cyphar

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by cyphar 5y ago
> Please actually read the whole post and try to understand the situation. I'm aware of what has happened, I personally think they should've banned the University last year. And the quote in your post only tells one side of the
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by cyphar 5y ago
Submitting patches you know contain vulnerabilities to a project as part of a social engineering experiment shows a fundamental lack of ethics -- it doesn't matter if the patches themselves were merged, the intent itself matters. Since
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by cyphar 6y ago
> The hypothetical LibreOffice fork, with their private modifications on their own private computer, is entirely within the bounds of reason to keep those modifications private and generate revenue with it, if people want to pay them for
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by cyphar 6y ago
You cannot host it yourself because you don't have a copy of the source code -- all of their changes are private because the are not distributing the software to anyone.
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by cyphar 6y ago
Consider an extreme example -- someone takes LibreOffice and many other GPL-licensed programs and creates a business where you can only access them through the internet. They make massive (useful changes) to LibreOffice to the point that a
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by cyphar 6y ago
> No, they pay you to go home at the end of the day. That's part of your contract. Does your contract actually say this explicitly? Mine doesn't and I'm not sure it'd even be enforceable if it did. > If you instead
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by cyphar 6y ago
Isn't removing occupants of any burning enclosure (be it a car, building, boat, ...) always the first priority? I can't imagine any case where a fire department would pour water on a burning car without first getting people out of
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by cyphar 6y ago
Alternatively use "cat -v" and any terminal escape characters will be escaped.
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by cyphar 6y ago
Well, on Unix file extensions are a convention and don't have any strict semantic meaning. Maybe this doesn't make sense in a world where most people do think in terms of file extensions (thanks to the popularity of Windows) but
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by cyphar 6y ago
This reminds me of a technobabble fingerprinting technique in the (not very good) movie Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009). It has a pretty uncanny resemblance to the method the researcher created for detecting if a photo has been altered (th
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by cyphar 6y ago
The issue is that the word "free" in English has two meanings, while other languages have two separate words for each meaning (gratis = free of charge, libre = free as in freedom). The reason why L means Libre is to emphasise that
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by cyphar 6y ago
Google was fined 50 million euros in 2019 because Android didn't provide enough transparency or informed consent for advertising-related tracking[1]. For a company the size of Google, it's a slap on the wrist (especially when comp
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by cyphar 6y ago
> Looks like it now can do Ed25519 vs just NSA Suite B for ECC, which was a real irritation previously. The Nitrokey Start supports Curve25519, though it was (strangely) the only device they sold with such support before the new 3 series
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by cyphar 6y ago
> Of course if you insist on acting like an authority and telling students that Newtonian Mechanics is "the Truth", then yes, you are lying to them. But you don't have to tell them that to teach them Newtonian Mechanics. D
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by cyphar 6y ago
> No, it isn't what we're talking about. We're talking about making categorical statements that are false. That's not what we're talking about. Describing multiplication as repeated addition as a way of teaching
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by cyphar 6y ago
> Do you have a specific example of where you think you need to lie to teach physics? If we are defining "lie" to mean "simplifying the model to allow students to understand what's going on" (which is what we&#
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by cyphar 6y ago
Linux containers and equivalent technologies are virtualisation (specifically OS virtualisation[1]), just not a VM. Hardware virtualisation (VMs) isn't the only kind of virtualisation that exists. [1]: https://en.wikipedia
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by cyphar 6y ago
You're missing php-curl (or it's installed but the module is disabled). I'd double-check that you have all of the dependencies of NextCloud installed[1], because php-curl is one of the required dependencies. [1]: https:&#x2F
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by cyphar 6y ago
The issues with timeouts can be avoided if you use the command line upgrader: % php /var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar
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by cyphar 6y ago
NextCloud also has a web upgrader accessible from the admin panel. It's almost certainly based on the same code. I don't know why they go about it in such a manual way. If you don't like the web installer, there's a comm
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by cyphar 6y ago
> to this day I can't wrap my head around the need to unwrap almost every single variable/function/whatever. Think of Result as (foo, err) bundled into one thing. result.unwrap() is then equivalent to: if err != nil
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Facebook blocks the sharing of news content in Australia(sbs.com.au)
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by cyphar 6y ago
You can do that with seccomp -- each filter is run along with the others and the most restrictive return value is used by seccomp. If a program in a seccomp sandbox couldn't add a new secxokp filter to itself, you wouldn't be able
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by cyphar 6y ago
> > Pledge / unveil on userland > This sounds very nice, is there anything similar on Linux? Seccomp is the closest thing we have to pledge, and it is used by some programs to restrict the set of operations they can do (but th
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by cyphar 6y ago
> I’m sure the Chinese are selling them surveillance tech, and if not Iranians are quite capable of developing it themselves. Actually it seems more likely that it's US-built censorship tools -- specifically BlueCoat, which was dete
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by cyphar 6y ago
> Let's say you use the Tor browser to browse some regular (non-Tor) site that is illegal in your country for whatever reason. But let's say you then remember you still haven't paid your taxes so you open a new tab and qui
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by cyphar 6y ago
I've been able to leave my home this entire pandemic. What are you even talking about. And given how badly the rest of the planet is handling things, I wouldn't leave Australia even if I could (though we can visit New Zealand, whi
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by cyphar 6y ago
Case fatality (which is at 3%) is not the same as infection fatality. You cannot directly measure infection fatality until the pandemic is over (the best you have are estimates until then), so going with the case fatality rate (which has st
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by cyphar 6y ago
I live in Australia, so my life has been back to normal for several months now. I get the feeling you are afraid of something though, so maybe you're projecting those fears onto other people.
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by cyphar 6y ago
Death robs you of your humanity far more effectively than any lockdown. Also now that we have several effective vaccines being rolled out all over the world, it makes even less sense to have this attitude. And all this in the name of some L

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