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by jka 5y ago
Both Chrome and Firefox have been engaging in community-based testing to try to find sites that break due to this version increment. The webcompat project has a list of some compatibility issues reported so far: https://webcompat
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by jka 5y ago
The work on Arbitrary Code Guard sounds valuable, and hopefully much of the research[1] done by Google Project Zero is being taken on board. That said, as someone with a defender / website maintainer mindset, statements like this make
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by jka 5y ago
HTTP not-found fixup: looks like your URL changed? (should be: https://www.shayon.dev/post/2022/47/pg-osc-zero-downtime-sch... , I think)
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/dev/null: Anti-Cheat Kernel Driver (2020)(leagueoflegends.com)
2 points by jka 5y ago|0 comments
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by jka 5y ago
> Added support for EasyAntiCheat if the game has enabled a Linux module. Anyone know what the Linux module mentioned is? (I'd guess a kernel module of some kind?)
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(credit for raising awareness of this goes to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30364520 )
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by jka 5y ago
> Maybe unit tests need unit tests? (There’s probably a lint rule to catch what I describe above) Yep - meta-testing (ensuring that every unit test that exists in a project adds unique coverage, remains valid, runs as expected, and I&#x2
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Mutmut: A Python mutation testing system(hackernoon.com)
4 points by jka 5y ago|2 comments
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by jka 5y ago
(see also this comment that reads like it could be onto something, although it'd require a bit of digging to determine what that is, if anything: https://www.econlib.org/archives/2014/06/embarrass_me_no.h
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by jka 5y ago
For anyone looking for a statistical analysis auditing challenge: the author links to an article[1] where they made the spreadsheets in question (questioning the return-on-investment from education) public. A collaborative auditing effort c
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by jka 5y ago
In answer to both parts of your post: you're a clear communicator (you outlined the situation concisely and effectively, and everyone commenting in response so far has found a common understanding of that) and you're approachable
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by jka 5y ago
I'm beginning to lean in the opposite direction: perhaps making my application's JavaScript (well, compiled TypeScript) less obfuscated for users could make sense. Enabling sourcemaps, perhaps? Copyright and license information
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by jka 5y ago
As an example, I think it'd be nice if eventually Spotify decided to offer wood-engraved machine-readable BitTorrent QR-code links to each of the albums you have in your profile; effectively available in perpetuity and on-demand by pla
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by jka 5y ago
The excitement between successful compilation and running a program -- only to find out that it emits a stream of nonsense to the console instead of the answer you expect: but that's no problem, ctrl-c and back to the code. The satisfa
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by jka 5y ago
Few device manufacturers and platform ecosystems appear incentivized to bundle Firefox, perhaps because it doesn't provide much in the way of competitive moat-building opportunities in return for the partnership (there is the Google sp
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by jka 5y ago
Nice, thank you!
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Coccinelle: A Program Matching and Transformation Tool for Systems Code(coccinelle.gitlabpages.inria.fr)
3 points by jka 5y ago|0 comments
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by jka 5y ago
> YC just put out a superior product for their customers who'd otherwise have to pitch to 20 other angels. This phrasing could imply that YC offer something that any entrepreneur can access - in other words, an unbiased funding sour
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by jka 5y ago
This set off my "potential misinformation" alarms, and still seems a little unusual to me, but there is a supporting press release[1] on FDA.gov about a medication (named "Abilify MyCite") that fits the description. Quot
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by jka 5y ago
That URL currently redirects to the NYT version of the game, although it's possible that browsers may continue to cache and display a previously-requested version of the page contents (avoiding a redirect, at least while the cache rema
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by jka 5y ago
I'm not certain whether this is what you had in mind, but in the UK we have a green, amber, red (voluntary) labelling system that indicates fairly quickly at-a-glance how a food product fares in various nutritional dimensions: https:&
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by jka 5y ago
A lot of it depends, I think, on what it'll be like for people to look back on past achievements at age 65+. If it's a case of "oh, in fact most of my career was (re)building things that weren't really required in order
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by jka 5y ago
Can you link to an example case where Address Sanitizer has been used to find and resolve a bunch of memory safety issues in a codebase? (it seems likely true, and with a success rate like that, improvements rather than migration of existin
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by jka 5y ago
A few SQL statements + ad-hoc spreadsheet analysis can also potentially be way more achievable and powerful within a couple of spare hours than using weeks+ of engineering resources to build in-house reporting tools (that frequently end u
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by jka 5y ago
Having a sales team incentivized to the extent where it can demand engineering time for features that are specific to one customer -- and not benefit the product and customer-base long term -- is not too dissimilar to an organizational soft
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by jka 5y ago
(I also think it'll seem equally ridiculous supplier-side too: "why did we sell closed source software and prevent our users from more accurately identifying and reporting bugs and providing potential fixes, reducing our support a
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Hubblo: Measure, understand and shrink the climate impact of digital services(hubblo.org)
1 points by jka 5y ago|0 comments
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by jka 5y ago
Perhaps distributed systems traces could be extended to attach energy usage alongside other metadata (like request duration). See also this HN post[1] re: an environmental impact reporting dashboard built by the BBC's R&D departmen
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by jka 5y ago
From reading the linked document, this sounds fairly reasonable; although the security research was prepared for the court during 2021, it has only been shared with the vendor as of 2022-02-04, so the remediation process (including updated
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by jka 5y ago
We do at the moment, yes, but it won't be missed once it's gone (indeed, I think it'll seem ludicrous that we paid for closed source software -- imagine that -- retrospectively). https://www.reciperadar.com/

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