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GEFS – new file system built for Plan 9(orib.dev)
4 points by dchest 2d ago|1 comments
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by dchest 8d ago
It's recorded in the HTML5 spec under 4.2.5.1 Standard metadata names, which defines the correct format and parsing: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#meta-k... So, it's standardized and n
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by dchest 8d ago
Why is meta keywords deprecated? I use them for my custom website search. I don't care that external search engines don't index it.
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by dchest 11d ago
There's more to it than just using a memory safe language.
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by dchest 12d ago
GPS
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by dchest 12d ago
Times New Roman (and STIX Two Text, Libertinus Serif clones) has been designed with increased x-height while keeping the same line height, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_New_Roman#/media/File:Ti... I
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by dchest 17d ago
Indeed: https://hart.pglaf.org/ From Wikipedia: "Michael Hart's email messages and blog posts had equal line length paragraphs in monospaced font: he chose the wording in such a way that each line had the same num
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by dchest 22d ago
It probably used pixel-by-pixel conversion (decode input format -> encode output format), which is lossy, not the libjxl native way to convert JPEG (it needs to know about the original JPEG data, not the raw image data).
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by dchest 22d ago
A warning about openbsdhandbook[.]com - this website has completely incorrect information for some things. Like hallucinated, even though I think it was created before LLMs.
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by dchest 26d ago
I recently learned that Russ also wrote software for The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences ( https://oeis.org ) and is the president of the OEIS Foundation.
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by dchest 28d ago
The original: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uaQyaBRaM9w
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by dchest 1mo ago
> measure and improve your website speed inserts 31KB JavaScript into tiny HTML pages.
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by dchest 1mo ago
Indeed, https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-rum-diaries-enabling-web-ana...
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by dchest 1mo ago
Lua 5.4 and 5.5 use xoshiro256**: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#pdf-math.random
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by dchest 1mo ago
Yes, WAL by definition means it writes the data at least twice.
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by dchest 1mo ago
Write-Ahead Log for... logs? WAL means it will write the same data at least twice. Similar issue, but even worse, with LevelDB -- it will just delay the inevitable huge rewrites for later. Funny to hear those proposals in the write amplific
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by dchest 2mo ago
Looks like it was caused by result confusion: crypto_dispatch returns errors in two different ways: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=crypto_dispatch&ap... "crypto_dispatch() returns an error if the
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FreeBSD: Missing Mac validation in wg(4) packet decryption(freebsd.org)
2 points by dchest 2mo ago|1 comments
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by dchest 2mo ago
FORTH LOVE? IF HONK THEN
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by dchest 2mo ago
With CGO disabled, it only reads /etc/passwd, while the glibc getpwnam(3) can query LDAP etc.
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by dchest 2mo ago
Which uses libc via CGO or parses /etc/passwd with no CGO, which won't work for some cases. https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/e4144230f410204a... // userLookupGetent use
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by dchest 2mo ago
I did something like this using fail2ban for some time, but 1) it didn't help much due to the larger number of IPs, 2) it blocked widely used VPN services.
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by dchest 2mo ago
Can be malware? Something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667495
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by dchest 3mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_6d3JBBo4s
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by dchest 3mo ago
Being able to quickly reject invalid sessions identifiers is a useful property in some cases and is normally done by authenticating stateful session tokens with a MAC using a global app key. This can be used for DoS protection if the cost o
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by dchest 3mo ago
WTF: > Each user has a secret: Stored securely in the database. > Stateless Validation: The core validation remains stateless. We only need to consult the database for the user's secret, which we'd likely do anyway for autho
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by dchest 3mo ago
Yeah, you made a revocation list but with time value instead of the token value.
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by dchest 3mo ago
It's interesting that most of the comments here are about using this feature to bypass security restrictions (whether valid or not). It says a lot about the attack surface of GNU utilities caused by featuritis.
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by dchest 3mo ago
Oops, of course, thanks for correction!
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by dchest 3mo ago
> just a block cipher in the category of endofunctors A block cipher is just a keyed pseudorandom permutation! :) Imagine that we have arranged all numbers from 0 to 11579208923731619542357098500868790785326998466564056403945758400791312

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