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by dolmen 3y ago
Another analysis locates Jia in Eastern Europe: https://rheaeve.substack.com/p/xz-backdoor-times-damned-time... But I would like to see analysis of timestamp of GitHub events (like PRs and comments timestamps) which ar
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by dolmen 3y ago
Do you have some scripts publicly available to reproduce your research?
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by dolmen 3y ago
I can't blame anyone who has missed that dot dissimulated at the beginning of the line. https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commitdiff;h=f9cf4c05edd...
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by dolmen 3y ago
git.tukaani.org runs sshd. If that sshd was upgraded with the xz backdoor, we cannot exclude that the host was compromised as it could be have been a obvious target for the backdoor author.
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by dolmen 3y ago
If incr is atomic, running incr k times will not be atomic.
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by dolmen 3y ago
It seems to me that the objdump step (to transform binary to human readable assembly) seems an unnecessary waste of runtime resources. It should be possible to tokenize directly from the binary.
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by dolmen 3y ago
... and that should be the same residue.
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by dolmen 3y ago
3% is 3465 Boeing employees. That doesn't seem so minor. 150,000 * (1-23%) * 3% = 3465
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by dolmen 3y ago
Boeing has about 150,000 employees (from the 2022 company report). US workforce is 23% women. What if one of the 3465 males had its job at risk because of Barnett? 150,000 * (1-23%) * 3% = 3465
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by dolmen 3y ago
https://www.boeing.com/company/general-info/corporate-govern...
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by dolmen 3y ago
Airbus has the same structure with feets both in civil aviation and the defense industry, like if nobody could make business without those ties.
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by dolmen 3y ago
> Well, how do you take down some blog, if there is no legal base for it, because all the content was obvious legal? We will never know the answer because the chief communication officer choose to contact the security department instead
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by dolmen 3y ago
> How do coordinates work? This is a data format. This is an abstract data model. So the spec doesn't specify rendering. Rendering could however be specified separately (and its reference implementation is Obsidian).
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by dolmen 3y ago
There is one example in the repo: https://github.com/obsidianmd/jsoncanvas/blob/main/sample.ca...
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by dolmen 3y ago
https://sqlite.org/flextypegood.html
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by dolmen 3y ago
SQLite doesn't even have strict validation of columns declared as integers.
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by dolmen 3y ago
Direct link viewed on GitHub: https://github.com/obsidianmd/jsoncanvas/blob/main/spec/1.0....
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by dolmen 3y ago
I wonder why this document has been labelled "1.0" while it is so poorly specified (many ambiguities).
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by dolmen 3y ago
But they also have Terms of Service ( https://localsend.org/#/terms-of-service ) which are not so great: You represent that you are over the age of 18. The Company does not permit those under 18 to use the Service.
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by dolmen 3y ago
From the Terms of Service [1]: You represent that you are over the age of 18. The Company does not permit those under 18 to use the Service. [1]: https://localsend.org/#/terms-of-service
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by dolmen 3y ago
Go has a related idiom: the "Must" functions https://pkg.go.dev/text/template#Must
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by dolmen 3y ago
@mattboyle: "A Brief Detour into Incident Management" should be formatted as a title, but isn't.
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by dolmen 3y ago
Using Google Gemini: Prompt: > Is 1200-02-29 a valid date? Answer: > Python >import datetime > >try: > datetime.datetime(year=1200, month=2, day=29) > print("Valid date") >except ValueError: > print(&
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by dolmen 3y ago
If you are born on a Feb 29th, you should definitely get used to take this kind of precautions. (Like I do when entering my last name that is legally spelled with an "é": I still get mojibake in 2024)
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by dolmen 3y ago
One could use variable length, as once some player wins the game is done.
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by dolmen 3y ago
Or use zcat.
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by dolmen 3y ago
: is the prefix for labels in DOS batch files.
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by dolmen 3y ago
> This works because the `:` is a way to set a label, and it implicitly returns 0. Nope. Unix shell doesn't have labels (are you mixing with DOS batch files?). : is a shell builtin that does nothing. In the bash man page, look for t
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by dolmen 3y ago
In the 90s I wrote a Tic-Tac-Toe for Casio graphical calculators (fx7500G). The main constraint was the code size, so I did heaving golfing. To store the game state I did use 3 bits for each cell (0=empty, 1=X, 4=O), total 27 bits. That str

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