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Creating virtual block devices with ublk(jpospisil.com)
3 points by jiripospisil 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jiripospisil 5y ago
> Our object storage will be extremely inexpensive for infrequent access and yet capable of and cheaper than major incumbent providers at scale. How frequent is infrequent? In our case it's "never unless other backups fail&quot
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by jiripospisil 5y ago
They are not even trying to be sneaky about it. If you look at layers #42 and #43 at [0], you can see they are cloning and building xmrig/xmrig [1]. [0] https://hub.docker.com/layers/minecraft101/minecraft-ser
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Fantastic memory issues and how to fix them(educatedguesswork.org)
3 points by jiripospisil 5y ago|1 comments
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Chrome Security summary for Q1 and Q2 2021(dev.chromium.org)
2 points by jiripospisil 5y ago|0 comments
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About the security content of iOS 14.7.1 and iPadOS 14.7.1(support.apple.com)
504 points by jiripospisil 5y ago|348 comments
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Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts(github.com)
654 points by jiripospisil 5y ago|382 comments
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by jiripospisil 5y ago
My dad used to own one back in the day and has only fond memories of it. At the same time, he says it was the most unreliable car he has ever owned. And the heating never worked. He later replaced it with Wartburg 353. If you want to see a
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by jiripospisil 5y ago
I used to use one almost every day when I was studying at CVUT FEL. Sure it looks cool but riding it is not all that great. If you are alone, it's relatively fine. But when multiple people want to get in or out it becomes quite a hassl
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
You can see some statistics for the Czech Republic (population is about 10.7 million) at [0]. Vykázaná očkování celkem = Administered total Vykázaná očkování za včera = Administered in the previous day Osoby s ukončeným očkováním (dvě dávky
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
It looks like Microsoft released an update on September 24, 2019 that defaults new drives to use software encryption instead (I'm guessing it uses AES-NI under the hood if available): > Changes the default setting for BitLocker when
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
Be aware that hardware encryption provided by SSDs should not be trusted. I doubt the situation has gotten any better since 2018. > In theory, the security guarantees offered by hardware encryption are similar to or better than software
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First end-to-end side channel attack on Apple's new M1 processor(twitter.com)
19 points by jiripospisil 6y ago|1 comments
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Firefox Security Newsletter/FSN-2020-Q4(wiki.mozilla.org)
2 points by jiripospisil 6y ago|0 comments
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
Mozilla has already released Firefox 82.0.3 which fixes the vulnerability. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/82.0.3/releasenotes
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GitHub: Widespread Injection Vulnerabilities in Actions(bugs.chromium.org)
7 points by jiripospisil 6y ago|1 comments
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Chrome will soon have its own dedicated certificate root store(zdnet.com)
2 points by jiripospisil 6y ago|0 comments
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
If you want to participate in the discussion about this feature, you can go ahead and comment on it in the tracking issue over at [0]. Oh wait, you cannot - it's set to private. It's almost as if Google didn't want any input
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
If you are interested in USSR and exploring the now independent countries, I highly recommend a YouTube channel called "bald and bankrupt" [0]. It's essentially a travel vlog but the guy visits places that you would probably
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
Worth noting that this is also a security release. There's only a prerelease announcement available right now but the version fixes 6 security issues. https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
Not OP but one example is bridged networking. I discovered this while trying Parallels Lite from the App Store. I was used to being prompted for every connection attempt VirtualBox was making but I was not getting any when using Parallels.
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
> Normally I do not pay attention to ads but was curious to know - what was that Santa selling! Haha, you mean the long bearded guy with a dog sitting next to him? That was a commercial for a search engine [0]. The premise of the commerc
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
Fun fact: Charles bridge (depicted in the video) was damaged during a flood in 1890. With the water level risen, broken down rafts were beating its arches and two of them fell apart, along with three pillars that were undermined by the wate
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Manifest V3 changes are now available to test in Microsoft Edge(blogs.windows.com)
43 points by jiripospisil 6y ago|36 comments
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
Agreed. I only wish they streamed in a higher quality. 1080p looks pretty bad on a 27" 4K monitor.
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
I'm still not sure if being able to do this from a browser is amazing or terrifying.
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
> It's extremely disappointing that, other than Firefox, browsers have refused to implement subgrid The way I understand the situation in Chromium is that they are slowly moving to a new layout system called LayoutNG [0]. The curren
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
One of the computers at my father's job is still running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. It's a prebuilt from Escom with Intel 486, 256MB disk, not sure about RAM, and combined with HP Deskjet 510 printer. The only thing it needs fro
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
I think the difference would be more pronounced if there was actually any code that works with the allocated resources. Imagine you wanted to early return because of some other condition. With your code, you cannot just `return` a value, yo
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by jiripospisil 6y ago
I don't think benchmarking a Nightly release is valuable. The code literally changes every day, things get slower only to get faster a few days later (or vice versa). For example, the article mentions a regression in the JetStream 2.0

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