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by pecg 9y ago
If the password used for the user, in the remote machine, is different from that of the machine he/she is connecting from, the attacker will not be able to gain root access, even if the account has permission to escalate priviledges.
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by pecg 9y ago
Disable root authentication over ssh should be the default too. This is literally ssh 101.
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by pecg 9y ago
Simple and straightforward article that exposes one of many usual misbehaviors of so called sysadmins these days: they think they know their tools, but haven't even completely read the manual for the programs they rely on production en
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by pecg 9y ago
Long time voidlinux user here on a laptop, and have also used extensibly: archlinux, gentoo, openbsd (it hosts and smtp, and web server public on the internet), freebsd, alpine and slackware-current. From void you should expect many things
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by pecg 9y ago
Except that emacs is less bloated and doesn't crash as often, and not being and important program for the system, one can easily replace it with more simple software.
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by pecg 9y ago
Couldn't agree more with you. Simplicity is the key to a sane world. I haven't had any problems with colors or fonts with st since I dropped urxvt in favor of the former. It is also harmful to assume that bash is always present, o
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by pecg 9y ago
I think this fact demonstrates why EME was implemented in the first place. One could argue that Mozilla is there to fight against DRM in the web, but fighting against three powerful organizations is not something to be desired.
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by pecg 9y ago
You are correct. The idea of dinosaurs with feathers is older than the 90s, even Dr. Alan Grant suggests this when speaking about raptors, on the other hand evidence appeared until mid 90s.
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by pecg 9y ago
You are correct in every aspect. Non-color treatement is something I definitely miss from movies of the 90s. Digital processing technologies have made it easier for people working on cinema to color-treat the movie as product. Even director
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by pecg 9y ago
When JP was filmed, the discovery of dinosaurs having feathers hadn't happened yet, and big efforts were made on providing accurate representations of what was known about the creatures. Back then scientists still thought dinosaurs wer
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by pecg 9y ago
Justice League is in Star Wars: The Attack of the Clones' level of horrendous abuse of CGI.
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by pecg 9y ago
Personally, I think one of the main problems with current use of CGI (specifically in non-animated movies) is color treatment. Comparisons between the original non-altered version of Jurassic Park (JP) against Jurassic World (JW) shows my p
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by pecg 9y ago
> WWW solved an entirely different problem, namely distribution and communication. > JS et. al. solved the problem of responsiveness and interaction ie. latency. I don't think either of these statements is correct. There wasn&#x2
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by pecg 9y ago
You forgot about the lack of standarization in the pseudo-VM, each javascript engine supports a specific set of ECMAScript.
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by pecg 9y ago
Node.js uses javascript as its default language interface, and considering it is software intended for server-side, with a userbase ranging from Microsoft, IBM, Netflix, Yahoo and Paypal (to name a few) in production environments, I would a
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by pecg 9y ago
Also, with the ever increasing level of software complexity many websites rely on, reading such text isn't as simple as it may seem, to give clear example, Google's default page in only one reference javascript file from apis.goog
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by pecg 9y ago
And this is exactly what I'm going to do, switch to a simple browser, in my personal computers. If they programmed firefox to be capable of doing thinks like this, then definitely I cannot trust them anymore.
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by pecg 9y ago
I find interesting to observe how Microsoft position has changed over the years. They tend to focus now on command line users, and provide tools with open source licenses, it seems they are trying to be more 'Unix-like' these days
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by pecg 9y ago
This is the same article of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15852007
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by pecg 9y ago
Well, the article's author assumes every GNU/Linux sysadmin is running bash as the default interactive shell for root, and systemd as the init/login/logger/network/<and satan knows what else> daemon, whic
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by pecg 9y ago
> But calling it Android Go Edition, may sound cool as a marketing buzz, but utterly distracts from what it is as well as confusing given GoLang This is exactly what I thought. I was expecting to read something about how they rewrote the
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by pecg 9y ago
I think it is important for us to think more on the resources, for programs we write consume, when: they are compiling, they are executing and when they are just "dormant" on persistent memory. Experience and history shows that th
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by pecg 9y ago
My bad, I missed that comment, was even reading the source code trying to find something about it. Thank you.
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by pecg 9y ago
I agree. If a company prevents users from having control over their hardware, then it can be trivial for such company to control whatever software the user chooses to install on the computer.
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by pecg 9y ago
And this is one of the things that worries me the most. The careless people that embrace confidently their lack of privacy, such group can quickly become the majority of a given population and follow a trend that can lead to social disaster
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by pecg 9y ago
This is a definitely an interesting approach. What is the web engine behind it? I thought about the idea on building a simplified interface for blink and V8, but they are extremely and differently glued to other pieces of software in each C