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by spijdar 5y ago
Is this still a commonplace practice? I remember (in the US) this being the case when I was a young teen, with a call time quota too (accidentally made a $400 USD phone bill once...), but now in my mid 20s, all the phone plans I'm awar
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by spijdar 5y ago
Linux has absolutely come very far, don't get me wrong! I'm also mostly a casual gamer, and only have my "dedicated gaming PC" because it's 7 year old hardware I've replaced with a dedicated "workstation&q
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by spijdar 5y ago
It definitely isn't. I've been a huge linux nerd since my preteens in the late 2000s, I jumped on to squeeze more performance out of the thoroughly mediocre hardware I had access to. I wanted to program, and I found Visual Studio
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by spijdar 5y ago
Unfortunately I have to concur with GP, my experience in penetration testing is that many sysadmins seem oblivious to the existence of ILO systems, or don't believe they can cause any harm. Alternatively, sometimes one simply slips thr
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Onychophora “Velvet Worms”(en.wikipedia.org)
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by spijdar 5y ago
Basically, yeah. In addition, the usual way to bypass W^X memory, using ROP chains, is also mitigated by the pointer authentication the M1 implements. It's not bullet proof, but it prevents most of the old exploit methods from working
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by spijdar 5y ago
MacOS on the M1 processor is the first to use, and require, the W^X bit in memory, meaning that pages of memory are either writable, or can be executed from, but not both. MIT Scheme's front page says this is fundamentally incompatible
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by spijdar 5y ago
> any language (that allow for loop like constructs) compiled to intel machine code and executed on intel processor will be exposed to these bugs, it is not C specific. Well, that's kind of the point, that Intel/x86 and most&#
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by spijdar 5y ago
DNS is generally restricted to a subset of the ASCII character set. While this isn't a strict limitation of DNS, there are enough DNS servers, clients, and applications using DNS that break on non-ASCII sequences that it's a de-fa
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by spijdar 5y ago
Okay, that's bizarre. When I first clicked the link, the domain name failed to resolve for me too. When I reloaded it, though, it resolved. If anyone else is having trouble, give it a bit and try reloading the page.
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by spijdar 5y ago
Air travel is just kind of gross, at least in recent years, even before COVID. I usually end up mildly sick with a nondescript "cold" after intercontinental flights, although I fly in economy, where the "lots of gross people
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by spijdar 5y ago
Interesting, thanks for drawing attention to the partitioning of Moldavia. I have a superficial understanding of the medieval history of the regions of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania, and their various annexations by their warring nei
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by spijdar 5y ago
While I'm not really big on "Blockchain all the things!" this might be a poor analogy, considering just how many big multiplayer games use very intrusive, almost rootkit level anticheat software to, effectively, try and force
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by spijdar 5y ago
Home also only comes with the x64 "cloud" decompiler, at least if you buy the x86 version. Having paid for a home license last year (mostly for the ability to run Python scripts) and discovering the home version has a sabotaged py
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by spijdar 5y ago
The one cross-platform app I know that uses GNUstep to run on Linux is Hopper, which just uses Apple's libraries on Mac. Not sure how hard the porting effort was, but I thought I'd throw that anecdote in there. As for wine, it&#x2
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by spijdar 5y ago
Sure, and it's supported by more software than the newer versions (edit: because this wasn't clear, I mean I think the default JDK will remain 11 for a while, even on distros that package newer), which have been making a fair nu
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by spijdar 5y ago
It's a big deal because most large users of Java aren't actually using the newer versions. It's very hard to source that claim, and I apologize for the lack of hard data, but in my experience with "enterprise Java",
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by spijdar 5y ago
Interesting, I also initially read it with a negative impression, e.g. "this blog constantly fails to impress me", even though that's the opposite of what the sentence says. Not to derail the topic, but anyone have any insigh
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by spijdar 5y ago
> The onion service bandwidth has been reduced by about 2/3 over November Back to 2019 levels of bandwidth? I feel like I may be misreading that graph, but I'm more curious about what bandwidth suddenly spiked the last two year
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by spijdar 5y ago
I'm no game developer, but I think if nothing else, Cryengine/lumberyard/open 3D would be far superior in terms of visuals than the alternatives. I'd assume the code as a whole is clunkier and more bloated, but also more
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by spijdar 5y ago
I think I understand what you mean now, although it's different from my first interpretation. I agree an open source microcode for Intel/AMD would be a very good thing, although I think if it was based on actual Intel microcode, i
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by spijdar 5y ago
A little confused by what exactly you're proposing. Microcode is closely tied to a specific hardware implementation, there's no way the existing Intel microcode could be meaningfully re-used to drive other CPU cores, unless you al
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by spijdar 5y ago
Very useful, depending on the implementation and potential trade-offs. If the performance is good, this is a nice extra layer that makes return-oriented programming more difficult. Combined with NX bits, it really raises the difficulty in d
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by spijdar 5y ago
It's really annoying because what you said is correct most of the time, and broadly speaking "HD 7000 is southern isles". Except for the ones that aren't. And it's not even chronological -- the HD 7510 with a TeraSc
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by spijdar 5y ago
The RX/R designation doesn't actually say much about the underlying architecture, Polaris is GCN 4, while HD 7000 is ... a mixture. Most HD 7000 cards are first gen GCN, though some are TeraScale 1/2, which would required ver
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by spijdar 5y ago
> but this feature was not used in UNIX I believe this was actually used (to a limited degree) in later releases of 2BSD, as features from 4BSD were backported to the PDP-11, and the kernel ballooned in size such that overlays were in ne
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by spijdar 5y ago
Is it really, though? Just for kicks, last year I got an ibook g4 for a few dollars, and I got Minecraft running on it, not the absolute latest version, but one a few years old (Minecraft dropped 32 bit LWJGL support a bit ago). With some t
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by spijdar 5y ago
Apparently yes, although most indirectly. Latin and Cyrillic are effectively derivatives of the Greek alphabet (the second one, formed after the totally unrelated Linear-B was forgotten), itself a derivative of Phoenician script. Cyrillic a
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by spijdar 5y ago
Precisely. Since there's no equivalent of the Power ISA in "x86 land", it's hard to make a direct comparison (I don't believe that formally Intel or AMD consider themselves to share an architecture, and they both
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by spijdar 5y ago
Greatly looking forward to it. Thanks for all your work on Firefox and PowerPC at-large. Being able to use Firefox for the JS heavy sites I've had to use Chromium for will be very, very nice. :-)

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