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by geofft 5y ago
Yeah, that's why I gave the definition above upthread. It's not compiled vs. script - it's whether it runs alongside the browser's own code, with the same OS access that the browser does, or whether it runs inside the br
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by geofft 5y ago
In addition to the other answers, NPAPI only standardizes the interface between a plugin and the browser. It doesn't standardize the interface between the plugin and the outside world. Want the clipboard? Call the native platform API
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by geofft 5y ago
"Plugin" generally refers to adding custom code to the browser itself, as a dynamic library or something, with the full ability to do anything the browser can do (i.e., it's equivalent to downloading an application). Plugins
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by geofft 5y ago
... and the Soviets beat NASA to space, both in getting a satellite in orbit and in getting a human in orbit. (There's a bit of inherent Great Man Fallacy in figuring out the contributions of the Nazis, because while on the one hand vo
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by geofft 5y ago
pg believes the Civil War wasn't actually about slavery ( http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html ), so I'm not sure that Sam actually made the place worse .
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by geofft 5y ago
> By contrast, the consequences for China will be catastrophic. They will have trouble finding enough food for their citizens, tens of millions of people will lose their jobs, their current account will go negative and their currency wi
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by geofft 5y ago
This feels a little silly, but, is the scan based on the literal strings "matomo.php" and "matomo.js"? If so, why not (ask the vendor to) rename the files?
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by geofft 5y ago
The argument is that China is covering up the origins of COVID-19 to protect Fauci and ensure he gets rich?
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by geofft 5y ago
> Yes. Obviously you don't put an arsonist in charge of fighting fires Sure, but to go back to my analogy, you absolutely do put the guy who hit the power button by mistake in charge of pressing it again - they know exactly wher
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by geofft 5y ago
When I do incident command at my workplace, there are two goals in dealing with an incident: solving the problem, and preventing it from happening again. They are both extremely important, but they happen in order. While the incident is ong
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by geofft 5y ago
That headline is a misrepresentation / a misapplied quote - according to the article, the scientists say lockdown had no effect on R falling below 1 because R was already below 1 when lockdown started. Saying that it had no effect on
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by geofft 5y ago
But the author is wrong about that and 'gabereiser is correct - Ubuntu has been trying to push changes in to Debian, and in some cases that involves pushing Ubuntu-specific conditionals into the Debian git repo (especially when the sam
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by geofft 5y ago
> To gain access to the M.T.A. and other systems, the hackers took advantage of vulnerabilities in Pulse Connect Secure, a widely used connectivity tool that offers workers remote access to their employers’ networks. [...] The hackers t
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by geofft 5y ago
This is a custom, non-HTTP URL scheme which requires registering handlers and needing to teach your client about handlers. Stripe's payment links are regular web pages on the regular web. So purely from an open web perspective, Stripe&
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by geofft 5y ago
Can you give examples of competency going out the door? I remember a lot of anger and consternation at the Node.js "The power of a pronoun" post, for instance, but Node.js seems to have done just fine in the years since then. (The
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by geofft 5y ago
Are you claiming that American citizens have fewer constitutional rights when not on American soil but attempting to return? Where in the Constitution does it say that? Anyway, once again, this is all beside the point. I'm not talking
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by geofft 5y ago
No, I don't mean quarantines of actually sick individuals. I mean quarantines of anyone and everyone, regardless of testing. From the Supreme Court case I linked to: > ... on September 29, 1898, the vessel arrived at the quarantine
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by geofft 5y ago
In terms of speed, definitely - the '69 Corvette's zero-to-60 mph time was about 7 seconds, the '11 Corvette took about 4 seconds, and the '21 Corvette takes under three seconds. Sustained performance, maximum speed, etc
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by geofft 5y ago
I'm familiar with it, but I think I'm familiar with a different version than you are, because I don't see "expression" in it. I see "speech". I also see that the right to assembly is "to petition the
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by geofft 5y ago
No, I don't realize that - can you explain?
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by geofft 5y ago
Some of us would argue that the year-long and counting failure to ever once have an actual lockdown - just vague restrictions within the realm of what was politically popular - was the result of people-who-can-be-referred-to-with-a-pejora
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by geofft 5y ago
"Neurosis" is no longer a well-defined term in the relevant professional community these days, but to the extent it has a specific meaning beyond being a vague synonym for e.g. "worry", it's an unresolved mismatch b
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by geofft 5y ago
This seems like the perfect case for differentiation. There's a lot of arguing over the merits of working remotely vs. working in person as if one is universally better. Just have some companies work entirely remotely, and some work en
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by geofft 5y ago
Not sure I follow the argument. You're saying that Tcl programmers don't have a place on the mainstream internet? Also, I'm not sure I understand your argument about NNTP and IRC. Why did NNTP became obscure and why did its a
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by geofft 5y ago
If it is distributed and open and superior, why does anyone care that Google doesn't let you access it?
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by geofft 5y ago
The following two claims cannot both simultaneously be true: > I'm not sure what they are talking about either about running around regulations: know-your-customer and anti-money laundering is practically required at all exchanges
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by geofft 5y ago
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervisor_Mode_Access_Prevent...
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by geofft 5y ago
It seems to me the article is missing one very big piece of information that's mentioned by the linked security research: memory reads/writes in the alternate instruction set are not confined by x86 access protections, but ALTINST
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by geofft 5y ago
I don't think "redirecting symlinks" is a totally accurate way of describing how Nix works. Each Nix package, as packaged, has a hard-coded dependency on the specific hashed versions of all its dependencies. For instance, if
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by geofft 5y ago
If you're patching glibc, most of the time, you're going to change its output. Determining whether you need to redo downstream builds based on changed outputs is great if the thing you're changing is docs or optional librarie

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