aplanas

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by aplanas 1y ago
That is a key area too. I know that most of the distros are working in that direction[1], and in the case of Fedora, openSUSE or Debian they are reaching high level of reproducibility. Those distributions are making huge efforts in keeping
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by aplanas 1y ago
What I do not understand is why not to work with the openSUSE community, or fork from them. But instead use a USA based distro like Fedora. openSUSE has all their tooling based in EU ground. For example, OBS that is the build service, has t
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by aplanas 3y ago
> What if you actually can’t predict the future and climate change is actually good? Is this how rational people react, or is some spiritual response talking from fear? How can be the depletion of biodiversity, the increase of temperatur
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Y2038, glibc and utmp/utmpx on 64bit architectures(thkukuk.de)
7 points by aplanas 4y ago|1 comments
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by aplanas 4y ago
The common component here is Microsoft, not the TPM.
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by aplanas 4y ago
> the TPM enables verification of a particular state of your system, i.e., a particular set of binaries and OS configuration That is a bit misleading. The TPM is a passive device, it cannot verify any state. It is the OS who measure th
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by aplanas 4y ago
It is still under development, but try Keylime[1]. They have also a nice agent written in Rust[2] with low footprint. I write some notes[3] about how to use it in openSUSE MicroOS / Tumbleweed, but can be extrapolated to many other di
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by aplanas 4y ago
Windows security models and policies are the enemy, not remote attestation (RA). RA is a technology that has its fair use, and can be desired for other systems, like in Linux. With a pure RA system your services can decide to trust or not
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by aplanas 4y ago
Seems that it can convert from Python to Perl: https://beta.openai.com/playground/p/o4qZWSXVz8JMmVaI9j9NMIK...
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by aplanas 5y ago
> But for helping the very poorest advance, I'm not sure it works in practice. I think it does. I studied in the south of Spain (I am Spaniard too), and some of my fellow students comes from very poor sides of the city. It is very f
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by aplanas 5y ago
RSA is very slow for decryption. The general approach is tp use RSA to encrypt / decrypt the key of a symmetric encryption algorithm, that is much faster.
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by aplanas 5y ago
Anyone that needs to be maintained for a long period of time. For example: Firefox. Today Firefox have all the rust deps bundled (similar to cargo bundle). If / when tomorrow the maintainer of the distribution find a bug in one of the
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by aplanas 5y ago
I submitted this entry because IMHO is the first survey, that I am aware of, that is giving some data about the Rust toolchain inside a distribution. I guess that openSUSE can be a bit different than Debian or Fedora, but there are some ans
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Results from the openSUSE 2021 Rust Survey(fy.blackhats.net.au)
4 points by aplanas 5y ago|3 comments
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by aplanas 5y ago
This is going too far ... https://github.com/Vogtinator/doom-emojis Done with 5 skin tones of the hand wave emoji.
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by aplanas 5y ago
We (openSUSE) are doing this in controlled situations. We have a build system (OBS) that create VMs for us every time that we want to create / update a new package. Those VMs are isolated from the network, but we can have partial contr
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by aplanas 6y ago
> Fun times Is still fun! There is Tumbleweed, a full rolling distribution (all packages with its own update cadence, and OBS fully building the dependencies that are impacted). There is also MicroOS, a transactional OS (BtrFS subvolume
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by aplanas 6y ago
SUSE bought Rancher in 2020, and that was also in the news.
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by aplanas 6y ago
I wonder if the historians from 100 years ahead, when analyzing this period of time, will not wonder why the society did not react on time for those evident signs of democracy degradation. As today I use the present to understand better the
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by aplanas 6y ago
I think that this is a fair argument. When the mental model is already there, changing it is difficult and the trade-offs needs to be in a very advantage position to justify the change. But over the time this argument loose fairness in some
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by aplanas 6y ago
For my laptop and desktop (where I work and watch movies, no gaming so far) I use openSUSE Tumbleweed. A rolling distro that allows me to have the last version of all my software, and very stable so I can do my daily job. I choose it becaus
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by aplanas 6y ago
TL;DR: https://www.eqtgroup.com/Investments/Current-Portfolio/suse/ But we are mostly independent now. I.e we choose the directions.
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by aplanas 6y ago
I think that is this a bit unfair for SUSE. We (I am employee here) have a long tradition of innovation and failing in communication. We had OBS, that is some kind of build system as a service that guarantee reproducible builds and traceabi
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by aplanas 6y ago
There is this too: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.mo... You can reuse all the playbooks and start scaling with salt.
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by aplanas 7y ago
There is MicroOS from openSUSE: https://en.opensuse.org/Kubic:MicroOS
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by aplanas 7y ago
> Maybe the UK’s working welfare system can’t cater for all of Europe’s economic refugees The first time that I read about this argument in relation with the support to the Brexit I was a bit surprised. Do you guys really believe in that
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by aplanas 7y ago
> For example, detecting gravity waves does move the needle on any of these metrics It will surely do. Those achievements are not possible without staggering advances in technology that can be later applied in different fields. The same
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by aplanas 7y ago
For one side GCC is becoming an impressive piece of technology, and for the other I loved how a full Linux distribution was used to analyze the impact of those optimizations. This is why openQA and all the test coverage is so important.
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by aplanas 8y ago
But the GPD Pocket have the trackpoint. There is also a Pocket 2 and a new one still on design.
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by aplanas 8y ago
In Ender's Game there is a description of an Ansible, a personal handheld device used to communicate, join to public forums, read news and influence in political discussions.

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