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6y ago
You can also make any existing page editable (and then back to non-editable): javascript:if(document.body.contentEditable=="true"){ document.body.contentEditable="false"; document.designMode="off"; documen
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6y ago
If history is any tell Intel allocated $475M pre-tax charge against earnings when they did Pentium FDIV replacements -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug . But I assume most people are more likely to raise
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madars
6y ago
At the same time ePrint https://eprint.iacr.org/ is peak web design: simple, fast, functional.
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USC to Raise Tuition 3.5%, as Planned Before Covid-19 Pandemic
(nbclosangeles.com)
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6y ago
The research itself: https://thunderspy.io/
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Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of PCs to Hands-On Hacking
(wired.com)
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6y ago
Looks like & saves the day by invoking the command in a subshell and then in that subshell exec replaces the subshell with the xinput command. E.g. you can test it by $ cat ./a.sh #!/bin/sh exec /bin&#
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6y ago
> When debugging a complex issue on your servers, you might like to share an SSH session with someone who is not in the same room. tmux is perfect for this for terminal sharing! Here are the steps: > [..] > Both of you will need to
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6y ago
Chromium is actually the only real use case for snaps. It is so difficult to build/package chromium for a LTS distro that Debian simply stopped trying. See what happens with security updates on Debian jessie (which is under their LTS):
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7y ago
I have not tried it with Zoom but Chrome refused to recognize any loopback video devices unless they were capture-only. So the following worked: # modprobe -r v4l2loopback # modprobe v4l2loopback video_nr=7 exclusive_caps=1 card_l
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7y ago
Agreed! Been meaning to write something like that but a complete story probably needs second-sourcing all the bits, experiments, etc. Regrettably, the trend is clear.
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7y ago
Except Zoom web version doesn't work: the incoming/outgoing audio is garbled (tested with Chrome, they do not support Firefox). This is in part because they were obviously too good for WebRTC native audio and instead gutted ffmpeg
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7y ago
Apple EULA used to (still does?) prohibit virtualization of macOS on non-Apple hardware, so this setup could get flaky (need to patch around new hardware detection mechanisms when upgrading the OS).
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FBI Successfully Unlocks iPhone 11 Pro
(macrumors.com)
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795-bit factoring and discrete logarithms
(lists.gforge.inria.fr)
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7y ago
re: being prevented from copying the text -- one can just use Stylus + the following stylesheet * { -webkit-user-select: text !important; user-select: text !important; } + others for saving Instagram pictures, remov
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7y ago
That's an underrated suggestion! However, even if configured as a single-hop service Tor would add substantial latency and bandwidth restrictions, and would not support UDP. But Tor would not require the user to self-host external infr
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On “Quantum Supremacy”
(ibm.com)
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7y ago
Fascinating, they embed a tracking pixel of: http://onion.[SOME_NUMERIC_ID].pixel.archive.today/pixel.gif for Tor endpoint (archivecaslytosk.onion) connections but https:// [YOUR_IP].[COUNTRY_CODE].[SHORT_ALPHAN
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Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor [pdf]
(twitter.com)
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What does the social pecking order look like in your culture? (2017)
(quora.com)
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7y ago
This is annoying so I just use fresh browser profile every time I encounter such site, i.e. have a short-cut for: $ cat ~/bin/chrome-new #!/bin/sh TMPDIR=`mktemp -d /dev/shm/chrome-XXXXX` google
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QuickJS JavaScript Engine
(bellard.org)
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DefendCrypto.org
(avc.com)
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8y ago
The linked page doesn't list details on the security vulnerabilities but the mailing list announcement does: https://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/putty-announce/2019/000... Most major seems to be this:
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8y ago
Technical interpretation of the name would indeed exclude it: if W=false, and X=false, then W^X does not hold (W^X also evaluates to false).
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8y ago
The innovation is using W^X systemwide, which is harder than having W^X support in kernel, and system that does not fully take advantage of it. And W^X is definitely a catchier name than ~(W&X) :-)
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8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect as explained by Taleb "If a book has been in print for forty years, I can expect it to be in print for another forty years. But, and that is the main difference, if it su
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Don't trust, verify: A Bitcoin Private case study
(coinmetrics.io)
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8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest_rate_parity "Covered interest rate parity (CIRP) is found to hold when there is open capital mobility and limited capital controls, and this finding is confirmed for all curr
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