unixbane

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by unixbane 4y ago
> what in the world are you talking about rebuking the implicit, "ergo this method is bad" part of your post, given its context. more specifically, the idea that its worse than current methods with DNS and X.509
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by unixbane 4y ago
What the actual hell is with blockchainers and using centralized CRAP like Discord, Google, Amazon, and a decentralized naming system that nobody actually uses the decentralized way because they are not aware of the concept of running code
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by unixbane 4y ago
That's not a grounded argument.
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by unixbane 4y ago
Also, this title is the most hyperbolic "wah company bad" bullshit ever written.
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by unixbane 4y ago
Yes and requiring moderation on internet forums is not one of them. It will stop 0.00001% of cases, while growing malpolicing (especially non useful police who demand more mircrojustice to keep their comfy pay coming in) proportionally with
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by unixbane 4y ago
Yes yes, we're all gonna die because people are allowed to post on the internet. Decentralized messaging platforms should be illegal because they can't be moderated. You should only be able to host an internet service with a licen
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by unixbane 4y ago
Pasting anything what so ever in the shell is a vuln if you are on a system where untrusted programs can set the clipboard. Even typing "echo <ctrl+shift+v>". And no, it's not detectable either.
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by unixbane 4y ago
This is why you don't break abstractions. If I'm a user I expect the clipboard to only change when I press ctrl+c or right click -> copy. These should be authoritatively controlled mechanisms that untrusted programs cannot over
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by unixbane 4y ago
The whitespace thing is a bug, too.
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by unixbane 4y ago
This. The wikipedia page for years seemed (not looking at it again, lol) to be written by people of the same ilk, who introduce a bunch of terminology without explaining what any of it means. When I read the wiki in 2020 it was literally im
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by unixbane 4y ago
On a cursory look, I'd say one based is more intuitive, for the sole fact that the a[len(a)] is the last element. Actually I remember there was a small time when I started programming in assembly it took me a while to get used to rea
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by unixbane 4y ago
So what's the actual reason you'd want to have zero based arrays and such in your language (In 2020, not 1970)? In a language from scratch that doesn't care about being like previous ones, and doesn't care about micro op
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by unixbane 4y ago
Just switch back and forth between box representation and graph. It's still far better than text. Text fails far faster. Have you ever used IDA? It shows a graph view of assembly based on jump flow instead of a linear assembly listing.
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by unixbane 4y ago
Woah there, it appears as if you are implying that text is demonstrably the best way to convey computer programs. Surely that's not what you're saying?
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by unixbane 4y ago
The `hostname` part is wrong, it needs to be quoted. If we want to talk about actually hating the shell, just use this one weird trick where merely comparing an integer to untrusted input constitutes an RCE vuln: $ X='a[$(touch pwned1)
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by unixbane 4y ago
Standard boomer rant. > There's a reason why the status quo exists Yes, it's called the status quo. > text is universal Which one, ASCII, code page 9000, or UTF-8? Are you saying just restrict to ASCII? Then we need custom s
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by unixbane 4y ago
Programming is an exercise in manipulating semantic objects which is why stuff like blueprints in unreal engine are so easy to use. It will just get better and text will become an obsolete vestige, regardless of whatever idea you have of th
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by unixbane 4y ago
The proper way to connect to a service on the internet after the 70s when crypto was invented, is to connect by public key or hash thereof. Instead of a bloated insecure HTTPS stack, your code just connects and checks against the public key
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by unixbane 4y ago
The replacement for the web will have secure identifiers instead of "URLs", and the GUI will simply replace them with whatever nickname you gave, and all programs on your OS will share the same registry. Or I guess we'll just
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by unixbane 4y ago
This version of petnames is too complicated. You can't get a good petname system without getting rid of broken crap first. Scanning a QR code on a flyer should be the sole introduction point and just lead to a secure communication from
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by unixbane 4y ago
> I argue that decommoditized protocols are a very effective weapon against free software in the short term, but in the long term will help free software become more fulfilling to users. It's not even about free software. Having pr
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by unixbane 4y ago
but electronics are literally shit. perhaps they always were, but there are things that are new since the early 2000s that automatically make them shit, like those buttons on a microwave, digital controls, and having javascript inside the p
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by unixbane 4y ago
it starts up in less than a year and seeks decently fast
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by unixbane 4y ago
okay now post the standard academic version of elegant simple regex in algol, lisp, ml whatever and see how many upvotes it gets
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by unixbane 4y ago
I have quit the software industry and now get paid what people _should_ get paid for software which is a small fraction of what I was being paid before. By choosing to work on actual real problems, instead of partaking in the pseudo-intelle
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by unixbane 4y ago
Yeah this is a typical article where the author gets all excited and explains the technical details of the "hack", because it can be called a "hack". But it seems nothing was done here other than some reverse engineering
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by unixbane 4y ago
no, it just doesn't fit into your two categories of posters here on HN
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by unixbane 4y ago
You are both too normal so the product works as intended for you. Unfortunately however, real engineering means making it work in all likely cases. Anyone outside of upper-middle class suburbia has an absolutely terrible experience with com
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by unixbane 4y ago
If you buy a machine for less than $600, it will not smoothly browse the web. Perhaps it will have hardware acceleration for a few use cases, but in general most pages will be slow. 4 years is insane for that price, would you buy a new dish
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by unixbane 4y ago
this post is a good example of how un*x hippies with their fried brains from too much drugs* realize one unit of common sense after aeons of contemplation. just like with generics in go. in fact, go itself is just decades of C users very sl

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