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721.
by ori_b 4y ago
If that's the problem that you took away from reading this, I'm not sure what to say.
722.
Forget the elephants – there's a donkey in the room(pmail.com)
2 points by ori_b 4y ago|3 comments
723.
by ori_b 4y ago
How do I connect to a self hosted discord, and then connect it to my friends self hosted one? And where do I get the RFC for the protocol so that I can write my own compatible implementation? IRC isn't a product. It's a standardiz
724.
by ori_b 4y ago
Disagree all you like. The rust port apparently didn't hear you, because the line count grew by nearly 50%, and I can post other similar comparisons with some other codebases and languages too.
725.
by ori_b 4y ago
Sounds about right. Well written C just isn't very verbose. You can make it verbose by adding a ton of patterns that you don't need, like the gobject code in gnome. But you don't need to.
726.
by ori_b 4y ago
Network calls can appear to fail, but actually succeed. Local function calls don't have to deal with byzantine failures[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault
727.
by ori_b 4y ago
You've moved the state around, but the state is still there -- just hidden. It's hidden in the network communication instead of the function calls. And the distributed, cross-service mutated state is a hell of a lot harder to tra
728.
by ori_b 5y ago
> Any suggestions for how to get help learning QEMU as a "power user" hoping to eventually contribute as a dev? Use the IRC channel. Or the mailing list.
729.
by ori_b 5y ago
Erik was also a famous troll on comp.lang.lisp. There were multiple famous trolls on usenet.
730.
by ori_b 5y ago
Simple, consistent, well documented, easy to debug, and easy to administer. Comfortable.
731.
by ori_b 5y ago
Nope. No ergonomic mouse built into mine.
732.
by ori_b 5y ago
I don't want to carry around a collection of bits to have a fully equipped laptop. I want something compact that comes in one piece.
733.
by ori_b 5y ago
> If you compile code on a machine with SSE or AVX and run it on an old Pentium, does it crash? Yes. Or it leaves them unused on the machine with avx. For short runs of instructions, the overhead of fallback selection is larger than th
734.
by ori_b 5y ago
Yes, that's the point of using tools from un friendly countries -- though I wouldn't be surprised if there's data sharing there, I haven't heard evidence of it.
735.
by ori_b 5y ago
> If a gov't approached your employer and asked for whatever they have on file Which is why people don't want Google to keep it on file.
736.
by ori_b 5y ago
The bureaucrats and agents don't cooperate. Your surveillance data ends up locked on the drives of agencies with no power to affect your life.
737.
by ori_b 5y ago
> What am I missing? If I knew, it would have a CVE number. However, the less code you have, the fewer the places there are where you need to ask that question.
738.
by ori_b 5y ago
In the case where some rarely used feature is exploitable via some misconfiguration. See also: log4j
739.
by ori_b 5y ago
It would be nice to use a platform without actively working to fight the intentions of the pages you visit.
740.
by ori_b 5y ago
On Linux, the last commit on it was about a decade ago. On FreeBSD, the last commit on it was last week. They're not the same tool, and FreeBSD didn't abandon their core tools, because they're part of the base system.
741.
by ori_b 5y ago
> Linux lets you create a namespace with no capability grants in it. That's what I said in my top post here. Linux lets you do it, sudo will even work it (and grant no real global capabilities) yet somehow it's a problem FOR L
742.
by ori_b 5y ago
> But in Plan9 there's no setuid binary at all yet it's not a problem? I think you mean, 'and therefore, it's not a problem.' In plan 9, the program that allows you to switch users needs almost no privileges. &
743.
by ori_b 5y ago
> The thing about `sudo` is confusing because you don't even need to modify the namespace to overwrite `/etc/sudoers` if you have root. You just need to write to the file. The point is that you DONT have root, and you
744.
by ori_b 5y ago
And how does that interact with binding files as non-root, including /etc/sudoers.conf? (plan 9 has no suid, so this is not a problem there)
745.
by ori_b 5y ago
The problem here is boring and practical: how do you make `bind` (or, in Linux land) `mount --bind` secure and still allow you to authenticate as a separate user, elevate permissions to change kernel config, and so on? The authentication me
746.
by ori_b 5y ago
You understood the problem backwards. How do you give out actual, real, global root, without taking away the ability to do arbitrary namespaces?
747.
by ori_b 5y ago
The number of special cases. For example: consider how you'd write some generic code to forward all ioctls transparently across the network. Keep in mind that the data attached to the ioctls is machine dependent, driver dependent, and
748.
by ori_b 5y ago
You sound incredibly entitled. "Give me free things done to my specs, or Microsoft won. No, of course you don't deserve a salary for that." > Are you writing your own OS, prog-lang and compiler from scratch too? Yes -- I
749.
by ori_b 5y ago
If someone made free cupcakes and didn't wash their hands, I wouldn't eat them. I wouldn't get angry that they spent their free time making cupcakes that I didn't really want. And the wonderful thing about open source is
750.
by ori_b 5y ago
Because they were busy with their paid job.

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