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by josefx 2y ago
Old windows programs had the luck that intel fucked up Itanium, which left us with AMDs idea to just take the existing 16 bit compatible 32 bit processor and turn it into a 32 bit compatible 64 bit processor (that might also be 16 bit compa
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by josefx 2y ago
I just recently pulled out an old phone that originally ran Android 6 for a project, hardware wise it still runs perfectly. The only thing wrong with it is that I can't upgrade it to a newer Android version.
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by josefx 2y ago
The xz thing never managed to hit production versions of the affected distros. You had to use testing or similar pre production releases to get hit by it.
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by josefx 2y ago
Many of those sources are not available online (books), point at paywals (research papers) or are dead . Unless you have an API that can bypass these issues reliable you are stuck with a tool that has already landed several lawyers in hot w
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by josefx 2y ago
I would love to fix the apps, can you point me to the github repo with all the code written the last 30 years so I can get started?
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by josefx 2y ago
Now your connections start to randomly fail in production because the implementation defaults to 20ms and your local tests never caught that.
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by josefx 2y ago
They are decades old organizations with millions of members. That is probably a drop in the bucket to them.
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by josefx 2y ago
> Running out of entropy has never been a thing except in the fevered minds of linux kernel developers. Linux used user input and network jitter to generate random numbers, not a pure pseudo random number generator. For a perfectly dete
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by josefx 2y ago
Restrict probably helps. I can't say much about fortran but C still has warts that can significantly impact its math library. For example almost every math function may set errno, that is a sideeffect that isn't easy to eliminate
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by josefx 2y ago
The sentence I cited is from an Ars Technica article and directly attributed to Jobs. Your text is essentially an extended version of that, but I cannot find any site that attributes it directly to Jobs. It also does double down on the gasl
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by josefx 2y ago
Jobs exact words where: "All phones have sensitive areas, just avoid holding it in this way." Which is arguably worse, since all of Apples official statements on that case contained that bit of intentional gaslighting at the begin
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by josefx 2y ago
More like a PHP 6 situation. People where pushing a protocol specification without implementation as if it would be ready to take over the Linux Desktop within a day or two.
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by josefx 2y ago
Some editors used them to help detect UTF-8 encoded files. Since they are also valid zero length space characters they also served as a nice easter egg for people who ended up editing their linux shell scripts with a windows text editor.
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by josefx 2y ago
> Modern operating systems don’t run binaries tampered with a hex editor. Luckily that isn't universally true. I had to do a decent amount of binary modifications on Linux to deal with bugs and glibc compatibility issues.
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by josefx 3y ago
Intent is nice and all that, but I would like a "nonwithstanding" keyword instead that just lets me bypass that kind of "intent" without having to copy paste the entire implementation just to remove a pointless keyword o
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by josefx 3y ago
In the context of aircraft carriers it probably is never a good idea to have them directly at the front. If it is close enough to be shot down by a Texan wielding a sawed of shotgun it probably is too close to the front. Same is true for th
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by josefx 3y ago
I am trying to imagine in what context that is relevant. Trying to compile the kernel on an embedded system?
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by josefx 3y ago
When the head of the commission was elected various parties presented their favorites for a direct election as had been done in 2014. When the results came in for 2019 parliament refused to accept them and selected its own favorites from ou
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by josefx 3y ago
People who knew what they where doing could pull of some timeless art with 90s CGI and a decade of improvements did not stop people from ruining otherwise good movies with bad GCI either. AI is just another tool that needs to be used correc
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by josefx 3y ago
Why cool PV panels when you can build a solar thermal plant instead.
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by josefx 3y ago
> And it flopped. Their opt out header was adopted faster than "do not track". Nobody wanted anything to do with it. > are at least designed to work for the entire advertising industry, not just Google. It is an API where th
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by josefx 3y ago
Cross platform does not automatically mean something supports all platforms, nothing does.
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by josefx 3y ago
Well the point wasn't "desktop vs. web version" but showing that compatibility issues are common even within the proprietary products of a single vendor, something which one of the previous comments implied wouldn't be t
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by josefx 3y ago
It is not like there are pages describing just what excels web version cannot display or dozens of features that the web versions break because they cannot handle them correctly (like connectors).
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by josefx 3y ago
>but working with non-traditional tools is going to cost the taxpayers more money when important documents are not formatted correctly or the software behaves differently than the proprietary alternatives. That is already a given with Mi
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by josefx 3y ago
Have a system were you wxpect the sandboxing to work and have an automated check that it compiles there?
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by josefx 3y ago
The goal is to figure out if the optional features work at all. For that a system you control is required. That the sabotage worked at all relied on the fact that nobody was testing those features. How secure is a sandbox that may not even
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by josefx 3y ago
You could just run tests for the feature detection on a known system or a dozen(VMs are cheap). The big problem is that most code is not tested at all or test errors are flat out ignored.
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by josefx 3y ago
I suggest you run your browsers Javascript engine in interpreter mode to understand how crippling the simple and sraight forward solution is to performance.
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by josefx 3y ago
Shouldn't they have tests running to ensure that the check works on at least some systems?

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