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by danarmak 9y ago
How do you judge whether Descent of Man is a text that can change the public position, or too radical and not worth defending? If you only defend things that don't get a negative reaction, and anything contrary to the current dogma g
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by danarmak 9y ago
I don't know what Darwin's Descent of Man says, but considering the immediate reaction, I'd say it's not worth defending.
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by danarmak 9y ago
The ability to doxx is too great today for pseudonyms to work well enough. The necessary opsec is more akin to that used when publishing illegal things the (real) government actively persecutes.
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by danarmak 9y ago
Use a filesystem that lets you take regular snapshots, like zfs.
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Is Software Engineering Possible?(vanemden.wordpress.com)
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by danarmak 9y ago
Because today it's easier to destroy a country completely without boots on the ground, so people won't have to occupy it and won't bother to rebuild it?
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by danarmak 9y ago
It would take a huge amount of time, effort and money to reinstall and reconfigure, say, 80% of all computers in a country that happen to be running Windows 7 or newer. To recover all the data from backups (assuming the backup servers weren
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by danarmak 9y ago
Yes, I was referring to the "defer updates" feature. The Pro edition has a limited feature - you can defer updates a little while - if you're in a managed domain, you can defer for longer but not forever. However, if you make
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by danarmak 9y ago
They can if they want to. It's called WSUS - Windows Server Update Services. But all it amounts to is a glorified local mirror and central point for pushing updates. You still don't know what individual updates do, still can'
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by danarmak 9y ago
There are lots of ways. Think of it from an anti-malware perspective: how can the botnet agent on my PC, which has OS-level privileges, discover and communicate with the daily command-and-control server, if each day the network admin blocks
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by danarmak 9y ago
I wasn't aware of the MS Update Catalog. It's nice to know that it's an option. This does allow installing single updates without using the Microsoft Update client It's not a long-term solution, though: 1. You need to kn
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by danarmak 9y ago
Selectively pulling updates doesn't seem feasible. Consider that: * Microsoft does not disclose what (most) updates do and it's not feasible to reverse engineer all of them to check. * Multiple updates, including critical security
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by danarmak 9y ago
Although it's not said explicitly in the article, there's an interpretation of the subject that is both literal and true. Microsoft distributes constant opaque silent updates to all modern Windows systems. With Windows 10, some ed
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by danarmak 9y ago
OpenJDK is GPLd, so anyone can fork it or continue development on their own, although they might lose the right to use the trademarked word Java to describe it. But they might not be able to support future Oracle Java versions and features,
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by danarmak 10y ago
The Nazis didn't have anything like modern surveillance, and they didn't need it to enact the Holocaust. So I'm not sure what your point is; could you clarify? Surveillance enables many kinds of government oppression, but lar
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by danarmak 10y ago
RAD with WinForms was alive and well for many years after in the .Net era.
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by danarmak 10y ago
Search for "update password" and you'll see almost as many results (268,000), many presumably with active passwords. "Add password" finds 792,000 results, of which at least some (on the first page) are actual passwo
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by danarmak 10y ago
Seems to be this: https://github.com/mangaki/mangaki and https://mangaki.fr/ . French only, and sadly I don't know French...
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by danarmak 10y ago
A hard refresh (Ctrl+F5) of the page will refresh immutable resources too, so you won't need to clear the whole browser cache.
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by danarmak 10y ago
Cookies as a security mechanism? Relying on people not knowing about Ctrl+Shift+Del or incognito mode or user-agent chooser extensions or just using different browsers? Who seriously thinks that's going to work?
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by danarmak 10y ago
How much does it cost Google Search to support an extra user on the margin? I don't really know, but I'd wager much less than $1/year - because it's very implausible that the extra ad revenue it gets today from an extra
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by danarmak 10y ago
> Is the dream of the open Internet already dead? At most, the dream of ad-funded websites might be dead. (I wish!) This dream created a lot of value by providing free services to Web users. But it also created a lot of harm by enticing
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by danarmak 10y ago
The kernel walks the list of threads until it finds one that's actually blocked in epoll_wait(). Suppose that at any given time, most of your threads are running, not blocked (which is why you need this many threads). The kernel will a
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by danarmak 10y ago
> They will almost certainly not recommend disclosing or distributing the NSL "down the chain to the tech people". I meant they might target the tech people directly from the start - or someone who isn't a C-level executiv
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by danarmak 10y ago
Firstly, if it is illegal to tell the CISO about the NSL, it may also be illegal to tell some details to an attorney. At least, by going to an attorney, you're already taking some legal risk, in addition to incurring the extralegal w
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by danarmak 10y ago
> The EFF believes you can't be compelled to lie This always sounded fishy to me. When a NSL is served, they order you to keep silent about it, so you can't tell e.g. your own CISO. But if the CISO comes and asks, you're n
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by danarmak 10y ago
Yes, but even with that restriction, it doesn't let you transfer ownership of structured messages, only buffers and images; so a serialization roundtrip is needed.
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by danarmak 10y ago
The bigger problem is that Javascript disallows (or at least, browsers don't currently provide) efficient sharing of immutable values between threads/workers. Because JS has no notion of immutability, sharing is done via copying
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by danarmak 10y ago
If other economies are more scared of Trump than the American economy is, and if both are right to react so, that would imply the markets believe Trump's promises of benefiting the American economy at the expense of others. Unlike some
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by danarmak 10y ago
If they store a variant tag, that means they don't erase the bit of info that's needed for case matching. My point is that it's crucial to be able to tell at runtime to which (sub)type a value belongs. Other type information

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