn't generally referencing primary sources or otherwise giving signals of why it should be trusted. It also doesn't identify the author
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by ctur 6y ago
Seconding Cronometer as a good tool; it’s the best I’ve found, supports data export, and isn’t full of “social” features that obscure the key feature: easy and accurate calorie tracking. In particular it’s database is more accurate than th
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by ctur 7y ago
Don’t just walk past; give them some cash or carry gift cards for grocery store or pharmacies to hand out. Then also donate to a local shelter. Give them cash. Give them dignity by making eye contact. Give the benefit of the doubt they n
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by ctur 7y ago
For those who can't upgrade yet, there is an open source utility, Unshaky ( https://unshaky.nestederror.com/ ), that can help with double presses. It's sad and gross that it is necessary but it works well on my agi
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by ctur 7y ago
Reading the other news coverage and not just Povey’s screed, it sounds more like white fragility than genuine injustice.
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Introducing the new VoteWithMe(medium.com)
2 points by ctur 8y ago|2 comments
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by ctur 8y ago
I think XARs are much simpler. snapcraft (and AppImage and other tools) seem to be much more invasive to the development flow and more opinionated about what the contents of the image look like (directory structures, yaml/xml/jso
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by ctur 8y ago
I am not an expert in AppImage but I think the main thing is it is pretty easy to make a XAR of a Python script and that the overhead is probably less (especially for repeated invocations). I think XAR is simpler than the other alternatives
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by ctur 8y ago
XAR development began in 2014 and hit production use in an early form in 2015; this was before some other options were out there, or before, I believe, AppImage went the squashfuse route. XAR doesn't aim to, say, represent a sandboxed
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by ctur 8y ago
I agree it is a bummer that FUSE doesn't directly work on Windows, but it should be doable -- we would love for someone to figure out the best way to do this on Windows. Happy to collaborate with anyone who'd like to make this a
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by ctur 8y ago
Not related, but at first glance it looks similar. However, it appears that ruby-packer uses a library to access the squashfs image rather than actually mounting it. This makes it difficult (probably impossible) to load .so files from the
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by ctur 8y ago
We generally deploy XARs like a normal executable (delivered via RPMs or other native packaging). We also have an internal packaging format we use to deploy them as well. The big thing for us is we treat them like normal executables, so an
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by ctur 8y ago
We actually started with using "real" squashfs files. This had three main disadvantages: - We had to maintain our own setuid executable to perform the loopback setup and mount (rather than relying on the far more tested and secur
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by ctur 8y ago
Yep, it's similar, but squashfs is more optimized than zip files for random access like a filesystem (rather than an archive). Also when using zstd-based squashfs files, there is much less overhead for the decompression itself which e
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by ctur 8y ago
One syllable, rhymes with "car" but with a "z" sound ("zar").
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by ctur 8y ago
FUSE isn't generally lighter weight than a filesystem but it can be relatively competitive for simple use cases like a read-only filesystem. Additionally, squashfs lets you pack metadata and data very tightly, and since it is a readon

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