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by feld 11y ago
gnn has done a lot of research on *nix networking and the conclusion is "single sockets are always faster than multiple sockets". There's a huge performance hit when trying to process packets as fast as possible and you throw
752.
by feld 11y ago
Yes, but since this isn't some networked service I'm not as concerned about the general quality of the code. Offline attacks really have to focus on the encrypted password database. If an attacker has local access you're alre
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by feld 11y ago
Well, the language isn't really in question here -- it's the crypto used for the database files themselves. KeePassX is the old database format and KeePass 2.x+ uses a newer one. I don't know if the database format also resul
754.
by feld 11y ago
But thanks to the ports tree and the Porter's Handbook, it's easier to solve this type of problem on FreeBSD than on Linux. And the chance of a Linux distro having a newer version of something important is unlikely unless a new
755.
by feld 11y ago
sudo can do more things than most people have ever fathomed. And large organizations trying to follow least privileged access best practices end up with enormous and complex sudo rulesets.
756.
by feld 11y ago
... and sudo is insanely complex. Maybe a funding drive should happen like for gnupg...
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Sudo appears to have only one core developer(sudo.ws)
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by feld 11y ago
uBlock Origin blocked this link for me. So thanks, uBlock.
759.
by feld 11y ago
Is there an API to automate it? :-)
760.
by feld 11y ago
Which Mac Mini model? I've never heard of such a thing.
761.
by feld 11y ago
Docker also uses a shared kernel... edit: and why is it different than a shared hypervisor? Hypervisors have exploits, too...
762.
by feld 11y ago
Why would you give a user access to the host environment AND the jail?
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by feld 11y ago
Containers have been used in multi-tenant systems for years in both Solaris and FreeBSD via zones and jails
764.
by feld 11y ago
Fastmail's mobile webapp is a webapp done right. It feels like a native app that is a natural extension of the full-featured website -- but it isn't native. And it's blazing fast.
765.
by feld 11y ago
yes, this is the grim reality
766.
by feld 11y ago
It's ok to admit you don't care enough to make the switch. I've been on Fastmail for quite a while, don't use a Dropbox alternative, Smugmug for photos, and whatsapp mostly because my friends switched once long before Te
767.
by feld 11y ago
Probably as expensive as giving the homeless free housing... which has repeatedly shown to be cheaper than not
768.
by feld 11y ago
some developers still do
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by feld 11y ago
Cloudflare would argue that time to first byte isn't critical, period https://blog.cloudflare.com/ttfb-time-to-first-byte-consider...
770.
by feld 11y ago
Wait, they used reiserfs? They wanted to keep their data, right? yow
771.
by feld 11y ago
Thanks for clearing that up
772.
by feld 11y ago
If they have the manpower to stay in sync with clang's upstream that is great for them. If they don't, they're going to have to open source it to stay in sync with upstream. When it comes to large, fast moving projects the BS
773.
by feld 11y ago
Do these work on FreeBSD?
774.
by feld 11y ago
Seems like a major feature to put in a point release... I don't understand why some projects have such bizarre versioning methodology.
775.
by feld 11y ago
People will build gigantic compute clusters with expensive storage backends when their entire dataset fits in memory. If it fits in memory, it's going to be magnitudes faster to work with than on any other infrastructure you can build.
776.
by feld 11y ago
I think JFS still has that problem, if Wikipedia is accurate.
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by feld 11y ago
"At this point, there is no way to get rid of the delayed extents, because there are no delayed buffers to write out. So when a we write into said unwritten extent we will convert it to written, but it still remains delayed." Ok,
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by feld 11y ago
Politics, that's why. But XFS and JFS have had their share of corruption bugs too. I don't believe any were long-standing bugs, though. Wikipedia mentions that JFS has a misfeature where write can be delayed so long (indefinitely)
779.
by feld 11y ago
Delayed extents is probably a normal thing that happens in daily I/O operations. The possibility of it not actually hitting the platters permanently is a scary scenario. "A single extent in ext4 can map up to 128 MiB of contiguous
780.
by feld 11y ago
An entire extent could be lost(or zeroed?) which means serious corruption to your file(s) at time of writing if the cards fall in the right order. I see no indication that this is a 4.0-specific issue. This code has existed for a long tim

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