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by sfilipov 11y ago
Yes, but why mention MD5 by default? Most machines that have md5sum installed also have sha1sum/sha256sum.
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by sfilipov 11y ago
On the plus side, if the manage to fix their problems at some point people will start trusting them to be up. It is not set in stone that they have worse uptime.
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by sfilipov 11y ago
They only do Git and have mentioned that currently have no plans to support Mercurial.
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by sfilipov 11y ago
Who (or what) is ESR?
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by sfilipov 11y ago
They went a step further. Once a Windows 10 machine is activated, a "hash" of its hardware is taken and associated with the product key. When you reinstall Windows 10, the activation service matches your hardware information with
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by sfilipov 11y ago
True, if real life conversations were like interview conversations, we would judge people/friends whether they gave us the answer we expected when we asked them a question or not. That's ridiculous. People misunderstand questions.
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by sfilipov 11y ago
1. The idea behind the overlays is to "cache" and reuse as much as you can between images. If you have a long list of packages you install before you copy your app source to the container, you don't have to install the packag
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by sfilipov 11y ago
I think the demand for real chicken/beef will go down but there always will be people who buy "organic", "real", etc.
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by sfilipov 11y ago
It is very anecdotal, I believe I read it in an article long time ago around the time the Fukushima disaster happened. It is probably an inaccurate number. The point is, all 3 faults/human errors shouldn't have happened according
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by sfilipov 11y ago
Whenever an article like that appears about a proprietary password manager, I just wonder if there has been any audit on the popular open source ones like KeePass. In fact I've heard that KeePass has some security issues. Is KeePass mo
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by sfilipov 11y ago
The only overhead I notice is the fact that VirtualBox Shared Folders are really slow. If that's the case, using the paid VMWare plugin can help.
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by sfilipov 11y ago
Additionally, if a hacker gets 2 of your passwords, they can see that all you passwords are of the form AxxxxxB, from there it is quite easy to get all your passwords. If you have an "algorithm" that is easy enough to remember, th
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by sfilipov 11y ago
Slightly off-topic but we are really bad at predicting these "very unlikely events" that actually happen more often than expected. Whenever I hear a similar story, I am reminded of the 3 nuclear reactor disasters (Three Mile Islan
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by sfilipov 11y ago
And relay them out of order i.e. a Tor node receives a packet from A, then from B, then resends packet from B, then from A.
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by sfilipov 11y ago
The idea is not that expansion per se is bad. Taking VC money to expand is. If you can expand fast without using other people's money then great.
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by sfilipov 11y ago
That's the thing with Linux - if you don't like the default DE/WM because it changes too much, then use one which doesn't. User friendly distros pack things like Openbox or i3 with some sensible defaults. I am always &qu
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by sfilipov 11y ago
If they can crack the database, what's preventing them from getting the key used to encrypt the database?
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by sfilipov 11y ago
Probably not. AFAIK the MBPs with PCIe SSDs use a proprietary connector. This SSD uses the standard one. It should not be physically possible to fit one inside the MBP.
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by sfilipov 11y ago
Additionally, I thought that's what key stretching and PBKDF2 - to slow down brute force attacks.
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by sfilipov 11y ago
According to ArchWiki[1] the Windows version and Developer editions use Dell DW1560 and Intel 7265 respectively. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(2015)#Mode...
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by sfilipov 11y ago
Just a reminder regarding the Dell XPS. Dell officially supports Linux on these only on the developer editions. The Windows versions differ in things like the Wi-Fi module and are not recommended if you plan to use Linux.
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by sfilipov 11y ago
I doubt there is any (for the user). While there are many benefits to keep using an ad blocker.
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by sfilipov 11y ago
To support your point, virtually all crypto vulnerabilities we know of for sure are a result of bugs in implementations rather than problems with the underlying algorithms. On the other hand there are algorithms which are believed to be bac
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by sfilipov 11y ago
I think he refers to File Explorer (explorer.exe) which has nothing to do with Windows Store Apps.
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by sfilipov 11y ago
Another humbling aspect is how fragile we are. Even today, there is a number of unpredictable cosmic events outside our control that can destroy humanity and life on Earth very quickly. And every one of us is just a "meat bag" tha
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by sfilipov 11y ago
He referred to what the GP said - use "git add -p". Here's some introduction (I haven't watched it myself and can't comment on the quality): http://johnkary.net/blog/git-add-p-the-most-powerful-
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by sfilipov 11y ago
I believe it is. Being rich and powerful means you'll most likely want to remain such. You would act in the best of your own interest. Ageing has been the absolute guarantee that even the worst of human beings (dictators, criminals wit
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Google Commits to Monthly Security Updates for Nexus Devices(anandtech.com)
2 points by sfilipov 11y ago|0 comments
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Does Windows defragment your SSD? (2014)(hanselman.com)
7 points by sfilipov 11y ago|3 comments
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by sfilipov 11y ago
I think you found the answer already. Already there are server processors with a lot of cores (i.e. 20) - if you can utilise them all then buy one. However, for most client workloads, more cores does not translate to better performance beca

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