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601.
by panzi 12y ago
Interesting. What's the rationale for that?
602.
by panzi 12y ago
Well, that is not good enough. How can you proof that already read (audited) code wasn't tampered afterwards by a hacker? If you don't use cryptographic hashes you can't.
603.
by panzi 12y ago
I think there is a much more important feature in git for OpenBSD: cryptographic hashes of all commits that depend on the parent commit (=> cryptographically hashed history). Combine that with commit signing and detecting tampering gets
604.
by panzi 12y ago
Well, I don't know about that, but it is law that services over a certain size have to have a lawful intercept interface (e.g. Skype has one) and it is know that this interface gets abused by secret services.
605.
by panzi 12y ago
It probably has its own intermediate proxy with a "lawful" intercept interface (i.e. pies everything to the NSA). Well, I wouldn't be surprised if that conspiracy theory would be true.
606.
by panzi 12y ago
Yeah, but I guess it's because they come from Windows and don't know what the best compression algorithm supported by every Linux distribution of today is. They just know everyone can unpack zip and its good enough. Heck I would h
607.
by panzi 12y ago
Are you sure about that? http://i.imgur.com/BpYW657.png Ok, .xz might be smaller but literally everyone can unpack .zip files.
608.
by panzi 12y ago
Why not? It's not something you need/want an installer for.
609.
by panzi 12y ago
I turned the compositor off and set the graphic cards profile to "performance" (was "auto") before I started the demo. For some reason I get tearing in videos (mplayer or vlc - no matter which output module) when I don&#
610.
by panzi 12y ago
Tried the cave demo: had quite some tearing for me. Is there a vsync option? I tried -vsync but it didn't change anything. PS: I've a GeForce GTX 760 (driver version 331.79), 16GB RAM, Intel i7 quad core (8 threads) with 3.50GHz o
611.
by panzi 12y ago
Yeah but for Linux desktops? You can safely assume that a modern Linux desktop installation is 64bit these days. (Actually for years.)
612.
by panzi 12y ago
Using this bookmarklet, is the graph better or worse? javascript:(function()%7B%7Bfunction%20%24(el%2Csel%2Ccb)%7BArray.prototype.forEach.call(el.querySelectorAll(sel)%2Ccb)%3B%7Dfunction%20fix(el%2Cbgcol%2Ctxtcol)%7Bel.style.backgrou
613.
by panzi 12y ago
Yup, got that too.
614.
by panzi 12y ago
And then they proceed and stream the recovered signals as mp3 again. Kinda ironic.
615.
by panzi 12y ago
When I read "Orange Box" I still first think of this: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/469/
616.
by panzi 12y ago
Last time I used KUbuntu it was pretty much horrible. (E.g. only 6 month maintained and after that the repo did go offline so my installed system was broken (couldn't even install old pkgs from the DVD because of dependencies)). But th
617.
by panzi 12y ago
Isn't that basically what pulse audio does (on an application level, not tab level)?
618.
by panzi 12y ago
Actually click-to-play is what made YouTube usable to me. Now it is broken and I had to write a user script to fix it. When I brows YouTube and search for something, I want to open several search results/related videos in background ta
619.
by panzi 12y ago
The assumptions with inlineing virtual functions seem flawed to me. What if the program loads a plugin that defines (and returns an instance of) a class that overloads said function?
620.
by panzi 12y ago
I think about anything newer than fat32 supports sparse files.
621.
by panzi 12y ago
these days == for years
622.
by panzi 12y ago
subtype polymorphism
623.
by panzi 12y ago
And now we are at a state where almost all OS vendors and some GPU manufacturers have their own API. I'm only waiting for Nvidia to announce their own API. They did buy 3dfx back in the days, so they have (bought) some experience wit
624.
by panzi 12y ago
It's not that it doesn't call the event handler. It's about in which situations it's called and in which it isn't. And because the situation is the same on iOS Safari, Desktop Firefox and Desktop Chrome I guess it i
625.
by panzi 12y ago
Well, the visibility API is only of very limited use. The document will report itself to be still shown even if the window is minimized or in the background (or on iOS if I switched to another App!). It only reports the document as hidden i
626.
by panzi 12y ago
Is it a coincidence I never heard of "Excite"? Probably not.
627.
by panzi 12y ago
It was a joke! Hence the ":P".
628.
by panzi 12y ago
E.g. on iOS and Android you get access to the system's SQLite library and apparently can't even opt-out (because it is used by system APIs that you will use, if I understand correctly). See: https://news.ycombinator.com
629.
by panzi 12y ago
Easy: Put a server process in front of it and route access to the DB through that. :P
630.
by panzi 12y ago
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a major use-case for SQLite a database for embedded systems? What makes you think that? It is used in many Desktop applications. E.g. most browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari), Skype an

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