fafner

12 ms·

91.
by fafner 12y ago
or Oracle Linux. I don't know if they are shipping ZFS support with it yet. But they are already shipping dtrace with it which suffers from the same license issues.
92.
by fafner 12y ago
The C11 safe string functions suffer from the fact that the error handling depends on a global state. The default states can either abort the application or make the functions return an error indicator. But IIRC the user can provide anythin
93.
by fafner 12y ago
GCC also has an `optimize' function attribute which might make sense to use here. This can set optimizations for the function to -O0. But I haven't tried it.
94.
by fafner 12y ago
What would you have changed/used if management hadn't insisted on something that "looks like Java"? I guess one can't thank you enough for saving the web from VBScript!
95.
by fafner 12y ago
Enable 2FA everywhere is good advice. The big issue for me though is Twitter. It does not support 2FA with FreeOTP (or the proprietary Google Authenticator). I don't want to install the Twitter App or hand over my phone number for priv
96.
High-Performance Packet Filtering with Pflua(wingolog.org)
125 points by fafner 12y ago|4 comments
97.
5 UX Tips for Developers(developerblog.redhat.com)
6 points by fafner 12y ago|0 comments
98.
Calling a Rust library from C (or anything else)(mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com)
8 points by fafner 12y ago|0 comments
99.
by fafner 12y ago
Nice work researching this. Yes, I'd say that always enabling it as soon as some parental control features are enabled is a bad decision. Maybe this should be a bug report. But we should also note that Mozilla follows Microsoft's
100.
by fafner 12y ago
It's already sold out.
101.
by fafner 12y ago
You are just assuming things here. I don't know the parental control features of Windows. And I don't know when this will be enabled. But I don't see a reason why this should be always enabled as soon as parental features are
102.
Revisiting Common Subexpression Elimination in Guile(wingolog.org)
46 points by fafner 12y ago|1 comments
103.
by fafner 12y ago
You can't identify minors because this isn't just a feature for minors but, e.g., for companies or public terminals as well. Of course it depends on the websites to deal with it. But, e.g., most popular porn sites actually do care
104.
Devirtualization in C++, part 6 – asking user for help(hubicka.blogspot.com)
31 points by fafner 12y ago|0 comments
105.
by fafner 12y ago
I really hope SMC succeeds. Sage is pretty awesome and probably the closest thing we have as a free software alternative to things like Mathematica. But Sage still needs a lot of work. E.g., the packaging is simply bad. It's just o
106.
by fafner 12y ago
That does make sense. But it still leaves me a bit wondering what the state of KDE5 is. I mean when can it be considered as released and ready for production? Will Kubuntu ship Plasma5/KF5 next release (14.10) even if the applications
107.
We have C++14(isocpp.org)
7 points by fafner 12y ago|0 comments
108.
by fafner 12y ago
I think KDE is doing the right steps with KDE5 technology-wise. But I'm still very confused by the way KDE split up the project and started to do separate releases. Now we have Plasma5 and I think there is a 5 version of the frameworks
109.
by fafner 12y ago
Red Hat is working on ksplice and SuSE on kGraft. And unlike Ksplice they try to merge it into the mainline kernel.
110.
by fafner 12y ago
Of course it closes down the market. There won't even be a market. There is not going to be a plugin interface (except for Firefox) to provide a different Restriction module.
111.
by fafner 12y ago
I sadly don't think that's true any more. Not that I want to promote piracy or am sad about the decline. But I fear that the upcoming generation of DRM will be good enough not to annoy the users. And that was really the issue with
112.
by fafner 12y ago
You are completely wrong here. Please note that the EME proposal does _not_ specify a plugin interface for the Restriction module! It only specifies how the Restriction module is exposed to JavaScript. How the Restriction module is implemen
113.
by fafner 12y ago
The DRM mechanism can't really be open source. You could simply change it to write the unencrypted video data to the disk if it were. A plugin DRM module will also have to do all of the video rendering and displaying. Because if it jus
114.
by fafner 12y ago
I think blaming the W3C is absolutely correct here as well. The W3C has a principle to defend: The open web. And they are simply throwing it overboard by allowing this. TimBL even made a statement in favour of it. Yes, refusing to accept th
115.
by fafner 12y ago
The question is how well it is regulated. I don't know anything about the business. But I'd assume that with the right kind of regulations it can be controlled. E.g., require prostitutes to register. Registering should include a s
116.
by fafner 12y ago
What they mean is that the "Digital Restriction Management in HTML5" proposal is pushed by Google, Microsoft, and Netflix into the W3C spec. Apple has simply followed the proposal and implemented it as well. AFAIK Chrome, IE, Safa
117.
by fafner 12y ago
Here are some slides for Cauldron2014 talks. https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2014 There are some pretty cool things going on it seems, like the compile/inject stuff for GDB or libgccjit.
118.
by fafner 12y ago
Awesome: GNU Guile scripting support. GDB already has Python scripting support. But it seems most people are unaware of it. GNU Make also recently added support for GNU Guile. A pretty good talk about GDB from FOSDEM https://w
119.
by fafner 12y ago
I really wonder where this attitude from Adobe comes from. I mean in the past they seemed always close with Apple. That could have explained the attitude. But then Apple refused to ship Flash and released alternatives to Adobe products. It
120.
by fafner 12y ago
I absolutely dislike the pdf viewer in Chrome. It fails at even the basic things a pdf reader should support. E.g., it lacks a concept of pages. You can't jump to a certain page. You can't even know the total number of pages. It d

More ›