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by cyphar 7y ago
You're not misremembering -- Linux has releases every 6-7 weeks. WireGuard was merged into 5.6-rc1 a little over a month ago and the story was posted to HN from memory.
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by cyphar 7y ago
It goes far further than stupid comments by our (former) prime minister. The current legislation (passed in 2018) allows the government to force the installation of backdoors through a process that doesn't have any judicial overview or
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by cyphar 7y ago
You could, and that's how the Android version works (at least, until Android has wireguard.ko built-in -- the WireGuard app supports both versions). But if you're using it on Linux you're almost certainly using the kernel mod
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by cyphar 7y ago
WireGuard on Linux has always been implemented as a kernel module (a very small one at that). If you've used it on Linux, you've used the code that has been included in Linux 5.6. This is about the code being merged upstream into
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by cyphar 7y ago
I'm also Australian. I was referring to the previous decision to put everyone from the Norwegian Jewel into the Swissotel right in the middle of the Sydney CBD[1]. The brand-new policy you're referring to was announced only slight
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by cyphar 7y ago
Except the hotel is in the middle of the city, and there are other non-quarantined residents living in the same hotel who are almost certainly going to get sick. I think the correct solution is what Vietnam has done -- convert military barr
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by cyphar 7y ago
I hadn't seen that post before, and it does seem quite reasonable -- but I don't think it really vindicates the advice (nee propaganda) from government officials, unless there was no other way to alleviate shortages. The conclusio
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by cyphar 7y ago
> Right. No one has ever studied contagions among the community at large and the effect of masks. When you hear people say there is no evidence, this is what they are referring. Actually, they have[1,2]. According to one study, surgical
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by cyphar 7y ago
Avoiding mask shortages is a noble goal (note that you're agreeing with me here -- mass-producing masks would also have avoided shortages). Whether or not the method employed was ethical or not is a separate question (and I agree w
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by cyphar 7y ago
This was a coordinated (dare I say "propaganda") campaign by US and other government officials in order to try to avoid mask shortages[1]. A noble goal, sure -- but the net result is that people are now misinformed about the effic
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by cyphar 7y ago
Password managers that have browser integration already function this way -- you have to go out of your way to copy-paste your password. The main problem is that some sites design their login forms to make this kind of functionality harder
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by cyphar 7y ago
Using eBPF requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the host user namespace. Unprivileged user namespaces don't help.
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by cyphar 7y ago
It doesn't "add a flaw", but instead it triggers the instability that exists because of the existing flaws. If large amounts of people stop being able to keep their heads above water (which is happening because of CoVID-relat
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by cyphar 7y ago
> because there's no "version 1 or newer" clause that allows backdoor change to license like typical GPL case There is actually, and in CDDL (unlike in GPL) version updates are an opt-out feature rather than being opt-in.
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by cyphar 7y ago
That's okay, you can mix it by hand and it will work without issue (it's what our ancestors did for thousands of years). But if you don't want to knead for 10-15 minutes, if you roughly mix the water and flour then wait 10 mi
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by cyphar 7y ago
> but maybe i just didn't knead it long enough for the flour to absorb the water If you let the dough mix sit for a 10 minutes or so before you start kneading, it allows the flour to hydrate and thus it'll get less sticky. This
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by cyphar 7y ago
Yeah, after looking it up I don't think that explanation was right. However, I would argue the conclusion is correct though -- sugar is not a required ingredient for bread dough. The more correct explanation is that the primary source
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by cyphar 7y ago
Sugar is not needed at all for bread baking. This is sadly a common myth. The yeast used in bread making cannot digest complex carbohydrates. Sugar does serve a purpose in bread (flavour and colour -- sugars love to brown when heated) but i
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by cyphar 7y ago
Wholegrain flour doesn't produce as much gluten as bread flour, so it won't trap air as well (resulting in it being flatter). I doubt it was because you didn't have enough water -- in fact if you added water until it was stic
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by cyphar 7y ago
The breakage of ZoL wasn't a side-effect of some big technical change. They literally just made the SIMD enable/disable barriers no longer usable from non-GPL modules (the changed an EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL). This means
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by cyphar 7y ago
Yes, that's all true but I don't quite see what you're disagreeing with. I agree that it definitely is cheaper for restaurants to cook large numbers of the same meal, and they have many other expenditures which raise the pric
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by cyphar 7y ago
That's only true if most of your clients aren't mobile devices. That's why Google pushed for ChaCha20-Poly1305 standardisation and usage with TLS several years ago.
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by cyphar 7y ago
On the other hand, restaurants are operating on economies of scale (and they get wholesale prices for their raw materials -- their groceries are much cheaper per-portion than yours). Don't get me wrong, cooking at home can be cheaper
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by cyphar 7y ago
It's to make the design simpler. If you only use one crypto algorithm there's no cipher suite negotiation in the protocol (and thus no downgrade attacks). And while AES-GCM is faster with AES-NI, ChaCha20-Poly1305 is constructed t
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by cyphar 7y ago
The reason you won't get a response to such questions (and follow-up comments about downvotes get flagged and downvoted) is because discussion of voting is against the HN Guidelines[1]: > Please don't comment about the voting o
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by cyphar 7y ago
This is not always required. WireGuard peers can roam freely very similarly to Mosh (if one peer receives an authenticated message from one of its peers from a different IP address, it will update the gateway of that peer and will send all
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by cyphar 7y ago
Another "paper and pen" cipher that was published a few years ago is ElsieFour (a modified version of RC4)[1]. One of the nice things is that it even offers a form of authenticated encryption, though it is a very string-and-staple
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by cyphar 7y ago
> we decided we wanted uncontrolled immigration The US definitely has an immigration policy. Not to mention that no serious politician today (despite what some media outlets may claim) is running on a platform of open borders.
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by cyphar 7y ago
That is simply not true. For Client-Server communication there is IMAP (for management of your mailbox) and SMTP (for sending emails) which is also used for Server-Server communication. The fact that clients such as Thunderbird (or mutt) ex
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by cyphar 7y ago
Much like in C, you could use several other schemes such as a Mutex (or RwLock). There are crates which implement more complicated memory management primitives -- the most obvious example being crossbeam[1]. Crossbeam even has an implementa

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