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by effie 3y ago
Paul Erdos is known for work in hobby mathematics which has little or no use "in real world".
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by effie 3y ago
I am serious. He is famous for leaking interesting US gov documents and running away, but then he's become a celebrity who talks and writes on the internet. What computer security work is Snowden known for that makes him an authority
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by effie 3y ago
Yeah. From http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/AmazonLinuxAMIUserGuid... : > To prevent remote root exploits, the Amazon Linux AMI does not allow remote root login via SSH[...] By default, the only account that can lo
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by effie 3y ago
Don't do things just because twitter persona says so. Is there an independent security audit of Qubes that checks its factual capabilities in security? > Never lead to escapes Escape is the highest form of security failure. I'm
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by effie 3y ago
A person who knows and likes the program can do that, but the default name is a drawback for adoption. Nano is shorter name, using it is user-friendly and it already is on almost every modern Linux installation. So micro has a tough rival t
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by effie 3y ago
That's why the same question really applies to standard but insane practice of using sudo to get root. There is no security difference between root and lowuser that can sudo into root. Sudoing into root from lowuser account is in some
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by effie 3y ago
If you're targeted by state, Qubes on a PC isn't secure enough. It sits at a weird place, where it is stronger than your regular Linux, and showcases interesting ideas, but is quite restrictive in what you can do and doesn't
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by effie 3y ago
> I have more than one interactive user account on some of them. I put these accounts to the wheel group, to avoid ever using a root password. Why have multiple different unix users if all have the same power of the root user? They aren&
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by effie 3y ago
> Why does everyone think banning a party MUST be antidemocratic? Probably because those "everyone" (in fact, a big portion of population) wants to have that party that the other side wants to ban, and there is chance it could
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by effie 3y ago
This is fascinating, and seems to be a very wrong strategy, if the goal is to defend democracy. The law should indicate that if there is evidence a party wants to dismantle democracy, action should be taken to dissolve and ban the party as
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by effie 3y ago
Getting the right people into the lawmaking body, who will make the change. I'm assuming the hypothetical weird situation where public advocacy outside the lawmaking process is illegal, but the lawmakers in the lawmaking process can di
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by effie 3y ago
> is it antidemocratic to advocate for a Parliamentary system over a Presidential system? It depends on the law (constitution). If the law says it's forbidden, then it is anti-that-kind-of-democracy. If there is no such law, then it
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by effie 3y ago
> what would you accept as qualifying evidence Party leadership making apologies for Nazi Germany or support for Nazi/equivalent policies, or tolerance of party members behaving in such a way. > There's a protocol OK, so the
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by effie 3y ago
Democracy does not imply that a political party cannot be banned. Nazi party is forbidden in many countries that are usually considered democratic or at least flawed democratic (democratic formally, but not in effect). Democracy in contempo
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by effie 3y ago
Any incontrovertible evidence for party being nazist? And if there is, why weren't they banned already? Nazi parties can't legally exist in Germany. Re downvotes, I'm pointing out that decisive German institutions so far did
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by effie 3y ago
It would be, if AfD was credibly anti-democratic, e.g. if there is evidence they support restricting or dismantling democratic processes, such as regular and free elections, balance of powers, etc. I don't know if there is such evidenc
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by effie 3y ago
No problem. For more, this looks like a good intro https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linu...
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by effie 3y ago
Mrmrmmm, the youngling, an engineer with skills in writing, is not just that. An effective PIRATE, and a connoiseur of fine music, she is also. Great things, destined to do, she is.
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by effie 3y ago
Does it run on Linux or ordinary BSD? Does any company use it?
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by effie 3y ago
It's "perpetually half-finished". Convoluted admin cli tooling, bad track record with reliability and loss of data, lots of stories on the internet. It perhaps got better, but RAID5/RAID6 for metadata (standard use of di
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by effie 3y ago
Oh it's word games with "implement". OK then, let's agree then developing a modern filesystem into a robust software for practical daily use is hard.
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by effie 3y ago
We did not yet have a big publicized hack of whole cloud infrastructure causing massive economic harm. When that happens (the buggy PC/Linux architecture running the world is ripe), more secure architectures will become commercially in
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by effie 3y ago
Simple filesystems - those oriented at speed, without integrity checking, compression, encryption and raid-like features. Which are extremely useful and desirable in a filesystem. When people tried to do a full-featured filesystem, with a
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by effie 3y ago
> Hang on: where? In your The Register article. It's good that here on HN you have clarified that this is Red Hat's position and your position. But that's the mistake - you should have stated this clearly in the article. M
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by effie 3y ago
> It's analysis. Analysis should involve also sources and argumentation. You stated a contentious belief as an obvious fact without source and argumentation. That's more like a commentary. > The position that "they can&
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by effie 3y ago
So, do you think your article is neutral reporting, or personal view/commentary? It seems to me it is the latter. That's OK, but then don't pretend you're just reporting and not playing a lawyer. Your last summary is pre
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by effie 3y ago
Wow, that is pretty defensive/offensive and dissonant with your post above. You wrote in your article: > [...] as far as we can see, the Hat is acting perfectly in accordance with the terms of the GPL [...] The key point being is th
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by effie 3y ago
You wrote > customers [...] are under the terms of a contract, which overrides the GPL license of the code itself Do you have a source for this claim? Why would the contract be legally stronger than the license? GPL prohibits further res
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by effie 3y ago
Perhaps they mean they, as a project, don't access Youtube API? But the user does?
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by effie 3y ago
How does re-installing the OS from scratch every 6 months "eliminate most of the advanced threats"? The malware has up to 6 months to do its work. OS re-install may delete the malware, but the next visit to bad link may re-install

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