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by ilammy 9y ago
How do you buy a car in the first place if you have no money?
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by ilammy 9y ago
At first I was about to write why this is dumb and you should not be liable for not having an insurance. But while spelling it out I realized that it's perfectly reasonable for the owners of vehicles (and other licensable, high-possibl
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by ilammy 9y ago
How is it legal to repost them on the interwebs then? Fair use on the basis of quotation when reposted vebatim, and on the basis of parody when reposted with a funny caption on top?
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by ilammy 9y ago
> Neanderthal works with barest primitives I see what you did there with naming.
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by ilammy 9y ago
Cruel conditions aside (which could be argued as morally bad thing), this: > then killed about one tenth of the way into our natural lifespan, purely for the pleasure of others does not seem to be rational. Humans and animals don'
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by ilammy 9y ago
Eastern Slavic languages like Russian also give a similar vibe to this word ('shitter').
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by ilammy 9y ago
I believe the point is that with workstations you get more of a verbal culture, not visual . You have to put more effort into a quality textual post than into a crappy photo of your breakfast. Accessing Internet via phones contributes to
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by ilammy 9y ago
> What's full-disk encryption do if Facebook et al are going to funnel the data off your devices anyways? We have more-or-less mandatory full-disk encryption at work (outsourced software development) in order to prevent source code
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by ilammy 9y ago
System call pointer arguments are usually marked with __user annotations (I cannot recall if there are some weird calls that may need a kernel pointer, none should need it, but there may be some legacy one). In particular, the infop arg
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by ilammy 9y ago
Well, the exploited code used unsafe interfaces in unsafe manner. It is effectively equivalent to calling something like reinterpret_cast<T*>(user_ptr.get()) to bypass the safety provided by the compiler. How do you avoid that with C+
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by ilammy 9y ago
> encrypted SWAP When I was setting up dm-crypt for my Linux dev box at work I opted for using an encrypted swap as it really made sense: why keep on-disk stuff encrypted if swapped memory is in plain sight. It turned out to be a somewha