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by jolmg 3y ago
> In that case, writing to stderr is justifiable. More than justifiable, I'd say it's the correct thing to do in that case. Otherwise, the caller (which can be another script) may end up working with the help message thinking i
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by jolmg 3y ago
Yeah, regarding whack-a-mole, I thought that wouldn't be necessary. I mistakenly believed: >> As far as I understand, SSH's security of what a user can do is completely based on what the shell permits the user to do. I was m
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by jolmg 3y ago
It's not the same thing. You're comparing a white-listing approach with a black-listing approach. The example shell doesn't have any concept of directories or environment variables or anything other than cmd_foo and cmd_bar.
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by jolmg 3y ago
> There was another hole if the target command was executed using /bin/bash in a certain way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug) I agree bash is not the best choice security-wise, but
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by jolmg 3y ago
EDIT: Crap. You're right. Port forwarding worked... So there's that. `ssh -J userfoo@localhost other-place` also worked... I would imagine that's all able to be disabled, but I see that the user is not fundamentally limited t
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by jolmg 3y ago
I think the point is: how is bundling a custom ssh server into the same executable that interprets the commands, a reduced surface as opposed to using standard openssh's sshd, and defining a simple shell like so: #!/bin/b
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by jolmg 3y ago
> I wonder if the lack of a physical keyboard discourages hacking. You can still use whatever bluetooth keyboard you have on hand. I don't think that's a serious issue.
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by jolmg 3y ago
> carrying around 30 disks is no small feat. 20-22TB HDDs are available nowadays, so more like 14-15 disks.
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by jolmg 3y ago
> When 3000 comes around, they can just add the fourth digit (1000). or use 3 rather than 1 as the fourth.
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by jolmg 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A#Legacy > The use of the HJKL keys for moving the cursor in the vi editor and its descendants originated from the ADM-3A [...] The ←, ↓, ↑, → and Home labels printed on the H, J,
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by jolmg 3y ago
A better analogy may be how we have a right to take apart our electronic devices, but as soon as we do we void the warranty provided by sellers and/or manufacturers. INAL, I don't know if all warranties fall under contract law, bu
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by jolmg 3y ago
https://jol.dev/blog/
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by jolmg 3y ago
I feel this is the type of business that's based on scratching their own itch. They're part of the market they aim to serve. They should still have that itch after taking the money.
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by jolmg 3y ago
> My point is that as you age, without kids, most peoples’ options for spending time is the same subset of things they could do in their late twenties and early thirties, except they will do those things worse as they age. They wouldn&#x
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by jolmg 3y ago
> I still believe that having the code available for review is important, but I don't think it's a reliable means of saving people from insecure or malicious software. Just having the code available, in and of itself, is probab
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by jolmg 3y ago
> Are you actually reading all the code before you run it? Are you re-reading it for each update? If not, then what's the point of bragging about having access to the source? Not every user needs to read everything. We can read piec
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by jolmg 3y ago
He's just bringing a valid point. Despite the lack of isolation between pieces of software, I too feel more confident about what's running on my Linux distros. That's not to say that "sandboxing is for noobs", but i
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by jolmg 3y ago
> is it possible that what Apple's doing is the simpler and better way to solve the problem? Pass-through AR strikes me as an old-school analog approach, like optical printing for special effects. I think they're different and
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by jolmg 3y ago
I hadn't noticed the video included that. I think it's understandable that they haven't bothered to re-edit a video, though. The specs at https://shop.simulavr.com/ say they're going to use an i7-1265U P
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by jolmg 3y ago
>> Tragically, the software stack for developed by Simula is not compatible with the Aero. Because the Simula Window Manager is linux native, and the Aero is Windows Native… (damn, I bought the wrong hardware.) > The WM is linux-na
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by jolmg 3y ago
> something cartoony might be good enough or even better than a realistic display. Like a matrix display...
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by jolmg 3y ago
> The hardware is already multiple generations behind. (11th gen intel NUC). They upgraded all units to 12th-gen some time ago. WiFi changed to 6E, and I can't remember what else changed. Specs at: https://shop.simulavr.c
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by jolmg 3y ago
> What that doesn't seem to address are multiple people with the same name. So the sender know he's sending an email only John Doe can read, but he still don't know which John Doe it is. That's not the way I read this
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by jolmg 3y ago
> Hard disagree. I think we primarily make progress as engineers (and a species) by making better abstractions. Abstractions are produced and consumed. You can make your abstractions better, but that doesn't mean you won't have
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by jolmg 4y ago
Background goes black when resizing the window, turning the text near-black on black. Can't select/highlight the text to make it readable either.
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by jolmg 4y ago
Software that circumvents rate-limiting. Axel (still available in Archlinux repos at least) can be told to use some number of connections, it'll figure out the size of what you want to download, divide it into the number of connections
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by jolmg 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20010223104840/https://www.qrg.n... All but the first link work in this snapshot.
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by jolmg 4y ago
Personally, while I've tried neither, I feel like there wouldn't be much difference between that and video chat, psychologically speaking. I think that's because they'd be fixed to a particular position in the room, like
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by jolmg 4y ago
How important do you feel it is for their real physical bodies to be what you see instead of a 3d avatar? And how important do you feel it is to be able to see them in your actual physical room instead of a 3d virtual space? Basically, I&#x
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by jolmg 4y ago
Prefix. Suffixes come at the end.

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