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by vbrandl 7y ago
Disabling JS doesn't help in this case. This post shows that it is possible to put unwanted text in your c&p buffer without using JS: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
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by vbrandl 7y ago
You don't have to ditch Ubuntu right away. You can install the nix package manager on any Linux distro (and I think also *BSD and MacOS). That way you can play around with it first. You won't get the full power of NixOS but it&#x2
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Hits-of-Code Badges(vbrandl.net)
1 points by vbrandl 7y ago|0 comments
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by vbrandl 7y ago
Wow that's pretty impressive. Thanks for the insight in the maintainer story of Nix. I guess it is kinda the same for guix and this more or less invalidates my concerns. So maybe the next time, I reinstall my OS, it's gonna be one
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by vbrandl 7y ago
I also guessed that the lack of dedicated maintainers is due to a lack of volunteers, but that's something that stops me from using either guix or Nix at least from handling the critical part of my OS (kernel and base system). For deve
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by vbrandl 7y ago
Yeah I just realized that. The binary caches might experience higher load but it the worst case you would have to build the binary yourself. I just had to reinstall guix since `guix pull && guix package -u` didn't seem to upgra
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by vbrandl 7y ago
Sorry for being unclear. The part about being hosted on GitHub actually referred to Nix. That's the point where I'm unclear about what seems to be the better solution. GitHub could take a turn for the worse but at least for now, G
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by vbrandl 7y ago
I'd love to use Guix (or Nix for that matter) as my day-to-day system but (and correct me, if I'm wrong) the package maintainer story is a bit off putting for me. From what I've understood, packages are maintained in a public
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by vbrandl 8y ago
They didn't host production and the website on the same server. The attacker had access to the whole network. After that was detected and cleared, the attacker was still able to change DNS records. The domain was redirected to an attac
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by vbrandl 8y ago
Many techniques to make binary analysis harder came from anonymous malware authors. In the early days, writing viruses was more of an educational game than infecting people to cause harm. I'm thinking about poly- or metamorphic code th
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by vbrandl 8y ago
Of course. These should require licences as well. I might even go a step further and ban alcohol and tobaco from being sold in supermarkets but only in the same stores where you could buy the other drugs.
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by vbrandl 8y ago
I think first of all, possession of all drugs should be legalized. Secondly, we need state controlled entities that are allowed to sell drugs. This tackles a number of problems: Better youth protection: a dealer doesn't care if you are
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by vbrandl 8y ago
Switzerland has a program where clean heroin is given to addicts. Since the program started in 1994, none of the participants died from an overdose or other problems caused by impure drugs. Also, as long as you have a clean substance, it is
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by vbrandl 8y ago
I'm self-hosting my mail server using mailcow[0] for little over a year now and everything works fine. It comes with a admin interface to manage accounts and the SoGo webmail client[1]. Getting it up and running was also pretty easy. C
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by vbrandl 8y ago
Loved how the first 0x2a ezines were COM files with fancy hidden menus.
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by vbrandl 8y ago
The site was back online again for a few years after the raid. The second time it went offline was due to lack of activity I guess. Would be great to bring it back online even if it was a read only backup...
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by vbrandl 8y ago
When looking for malware and especially virus source codes for research purposes, you shouldn't miss the (sadly offline) VXHeaven library [0] and any ezines of VX groups [1]. [0]: http://83.133.184.251/virensimulation.o
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Deploying a Hugo Website Using Gitea and DroneCI(vbrandl.net)
1 points by vbrandl 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: BIND9 REST API in Rust
3 points by vbrandl 8y ago|0 comments
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by vbrandl 8y ago
Following the call for new mirrors, I created another one: https://mirror.oldsql.cc/pocorgtfo/
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by vbrandl 8y ago
It bugs me probably more than it should, but I find it strange that issue 0x09 was followed by 0x10 instead of 0x0a...
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by vbrandl 9y ago
`Crates.io` (the Rust package ecosystem) doesn't have namespaces and operates after the first come first serve principle. They won't resolve namesquatting issues so something like the left-pad debacle won't happen. I think th
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by vbrandl 9y ago
Dying is part of living. You cannot live without dying eventually (at least for now). Being born ultimately leads to dying somewhen. There is no way around that, that's just how living works. Since you cannot change anything about that
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by vbrandl 9y ago
I'm not quite sure if this is a joke or not. Providing a flexible syntax for structuring the code _might_ be a nice thing. But stuff like silently ignoring typos in variable names or evaluating terms by interpreting the amount of space
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by vbrandl 9y ago
I didn't read Homo Deus but it is on my to-read-list. If you liked that one, you might also like "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by him.
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by vbrandl 9y ago
Since I've made similar experiences, I would guess it's some kind of enterprise software, that is used by other companies internaly? So the amount of users stays roughly the same all the time and if it's hosted inside a intra
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by vbrandl 9y ago
That one is actually documented in their repository: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....
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by vbrandl 9y ago
To be honsest, I might do the same. Surfing the web without an adblocker nowerdays isn't much fun, to say the least
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by vbrandl 9y ago
Shouldn't adblockers whitelist local request to prevent something like this?
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A JavaScript browser library fails due to an adblocker blacklisting 'beacon.js'(github.com)
78 points by vbrandl 9y ago|77 comments

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