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901.
by cyphar 7y ago
Though it should be noted that's not quite the same thing as execve. Execve does a lot of things in addition to running the main function (privilege transitions like setuid being just one example).
902.
by cyphar 7y ago
The other thing is that machine-generated works almost by definition do not reach the "creative" aspect of the "original and creative" requirement for copyright to apply.
903.
by cyphar 7y ago
Or use the BIP39 lists since they also encode 2048 bits. If you just use BIP39 you also get a checksum. RFC 1751[1] is the "standardised" option but IMHO the wordlist they use is far too easy to misread (though this is because the
904.
by cyphar 7y ago
> When you explain that this plan would not only replace private insurance we have today, but in fact make such insurance illegal, Republican support drops by ~50%. And if you phrase it as "are you in favour of a healthcare system w
905.
by cyphar 7y ago
First, Bernie is a democratic socialist (or more accurately, a social democrat, but the distinction has been lost in recent years) not a socialist. His policies have overwhelming support by Democratic, Independent, and Republican voters
906.
by cyphar 7y ago
Having papers published in journals (especially prestigious ones like Nature) is how you attain status in the research community. Also most research institutions have some expectation that you will publish N papers a year on average (becaus
907.
by cyphar 7y ago
I'm also quite surprised that the symbols for "O" (capital O) and "0" (zero) are very similar, even in the monospace version of B612.
908.
by cyphar 7y ago
There is some argument for this kind of certificate pinning (though I'm honestly not sold on the idea), but I think that this example is a further argument for scriptable certificate renewal. Most ACME clients allow you to run scripts
909.
by cyphar 7y ago
They're coyly referring to "ludicrous speed" -- the mode where you can accelerate from 0-100km/h in less than 3 seconds.
910.
by cyphar 7y ago
Efail worked with the default settings on almost all clients except Mutt. Most email clients do not have a "plain text" mode. They all display emails as HTML and apply some formatting to make the "plain text" mode be mon
911.
by cyphar 7y ago
> There are, of course, web email services that purport to encrypt messages. But they store encryption keys (or code and data sufficient to derive them). While I assume they are talking about things like Protonmail here, there is a case
912.
by cyphar 7y ago
Matrix has gotten much better about this. Most scenarios where device lists get out of date are caused by the device list cache for federared homeservers being out of date. But with synapse 1.10 (released a few weeks ago), homeservers will
913.
by cyphar 7y ago
Email-over-TLS provides encryption to your mail server, not to end-to-end encryption to the recipient of your email. That's what this entire discussion is about (and "encrypted email" in the article refers to PGP encryption,
914.
by cyphar 7y ago
Signal's server[1] and client source code[2,3,4] has been publicly available for many years and are even licensed under the (A)GPL-3.0 (with an exception to allow distribution via Google Play and the Apple App Store). I don't kn
915.
by cyphar 7y ago
Something being provably true is a higher bar than it being explicitly stated (because an explicit statement isn't enough to prove something to be true). I agree that voter suppression was the primary intent, but the legislation wasn&#
916.
by cyphar 7y ago
It's because discussing downvotes is against the HN Guidelines[1]: > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. Folks downvote comments about downvoting because it&#x
917.
by cyphar 7y ago
For some more information on the various features in this release, check out the 5.6-rc1 LWN[1] article. As usual, that article only covers the first week of the merge window (Corbet is probably writing the second part as we speak). [1]: h
918.
by cyphar 7y ago
It's a paper about improving compiler optimisations by allowing Rust to tell LLVM whether two pointers will or will not alias (refer to the same block of memory). This aliasing information can provide some pretty significant speedups i
919.
by cyphar 7y ago
No, that's not quite right. Unsafe code written today does not by default have undefined behaviour -- if it did, it would be a useless tool. You can write programs using unsafe that have undefined behaviour (of course) but that's
920.
by cyphar 7y ago
Courts found that the North Carolina voter ID laws were designed to be discriminatory[1]. Same in Texas[2]. So it's definitely true in at least two cases that voter ID laws were provably designed for voter suppression. [1]: https:&#x2
921.
by cyphar 7y ago
[1] shows 143 code execution CVEs in the past 20 years. Now, to be fair, this site has been known to misclassify bugs in the past and it's likely that most of those bugs don't apply to NextCloud or weren't even RCEs. However
922.
by cyphar 7y ago
Not OP, but I use Mailbox.org. They have a neat feature where you can give them one or more PGP public keys and they encrypt the bodies of all plaintext emails to those keys. It's not perfect (you're still trusting them to not be
923.
by cyphar 7y ago
The only problem is that the server is written in PHP, which has had a history of bad RCE bugs (and an RCE bug in this context means all your personal data is accessible). In addition, NextCloud has had several pretty bad bugs related to au
924.
by cyphar 7y ago
"undefined" in this context means that the JSON object has had the relevant key omitted rather than explicitly set to null. This is valid JSON (it just so happens that JavaScript handles this scenario by returning "undefined&
925.
by cyphar 7y ago
Yes, being in a caloric defecit (relative to your previous normal) is hard. Most lifestyle changes are. Anyone who tells you different is lying to you. But it doesn't need to be excruciating, and if you plan around the foods you like t
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by cyphar 7y ago
The Murray-Darling river system covers most of NSW and Victoria, so it's not hard to intuit that a drier river system will result in drier conditions in NSW and Victoria. I don't have a source which says "the fires were predo
927.
by cyphar 7y ago
Most of those speed compile benchmarks are done with "make tinyconfig" -- where a small fraction of the kernel is being built (a few million SLoC at most). A kernel build using "make allyesconfig" takes significantly lon
928.
by cyphar 7y ago
In Australia, a larger factor is that cotton farmers have literally been stealing water from the Murray-Darling catchment system, resulting in the entire bush becoming much drier for the past decade.
929.
by cyphar 7y ago
Acidification is the correct term to refer to something becoming more acidic (or "less basic" if you prefer). It doesn't mean that something has a pH below 7. pH is directly related to the concentration of H+ ions in solution
930.
by cyphar 7y ago
This article makes a few mistakes with regards to ZFS. Some are understandable (the author presumably last looked at the state of ZFS 5 years ago), but some were not true even 5 years ago: > If you want to grow the pool, you basically ha

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