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by hsivonen 9y ago
DNSSEC has a 1024-bit RSA root after Web PKI ( at least Mozilla-flavored) no longer did. Are the TLDs audited like CAs? Having to change the domain name to evade the TLDs bad security practices is more disruptive than switching CAs.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Classic Mac OS seems to be the system from that era that's no longer available. There's still Amiga systems on the market. RISC OS is available for Raspberry Pi. DOS lives on in the form of FreeDOS. And now there are two OS/2
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Now I’m curious how a self-assembled computer got into the provisioned state.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
I meant disabling the ME-side stuff from BIOS. That’s for disabling the Windows-side component.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Is disabling always possible? I don’t find UI to disable in recent Lenovo ThinkStation BIOS even though I’ve seen such option previously in ThinkPad BIOS.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
I couldn't either from Firefox on Linux or IE11 on Windows 7, but the download started automatically in IE8 on XP.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
The XP SP3 update was signed on 2017-02-11.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
It continues to puzzle me when people think of Rust's syntax as particularly exotic. It's much closer to C/Java/JavaScript than e.g. Python or Bash are. Rust still has curly braces for blocks, uses ampersand and asterisk
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by hsivonen 9y ago
This is cool, though I was a bit disappointed to notice the part about no support for CJK characters after trying to draw one and not having it recognized. It seems to me that looking up Unihan ideographs is an area where a tool like this c
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by hsivonen 9y ago
How does Ada address the problems that Rust's borrow checker addresses? Use-after-free in particular. As for not being alternatives, how do they mix in the same project? Does Ada have C-compatible FFI that lets both Ada and Rust see ea
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Is HTML Tidy spec-compliant these days? It predates the spec. A cursory look at its GitHub repo doesn’t convince me of it now being spec-compliant. E.g. lexer.c doesn’t have indications of being based on the tokenization section of the spec
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by hsivonen 9y ago
This doesn't appear to use a spec-compliant HTML parser as the first step of the processing. Any tool of this nature created this day and age really should.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Rust is better than C++ at “if it compiles, it works” and has a great package manager, so as far as the topics highlighted here go, Rust seems to be the best of both worlds.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Interesting that the economics are there for this computer to get made when the TALOS POWER8 desktop failed on the level of economics.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
At what point will all big-endian usage be just developers testing big-endian with no users to use the results, and at what point shall we stop even testing? (Yesterday, I finally got around to making encoding_rs work on 64-bit big-endian s
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by hsivonen 9y ago
Gecko had that but migrated to neighbor pointers, so that's a data point of one real engine moving from a child array to neighbor pointers.
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by hsivonen 9y ago
How well is Pale Moon patching disclosed Firefox vulnerabilities?
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by hsivonen 9y ago
What’s better in your opinion?
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by hsivonen 9y ago
There are also other forums. I prefer Rust’s own user forum over StackOverflow, because the latter is polluted with stale pre-1.0 answers.
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by hsivonen 10y ago
I have some. I don’t organize them. I just use them to make rare things not fall of the Awesomebar search in Firefox.
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by hsivonen 10y ago
Just for IoT or for desktop, too?
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by hsivonen 10y ago
The “compliant solution” example for setlocale() is thread-unsafe, AFAICT. (I’m not aware of a safe solution other than “don’t use the text processing part of the C standard library, because its design is too wrong”.)
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by hsivonen 10y ago
Unsurprising considering the IBM affiliation of Rexx and decimal arithmetic being IBM’s pet issue.
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by hsivonen 10y ago
FLAVOR: Ubuntu desktop HEADLINE-1: Support for Wayland clients in Unity. DESCRIPTION-1: I don't think it will be beneficial for Unity to have a different window system protocol from the rest of Linux desktops (including non-Unity Ubunt
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by hsivonen 10y ago
I think this is the disconnect. One can understand why curl is written in C, not expect Daniel to write it in another language, appreciate that the overall vulnerability count being impressively low considering how old the project is, and s
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by hsivonen 10y ago
How do you mean 32-bit ARM doesn’t have Rust support? See e.g. https://mobile.twitter.com/japaricious/status/84569793557265... “Cortex-M3 micro (no FPU) @ 8MHz”
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by hsivonen 10y ago
I very much doubt that Core Guidelines Checker can do the job of the Rust borrow checker without the lifetime info the borrow checker needs. Is there some doc that explains how the Core Guidelines Checker could achieve Rust-like safety give
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by hsivonen 10y ago
I’m annoyed that the migration to “byte is uint8_t” from the “is a byte char or unsigned char?” mess is disrupted with std::byte.
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by hsivonen 10y ago
Dual MIT/ASLv2 is how Rust achieves GPLv2 compatibility while requiring contributions to be under the superior (to MIT) ASLv2 language, too. ASLv2/GPLv2 dual would achieve the GPLv2 compat goal without potential unintended other c
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by hsivonen 10y ago
Bad faith is giving someone else seemingly open code that does something you hold a patent to and then enforcing the patent agsinst the recipient. The explicit patent language in Apache License 2.0 is a good thing.

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