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by wvh 9y ago
Not to mention it must be trivial for a large and determined adversary to subvert Debian, Arch or other distributions' packaging process, for example by getting a "sleeper" rogue developer in there. As someone into security a
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by wvh 9y ago
I think we're talking on a different level here. I'm rather thinking about the performance from an ops perspective. If you write highly specific code that runs close to the processor, of course predictability improves. But if you
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by wvh 9y ago
Well, I'd say both articles and pictures can be good or bad... I guess it's about your mind. I want to decipher the world, in scientific terms, and I don't care about personal angles. Yes, you have to filter a lot of opinion
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by wvh 9y ago
I think there are different ways to be a good programmer, beyond basic intelligence and diligence. In security and high-availability related environments – where I've spent most of my time – it is important that you validate all ins an
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by wvh 9y ago
I'm raising my 3-year-old bilingually – I speak 6 languages myself, although 2 are somewhat rusty. It's hard, because my native language is the underdog as it's pretty much just me talking with her. She understands what I say
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by wvh 9y ago
Some things are just easier to reply to. On my way from work I see tonnes of people, all with their phones out, just flicking up, like, up, like, up, like, without even checking what's in the pictures. I'm not sure I understand th
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by wvh 9y ago
Thanks! I've been wondering why the golang crypto repo contains only half an implementation for so long. I guess people are not generally eager to take responsibility for crypto implementations, especially semi-official ones... It woul
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by wvh 9y ago
[...] and two hours where her heart did not beat on its own. Impressive. I wonder if there are ways to force this level of regenesis in adult brains with less generative power and neuroplasticity. I don't think there's anything sw
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by wvh 9y ago
There's a handy PDF link in the top left corner; I don't know if it shows on mobile.
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by wvh 9y ago
Better to know ahead than to get a nasty surprise. I think it's good to warn people about the what, when, why, and how to recognise it. It might be rare but it's also pretty serious.
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by wvh 9y ago
But this is not pornography-specific. This applies just as well to views about healthy relationships, self respect, food consumption, alcohol and drug use, financial discipline, world views and whatnot. Teens need to be educated so they can
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by wvh 9y ago
I'm of that age that my first relationship experiences happened just before I had access the internet and pornography. I can guarantee you that as a horny teen I did not need the internet to come up with "fairly disgusting and ext
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by wvh 9y ago
German isn't my mother tongue, but I think it's a form of diminutive, which often becomes neuter in Germanic languages, as for instance in Dutch. I agree it feels silly to learn the gender of "sexless" words; but this ca
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by wvh 9y ago
My generation, the last of generation X, probably wanted to express existential angst with loud music such as altern rock and metal – music centered around distorted guitars. Metal took more hopeful '50s and '60s guitar music and
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by wvh 9y ago
I just updated Debian on my cubox-i (also iMX6) last week, which also runs mostly Go code. Never thought that Go would be low-level enough to run on bare hardware without replicating a lot of OS-level code. Interesting project, thanks for s
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by wvh 9y ago
Happy to report I updated last week already and even my cubox-i (arm) booted just fine on first attempt. Thanks and congratulations!
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by wvh 9y ago
Not original poster, but similar position. I've used Debian privately and professionally on servers and desktop since the 90's, altogether several hundred systems. I've also used Slackware and LFS years ago. My personal lapto
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by wvh 9y ago
Perhaps. But there is some truth about signal to noise ratio. Just like us "old-timers" saw happening with email (spam and on mailing lists) and later on forums. The flood of average – both posters and responses – is drowning out
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by wvh 9y ago
It's hard to look for insight, or code. It's easier to search for blog posts because they are natural language. I am a coder and I very much appreciate all the great code that has been written, but it's often the blog article
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by wvh 9y ago
Postgresql has a UUID type which should store them as a 16-byte number. If you use time-based UUIDs – for instance based on the unix time stamp in hex, like CouchDB – then you also get sortable primary keys, which conceptually might or migh
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by wvh 9y ago
Because information wants to be free and you can't copy a camera? Surely most people would not just buy an expensive camera from the place it costs most, even though the service might be better? You would probably compare prices and un
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by wvh 9y ago
I've done this long ago to one of the companies I had worked for before – as in pointing out major holes, not taking over anything – but I think it's not a good idea if you don't have any previous relationship at that company
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by wvh 9y ago
I used to be in security auditing. I don't know about market saturation – that would depend heavily on your location, as it often requires some face-to-face discussion – but I think for security the saturation is less relevant than you
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by wvh 9y ago
I guess the general problem with security is that developers use libraries (and frameworks) so as to not have in-depth understanding of the functionality that library provides. That becomes an issue when the library doesn't provide san
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by wvh 9y ago
I've implemented some of OpenID Connect, "a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol". Combined with OAuth 2.0, it's one of those giant corporate specs (giant at least for security/crypto purposes) wit
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by wvh 9y ago
I have been setting up mailservers since the '90s when you still had to deal with sendmail's configuration format. I've used most email servers available on unix platforms. And I'm also someone who wants to do everything
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by wvh 10y ago
I second this, I'm pretty happy with my 1st gen Jolla, though it desperately needs an hardware update. To be able to get a terminal either on the device or by logging in with SSH to fix things or make changes is great. Not all the UI c
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by wvh 10y ago
You assess the facts and make your (informed) opinion. You defend that opinion because it's the best possible opinion, i.e. the most truthful. If the facts change, you re-assess and re-form your opinion. You are loyal to the "trut
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by wvh 10y ago
That's interesting. I've got a colleague who made the same change, and she claims also that crying "as a man" is rare and very hard – as if that pathway is somehow blocked – while it comes very easily "as a woman&qu
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by wvh 10y ago
Is this just part of the trend to dumb everything down to a polarising dichotomy? Because the trend to stop people from having a more complex and rational opinion than just picking sides doesn't seem to exactly improve discourse or deb

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