jwilk

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by jwilk 3y ago
What do you mean?
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by jwilk 3y ago
FWIW, "4 - 2" is explained earlier in the file: // The "-2" is included because the for-loop will // always increment by 2. In this case, we want to // skip an extra 2 bytes since we
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by jwilk 3y ago
"#, fuzzy" means the translation is out-of-date and it will be discarded at compile time.
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by jwilk 3y ago
eval in autoconf macros is nothing unusual. In (pre-backdoor) xz 5.4.5: $ grep -wl eval m4/* m4/gettext.m4 m4/lib-link.m4 m4/lib-prefix.m4 m4/libtool.m4
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CVE-2024-28085: Escape sequence injection in util-linux wall(openwall.com)
2 points by jwilk 3y ago|0 comments
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by jwilk 3y ago
Discussed back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16933892 (73 comments)
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by jwilk 3y ago
Polish and German styles are similar, but not identical: „hi“ (German; ends with U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK) „hi” (Polish; ends with U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK)
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by jwilk 3y ago
> what is written as $f..$\1 in BRE is written as (f..)\1 in ERE Oddly, there are no backreferences in POSIX EREs.
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by jwilk 3y ago
> if (localtime(&s)->tm_mday == 30 && localtime(&s)->tm_mon == 2) tm_mon's range is 0–11, so 2 is March, not February.
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by jwilk 3y ago
Their privacy policy https://twstalker.com/pages/privacy doesn't make any sense: > How do we protect your information? > We use regular Malware Scanning. We do not use an SSL certificate We only provide a
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by jwilk 3y ago
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
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by jwilk 3y ago
Discussed in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29861678 (99 comments)
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Insecurity and Python Pickles(lwn.net)
6 points by jwilk 3y ago|3 comments
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by jwilk 3y ago
It's mentioned in the article: > There's also the classic self-pipe trick.
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by jwilk 3y ago
> You execute arbitrary commands with troff. This should be disabled by default since groff v1.17 (released in 2001): https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=7b3f5...
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by jwilk 3y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-o...
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Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea(lwn.net)
70 points by jwilk 3y ago|39 comments
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Sudo and Its Alternatives(lwn.net)
3 points by jwilk 3y ago|0 comments
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by jwilk 3y ago
Discussed in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31637428 (157 comments)
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by jwilk 3y ago
Earlier submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138755 (130 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39151000 (12 comments)
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by jwilk 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39264396 got more traction (over 100 comments).
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by jwilk 3y ago
For the avoidance of doubt, the .xyz TLD is not owned by Google.
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by jwilk 3y ago
s/charges/charged/. The last time you could apply for a gTLD was in 2012. > The next application submission period for new gTLDs is expected to open in Q2 2026. > […] > While the application fee has not been deter
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by jwilk 3y ago
Also it says the term was coined in 2010, which is a weird thing to say in a 2005 article.
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by jwilk 3y ago
Direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4
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by jwilk 3y ago
The code doesn't use /m. So indeed the problem is that $ will match before \n at the end of the string the Perl interpreter is working with , which is not the whole thing containing the payload.
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by jwilk 3y ago
Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743029 (22 comments)
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by jwilk 3y ago
The problem wasn't that the regexp matched the second "author" line, but that it didn't match the first one.
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by jwilk 3y ago
> it's not new because on the front of the building underneath Buckinghamshire New University it says Est 1891 That's brand new compared to New College, Oxford, founded in 1379.
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by jwilk 3y ago
Discussed on HN back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33131195 (41 comments)

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