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(replying to myself, sorry if inappropriate) Possibly also relevant, previous HN discussion on another vulnerability on AMD's PSP, reported and fixed in December 2017 (but only disclosed in January 2018): https://news.ycombi
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Relevant: trail of bits posted a summary of this situation on their blog: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/03/15/amd-flaws-technical-...
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Cisco has had a bunch of boneheaded security issues "recently" (last 2 years or so, by my casual observations). A quick Google search will find several such examples. See for example: https://www.theregister.co.uk/
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> I'd be comfortable using flatware made out of the stuff. I would strongly advise against that. DU (Depleted Uranium) is not (very) radioactive, but it is still extremely toxic (as toxic as unprocessed Uranium, IIRC), and also carc
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It's been like that since the DOS days, IIRC. You can simulate that behavior on bash with an alias such as this one: alias cd..="cd .."
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Linux distros tend to use the GNU userspace utils (or busybox on embedded systems), while The BSD family uses their own (IIRC, a descendant from the old BSD lineage). The main difference - as I understand it - is that the BSD variants are s
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Wouldn't it be great if such a thing existed? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_synchronous_grid
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> The apk is a paltry 18 MB. It's somewhat disturbing that this is considered paltry. Most DOS games managed to fit into a single diskette, and that includes not only the logic bits, but also assets: images, music, sound, etc. Remem
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You're all way off. A pair of Gauls and a Breton (by pure coincidence) brought tea to England. It's all documented in history books such as this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix_in_Britain :)
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This isn't obvious at all, but you need to create an account with them (you only need an email address). Then, in your account page, you scroll down and there are instructions for installing/running fakebox (and others). The &quot
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Ages ago (back when Python 2.5 was still a thing) I used a lib that would generate a call graph for Python programs. I think it was this one: http://pycallgraph.slowchop.com/en/master/ I don't remember m
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When I think "painful initiation ritual", I think "glove made out of bullet ants" [1] not "organized sporting event in which everyone is wearing armor and hurting someone badly is grounds for stopping the game and r
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> It might even explain why so many cultures had rites to male adulthood involving extreme pain. Right. And a notable trend among those cultures is that they are all nearly extinct. So much for their fertility. Of course this observation
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It isn't funny or witty to point out that an Opel Corsa gets better gas mileage than a 747, even if it is factually correct. I didn't downvote you (can't even do it), but I suspect you are getting downvoted because your analo
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Worth noting that this document is ~10 years old.
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It's about time the web got a decent layout system. Every UI toolkit that I know of (wxWidgets, Tcl/Tk, Qt) has some form of layout mechanism (box layout, grid layout, etc), and they'd had it for years/decades. On the we
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I have a similar situation. My Android (1st Gen Moto G, running Lineage OS, about 3 years old) shuts down once the battery level hits 15%. You can actually see it change from 15% to 1% for one brief moment before it shuts down. Sure, the ba
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> I'm hoping that it becomes possible to run (sandboxed) flash apps in the same way that you can run DOS apps with DosBOX. Firefox + adobe flash plugin still works (well, it works for me anyway... I'm on FF 56 still). Slap it i
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Is anyone seriously tracking where these "stolen" coins from these past several hacks are going? This is like saying that open source software is more secure than closed source software because the code is public and auditable. Su
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Wired is misusing that quote, since it does not pertain to Mirai specifically, but to cyberwarfare in general. Here's the source titled "Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet", dated September 2016: https:/&
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I know they are trying to promote their own Front-End Framework (while trying to pretend that it isn't one), but with regards to the question on the title, my experience is: you can, but please, don't. It actually isn't THAT
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> I think it’s only a default on RHEL distros? Since "enabled=always" is the kernel default value, anything that uses a stock kernel (example: Arch family) or has to build its own (Gentoo) will probably have it enabled by defau
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> ARM could be a affordable alternative to x86 if that works for you. Even the open source friendly Raspberry Pi relies on proprietary blobs and proprietary firmware, with vast parts of the documentation only being available to system in
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How does regulation work in the aviation industry? The impression I have is that regulation in that space is pretty effective. Without effective regulation I imagine you'd see aircraft falling out of the sky left and right because - an
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Look at this from a user perspective: The user diligently updates Firefox, optimistically hoping that this new version will be as awesome as the previous ones that vastly improved performance. Firefox starts and, suddenly, a bunch of things
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> the miracle of being able to send up to $x,xxx,xxx USD (or any other currency) around the world, confirmed in less than 10 minutes for a paltry fee of ~$5. That's a miracle? I've ordered physical products from all over the wo
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So this is a good thing because the gatekeeper is Google instead of Facebook? How's about adhering to standards? We gave Microsoft a hell of a time for not adhering to standards, but Google gets a free pass now? Because "performan
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> Does anyone remember when you they stumbled on a new website written by some guy and read his first article, then clicked back to his homepage and saw he had a list of similar articles that looked like they'd be just as interestin
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I skimmed their docs and I don't see any sort of language that corroborates what you are claiming. They DO seem to have some sort of review process in place: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Inclusion_How-To/
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Depends on your embedded system and your use case. If your embedded system is a Raspberry Pi 3 controlling a few leds or talking with something over UART or whatever, then it won't matter a whole lot whether you have a GC or not. On th

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