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by xroche 10y ago
Beyond the obvious privacy issue, there is a more general worrying pattern here. The fact we give mediocre, frustrated, under-waged people, some power, with minimum control. This is not a condescending remark, and I truly think the root of
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by xroche 10y ago
But having a track record of suing everybody for being the so-called "inventor" of WiFi three years after it was actually standardized, legitimately makes this body a PATENT TROLL. Whether they do fund actual research is irrelevan
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by xroche 10y ago
> Why not call the port "HTTP" instead This is what /etc/services is for: telnet localhost http ... But unfortunately very few applications do resolve "port name to port number" as they resolve "hostnam
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by xroche 10y ago
So this is basically what lifesize.com has been providing for ages, sans the Linux support. Truly revolutionary I guess.
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by xroche 10y ago
"If you are pursuing programming to become wealthy, you’d be better off pursuing a career in management" This is hopefully false for interesting companies, otherwise, just flee! If you are working for an organization that does not
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by xroche 10y ago
This (signal) is the de-facto communication mechanism to notify a program that an unexpected event just occurred (typically, a SEGV). This mechanism needs to interrupt the normal program flow (because you can not restart an invalid access m
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by xroche 10y ago
> It is clear that anti-viruses on Windows are usually more dangerous than the viruses themselves This is especially true regarding the bad track record of antivirus software w.r.t vulnerabilities, allowing an attacker to elevate its pri
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by xroche 10y ago
Reason: the DEA will lose power with less regulated substances. The only goal of some bureaucrats is to collect power, not only because it allows to have a better pay, but because mediocre people are inherently attracted to power itself.
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by xroche 10y ago
This site is extremely valuable to produce good quality reports of GCC bugs. For https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67283 , I was able to track multiple regressions on a GCC optimization over the different ver
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by xroche 10y ago
No QI wireless charging :( Dear Google, I'll keep my Nexus 5
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by xroche 10y ago
Bitbucket is Nice, but why the 1GB/2GB repository limit, especially for paid users (entreprise version) ? Never understood this limit...
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by xroche 10y ago
It it yet another ASN.1-related exploit ?
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by xroche 10y ago
This is not a bad strategy, especially because between the moment you fork() and the child calls exec(), you have a lot of memory regions shared in copy-on-write (because it would be Too costly to actually duplicate the universelle). Which
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by xroche 10y ago
fork() is not per se "dangerous" in such context. You just have to be careful enough and only use asynchronous-signal-safe fonctions, as you would do in a signal handler (see https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confl
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by xroche 11y ago
"Why isn't HTTPS everywhere yet?": Because it makes absolutely no sense for the vast majority of online content. Email in https ? Sure. Reading news sites in https ? Accessing RFC in https ? My favorite online recipe site in
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by xroche 11y ago
Yup, I reported the same issue a year ago ( http://blog.httrack.com/blog/2014/08/31/i-found-a-bug-in-str... )
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The Oral History of the Poop Emoji (Or, How Google Brought Poop to America)(fastcompany.com)
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by xroche 11y ago
> nearly everyone (or at least the most vocal crowd) seems to either love it or hate it "At least the most vocal crowd". Which means that most people DO NOT CARE, and the systemd war is beyond ridiculous. As Linus said, > &q
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by xroche 11y ago
> Perhaps somebody could start an "atheist church", but the concept is unpalatable to me In France, a lot of atheist Jews joined Freemasonry at the beginning of the 20th century for this very reason: they were highly educated,
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by xroche 11y ago
Forget it - OP wanted to have a shared anonymous pool, obviously (but in this case, using shm_open()+mmap() could do the trick)
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by xroche 11y ago
Unless `madvise(ptr, size, MADV_DONTFORK)' is used. But in this case you have no information at all on the region (which may have been mapped by another library), but I might not have understood the initial OP suggestion.
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by xroche 11y ago
Stupid question: shouldn't it be KEY_SPEC_PROCESS_KEYRING rather than KEY_SPEC_THREAD_KEYRING ?
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by xroche 11y ago
I bought a "real" coffee machine for me and my colleagues (Jura impressa F50 -- https://us.jura.com/en/homeproducts/machines/IMPRESSA-F50-Cl... ) and, despite being a bit more complicated than a nesp
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by xroche 11y ago
> The US still ranks among the best nations on earth when it comes to low corruption in fact Yes, because corruption has been legalized through corruption. You can, as a rich person, or an enterprise, legally bride politicians so that th
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by xroche 11y ago
And this is why major software companies are actually American. Most European software companies are terrible places, where "coding" people are considered as the lowest class. I don't want to generalize, there are incredible
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by xroche 11y ago
> Your interpretation of corruption may not be equal to its lawful meaning Corruption has been legalized thanks to... corruption. You see the problem ? When the law is written by lobbyists, lawful does not bear anymore any meaning.
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by xroche 11y ago
> Government ties You mean, corruption ? Yes, this is worth publishing. Even if this corruption has become mainstream.
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by xroche 12y ago
How do you solve the coercion problem ? How do you solve ballot corruption (ie. I'm selling my vote on ebay) ?
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by xroche 12y ago
I tried to find the best solution (simple, secure, incremental, reliable...) and could not find the perfect candidate either. I finally ended up by sending encrypted gpg tar files to a remote backup machine (you may want to cross-backup mac
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by xroche 12y ago
> I am astonished that somebody as worldly as Jobs chose to do that. It is incredibly difficult to take rational decisions when your life is at stake. You are then probably the least capable person of taking good decisions.

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