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by michh 12y ago
Before you follow up with a rant on being downvoted for merely having a different opinion: I only speak for myself but I don't mind you saying you're opposed to this proposal. Sure, it makes me not like you but if I downvoted ever
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by michh 12y ago
I don't think it's fair to put the blame of the unfortunate way things have gone with Python 3 solely on the shoulders of GvR. Afaik, a huge part of the community felt this was the way to go. Unfortunely, it wasn't.
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by michh 12y ago
If an attacker can get elevated privileges through an user account, the users themselves can do so as well. And you shouldn't trust them either, so you need to assume they have if they could have. That means definitely reinstall when y
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by michh 12y ago
In this case, if I read the article correctly, only a single account was compromised. I'm assuming the www user doesn't have sudo privileges (though I might be wrong as it shouldn't have a password either and it clearly did..
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by michh 12y ago
Full of goodies? Meh. Yes, some default behaviour changed in what I think are mostly good ways. There are some new features, some of them useful for a lot of people, some of them not so much. It's good, but full of goodies? Nah. That&#
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by michh 12y ago
That reverts the diff a commit causes, but doesn't undo `git commit` which is what I suspend OP meant. Of course, there's `git reset` for that, but they were asking for an alias.
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by michh 12y ago
I don't think using Python is significantly more ridiculous than the current practice of either using shell scripts or your own C code to parse form-data and generate HTML. In fact, it's probably a lot less ridiculous.
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by michh 12y ago
I wonder if 3 vulnerabilities in 3 days means this device has exceptionally bad firmware compared to other similar devices or is just suddenly getting a lot of attention from skilled hackers. Guessing by how frail software on these types of
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by michh 12y ago
Because you're used to it from years of using Linux? Or have software from other unix-like platforms which expects a case-sensitive filesystem? A good example would be MySQL. The case sensitivity of table names is determined by the fil
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by michh 12y ago
With Google you're lucky to get any reaction at all. Security issues are one of the few things where you can actually still get a response from a human being.
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by michh 12y ago
My guess would be driving around with a relatively short-range jammer actually increases the odds of being hit by a distracted driver. Rather than people driving near you being distracted by conversations on their phones, they're going
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by michh 12y ago
For the average article in a newspaper: yes. But that includes a lot of the stuff already out there for free. It'd be silly to pay even a cent for a copy-pasted press release or a 100-word article reporting on how firemen rescued a kit
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by michh 12y ago
I especially hate having to be so defensive. E.g. in phrasing my question, specifically having to mention a whole bunch of things that obviously aren't the problem but people are going to insist on anyway unless I've already menti
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by michh 12y ago
What's the legal side of this? I can imagine tunnelling your traffic through DNS to avoid a captive portal (i.e. actually paying for it) counts as circumventing a security measure, which is illegal in a lot of places including the coun
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by michh 12y ago
Add a yellow light for when there are stalls available but all free stalls have recently been used for more than 2 minutes. So basically, yellow would mean "You could, but unless you really need to, you probably don't want to&quot
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by michh 12y ago
Yeah, disappointing. It's just a "list of things I hate and you'll just have to trust me I have good reason to". It's a bit childish, actually. Some of the things have links to rants explaining why they apparently s
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by michh 12y ago
Sadly, I couldn't right now but I bet there's someone out there that'd be willing to give it a go. Maybe an "Ask HN"-post?
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by michh 12y ago
I'm guessing there might be someone willing to take over the project for free (if he's abandoning it anyway) and invest the time in actually getting the word out and improving it? Who knows. Ask for a small percentage of profits o
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by michh 13y ago
Exactly. Except they could have used Springloader or something as a shorthand for it (rather than Spring) and it wouldn't have been as much of an issue. It reminds me of when Wordpress gave one of their milestone releases the code-name
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by michh 13y ago
Something that compiles to C? Or can compile to C at a slight performance penalty for unsupported platforms?
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by michh 13y ago
An Ubuntu update would be nice right about now. Outside of disabling everything that uses openssl or compiling a new one manually, there's not much I can do to secure my servers at this moment. Meanwhile, I'm guessing a lot of not
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by michh 13y ago
That's going to come in useful, bookmarked, thanks!
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by michh 13y ago
AFAIK it's a legacy thing. SOCKS4 didn't support it, SOCKS5 did but using that functionality changes behaviour depending on which SOCKS version the remote end happens to use.
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by michh 13y ago
> Every commit has a single parent, making a previous button trivial. Until, of course, you hit a merge commit. Which most projects have a lot of regardless of whether that's a good thing. I suppose you could always pick the parent
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by michh 13y ago
That's the whole point: they seem to be using deep packet inspection to mess with all DNS traffic regardless of the DNS server being used.
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by michh 13y ago
Previous/Next is a bit complicated if one of the key features of the versioning system you're using is that it's a graph. Of course, that graph could easily be flattened (e.g. simply sort by date) but that'd cause you to
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by michh 13y ago
By default using a SOCKS proxy (which, using ssh -D is probably the easiest and most common way to do this) in most browsers doesn't solve this problem as DNS resolving is still done locally. As they're messing with DNS, you'
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by michh 13y ago
Still wishing they'll completely open up the data and end the 9292 monopoly. Recently a lot of Dutch public transport data has been opened up but you kinda need it all to make an effective 9292-alternative.
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by michh 13y ago
Tumblr isn't representative of feminism or humankind for that matter. And a collage of Tumblr posts cherry-picked for their awfulness isn't even representative of Tumblr itself.
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by michh 13y ago
Not to me, but my perspective is far from the definition of normal ;)

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