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Diffoscope – In-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories(diffoscope.org)
141 points by frankjr 3y ago|14 comments
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by frankjr 3y ago
> You probably just don't, as the alternatives are good and plenty. Which cannot be said about file systems on Linux which support metadata+data checksum and repair though. As far as I'm aware the only file systems which could
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by frankjr 3y ago
I know but that's only one important part of what a file system does. If the file system was otherwise totally broken, they wouldn't use it.
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by frankjr 3y ago
> From what I’ve heard, BTRFS has a crazy long list of defects where it’ll lock up or corrupt data if you so much as look at it wrong The list cannot be crazy long if Synology uses it for their NASes.
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WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows(github.com)
311 points by frankjr 3y ago|113 comments
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by frankjr 3y ago
> Similarly, disabling the JIT compilers would also only be a partial solution: historically, roughly half of the bugs discovered and exploited in V8 affected one of its compilers while the rest were in other components such as runtime f
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by frankjr 3y ago
You're trusting millions of people just to be able to write this comment.
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by frankjr 3y ago
But there are alternatives, most notably zstd.
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by frankjr 3y ago
>>I don’t understand. Stripe supports 3D Secure, so what is the issue here? > Maybe this will help: Backblaze started using Stripe a long time ago (gosh, maybe 10 years ago?) and used a very specific set of original Stripe APIs. Wh
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by frankjr 3y ago
Having to switch branches in different repos to feature-xyz, remember to build it, and then finally work/test is more of a nightmare to me. In a monorepo, you just switch to the branch once, the build system builds everything that need
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by frankjr 3y ago
> A nation-state [..] Source?
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by frankjr 3y ago
I don't know what's going on with the GitHub pull request but I'm guessing Linus didn't actually merged it using GitHub but rather as part of [0] and GitHub noticed the commit got merged and automatically closed the PR.
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by frankjr 3y ago
From Chandler Carruth who leads the C++, Clang, and LLVM teams at Google: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/f9ce0b19...
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by frankjr 3y ago
RFC: Add large language models to Rust https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3603
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by frankjr 3y ago
https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront/wiki/Design-note:-Captur...
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by frankjr 3y ago
You mean the infamous "goto fail"? Yeah that was fun too. https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html
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by frankjr 3y ago
https://www.pixelmator.com/photomator
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by frankjr 3y ago
> basic features like toggling block comments Whether this is a basic feature depends on the languages you're using, I'm pretty sure I haven't toggled a block comment in 10+ years. Some languages don't even have them
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by frankjr 3y ago
It couldn't hurt to try a different editing paradigm but as a daily Helix user but I wouldn't switch over just for that. It's different, not better or worse than Vim's.
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Helix: Release 24.03 Highlights(helix-editor.com)
69 points by frankjr 3y ago|44 comments
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by frankjr 3y ago
Not in this case as the other commenter pointed out but for example Vivaldi on Arch Linux is just a repackaged upstream build. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/vi...
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by frankjr 3y ago
Reminds of the note at the bottom of Fish releases. It's there because the build system cannot determine the current version for some reason. Hopefully that will go away now that they have switched to a different language / build
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by frankjr 3y ago
Now consider that your average Linux distribution pulls in tens of thousands of packages, each of which can be similarly compromised. Pretty scary to think about.
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by frankjr 3y ago
I was scratching my head for a bit before I realized the final script in the article produces a slightly different output than the previous diff shows (Yusuf/Cat vs Yusuf / Cat). Anyway, here's a Nushell version. There's
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by frankjr 3y ago
Is there a reason why user namespaces cannot be enabled per executable? setcap "something something user ns" /usr/bin/chrome?
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OpenZFS: Fix corruption caused by MMAP flushing problems(github.com)
4 points by frankjr 3y ago|0 comments
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by frankjr 3y ago
> ... Apple announced yesterday it will start letting developers submit non-WebKit-based browsers — both for full web browser apps, which offer an alternative to using Safari, and for developers offering in-app browsers for displaying we
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Apple Readying In-Box iPhone Software Update System for Retail Stores(macrumors.com)
3 points by frankjr 3y ago|0 comments
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by frankjr 3y ago
Reminds me of cookie banners. "Your privacy is important to us!" and then they present you with a dialog that nudges you to consent to sharing your data with hundreds of companies.
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by frankjr 3y ago
Wouldn't this be covered by some innocent looking paragraph hidden in the middle of the contract when buying the car?

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