nbsd4lyfe

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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
Yes, I have a noisy fan and if the browser makes it turn on it's distracting.
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
it's not bad because of misguided intentions, it's bad because it lacks resources. really badly, even.
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
Cairo is currently desperately asking for development help, so uhh... https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/helping-cairo.html
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
Mad respect to sales guy. I'm doing the same and avoiding arms companies (my background is very useful for military research). I acknowledge some warfare may be legitimate (having been bombed myself), but arms companies don't stop
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
I've been reading stories about a corruption case and apparently there's a lot of easy money to be had doing that.
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
I have an awful ISP - having a local mirror is a massive improvement. It almost seems like the web is unusable aside from companies large enough to have a mirror here.
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
I think in this hypothetical scenario the uid 0 attacker can create its own node for /dev/rwd0 and use raw disk accesses to get around filesystem limits.
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
Why do you need ACLs to run a few services on their own server?
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
> Breaking dords into bytes and vice-versa involves long sequences of shifts and logical operations modern MIPS has "ext" and "ins", which are probably an improvement in that regard. > plentiful-yet-unhelpfully-nam
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
I'm still putting off contributions because the CLA signing mechanism asked me for my phone number.
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
I'm assuming you're talking about the reviewer and long term contributor side of it. personally I found initial setup as a drive-by contributor to be very tedious. GitHub is the lowest friction because I already have an account wi
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
I agree, it's a hella questionable language choice, and not limited to C. I found out about it through https://github.com/rohe/pysaml2/issues/451
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
asserts are for diagnostic-enabled code, don't use them for security checks.
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
tnftp does HTTP and HTTPS. the command name is a misnomer.
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
Libarchive (sometimes known as bsdtar) supports 7z with an independent implementation.
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
As for NetBSD, there's hundreds of people with commit access and a small group of respected developers to resolve disputes, with some extra democracy / laws restricting it. FreeBSD is similar but I never bothered to check the deta
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
Linus Torvalds again uses abusive wording when he could've made his point just as clearly without it. As the leader of a project he should avoid that - it's massively detrimental that contributors fear being the target of his next
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
I don't think you necessarily have to miss it on a threaded CPU, but that isn't as optimal.
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
Notify groups who have to develop fixes (in this case: OS, compiler developers). Especially when they have a record of not violating embargoes and good faith in fixing issues. When the longer time for fixes is done, post an announcement in
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
Our git repository went down when crawlers decided to index it
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
Those captchas are the worst. Google asks me to answer one whenever I make search queries in the middle of the night.
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
just a heads up, skia doesn't work on big endian.
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
the first gulf war was in 1990 and the US was a party to it
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
Below the surface there's an abnormally high rate of PTSD and a small percentage of people who fail to function.
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
Visiting my family on the weekends, not giving myself a hard time for failing to do things that are optional, making sure I don't accidentally skip meals.
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
You should blame whoever gave advance notice to Apple and allowed them to patch the issue, but didn't do the same for FreeBSD.
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
You can block access to rdtsc right now by setting CR4.TSD
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
I'm a netbsd developer and run netbsd. I think most active netbsd developers do. a lot of former netbsd developers are still hanging around and contributing to pkgsrc while using it on OS X or linux, I don't think that's a th
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by nbsd4lyfe 9y ago
netbsd hasn't dropped the ball wrt backporting the changes, they are all in there, even for netbsd-6. here's one of the requests for the old stable netbsd-6 branches: http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-6.cgi