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by nh2 1y ago
Duplicate of event from August 5 ("one of Google’s corporate Salesforce instances was impacted"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44812343 https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat
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by nh2 1y ago
> That said, the documentation about this is pretty confusing. I now filed a suggestion to clarify the docs on this: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/ec171a77a3
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by nh2 1y ago
> your ACID db is probably running at READ COMMITTED by default You're probably refering to PostgreSQL. Yes, I am also frustrated that that doesn't default to SERIALIZABLE. I do wish the top two open-source "ACID" DBs
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by nh2 1y ago
Yes, I'm talking about the fact that sqlite in its default (journal_mode = DELETE) is not durable. Which in my opinion is worse than whatever may apply to WAL mode, because WAL is something a user needs to explicitly enable. If it is
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by nh2 1y ago
> Sqlite defaults in many ways perfectly fine In the sibling comment we are discussing how the default of sqlite is not durable, so it's only ACI, not ACID. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45005866 So you do ge
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by nh2 1y ago
From this (linked https://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_synchronous ), does anybody understand EXTRA? > EXTRA provides additional durability if the commit is followed closely by a power loss. means? How can one have &quot
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by nh2 1y ago
I don't really understand the point for writing an "OS in rust and provide rich services for applications to use". You can use any serialisation method you want (C structs, Protobuf, JSON, ...). An ABI is for passing data in
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by nh2 1y ago
Good, because you shouldn't trust it in the first place. These systems are still wrong so often that a large amount of distrust is necessary to use them sensibly.
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by nh2 1y ago
Try sleep 2 && zenity --entry --text="Enter text:" and switch to a different workspace where you start typing. The popup of the other program should appear and capture your input. As far as I know, i3 has no preve
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by nh2 1y ago
You say "no" to the poster saying "in Germany all the SMS 2FA has been shut off". It makes sense to ask you for evicence: You'd just have to name a bank that provides SMS 2FA.
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by nh2 1y ago
Not sure I understand. You acknowledge that I use i3 as window manager, yet suggest settings for another (KWin != i3).
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by nh2 1y ago
> which will [..] operate independently -- Satya Nadella, 2018 in the acquisition announcement https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github...
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by nh2 1y ago
This mechanism sounds worth it. So many times on X11 do I type some chat message, and then some popup from another program comes up, which I accidentally confirm by my typing containing a space which presses the confirmation button, and I d
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by nh2 1y ago
Please just give us an option to buy a 7 row Thinkpad keyboard with Trackpoint. There are talented keyboard makers like Tex that already pulled this off, making better hardware than Lenovo itself, and you could instantaneously win most Thin
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by nh2 1y ago
If there are adversaries on the machine right now that can exploit this order, then touch+chmod is not enough. If somebody opens the file between those two operations, they can still read the file contents written to it later. It only makes
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by nh2 1y ago
Evidence to the contrary? For my German banks, this is true. Stupid custom apps and proprietary reader hardware that read coloured moving QR codes everywhere.
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by nh2 1y ago
13 years ago, 10 packets was considered "cheating": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3632765 https://web.archive.org/web/20120603070423/http://blog.benst...
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Vdu_controls – automatically control external monitor brightness on Linux(github.com)
2 points by nh2 1y ago|1 comments
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by nh2 1y ago
I just discovered this: A GUI that automatically changes the real monitor brightness based on presets you can configure (e.g. time of day or direction of the sun), or even just queries the current brightness of your exact location from the
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by nh2 1y ago
Do you have some examples? I cannot find any reports of the speedups people get with the combination of Jumbo/Unity builds and ThinLTO.
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by nh2 1y ago
input_delay doesn't seem to address this in general: Even when set to 50 (which is very noticeable), the cursor on the next line just appears with some delay. None of the settings from https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty&#x
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by nh2 1y ago
For Kitty I posted it on https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/8752 , maybe we'll learn more!
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by nh2 1y ago
With or without starship, one problem I have with zsh prompts is that when I press Enter, there is still a visible delay where for a fraction of a second, the cursor moves to the beginning of the next line. This makes a nasty "flashing
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by nh2 1y ago
I see, that makes sense. Thanks for the details!
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by nh2 1y ago
> their status polling will actually knock over the primary etcd cluster Polling the status sounds like a read-only operation, why would it trigger an fsync?
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by nh2 1y ago
> IIRC we modified our database to run off ramdisk If a ramdisk is sufficient for your use case, why would you use a Raft-based distributed networked consensus database like etcd in the first place? Its whole point is to protect you not
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by nh2 1y ago
For (1), I definitely want my production HA databases to fsync every write. Of course configurability is good (e.g. for automated fasts tests you don't need it), but safe is a good default here, and if somebody sets up a Kubernetes clu
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by nh2 1y ago
But I'd like to know exactly what that means. How can I find out if Facebook's focus is aligned with my own needs?
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by nh2 1y ago
The point of the blog post is that repo is over-focused on Facebook's needs instead of "general utility": > as a result of recent changes within Meta we no longer have anyone shepherding long-term jemalloc development with
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by nh2 1y ago
glibc does NOT return memory to the OS just fine. In my experience it delays it way too much, causing memory overuse and OOMs. I have a Python program that allocates 100 GB for some work, free()s it, and then calls a subprocess that takes 1

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