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by tolciho 6mo ago
Various services have existed, such as portmap(8), though NFS and similar services have often suffered from the "too complicated to debug" problem where devops (then sysadmins) would try turning the system off and then back on aga
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by tolciho 6mo ago
Well, the marketing brocure said "too cheap too meter" but the result is often a White Elephant. Please explain how the nuclear folks missed the "too cheap to meter" target on account of some external shills. That is: ho
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by tolciho 6mo ago
What about the opposition from the not exactly environmentalist orgs? > "The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale ... only the blind
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by tolciho 6mo ago
And then they might code up some sort of service lookup tool thingy to use on the train wreck that is the modern web. $ getent services gopher gopher 70/tcp
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by tolciho 6mo ago
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
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by tolciho 6mo ago
"ascii" for some means "anything textlike", so for example you may see roguelike game developers saying "nice ascii" in response to a screenshot full of CP437, Unicode, or text-like glyphs, all very much not AS
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by tolciho 6mo ago
Try a 300 baud modem for a few months and good money says something terribly modern like Get-MrParameterCount would get compressed, a lot. Here's Bill Joy on the topic: > No. It took a long time. It was really hard to do because you
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by tolciho 6mo ago
Flash had quite a lot of quite severe CVE; how many of those do you suppose are "fake news" connived by conspiracy (paranoid style in politics, much?) as opposed to Flash being a pile of rusted dongs as far as security goes? A lot
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by tolciho 6mo ago
Besides less having a lot of code (features, bloat) and therefore attack surface (some less honor LESSSECURE=1 which on some OS these days involves some pretty tight pledge(2) restrictions), or that some vendors have configured less by defa
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by tolciho 6mo ago
control+u for line-kill is probably a recent thing, a random PDF of "The Unix Programming Environment" (Kernighan & Pike, 1984, p.6) has @ as the line-kill character (and # is erase which these days may or may not be control+?
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by tolciho 6mo ago
Depends on the mail server. I'd probably 5xx all mail from googleusercontent.com as I don't give a toss if something Google breaks, and could debug what happened from the mail server logs. Google's incompetence in marking all
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by tolciho 6mo ago
address-mask-request and redirect and timestamp-request for IPv4 might be problematic to allow inbound from who knows where. echo-request might well be rate limited so remote hosts can ping certain servers (but not random client host IPs),
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by tolciho 6mo ago
$ man prctl man: No entry for prctl in the manual. Maybe more linux will slop into POSIX and thence into OpenBSD in the fullness of time?
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by tolciho 6mo ago
Typically upon control+c being mashed in a shell (unless the terminal is in raw mode or such) a SIGINT signal is sent to all members of the foreground process group, and most of the processes in that group (ideally, probably) go away. This
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by tolciho 6mo ago
A `kill -9` will cause many a process to die and give no chance to cleanup any child processes. Some percentage of users continue to use `kill -9` by default, which may result in a mess of a process tree. Otherwise if the crash is bad enoug
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by tolciho 6mo ago
Except where the lucky win, or the most ruthless actually suck at winning wars (Bret Devereaux has some interesting observations here, and a study of the various "unbeatable" and of course ruthless empires may also be educational)
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by tolciho 6mo ago
Thank you, I am somewhat aware of the knobs present on a synth, though fail to see the relevance given that various other instruments do not have dynamic retuning options. Which 12 tone scale did you have in mind (for there are many) and wh
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by tolciho 6mo ago
To confirm the claim that "all scales in all cultures are based on octaves and fifths" one might study the scales.zip scale files and find those that do not contain octaves and fifths, which should naturally be zero if the claim i
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by tolciho 6mo ago
Or when the security team at some other company emails you their private key.
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by tolciho 6mo ago
A brief look at certain native American tribes might show quite a lot of talking and consensus building, like if some war chief wants a war he needs to drum up support for that. Hours of talking ensue! Not to say that ancient tribes didn&#x
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by tolciho 7mo ago
Except that when you did connect Windows to anything it was hacked in less than 30 seconds (the user ignored the "apply these updates first, and then connect ..." advice, they wanted some keyboard driver. Hacked, whoops, gotta was
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by tolciho 7mo ago
And, spoiler alert, Villefort is nouveau riche, Mammon-oriented, and has pretensions of philosophy. Where have I seen that before? He is also the villain of the story.
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by tolciho 7mo ago
> I think Marvin Minsky was the first person that I saw take a stand against "knowing yourself" Ordinarily M. de Villefort made and returned very few visits. His wife visited for him, and this was the received thing in th
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by tolciho 7mo ago
Buddhists really should get in on the introspective thing one of these years.
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by tolciho 7mo ago
Athens spending like drunken sailors during the Peloponnesian War and the subsequent Oligarchical Coup d’Etat comes to mind. Or must the dictator be just one person and not a bunch of Orwell's pigs?
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by tolciho 7mo ago
Eh, well, if your guns are trained on the "copyright" portion of the ship and you can sink it from there, no need to waste ammo or time trying to figure out if code bits are as explosive as the copyright bits are. Probably the cod
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by tolciho 7mo ago
It's a complicated picture. Some Americans did not like the advice to "turn down the thermostat, and wear a sweater", and the next president removed the solar panels from the White House. It may be amusing to learn the countr
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by tolciho 7mo ago
> Office was considered a very solid product for many generations. When was that? My introduction to Excel was in the 1990s when a scientist asked about data corruption, and my response was "oh, yeah, Excel does that, you need to fi
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by tolciho 7mo ago
Attacks employing invisible characters are not a new thing. Prior efforts here include terminal escape sequences, possibly hidden with CSS that if blindly copied and pasted would execute who knows what if the particular terminal allowed esc
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by tolciho 7mo ago
Alas, but the body count usually must be worryingly high before the "hmm, well, maybe we should do something?" thing kicks into gear. Daylight unescorted bomber raids, for example, or a space shuttle departing itself most awkwardl

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