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by syn0byte 8y ago
Yes, it was a mostly non-answer to a mostly non-question. It was in response to citing a proof in your own work, not a comment on the need for peer review of proofs in general. The bulk of your rebuttal is exactly my own point. Peer review
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by syn0byte 8y ago
It's a proof. It validates itself or it doesn't.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
>Having power does not make a company evil. Sure it does. It's predicted by games theory, preached as gospel by capitalist economics, and proved by history. We even have an axiom for it: Power Corrupts.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
A perfect example of why "use safe languages! C is the root of all RCE!" makes me immediately weary of a developer. Had the original poster been the author of such a library, he wouldn't have been motivated to spent much or a
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by syn0byte 8y ago
That's a misleading non-argument for the actual issue. "Your Wells Fargo bank accounts perfectly safe from bank employees because armored cars are used to transport money. They don't let normal bank employees into the back of
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by syn0byte 8y ago
If one side is "Golden-Hued", the other side takes for granted what they learned along the way to get to the current state. We abstract away the concept of memory addresses and pointers in some languages. Great! Until your program
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Why? Because they clearly spent a lot of time and effort on making a supposedly FOSS OS dependent on it, while actively encouraging vendors to use said OS by claiming it was FOSS. They already didn't play fair.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
I suspect that is exactly why they encoded it into the pixel data rather than extra tEXt blocks. Extra blocks and metadata like EXIF and geotags get reaped by optimizers but pixel data is pixel data. (unless you resize or alter color depth.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Crazy novel idea; The FOSS developer could just give out the source code, maybe with some helper build scripts, and then users could just build the software on whatever platform they want. Maybe making changes to which features they need an
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by syn0byte 8y ago
A Corporation who's entire business model relies on it is actively incentivized NOT to combat spam any more than absolutely required to minimize their own monetary losses as a direct result of the abuses. As long as they aren't he
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by syn0byte 8y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028961... You sure?
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by syn0byte 8y ago
"If someone was going to break the law, they would have to lie about it first." Legit companies don't want the info and anyone that wants the info isn't doing anything legal with it.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Short answer; no. The video is using intel's onboard vga chipset which plays extra nice with intel's onboard EFI. You can bet the framebuffer code between the EFI and 3rd party hardware(AMD/NVidia) sucks much, much worse I ex
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by syn0byte 8y ago
History provides a reasonable context to make the assumption?
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by syn0byte 8y ago
https://github.com/cmhe/meta-readonly-rootfs-overlay Users can apt-get all they want and it'll even be available next boot provided they shut down properly.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
We're seeing test scores drop. I'd reserve all other judgement. There are tons of other dubious and dire socioeconomic "firsts" for this generation that would affect such scores. Sugar packed, nutritionally light, chemic
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Note; Chrome's PDF reader executes the nested JS in his breakout PDF game. IIRC, the only one that did support it. Not that PDFium is any worse than Adobe, but certainly not much better.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
http://www.q3rt.de/ if by "new" you mean well over a decade old...
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by syn0byte 8y ago
You can re-license it in such a way as to poison the GPL versions into uselessness. Hell, just reissue with GPLv3. That'll still kill it pretty well.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
"Sorry 5 'middle class' Puerto Rican families that lost your homes. A rich guy wanted a nice new big second vacation home. So here is a half sized condo at twice the price." Why indeed?
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by syn0byte 8y ago
No one is writing obviously evil code. They are just writing "chemical mixing", "pattern recognition", "statistical analytics" algorithms. There is no good or evil but thinking makes it so...
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by syn0byte 8y ago
They DO horizontally scale, just not very cheaply. Reliability above all else is their advantage. There is an entire internet between you and a "5 9s" cloud provider that can screw you. side note; I HATE the trend in the level o
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Not at all; He already scored. He already got the headlines. Whatever he does with it after the fact makes little difference.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Optimize for the little guy so there can be growth. "Better for everyone" is stasis because "everyone" includes all the people that already have disproportional slices of pie.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
They were also char based display at something like 320x240 resolution and maybe 16-256 colors. Modern displays at 1920x1080 in millions of colors. 30 years ago a terminal was the whole display and nothing more. Now its a single window amid
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by syn0byte 8y ago
The effort required to keep a federated service running is a fraction of its total user base. EG; You don't see most people running their own IRC servers. A small percentage puts in the time for everyone else.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/01/03/how-lead-c... It's been done before by people with more credibility than a message board user.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
I think smaller teams are better at mitigating because there is much less "not my department". Dev: I don't gotta worry about setting up Auth on my mongo instance for dev/testing. Deploy/Admins will handle it in pro
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by syn0byte 8y ago
You can implement authentication without encryption. Also, who says that HTTP content is always plaintext?