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by fefe23 4y ago
This looks like an excellent idea. I will implement support for it in my libc immediately when it's available in a release kernel. Currently userspace has incentive to roll their own RNG stuff. This removes that, which is good for ever
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by fefe23 4y ago
Have you considered that maybe we don't need everybody to work full time? We have not had enough jobs for everybody to do meaningful work for a while, and (maybe to stave off social unrest) we kept creating bullshit jobs (google the es
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by fefe23 4y ago
I'm stunned by the price difference. 1-1.5 billion for this power plant, but only 300-400 million for wind or solar. We really have come a long way in bringing down prices for wind and solar!
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by fefe23 4y ago
Am I seeing it right that they don't mention vim, Bram, the Children in Uganda, yet they ask for donations for ... themselves?! I find that behavior quite despicable.
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by fefe23 4y ago
Why is this interesting to anyone? Haven't we all moved to https by now? Optimizing raw http seems to me like a huge waste of time by now. I say that as someone who has spent years optimizing raw http performance. None of that matters
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by fefe23 4y ago
BTW: The linked article is from 2009. My experience differs from the article. Where I have been and worked, if someone just copies together stuff they found on stackoverflow, that's not considered productive programming. That's us
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by fefe23 4y ago
I wrote construct instead of write for a reason. Clearly you can't expect programmers to just write secure code. If that worked, we would have seen evidence for it working by now. By construct I mean: follow a clear method or path, tha
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by fefe23 4y ago
You misconstrued my argument. I'm not advocating for "fixing all the bugs". On the contrary. I argue that retrofitting security does not work. I argued that we need to find a way to construct secure software, not to make exis
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by fefe23 4y ago
I find it quite discouraging to see how they basically give up trying to construct code without security flaws, and instead hope for some magic hardware mitigation to rescue them. Investing in mitigations is not free. The time and effort it
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by fefe23 4y ago
Helping others gives meaning to life. It's a way of leaving a legacy.
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by fefe23 4y ago
This is a heart wrenching read. I wish Wil all the best and I'm happy he did not harm himself. I would also like to invite him to try and see the positive sides of his experience. It shaped him into a man that has been a role model for
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by fefe23 4y ago
I'm not sure if the methodology is sound. Let's say you want to measure if code is faster with branch or cmove, so you make a microbenchmark. In that case the branch predictor has little other branches to keep track of, so it defi
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by fefe23 4y ago
I don't get the reference to undefined behavior. This is an aliasing issue, which is pretty well defined. Am I missing something? Other than that: Interesting insight!
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by fefe23 4y ago
Hmm, I see LZ77, PPM and entropy coding in the description, and obviously Burrows-Wheeler. Has anyone tried doing zstd at the end instead of LZ77 and entropy coding? Does the idea even make sense? (I'm a layman)
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by fefe23 4y ago
That's why I explicitly mention "whitelisting". If you just want to ban some obscure syscalls and call it a day, you can do that. It will probably even be helpful to some degree. I personally think our aspirations should be h
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by fefe23 4y ago
I would like to emphatically point out that: no, you can't. You can't use strace to get this information. Let's say you want to use seccomp to whitelist allowed syscalls. Your code opens a file, uses stat to get the file size
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by fefe23 4y ago
The problem is not so much that selinux is too complicated (it is as complicated as it needs to be), but that we all run software we don't understand. The whole IT ecosystem has become a hail mary. Even admins usually have no idea what
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by fefe23 5y ago
If this supported Google and Youtube, I'd install it in a heartbeat. Those are right now the worst offenders. Oh and Twitter.
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by fefe23 5y ago
May I jump in to point out that this is not "Twitter's source code". It's their HTML. Source code implies it's a programming language. This is not. This is HTML, which is a Markup Language (hence the ML in HTML). Th
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by fefe23 5y ago
Nvidia GPUs enable nothing, because you can't buy any at reasonable prices.
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by fefe23 5y ago
If you don't want people to rip you off without giving back, then use GPL and not Apache license. People in favor of the Apache license are people who like to "pay you in exposure". Turns out you can't eat exposure. Well
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by fefe23 5y ago
This project has unfortunately been crippled by toxic devs who value their opinions more than actual technical arguments. Report bugs and you may end up getting mocked instead of thanked. When I reported that on my hardware I need -vo vaapi
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by fefe23 5y ago
I think the creativity thing is a fundamental misunderstanding. Software engineering is an engineering discipline, not an art. Engineering is about applying the best known methodology to solve problems. That does not mean there is no room f
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by fefe23 5y ago
Why would they call shutdown and then immediately close? Just call close immediately. In fact, there is almost no need for anyone ever to call shutdown. It may make sense if you want to pass a socket descriptor to another process and you on
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by fefe23 5y ago
I find it highly entertaining that they talk about denying rights and then deny the whole of the EU access because they insist on violating their readers' privacy rights and that would be illegal in the EU.
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by fefe23 5y ago
Why do we link to some dude applying a HOWTO instead of the HOWTO?
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by fefe23 5y ago
My takeaway from this is: you think your company is great. No other information was transferred to me in this article. I learned nothing about FIO, libnfs, NFS, or your patch. No feature comparison with other efforts. No benchmark compariso
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by fefe23 5y ago
The fact that the selling point most elaborated on in the press is the AI upscaling, I'm worried the rest of their architecture may not be up to snuff.
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by fefe23 5y ago
That sounds like you are not contesting that it's a slur. You just think the slurred party deserves it.
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by fefe23 5y ago
So, uh, it's competing with vim, which is free, but they want me to pay a monthly subscription fee? It's actually copying vim's keyboard mappings, so you know it'll be strictly worse than vim, which, again, is free. Also

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