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by rockdoe 11y ago
Intel contributed support for hardware accelerated VP8 encoding to Firefox. Given that its mostly used for WebRTC I could imagine they did the same for Chrome.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
I think you're understating the developer cost. Google pays pretty well and there's quite a bit of overhead (management, HR, IT, etc) as the original graph only counted pure developers. Still yes, I agree that a few hundred millio
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by rockdoe 11y ago
That's not really the same, is it? // The following approach (some psuedocode follows) will not work because of xyz. Though I'd still prefer not to have that. With a VCS + bugtracker that contains info on how the fixes w
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by rockdoe 11y ago
No other car makers get their emissions tested in real-world driving conditions, so that's irrelevant.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
MySQL also had a usable commandline. Not sure it had shortcuts like \d+ etc though.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
This technique is also used to render W^X useless.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
So this is an Apple WebKit extension that can't sanely be un-vendor-prefixed?
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by rockdoe 11y ago
I have been told that I am perhaps being unfair to Mozilla...For reference, here are the connections that Firefox tries to establish immediately after startup So: It connects to Mozilla itself and to Google (specifically their server for
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by rockdoe 11y ago
They get money from Yahoo for putting it as their default search engine in the USA. What was your point exactly? I fail to see any relation here.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
That unfortunately doesn't make it easy to see where those requests are coming from, especially given that the vast majority of Chrome(ium) developers are from Google.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
I'm going to guess they use lists of exceptions (NoScript) or of trackers (Ghostery) that need to be updated.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
I was hoping mozilla would have their users' back, but a default install of Firefox also makes multiple connections to mozilla, google and other domains when started. Firefox checks for updates, and will update the malware/phish
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by rockdoe 11y ago
you'd expect the NSA to deprecate all of the curves, and not just P-256 You could argue that that is indeed what the announcement was doing. It was unrelated to P-256 being dropped. (P-256 being dropped does point to the whole "
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by rockdoe 11y ago
This is understood. RSA depends on prime factoring. (EC)DH depends on discrete logarithms. These problems have been studied by the kind of people you mention, from all over the world, an in some cases massive speedups and breakthroughs ha
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Hmm, that's not the vibe I get. The blog indeed doesn't say it is necessarily the most reasonable theory, but goes in depth towards only one: "I’d like to focus on what I think is the most intriguing hypotheses in the paper.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Pretty much all of crypto is based on and analyzed by math (at the very least computing and complexity theory), so I'm not clear at all what you're saying here. People prefer algorithms with a clear mathematical basis because th
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Here's the original paper of this attack (AFAIK): http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/dist/geometry.pdf The other paper shows that this technique is Turing complete. But yes, basically W^X is defeated.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
So the conclusion is that the most reasonable theory is that the NSA has made an advance on ECDLP making them believe they can get faster Pollard-Rho (potentially n^1/3) or that they found signs the curve structures are weak? Pretty
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Is it possible you're having this experience because Safari just is ignoring a whole bunch of stuff (that makes the web-pages slow and cumbersome) because it's too outdated to understand? Battery life it does have an advantage on,
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Faster disk IO on Windows by closing files in the background(selenic.com)
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by rockdoe 11y ago
But, in my personal situation, our contracts are generally for longer terms, so I guess it is a fixed office - and we have a fixed HQ too. The issue is that you have no control over the location of these changing "fixed" office
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by rockdoe 11y ago
It's already the law in France (no business travel in weekends), exactly to protect workers against situations like that.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Does this apply to consultants going to a customer (where they may be for a longer period of time)?
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Correct. For example Mozilla's recommended TLS server settings (which are fairly popular) will result in XP+IE8 (default browser) using TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Do royalty free patents stop something from being free software? That would be surprising. Opus' patents have patent retaliation clauses. It would be funny if those were incompatible with the GPL, because the GPL is essentially a &quot
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by rockdoe 11y ago
He came back and has been improving it actively, and wasn't too happy about technical decisions in the fork.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
A power-managedCPU at 50% clock-speed actually uses less than half of the power as at 100%. But it'll take longer to render the page, which you also don't want.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Didn't work.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
They didn't seem to know about e10s in Firefox Nightly which would have solved their "no separate process" thing. Measuring peak CPU is very, very stupid. The best Ad Blocker should have near 100% CPU but for an extremely sho
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by rockdoe 11y ago
The brilliance of the "SQLite Query Planner Stability Guarantee", or more succinctly put, its deterministic query planning, cannot be overstated. With a "real" database, if your data has an unfortunate pattern that confu

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