gioele

39 ms·

331.
by gioele 12y ago
I'll use this as an opportunity to give a shout out for my own unix password manager that I started writing because I did not like some design choices of pass: pw [1]. From the homepage: > pw is an alternative to pass, keepassx and
332.
by gioele 12y ago
For better or worse, the fact that there has never been an HTML flag day is what made the Web this successful.
333.
by gioele 12y ago
Welcome to the Internet where you exist only if you beg the powers that be to include you in a list. This is the first time in my life I see a "country" going from democracy to aristocracy.
334.
by gioele 12y ago
> I cannot find him anywhere if not for the email address he sent me years later, and no other mention of life exists. I guess his job does not involve participating in projects that have git repositories or public mailing lists.
335.
by gioele 12y ago
> I sear this is like the sixth distinct solution I've seen claiming to be the first of those... Could you please name the other five?
336.
by gioele 12y ago
Please note that the formally proven model has been implemented also in Haskell, not only in C. Formally-proven-correct code + Haskell + literate programming = https://github.com/seL4/seL4/blob/master/has
337.
The seL4 microkernel(github.com)
194 points by gioele 12y ago|43 comments
338.
by gioele 12y ago
I think the FFmpeg vs libav debate is succinctly described by this quote from https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav > Although we don't agree with everything FFmpeg does, and we l
339.
by gioele 12y ago
Is there such a thing as "merging" on HN? What gets merged? Just the topic or the comments as well?
340.
by gioele 12y ago
> We once cut the lock on a friend's very nice bike (she lost the key) using an angle grinder and a miniature generator, in the middle of the high street in the middle of the afternoon, and nobody batted an eyelid. What should have
341.
by gioele 12y ago
> Don't block; seriously, don't block. Just spit out the output of a properly-seeded PRF (e.g. AES in CTR mode). /dev/urandom does that and it is the suggested way to get secure random numbers for 99% of the applicati
342.
by gioele 12y ago
Have you seen https://www.dshield.org/ by SANS ISC? «DShield is a community-based collaborative firewall log correlation system. It receives logs from volunteers world wide and uses them to analyze attack trends.»
343.
by gioele 12y ago
Please understand that Han unification is _the_ problem. It is clean that Unicode needs to realize that the Han unification is wrong and accepts what the native writers of those languages think about their scripts. To make the problem more
344.
by gioele 12y ago
> Like the omission of Nastaliq is a great tragedy and Google should be deeply ashamed. Well, the heading says «Beautiful and free fonts for all languages» and the OP noticed that it fails to include at least one important script/la
345.
by gioele 12y ago
In contrast, the Italian site of censored sites (DNS domains) is public. The bad thing is that it is "published" as a series of faxes to ISPs. Luckily those have been digitalized and put in a database: http://censura.bo
346.
by gioele 12y ago
> * In the end, it is all about how much work you're going to do yourself. You can't do it all. In my perfect I would pay for services that take care of setting up FLOSS projects and looking after the daily problems (network, s
347.
by gioele 12y ago
Are there public records of who came up with the hack?
348.
by gioele 12y ago
Have you thought of accidental calls? Cellphones used to have similar emergency buttons. People sitting on their phones caused too many calls and these buttons have now disappeared. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
349.
by gioele 12y ago
In EU the Europass CV [1], or "Standard European CV" as everybody calls it, is the de-facto standard CV. It is often the compulsory format for CV for jobs in the public sector and it is also suggested by many businesses. [1] http
350.
by gioele 12y ago
My version is "Do what worries you the most".
351.
WeareData (Watch Dogs)(wearedata.watchdogs.com)
1 points by gioele 12y ago|0 comments
352.
by gioele 12y ago
It is 2014 and the main point of the page ("Varnish is a web application accelerator") is inside a PNG with no alt. If you use lynx or w3m to read that page you will not see a single description of what Varnish is. Accessibility a
353.
by gioele 12y ago
If the convicted will appeal, and if the appeal will arrive up to the EU Court of justice, this would be the first care in which it is debated whether TOR operators are protected by the "mere conduit" doctrine that is base on whic
354.
by gioele 12y ago
It looks like one of those bugs requesting a new feature that sits there for years until Chrome implements the same feature (in a Google-specific partial way). Only then Mozilla rushes to implement it, but at that point it is too late and G
355.
by gioele 12y ago
> baseless anonymous reports lose any and all credibility What if people paid by extortioners use their own names, proved by their ID cards, to post negative reviews? Each of these people will post one bad review for Pizza 900 (the targe
356.
by gioele 12y ago
> In MacOS if you grabbed a window title bar for too long with the mouse then all your sockets would drop. Fun times. I wonder if the people developing windowing systems with client side decorations (e.g. Wayland + Qt) thought about this
357.
by gioele 12y ago
If I have to pay, then why shouldn't I adopt a RFC 3161 or X9.95 timestamp service? Some jurisdictions recognize them as notary-equivalent certified timestamps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
358.
by gioele 12y ago
> Imagine if the instructions in one of your program threads were not guaranteed to be executed in order. Modern CPUs do not process instructions in the same order they are stored in memory. Out-of-order CPUs rely on the implicit order c
359.
by gioele 12y ago
> use as much of cache line as possible. > For example in the next code when else clause is happening, we are throwing complete cache line which was fetched by accessing the is_alive member struct Obj { bool is_alive;
360.
by gioele 12y ago
Isn't this similar to the ancient "private protected" visibility level [1] of Java? [1] http://everything2.com/title/private+protected

More ›