ralish

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by ralish 3mo ago
Uh, paying for DNS isn't uncommon? Examples off the top of my head: - Akamai DNS - AWS Route 53 - Azure DNS - Cloudflare (excluding personal/hobbyist plan) - Google Cloud DNS And many, many others. And I note the site you posted t
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by ralish 7y ago
I'm a bit rusty on this but from memory the overhead is by and large specific to the Win32 environment. Creating a "raw" process is cheap and fast (as you'd reasonably expect), but there's a lot of additional initia
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A fork() in the road(microsoft.com)
257 points by ralish 7y ago|178 comments
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by ralish 8y ago
If they're integrated into the OS they have to be supported at the same level as the rest of the OS, which entails the same rigorous processes w.r.t. updates, bug fixes, etc... By keeping them out-of-band, that support requirement does
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by ralish 9y ago
Hence the Delay option.
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by ralish 9y ago
Uh, that may not be the best example. Are you aware of a reliable way to retrieve the OS version across all POSIX OSs? Because if you are, I would love to hear it.
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by ralish 10y ago
Sure, but the degree of usage of cmd makes Silverlight's usage look like a hobby project. It's used everywhere , including all over Microsoft's own software. It'd easily be the single biggest backwards incompatible chan
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by ralish 10y ago
Because it's well known by anyone interested in this area? There's been a barrage of "Windows 10 Telemetry/Privacy" related stories since its release. It's also publicly documented by Microsoft itself: https:&
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by ralish 10y ago
Agree that the phrasing could have been a lot clearer, but really, Microsoft removing cmd just doesn't pass even a basic sanity check. I remember seeing the original news articles and just ignoring them as obviously rubbish. It's
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by ralish 10y ago
It's certainly a lean web site. Or rather, the 503 is lean.
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by ralish 10y ago
It appears to be a support library for dfp.exe, which is the "Disk Footprint Tool". I never knew it existed until now, but it seems to be a potentially quite handy utility with a purpose similar to tools like WinDirStat (but CLI o
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by ralish 10y ago
I've found Stow to be outstanding. When I initially started actually maintaining my dotfiles properly I looked at what others were doing based on public repositories and most at the time were either not using any sort of management t
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by ralish 11y ago
It's not inherently bad, but choice for choice's sake is generally not a good thing for security software in my view. Saying you support more features in non-security software might be a great thing but saying you support more cip
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by ralish 11y ago
What options are superior to XTS? As I understand it XTS does have some weaknesses, but is still the superior option versus LRW & CBC w/ secret IVs. I'm not aware of any other well supported block cipher modes other than those
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by ralish 11y ago
What are you talking about? Cygwin provides packages for bash, dash, fish, tcsh, zsh, and others. It's not a crutch, these are the exact same shells you run on Unix(-like) systems. The source is the same, albeit with some Cygwin specif
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by ralish 13y ago
IE7 shipped with Vista. I've seen a few organisations that started deploying Vista and updated their XP systems to IE7 so all their workstations are running the same IE version. Admittedly, there aren't many of these companies giv
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by ralish 13y ago
I think you've possibly misinterpreted the argument the author is making. My interpretation wasn't that he was being critical of the FBI for shutting it down; of course they had to shut it down. Rather, the criticism is of the law
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by ralish 13y ago
I'm sorry, but that's absolute rubbish. I rarely post on HN, but I feel compelled to do so here. People rarely live in a vacuum, they engage with society, and those interactions have tangible results. I feel this is obvious, but i
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by ralish 14y ago
Considering she explains in detail how she has had to take him to hospital multiple times with the assistance of police to restrain him, and further admits that pressing charges against him is perhaps the only last remaining option (which s
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by ralish 14y ago
Looking at the current list, the CCC contributes a substantial slab of resources to the overall network. It's a pretty suboptimal situation that the network performance could be impacted/compromised by one organisation (potentially) pulling
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by ralish 14y ago
Firstly, we'd need a massive expansion of the Tor network. While Tor might be quite well known among the more technically inclined, the network itself is of course largely composed of volunteer systems and is quite small: http://torstatus.
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by ralish 14y ago
Most of the responses to the question seem to be "sort of" correct but missing important parts of the overall picture. Further, a complete answer to the question is going to be subject to the operating system the given application is runnin