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by kakwa_ 10y ago
Am I the only one who see this call as deeply misplaced? The Geneva conventions were written and accepted by governments. Those governments where acting on the behalf of their people and had (some kind of) legitimacy. Further more, they wer
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FOSDEM 2017 – Resurrecting dinosaurs, what can possibly go wrong?(youtube.com)
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
Well, even if their transparency in failure is admirable, I'm not completely surprised. Just running an apt-get install gitlab gives me around ~350 dependencies. In those dependencies, I see python, ruby, nodejs, redis, postgres. With
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
Maybe you can convince him with the following arguments: "Thinking that a huge program, written in C, with a code base from the 90ies, running as root or, even worst, in kernel space and parsing untrusted inputs by definition can impro
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
No, some of these security bugs were found by the Google Project Zero and Tavis Ormandy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882563 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
I use it to, it's nice and clear. They nearly collapsed under the load a few years back when Google cut GR, nearly shutting down. But now it's solid, and they seems to have got financial backing. There are few limitations (100 fee
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
I could not agree more. I found the near deification of Internet/Tech entrepreneurs, like Musk, Zuckerberg and others deeply annoying at best. Selling the idea they could be the providential leaders we "need", and that they c
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
Security is not that much improved to be true. Docker is just a fancy chroot, a motivated attacker can escape from it, it remains far less secure than a freebsd jail or a solaris zone. Except maybe some somewhat safer compiled languages (ru
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
If seen on a massive scale, I'm not so sure about some these arguments. Air transport will need management for safety reasons, which means air corridors, landing areas, some kind of ATC system. Which correlates to infrastructure costs,
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
I agree, expect is less and less useful, many vendors provides ways to automate deployment now. But "unautomatable" deployment is still happening. In some cases you can deal with it with some "printf 'line1\nline2\n&#x27
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
Implying you have the resources to do so correctly. Which was the issue with OpenSSL. Completely unrelated but: https://tls.mbed.org/ Another small footprint ssl/tls library, very readable code and a pleasure to work w
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
crap. Since jessie, I could not maintain my old Sparc V100 server. Now it's my PowerBook G3 Pismo :( (to be true, it wasn't very usable anymore, 45 seconds 100% CPU to load the main gmail page just to give an idea).
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
The messier part of the old sysinit V was dependency handling, LSB headers are just an horrible hack and do a very poor job at it. However, imho, shell scripts are great for that kind of work. Services come in all sort of shapes, some are p
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Show HN: Micro RFC 3161 Time-Stamp server written in C(github.com)
2 points by kakwa_ 10y ago|0 comments
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
In France, the interior minister Cazeneuve is inline with his government. Considering that Mr Valls, the prime minister, is Cazeneuve's predecessor and is at the right wing of the Socialist Party, it's not a really big surprise. H
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
Backblaze actually permits that: You have the option with Backblaze to add an additional layer of privacy via a user-selected passphrase. This passphrase will be used to encrypt your private key. This passphrase is your responsibility to
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
This offer is really strange. It claims lot of guaranties for your data (99,999999999% durability). It claims to be secure against all natural and human destruction, despite being located in only one datacenter, 25 meters under the ground,
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
The tapes themselves could last 300 years (or, for more realistic common needs, around 30 years). However the tape reader/recorder will probably not last that long. These things need special care (don't forget the cleaning tape ev
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
Just in case, I'm reposting my message from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11652940 On the workstation part, it recommends QubesOS. Am I the only one who is skeptical about it? From what I saw superficially read
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
Maybe that's exactly the reason why consoles are successful. It provides an unified device, which lasts around 8 years, which permits to play recent titles, which is simple to setup up and which is comparatively cheap. The PC I'm
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
Stop being a cpu architecture name nazi. If you really want a name, just call it "the architecture that Intel made in te 70ies, with a lot of weird stuff (like 20 bits addresses) and that Intel, itself, tried and failed to kill with It
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
There may be another exception: very specialized OSes in critical environments like planes or satellites. These environments generally need a real time OS with a small footprint (for auditability, or even prove a part of the code).
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
On the workstation part, it recommends QubesOS. Am I the only one who is skeptical about it? From what I saw superficially reading their source code, there are some frightening stuff going on: * tons of C code with nearly zero unit tests, s
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
I've never quite understood it myself. It's far from mandatory (I've run Gentoo for years without it) and when you have to fix stuff in the mkinitrd script, you just cry...
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
According to their map, for my neighborhood (XIVe in Paris), they've analyzed 339 flats which is not a lot to be true... I've collected about the same number just using one website API for around one month while I was searching a
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Ask HN: How should we rename “Technical Debt”?
2 points by kakwa_ 11y ago|2 comments
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by kakwa_ 11y ago
As itself, bundling dependencies is not necessary a bad thing, but it often leads to really bad practices. Once you bundle dependencies, you make the choice of having to track those dependencies for security fixes and bug fixes. Otherwise y
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by kakwa_ 11y ago
I've not used it in recent years, but PolarSSL (now mbed TLS) was quite nice for a crypto library. It's a light, simple and clear C library. Not directly code, but the "Beyond pep 8" talk at PyCon 2015 by Raymond Hetting
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by kakwa_ 11y ago
At work, I've seen a variety of solutions, depending on the teams I work with: * MS doc(x) on a network folder with an excel spreadsheet to keep track of docs (and a lot of ugly macros). * MS doc(x) in a badly organized subversion repo
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Show HN: Libvisio2svg. Library/Tools to Convert MS Visio .VSS/.VSD Docs to SVG(github.com)
4 points by kakwa_ 11y ago|0 comments

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