bjpbakker

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by bjpbakker 4y ago
A capabilities system like pledge could be a way to safer use _existing_ packages. However, I think that it's not a very nice way to continue. Every application will end up doing its own capability pledging, and mistakes will be made.
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by bjpbakker 6y ago
> "If I can't search the file for this variable and find it easily, it's a bad name" Like parent mentions, this is about scoping. My rule about short variables is that I have to see their _full_ use (including declara
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by bjpbakker 7y ago
From the thread is becomes painfully clear how horrible Actalis is set up to act as a CA. Instead it seems they chose to break the BR by default. Almost 5 months to reissue a little over 250k certificates is not what you may expect from a C
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by bjpbakker 7y ago
There are various ways. One would be to use standard imap and decrypt the message on the client. Their bridge sort of does that but with proprietary protocol. Either way, that has absolutely nothing to do with the security issues of html em
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by bjpbakker 7y ago
> the author prefers dubious advantages to real improved security Encrypting the data transfer doesn’t improve any of the HTML email security issues. So I fail to see how that would be “real improved security”. But I do share the authors
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by bjpbakker 7y ago
> I constantly need to spend mental energy on remembering which is the Ok and which is the Error Right is actually a synonym for Ok.. besides, Either is useful for _much_ more than error handling. That is exactly why I dislike Error for
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by bjpbakker 7y ago
> you went out of your way to choose a hardware combination that is known to properly handle PM on Linux This is no different than with windows. Except that more vendors sell you windows compatible pre-built systems. With macos the situa
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by bjpbakker 7y ago
Lol. This is actually the first time ever someone said I use very mainstream tools, so thank you for that! I can tell you don't know me :)
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by bjpbakker 7y ago
> reason the Linux Community don't want this sort of thing is that, frankly, they just hate stability And yet I fearlessly upgrade my Linux system at any time. With OSX you first have to check if the software you use is at all compa
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by bjpbakker 7y ago
Right, I worded that quite strange. Thanks for the feedback!
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by bjpbakker 7y ago
> ELFs still don't even have an accepted embedded icon standard FFS Also Apple does not embed icons in their binaries. Their app bundles are not binaries, they are a directory structure. The icon is just another file, just like the
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
That _long_ list is limited to the "basic level" telemetry data and does not include e.g. automatic sample documents that Defender sends by default (those include you actual documents). Microsoft proves over and over again that th
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
Since it's hardware sold by Apple I would assume that Apple figures that out with NVIDIA and collaborates. Apparently I'm wrong and Apple just doesn't give a crap as long as they can sell new products. For a hobby computer it
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
You're correct about the card, sorry about that. Got confused I suppose. Indeed I meant to say I have the GT 750.
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
> I have no reason to suspect that Apple broke hardware they themselves sold In fact my own 15" MBP late 2013 has a GFX750, which is no longer supported according to Apple Support [1]. The worst for me is that this didn't witho
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
> If Nvidia are being dicks in the face of reasonable requests, why would that be Apple's fault? Because Apple sold the hardware /with/ the software, and now they completely broke that (<5 year old) hardware?
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
Since there's nobody else responsible for releasing Apple's closed source OS, what makes you think Apple is not to blame on this?
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
> Can you just not write graphics drivers for macOS? So this is seriously what you suggest owners of an older MBP (official Apple hardware, just over 4 years old) to do? Since both Apple's drivers and NVidia's drivers are compl
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
Owner of a late 2013 15" MBP here. I never been eager to upgrade to new mac version too. > Some time ago I was forced to upgrade to Sierra Until about a month ago I ran Sierra - which worked fine and in 2 years didn't crash my
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
You can still get patch emails with Git repositories. In fact, you can easily create them from your own copy of the repo. This hack has nothing to do with the scm but everything with the carelessness of npm.
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
> I can't make sure my computer is running the code I want it to if everyone else can make my computer run the code they want it to This is exactly why _you_ must be in control of what software can boot and not Apple or some other c
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
Most items from your list sound a whole lot like the path the US is on. I don't believe these things are related to communism or capitalism, but more so to a few people who want to stay powerful and in control. (edit: spelling)
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
> it is fundamentalist if the only reason for the rejection is that it's proprietary Personally I don't use software that I cannot review myself for tasks that are important to me. That includes reading email. Hence, the reason
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
So please tell us honestly. Do you include _any_ kind of monitoring in your software to track your user's actions, errors, etc? You have to at least understand that (some) people have a trust issue with proprietary software, since too
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
IMO there's nothing "fundamentalist" about rejecting a _particular_ piece of proprietary software. When trying to sell a niche product, r/linux might not be the best place to ask. I'm wondering if the author would h
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
Since the article is from 2006 (as is the Solaris book) it's not that curious.
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
> The more lines removed, the better I programmed Perl for a while so I like to make this more about _characters_ removed rather than lines :)
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
Of course the original post about Indirection vs Abstract was by Zed A. Shaw [0]. I strongly like to urge authors to give credit where credit is due. IMO this post should have at least mentioned the original article. [0] - https:/&#x2
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
“discovered by themselves” was intended to read “discovered outside of the embargo”. Since you didn’t answer my question, let me try again. How can someone break an embargo they’re not a part of? To me the mess back then was a very convenie
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by bjpbakker 8y ago
> the "Lazy FPU" vulnerability in 2018 You mean that OpenBSD discovered this issue by themselves when they were left out of an ongoing embargo? Please explain to me how one can break an embargo they are not a part of in the fir

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