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by hsivonen 11y ago
The Web is now little-endian thanks to ArrayBufferViews exposing endianness and everyone testing only the little-endian case. It doesn't make sense to make big-endian hardware that needs to run a Web browser anymore, so chances are tha
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by hsivonen 11y ago
Cases with primitive arguments are easy to understand, but I think it would be beneficial for the Rust book to have way more detailed info about working with buffers and heap-allocated structs that the other language holds onto past the for
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by hsivonen 12y ago
It does HBO Nordic injustice to say it is similar to HBO Go. HBO Go requires a subscription to the linear HBO TV channel. HBO Nordic is free of user-hostile tying to cable TV. And unlike HBO Now, HBO Nordic isn't Apple TV exclusive. In
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by hsivonen 12y ago
Weird move. I thought various broadcasters had figured that DAB doesn 't provide enough user benefit over FM and fm win on compatibility. I guess codec proprietors will pocket some royalties.
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by hsivonen 12y ago
When it comes to protocols and formats, using the word "proprietary" adds more confusion than clarity. Consider: H.264 has a spec that's written down by a standards-setting organization and not a trade secret (though behind a
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by hsivonen 12y ago
Saying "EME DRM plug-ins track users" is misleading. Rather, an EME DRM plug-in designed only to fulfill its DRM mission in a straight-forward way without specifically trying to also fulfill a privacy mission is likely to have the
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by hsivonen 12y ago
In the HTML5 context, adaptive streaming is done with the MSE API. This involves fetching the media data using XHR. Since mixed-content XHR is blocked, if the app is on an https origin, the media data has to come from https origins, because
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by hsivonen 12y ago
What Finland is attempting seems to depend on which ministry you ask.
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by hsivonen 12y ago
StartSSL at least a while ago picked up the hash algorithm from the CSR.
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by hsivonen 12y ago
When the IETF renames things, everyone is going to have a bad time. See also URI and IRI.
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by hsivonen 12y ago
No mention of OTR. :-( When your client is a Web app on a trusted server (i.e. OTR key on the server), you could avoid multi-client issues by having only that on XMPP client that you connect to from multiple browsers.
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by hsivonen 12y ago
It's quite different from innerHTML, since document.write inserts source characters to the character stream going into the parser, and there's no guarantee that all elements that get opened get closed. There's even no guarant
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by hsivonen 12y ago
Fun times ahead if document.write isn't already supported. When I rewrote Gecko's HTML parsing, accommodating document.write was a (or maybe the) dominant design issue.
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by hsivonen 12y ago
I had hoped that an effort to replace nginx would use Rust and support HTTP/2.
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by hsivonen 12y ago
I didn't. Having to be aware of tools like this is the problem when you face the requirement of having to set up gpg-agent and you don't already know how to do so in an environment where a desktop environment from your distro hasn
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by hsivonen 12y ago
Using /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random help, too. http://listmaster.pepperfish.net/pipermail/obnam-support-obn...
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by hsivonen 12y ago
Using gpg is not so awesome. Obnam uses gpg. Since Obnam invokes gpg in batch mode, if you want to have a passphrase, you have to use gpg-agent, which at least for me took more effort than I found reasonable to set up on a GUIless server. F
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by hsivonen 12y ago
Doesn't Windows 7 download root certs from Microsoft's repo on demand? I.e. 38 isn't the total number but the total actually seen by that PC.
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by hsivonen 12y ago
I got downvoted here on HN for worrying that anti-LLVM politics could hinder the adoption of Rust in GNU projects. Looks like my worry of anti-LLVM politics affecting what gets into GNU projects isn't entirely unfounded.
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by hsivonen 12y ago
With NPAPI each site picked one plug-in that worked in multiple browsers. Another site could pick another single plug-in that also worked in multiple browsers. With EME, each browser supports some DRM(s) and there's no single DRM suppo
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by hsivonen 12y ago
Nothing.
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by hsivonen 12y ago
There is no single "the DRM module". Microsoft has its own in IE. Google has its own in Chrome. Apple has its own in Safari. Adobe has its own (that Firefox will be able to use). None of these have open specs.
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by hsivonen 12y ago
Indeed, so keep in mind that he has a vested interest in being able to use the FreeBSD feature to efficiently copy a file from a disk into a network interface. Having to break stuff into protocol frames or having every byte have compute don
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by hsivonen 12y ago
"However, the key nature of many of the sites affected, and the fact that entire sites, rather than just some of their pages, were blocked, is bound to lead to calls for this blunt instrument to be refined before it is used again.&quot
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by hsivonen 12y ago
I hope fundamental pieces of GNU/Linux system can start migrating to Rust without the FSF objecting to rutsc using LLVM.
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by hsivonen 12y ago
Why do you expect Firefox and Chrome to take patches as opposed to saying that patches should wait for specs from the TLS WG which waits for the CFRG to bless something? The political problem is that unless there's an authority whose b
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by hsivonen 12y ago
I wish this effort was put into browser engines' MathML support, so that math could be interoperably declarative like text (HTML) and vector graphics (SVG). If you don't see the value in browser built-in features, consider how bad
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by hsivonen 12y ago
Very cool to see progress to this stage. Thank you! I get the desktop layout on Firefox OS, though. Is there already a phone-friendly layout and it just sniffs Firefox OS wrong or is a mobile layout still to be done altogether? (The announc
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by hsivonen 12y ago
Not cool. Private keys generated on their servers and then the idea of inatalling the certs as trusted in your OS/browser is mentioned. Also 1024-bit keys. Is this some kind of test to see who falls for this?
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by hsivonen 12y ago
Will it get security updates in sync with Firefox ESR point releases ? I can't find security updates for IceCat on ftp.gnu.org.

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