marshray

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by marshray 5mo ago
Initializing the http client is one of the very first things this text editor does in "app.run()": https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/a7c9c24f40d7e9169... Line 497 suggests it fails without
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by marshray 5mo ago
Yeah, screw that. I am literally shopping for a new editor. A once-a-decade thing for me. I want something that can effectively sandbox local models for code gen. So I was looking at Zed yesterday. Cloned the repo. Then I noticed they were
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by marshray 5mo ago
"The starting insight — that splice() hands page-cache pages into the crypto subsystem and that scatterlist page provenance might be an under-explored bug class — came from human research by Taeyang Lee at Xint. From there, Xint Code s
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by marshray 5mo ago
There's a claim upthread that a straightforward variation works against /etc/passwd.
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by marshray 5mo ago
Thanks! I'd do 'umask 133' in front of the echo out of paranoia. Out of curiosity, was the asterisk after '2>/dev/null' intentional? I had not seen that idiom before.
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by marshray 5mo ago
The lesson here being... compile your own kernel from git sources every few days? Give up entirely on non-virtualized container security? This is not sarcasm. I'd finally given in and started learning about docker/podman-style OCI
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by marshray 5mo ago
No it hasn't. Ubuntu before 26.04 LTS (released a week ago) are currently listed as vulnerable. Debian other than forky and sid are currently listed as vulnerable. This is a disgrace.
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by marshray 5mo ago
I don't know about LLMs, but I tried an Intel card when Ubuntu Wayland couldn't initialize a 2 year old Nvidia. It just works.
129.
by marshray 5mo ago
The number of graphical Unix workstation users during at the time of widespread adoption of Windows and Mac was utterly insignificant. You cannot compare it to Android.
130.
by marshray 6mo ago
The X Window developers were mostly just making it up as they went along. Practically no one expects mouse buttons to work like that.
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by marshray 6mo ago
I absolutely love that these are all available online. But it does call into question my decision to haul 100's of kg of these things around every time I moved residence over the last 40+ years.
132.
by marshray 6mo ago
"It's just a neutral tool" gets a lot harder to claim once a vendor starts specifically training and marketing the model for its ability to bypass security controls. Yes, pentesting tools, even automated ones, are often legal
133.
by marshray 6mo ago
Selling clones of name-brand personal computers! What has this world come to? I hope the courts will stamp out these Intellectual Property thieves quickly or they will become a real threat to computing.
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by marshray 6mo ago
"AI will never be entirely ethical or safe because it's like having a knife, a gun, a hardware store, and a medical doctor, all in one convenient interface."
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by marshray 6mo ago
This argument is so bad that I have to wonder if it's an intentional a strawman. (I don't think it deserves to be flagged, however.) It leads with "AI Will Never Be Ethical or Safe". The first sentence is "AI will n
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by marshray 6mo ago
> Could not locate file: " https://huggingface.co/campedersen/cad0-mini/resolve/main/on... "
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by marshray 11mo ago
The thing approved by the patent office is 100% specific to a mechanism using two "moving" "elongated strips" to encode a sequence of frequency changes. It doesn't explain how they are kept synchronized, or provide
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by marshray 11mo ago
There's only so big and often repeated that a false legal claim based on open records can get before someone who knows what they're looking at gets around to reading it.
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by marshray 11mo ago
Ouch. From the article: "A letter on 3 October 1941 from the Lyon and Lyon attorney to Lamarr and Antheil says '...we rather doubted at the time that method claim 7 would be considered patentable, since the invention appears to re
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by marshray 1y ago
Wow, I'd never heard that before. That was really wonderful. All those times I'd listened to it on the radio... I knew it was missing something.
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by marshray 1y ago
I find it very suspicious that the telemetry indicators are cropped. Typically when the military release drone footage, they are blurred. After the object tumbles, an effect transition has been added. You can tell because it overlays the &q
142.
by marshray 1y ago
Let's put science teachers in charge of the youtube boost juice and see if the situation improves.
143.
by marshray 1y ago
The experiments comparing different paste and application methods I've seen only make 1-2 degree C difference. Which enthusiasts might care alot about, but most people wouldn't notice.
144.
by marshray 1y ago
A spot welder, basically.
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by marshray 1y ago
Clocking and changing register states requires charging and discharging the gate capacitance of a bunch of MOSFET transistors. The current that results from moving all that charge around encounters resistance, which converts it to heat. Sil
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by marshray 1y ago
Clearly paste was squeezed out from the entire perimeter of the CPU. Offset mounting is used intentionally for this CPU. Probably there's less paste remaining on the south end of the CPU because that's where the mounting force is
147.
by marshray 1y ago
Probably the system interrupt table. Index 0 might reference the handler for the non-maskable interrupt NMI, often the same as a power-on reset. I recall that on DOS, Borland Turbo C would detect writes to address 0 and print a message duri
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by marshray 1y ago
I like this aspect of cryptocurrency, in that it creates an incentive for attackers to research and burn 0-days for a lesser harm like coin mining. > My gut tells me that these attacks must be happening in more subtle ways from time to t
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by marshray 1y ago
From the perspective of the software vendor, it may be a semi-regular occurrence that they learn that users are being actively harmed by a software vulnerability exploited in-the-wild. So that's an argument that developers have a moral
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by marshray 1y ago
My personal belief is that users should not be required type their password into random applications, terminals, and pop-up windows. Of course, login screens can be faked too. So my main user account does not have sudo permissions at all, I

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