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by wang_li 6mo ago
The real issue is that they don't have stable intra-kernel ABI/APIs. It should entirely be the case that technologies that are 10+ years old are stable and a clean abstraction layer can be created. You maintain the abstraction lay
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by wang_li 6mo ago
It was a slight attempt to highlight that the conversation about a purely subjective thing is missing the point entirely. In the context of scientific discovery trying to qualify the outcome based on an individual's personal interpreta
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by wang_li 6mo ago
The amount of caffeine that humans require to live is 0 mg. So ...
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by wang_li 6mo ago
Color coding is a simplistic, half-assed way of doing semantic analysis. Go full assed and make an /etc/magic aware file decoder that decodes and highlights anomalies.
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by wang_li 6mo ago
No. Why would you? Encrypted data should look no different than random. The app figures out if it is the app's data after it attempts to decode it.
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by wang_li 6mo ago
Yes. It’s called the X Window System and it’s been around since the ‘80s. Also the problem here isn’t that iterm2 is trying to emulate terminals, it’s that it’s trying to do something more over the same network connection without making cha
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by wang_li 6mo ago
I don't know if you are missing anything. That's why I'm asking and making statements about how I understand the various processes to work. I want to understand how it is that the only device that interacts with the yubikey&#
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by wang_li 6mo ago
I know the title says "in your TPM chip" but the method described does not store your private key in the TPM, it stores it in a PKCS keystore which is encrypted by a key in your TPM. In actual use the plaintext of your private ssh
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by wang_li 6mo ago
For SSH to use your keys a calculation has to be done using your private key and then send the results back to the remote site so it can validate that you got the results that prove you have your private key. The TPM and your yubikey do not
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by wang_li 6mo ago
I had a friend tell me once that his yubikey is more secure than my authenticator app on my phone because my phone has this giant attack surface that his yubikey doesn't. Yet the yubikey has an entire attack surface of the computer it
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by wang_li 6mo ago
I think you should put your money where your mouth is. For each spam message sent to a recipient server, you send $1000 to the recipient.
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by wang_li 6mo ago
Jesus. I see that post and comment section and I immediately expect to hear Joey telling me about how this ATM is Idaho started spraying cash after his hack of the Gibson. That is a real-life reproduction of the perception of hackers in fil
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by wang_li 6mo ago
They're an advocacy organization. They should want people who don't want to hear what they have to say to hear what they have to say.
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by wang_li 6mo ago
>...it’s not like I was going to head up there myself. You're never going to be able to IPO your space startup with that attitude.
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by wang_li 6mo ago
As long as Linux distros have such shit accessibility stories, MacOS and Windows being available should be a requirement for all systems in government.
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by wang_li 6mo ago
Ansible’s idempotency is dependent on the specific module being invoked. What ansible mainly brings to the table is the parameterized modules. Which brings us back to people adopting it because they don’t know how to compose one liners, quo
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by wang_li 6mo ago
A better analogy is if one bulb in the right rear brake light group is burnt out. Technically the car is broken. But realistically you will be able to do all the things you want to do unless the thing you want to do is measure that all the
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by wang_li 6mo ago
Ansible only exists because of an influx of people who don't know how to do this.
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by wang_li 6mo ago
Why does the workflow lie at the level of a real or virtual piece of paper and not in the metadata from the applications used to create that piece of paper? Seems like a CAD tool would allow you to identify each element of the drawing, assi
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by wang_li 6mo ago
Serifs so I and l look different, monospace so it's possible to use spaces for alignment, and a slash or dot in the zero. What else do I need?
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by wang_li 7mo ago
It turns out that it's possible for the server to detect whether it is running via "| bash" or if it's just being downloaded. Inspecting it via download and then running that specific download is safer than sending it di
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by wang_li 7mo ago
>Which sounds great, but the way things work now tend to be the exact opposite of that, so there will be no trustable platform to run the untrusted code in. This is the problem with software progressivism. Some things really should just
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by wang_li 7mo ago
It's entirely the second paragraph and not part of certificate expiration, in and of itself, lends to being MITM. Firefox tells me what the problem is, expired, wrong name, etc. So, it's not just saying "oh no, something is w
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by wang_li 7mo ago
100% of OSes are better than Linux in this regard as long as overcommit is the default.
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by wang_li 7mo ago
It's even sillier than that. You can look at populations in the modern world and see there are huge differences in intelligence due to various factors such as cousin marriage and nutrition.
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by wang_li 7mo ago
Trying to distinguish happiness from all those other feelings is like trying to separate depressed from all the negative things you feel during a day. Some words do not describe specific emotions, but instead indicate a general state which
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by wang_li 7mo ago
If you can't do a thing safely and without harm, perhaps you should not be doing the thing? It blows my mind the number of tech people who just say "it's too hard to do it safely and without harm so we'll just do it anyw
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by wang_li 7mo ago
It should be a litigable offense.
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by wang_li 7mo ago
The only reason for a multicore benchmark is when the benchmark represents some common task that is not embarrassingly parallel. If your multicore benchmark is just a single threaded test run on a bunch of cores, it’s pointless. I can simpl
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by wang_li 7mo ago
When a copyright holder dies, their copy rights pass on to their heirs. Depending on the state, this means it can go to cousins or twelfth cousins twice removed if that's all that is alive. Failing that, it goes to the state. Any/

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