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by ploxiln 9y ago
As I just noted above, my problem was apparently with caching. I saw the message linked in TFA a couple days ago, when it had no replies yet. Multiple days later, I still saw it as having no replies, until I force-refreshed.
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by ploxiln 9y ago
For me, when I click the link in TFA, that message is shown as the last message in the tree, with no children. I just tried again, still didn't show any children. Then I did a force-refresh. Now it shows them ... So due to past terribl
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by ploxiln 9y ago
That link doesn't seem to show the continuation of the thread, but it continues to be rather interesting: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/23/25 It looks like Ingo Molnar, Andi Kleen, and others are com
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by ploxiln 9y ago
If you can override the sandbox, or just give arbitrary permissions for some legitimate purposes, then untold numbers of "common users" can be tricked into doing this for malware which masquerades as useful software. They don&#x27
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by ploxiln 9y ago
Positivity is marketing, you can get that anywhere. I come to places like HN to see what's honestly bad about various technologies and tools. And don't tell me no editors are really worse than any other editors. That's crap.
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by ploxiln 9y ago
Agreed. It may be necessary to abandon TLS-SNI. Maybe ALPN will work out.
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by ploxiln 9y ago
The only domains vulnerable to attackers are those pointed at the shared hosting provider with this issue. So you can protect your own domain by hosting it with a provider you know does not have this issue. And if a shared provider has this
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by ploxiln 9y ago
This is an interesting detail from Ryan Sleevi > So I don't think this buys any improvement over the status quo, and actually makes it considerably more complex and failure prone, due to the cross-sectional lookups, versus the fact
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by ploxiln 9y ago
Advertising is already a competitive arms-race. More effective advertising means that more of a firm's spending will shift to advertising because it will have a bigger effect than more engineering or QA or anything else. (If we could m
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by ploxiln 9y ago
You still have to switch the page tables via the CR3 register. It costs. And the code around there is more complicated now and has more conditionals ... as they say, it'll be opimized over time, this was the fastest reasonable solution
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by ploxiln 9y ago
I agree that ISP's may need to charge a lot for a lot of data. Like say $200 for 1TB if you really need that much (made-up numbers for sake of argument). But the fact that you use it for Netflix vs any other service or reason should no
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by ploxiln 9y ago
If the caps apply equally to any and all data, I really have no problem with them, and neither should you. We're just asking for a content-agnostic utility. Not "as much as you can eat". Consider if electricity was "unli
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by ploxiln 9y ago
If you pay for 250 GB of data from your ISP, then they're on the hook for the cost of delivering that 250 GB. That's what they sold you - or actually what you should be able to buy. The problem is when they'll deliver 250 GB
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by ploxiln 9y ago
Ah, that's good to know ... a comment below mentioned a "BTAC" (branch target access cache). Is it just used for getting instructions into the L1i cache then?
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by ploxiln 9y ago
You're arguing that this article does not cover Spectre. It does ... it just doesn't have to fully describe spectre to show why the raspi is not affected.
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by ploxiln 9y ago
This covers both Meltdown and Spectre. > Both vulnerabilities exploit performance features (caching and speculative execution) common to many modern processors to leak data via a so-called side-channel attack. Happily, the Raspberry Pi i
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by ploxiln 9y ago
True. But this statistic is only bandied about as the most glaring inefficiency. Consider if the project has 25% more workers than jobs, and also 25% more jobs than needed, and also workers are on the job 25% longer than needed (that sweet
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by ploxiln 9y ago
To be fair, Roadster production was never really "up". I'm not sure demand was at any point satisfied before the model was discontinued. Less than 2,500 were produced.
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by ploxiln 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that's just the absurd inefficiency of today's trendy software. I've also long shunned the spotify "deskop apps" and stuck to the website because firefox can contain the damage a bit, and ublock
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by ploxiln 9y ago
In my experience, swap usually does not actually work out helpfully. The system slows down so much it's unusable, and you wish the OOM killer killed something so you can recover some processes/state, but it takes way too long to d
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by ploxiln 9y ago
That's a great Torvalds emails which I haven't seen before! Here's the "point" though: > I happen to believe that not having a kernel debugger forces people to think about their problem on a different level than
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by ploxiln 9y ago
It seems they only considered fancy-UI lots-of-features browser-integrated commercial password managers. I would never use any of those. For a graphical password manager, consider instead PasswordSafe, KeePass, KeePassXC. They're not c
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by ploxiln 9y ago
I roughly agree, but I'm guessing the big ISPs will like that even less. Like most big problems in the US, the best solutions seem completely impossible, because big changes are too hard to get enough people to agree on. So you'll
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by ploxiln 9y ago
They were interested/excited by it, but didn't fully get it. The internet was just then replacing walled gardens like aol and prodigy. Most people used dial-up for many years, and that sort of piggy-backed on the common-carrier st
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1998 attack on website crypto keys is back(arstechnica.com)
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by ploxiln 9y ago
Con democracy argument: the first democracy is at most 2500 years old. For hundreds of thousands of years the human race blossomed without democracy. The reason the internet was pretty good without any rules for the first 20 years is becaus
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by ploxiln 9y ago
It sounds like you implemented something very similar to the LVM snapshot feature. You didn't want to require LVM but ... is that really worse than requiring your custom module which is roughly equivalent? EDIT: ok so it looks like the
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by ploxiln 9y ago
> Yet, they weren't around when it came time to make it happen. Bitcoin XT had a mechanism for larger blocks in mid 2015. There were multiple BIPs and implementations for larger blocks besides that in 2016. It didn't matter muc
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by ploxiln 9y ago
First, miners also invest in the future of the coin when they invest in building up a mining operation for it. Second, if most miners stop mining a coin, it can kill it. At least the next few blocks will take a very long time to be confirme
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by ploxiln 9y ago
Segwit2x was only "anti-developer" if you only consider the "bitcoin core" developers. There were many developers quite interested in larger block size for many years, since before the February 2016 "Bitcoin Roundta

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