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by usr1106 2y ago
I am typing this on a phone running SailfishOS. Still that's hardly a real choice for me who has worked 20 years as a phone or Linux developer. No banks, no public transit tickets, no city bike, no you name it. Not an option for the wi
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by usr1106 2y ago
Choice seems to be an euphemism for everything related to private IT: For PCs there is Microsoft vs Apple. (I use Linux, but that's not for the broad masses currently.) For phones you either pay a premium to enter the Apple walled gard
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by usr1106 2y ago
I remember my wife was on a charter flight with 3 initial letters many years ago (in Europe). And when I tried to look up the arrival, many systems could not handle the flight number. Now slightly unsure whether I did not dream up the whole
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by usr1106 2y ago
Not sure I hoped, but from the title I expected. I don't have more than 10 entries per week. Partly because I prefer real work over meetings, so I work at a place that does not have a lot of meetings. And once you don't have many,
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by usr1106 2y ago
I use Firefox exclusively with default anti-tracking settings plus CookieAutoDelete. But I guess I see less than 1 captcha a week. AWS on my private, hardly used account was the most annoying one in the past because I had at least a 50% cha
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by usr1106 2y ago
Of course no implementation is infinite, but in this case PATH_MAX with 4096 as a typical value seems particularly low.
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by usr1106 2y ago
Another point of view is: In practice you have to compromise. I certainly don't approve all measures of the government were I live or the government of my passport (which are different). Still I am not actively trying to leave the coun
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by usr1106 2y ago
That sounds too good to be true. I neither have the legal skills nor the knowledge about the US constitution to tell you where it's incorrect. I occasionally read the AMA of the immigration lawyer here on HN just for curiosity. I have
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by usr1106 2y ago
Not OP of that particular statement, but in Germany you can get imprisoned for denying that holocaust has happened. However, I would question whether denying historical facts is an opinion. There seem to be fewer cases of people demanding t
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by usr1106 2y ago
I live in the Schengen area. So I can travel to all countries in the Schengen area by just carrying a government id without any regular border controls. (Yes, there are countries that have broken the rules of the treaty.) In general I am ve
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by usr1106 2y ago
The article does not seem to cover that question. From previous discussions I have the impression that foreigners are not granted any constitutional rights at the border or even when in their home country (their communication can be freely
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by usr1106 2y ago
Ah, that gives some perspective that he is actually the founder of the much more widely known Gentoo. I don't think that had been mentioned elsewhere at the time.
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by usr1106 2y ago
There seems to be rather good documentation, e.g. https://www.funtoo.org/Support_Matrix But excluding systemd it wouldn't have been for me. While I am not a fan of all aspects of the project, it's technically supe
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by usr1106 2y ago
Never heard of it. The tone in the announcement makes me guess that I did not miss anything > nor am I interested in trying to find one, or hand the project off to someone else. Of course if it's all open source anyone can take ove
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by usr1106 2y ago
Interesting topic, but I would prefer it to be handled with more expertise than in this video. Seems to be a bit of unsystematic guessing. Also the connections opened could be watched in a router and/or with something like Wireshark.
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by usr1106 2y ago
> Now, large tech companies haven't wholesale killed people (unlike say tobacco, or talc powder, 3M and half of their solvents, weed killer, most car makers, etc etc) It's nearly as bad. Social media causes addiction and mental
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by usr1106 2y ago
It's not Microsoft that should wall off the operating system. It's banks, airlines, health care providers that should not use Windows the way they currently do. No employee there needs the possibility to install any software thems
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by usr1106 2y ago
> CrowdStrike's CEO oversaw very similar McAfee meltdown https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41030352
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by usr1106 2y ago
Actually it was not only x86 hardware that was not really planned for the NT kernel, also Windows user space was not the first candidate. Posix and maybe even OS/2 were earlier goals. So the current x86 Windows monoculture came up as
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by usr1106 2y ago
Oh oh, 3 hours 10. I watched around half of it. The VMS --> WNT acronym relationship was not mentioned, maybe it was just made up later. One thing I did not know (or maybe not remember) is that NT was originally developed exclusively for
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by usr1106 2y ago
> It blows my mind that a kernel driver with the level of proliferation in industry could make it out the door apparently without even the most basic level of qualification. Discussed elsewhere it is claimed that the file causing the cra
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by usr1106 2y ago
> I didn't know at the time that the Windows kernel was paged. At uni I had a professor in database systems, who did not like written exams, but mostly did oral exams. Obviously for DBMSes the page buffer is very relevant, so we cha
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by usr1106 2y ago
It's in Google's interest that coming generations will find any URL as weird as we find an IPv6 address. Everybody should use their search^W profit generation engine.
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by usr1106 2y ago
Hmm, the driver must be signed (by Microsoft I assume). So they sign a driver which in turn loads unsigned files. That does not seem to be good security.
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by usr1106 2y ago
Haven't used Windows for close to 15 years, but I read the file is (or rather supposed to be) a NT kernel driver. Are those drivers signed? Who can sign them? Only Microsoft? If it's true the file contained nothing but zeros that
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by usr1106 2y ago
I am lucky not having to fly with them since 2006 or so. I would only ever visit their web site if I am completely desperate and there is absolutely no other alternative transportation and I must travel
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by usr1106 2y ago
Same here. I often write down the converted sum and then reject conversion. Later I compare my notes with the the conversion done my bank issue the credit card. It was always so that my bank was cheaper, until very recently when it would ha
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by usr1106 2y ago
While I believe Linux is a more reasonable operating system than Windows, shit can happen everywhere. So if you have truly mission critical systems you should probably have more have at least 2 significantly different systems, each of them
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by usr1106 2y ago
It's incredibly bad practice, but it seems to be industry normal as we learned today.
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by usr1106 2y ago
HN has some flame war protection I remember having read, downrating some discussions where it assumes nothing useful is being discussed. Maybe a false positive? (100% speculation. That's the problem using closed source software)

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