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   by drvdevd 10y ago

   Agreed. What an excellent read! Highly recommended.
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   by drvdevd 10y ago

   I've been into programming most of my life, but actually didn't get started professionally until my mid-to-late 20s. This gave me a unique view of said propaganda. It certainly lives everywhere including outside SV. I've been
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   by drvdevd 10y ago

   I agree that liability has its' place in software engineering. But I don't think, at this point in history at least, we can apply it broadly across the many subdomains thereof. For example, we can't hold Linus Torvalds liable
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   by drvdevd 10y ago

   Actually, it does seem odd that grsecurity wasn't mentioned. It's the first thing that comes to mind when I think of "killing entire classes of bugs" in the Linux Kernel. Many of the "safety" features we have n
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   by drvdevd 10y ago

   I will have to watch these videos as I think the article did not do his analogy justice...
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   by drvdevd 10y ago

   Android is probably a good example of the update problem in action, but it's hard to blame Linux directly for this. Rather it is indeed the product cycle that seems to be driving the problem as you point out in #2 there. But then again
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   by drvdevd 10y ago

   And I should also add - what about cheap cloud SQL instances/services as well? Perhaps the students could learn a bit about how simple it is to use some cloud resources too without the management overhead?
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   by drvdevd 10y ago

   I actually think SQLite could probably be used from beginning to advanced level, depending on what you're teaching (relational theory for example), but perhaps I'm not aware of its' limitations in that regard. That being said
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   by drvdevd 10y ago

   Reading the overview of this study - am I incorrect in thinking "correlation" not "causation" wrt the particular species of fungi (Candida tropicalis) and the biofilm produced being a key factor?
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    Better, Faster, More Comprehensive Manure Distribution(blogs.sciencemag.org)

    2 points by drvdevd 10y ago|0 comments
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    A brilliant point and a salient quote. Why must we continue to live, collectively, with our heads in the sand?
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    The other issue with the webcam taping is that it is becoming less and less of a viable way to even keep yourself from being video recorded. For example, what about the cameras on your smart phone? If we aren't there already, the direc
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    > It can even intercept or create packets on the network interfaces. And appears to be built to do so out of the box by default with no "specialized code". I'm guessing with both wired and wireless interfaces... crazy!
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    My next question is (and it's probably mentioned further in the thread or manual somewhere): how does the ME chipset route traffic to the Internet in the first place? Piggyback off the OS? Does this mean it's directly coupled with
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    Ah ... reading further down the thread its explained and is even more interesting: https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2016-September/0...
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    Interesting that the ME region can be even partially overwritten and will still let the system boot, albeit with an error (guessing a checksum mismatch)...
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    Including this great quote from the front: "At stake is not the First Amendment or the right of free speech, but exclusive custody of the master switch." — FRED FRIENDLY
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    Thanks for this. Looks interesting.
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    I agree. And I work remotely now. It seems the #1 requirement for remote work to work is ... mutual understanding. Otherwise you end up with communication gaps. The case for VCS is interesting to me because I believe we could replace a numb
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    There is a vagrant libvirt plugin [ https://github.com/vagrant-libvirt/vagrant-libvirt ], which makes for a nice interface to libvirt if you are used to vagrant. Personally I think it would be great if there were an alte
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    Also: > LinkedIn will show you the professional discipline, GitHub the shared libraries and their publicity. I would guess that NSA has a firm grasp on this sort of basic OSINT problem and code attribution techniques.
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    Brilliant. I believe from this vantage the whole situation becomes much less clear which is of course very interesting.
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    Good point. It's hard to take anything at face value in a situation like this (other than the working code itself that was released). In particular: everything in the corresponding manifesto could be complete nonsense or misdirection
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    Ha! Same here. This is exactly why I wish more (overtly) political stories weren't flagged so quickly as of late... 9/10 the HN commentary really is superior.
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    The way I personally use it ... I'd say you're exactly right. And adding that to an easy cross compilation/platform story that can side-step C toolchains in many cases, garbage collection, and intelligible concurrency, and
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    Just speculating: this might mitigate some kernel level exploits but since its typically usb card <--> usb bus/controller <--> PCI bus, presumably hardware or kernel bugs elswhere in that stack could still be exploited. I
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    I should add that there are the obvious benefits to these 'constraints' -- if you can stick with mostly what's exposed already in the default nix packages your configuration will be very clean and your system will be built in
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    I've used it as a server before and it's quite nice, it just requires getting used to the nix language a bit and possibly dealing with customization work when something you need isn't exposed already in /etc/nixos&#
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    I have a similar situation, and agree. I actually keep Linux installed on a separate partition on my 2015 Retina MBP. I shrink the OS X partition as much as possible, and install grub on the EFI system partition, alongside OS X. When in OS
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    by drvdevd 10y ago

    Does this make any sense in an open workspace where you're surrounded by a million other laptops and cell phones anyway?