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by temac 7y ago
The real question is: why the fuck the kernel parses the PE on just a mouse over... it like Windows is asking for vulns with even more impact :/
662.
by temac 7y ago
So how does it work exactly? Are functions forbidden?
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by temac 7y ago
It is not just because "everybody" is doing crazy shit, that it is OK to do it.
664.
by temac 7y ago
Good to avoid any misunderstanding, even if I don't think there should have been some: hardware lock elision is hardware lock elision, and TSX is not limited to hardware lock elision. So Intel disabled hardware lock elision , really,
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by temac 7y ago
This problem is easily solved on Windows by having no two programs looking the same :D (even those made by Microsoft and even those actually part of Windows)
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by temac 7y ago
This might be a good advice in some cases (and -- for the "Extremely unprofessional" part, a somehow good judgment but applying to slightly different situations), but I think you are missing tons of context here: see the openly di
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by temac 7y ago
Without a doubt, C has "lost" nothing, because it barely changed. And most of the modern code written in it still has mostly the same style as in the nineties. I guess about C++ you are comparing pre-C++11 era to post-C++11 era (b
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by temac 7y ago
The thing about fiction is that it is... fiction! So yes, if you make the hypothesis that things went out so we would all be using BSD, then we would. And yes, successful projects and people always come from a part of luck. But so what? Wha
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by temac 7y ago
IP means nothing. It's a poorly defined conglomerate of vastly different laws, like about brands, patents, models, etc. A library is typically "protected" (that is: artificially restricted) by copyright, and the situation is
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by temac 7y ago
The analog parts of PCIe interfaces are not programmable. The artificially black boxes we are talking about are purely digital. They use fixed resources but we are not asking for the design of those parts.
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by temac 7y ago
We are not mainly talking about the same thing, but on the specific subjet you evocate I actually kind of agree with you, and that was in a way what i meant by stating that security must come with usability. However, I'm not sure about
672.
by temac 7y ago
> You can prevent this by setting the UAC settings to max or logging in as a standard user, but then you get Vista-style annoyances again... And I'm not even sure UAC at max level is officially a security boundary. As for the seco
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by temac 7y ago
MS "fixed" Vista UAC by making it unsound and not a security boundary in 7. Now I'm not even sure it was a security boundary in Vista, but when you look at the technical way it is implemented and the additions it came and w
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by temac 7y ago
Why do any SW/QA engineer routinely accept to work night and WE? Of course this is gonna be non productive and produce only buggy crap. I expect any reasonable person to understand that, and only very naive and/or junior people
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by temac 7y ago
Mostly wrong IMO. NT is more like VMS rewritten + pieces of MS code integrated (or rewritten), certainly not a "portable OS/2". The OS/2 parts were confined in the subsystem and are now extinct. As for the IBM did not kn
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by temac 7y ago
I don't know Skype but it can be easy to understate the scope of some programs. Like a web browser: why do we need that crap to be that large and complicated again? And that's a valid question (be it about voip software or web bro
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by temac 7y ago
Why would Facebook have anything to do with free speech? This title sounds as "strange" as: requiring a driver license is not in contradiction with the right to travel. Well, yes, ok, but that's kind of trivial because everyb
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by temac 7y ago
Acceleration in that era was about 2d drawing, most of the time for desktop env. Completely uninteresting for 3d games like Doom. Probably uninteresting for even 2d games unless the acceleration in question support direct sprite rendering (
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by temac 7y ago
Either I completely missed some important things about PC history, or the author does not know at all what he is talking about: e.g.: > By 1991 ATI was selling dedicated GPU cards that worked independently from the CPU. By enhancing the
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by temac 7y ago
Apple deprecates everything all the time. If they want, they can switch. In the long run Metal either: has no future; or must be opened; or will remain a proprietary tech with little advantage and recurring dev costs for both Apple and app
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by temac 7y ago
I 100% agree with the paper. However, one should not mistake historical contributions with state of the art needed today. Unix and C are still largely relevant and will continue to be so for a long time, even more so their legacy, but one s
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by temac 7y ago
That was the previous position of the Bill Gates camp. Given he changed the narrative, I would not be surprised about further developments.
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by temac 7y ago
Despite having a lower quality than before since a few years, Windows has login and locking features that actually work (and I don't even really remember of bugs in there, like ever), so no, from what you describe it does not feel like
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by temac 7y ago
That was exactly what I was thinking about. This is a quite impractical attack, in the sense that if you are able to do that, you are able to do way more simple attacks, like tuning the final output without even going through the pretend
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by temac 7y ago
If you make the hypothesis your CPU is completely compromised, it is vain to be hysterical about rdrand. Any sane random gen does not pass it directly to consumers, anyway (it always goes through at least an irreversible hash function with
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by temac 7y ago
Models shows precisely the inverse at least in Europe (there is mostly no independent abundance of wind/solar, at least way not enough) It even shows today with even quite small capacity disturbing market prices. That's why even &
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by temac 7y ago
> The dirty secret with things like solar and wind is that in order for them to work reliably they need to have large number of natural gas generators. Because of this and other issues they really pose little threat to total fossil fuel
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by temac 7y ago
Nuclear fission could, obviously -- I've yet to see anybody propose a reasonable alternative (with a known tech, not just hypothetical handwaving) to cover our enormous energy needs -- and even then some work is needed to migrate direc
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by temac 7y ago
Technically, maybe. Commercially, the licensing is a huge mess. In some areas with low volumes you certainly don't want (or maybe MS won't even sell to you under reasonable terms) to deal with that. Even with medium/high volu
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by temac 7y ago
Everybody who matters already consider AGPL a free software licence, and that's not even because of an hypothetical evolution of any position.

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