tlavoie

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by tlavoie 9y ago
Does the concept of LTS really make sense for languages that produce compiled executables? Taking Haskell as an example, the usual output may have dependencies on some typical system shared libraries, not so much on the ecosystem from whic
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by tlavoie 9y ago
It's up now.
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by tlavoie 9y ago
I recently migrated from a mid-2013 MBP, primarily because I was increasingly disgusted with the lack of control over my own system. I knew (more or less) what I was getting into when I bought it, but that choice grated as it needed work. T
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by tlavoie 9y ago
Besides web browser extensions, this sort of thing works nicely in firewalls that support DNSBL (DNS block lists). I've got pfSense running pfBlockerNG, and it whacks both incoming (known malicious) and outbound requests. As a result,
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by tlavoie 9y ago
A company I worked at did something similar; those who were being kept were told to go somewhere else, not to go to that meeting. Those that were still around were herded into the classroom, to be met by the HR head and a hired goon of a se
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by tlavoie 10y ago
Well, that and tunnelling all sorts of other traffic, basically mini-VPN. I use this all the time for a variety of remote systems (or local, I am the remote one).
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by tlavoie 10y ago
I've been working for my company* for nine years, last two remote. My move was absolutely for lifestyle reasons, and was supported thoroughly by my managers of the day, and my current manager still. What has been interesting to watch t
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by tlavoie 11y ago
Yup, PGP source code, and I think it had checksums on the lines too to avoid errors. Didn't the book with the EFF's DES-cracking project (source included) get published the same way?
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by tlavoie 11y ago
That makes the optimistic assumption that someone will fix them.
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by tlavoie 14y ago
You know, this appears to be pretty much what they do already. It would shock nobody to find they'd hired some poor sod for just this purpose.