dozzie

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by dozzie 8y ago
> Please don't go into attack mode here. [...] > Edit: it looks like we've already had to warn you about not being a bully on Hacker News. Moreover, it looks like you've been posting like this a lot. OK then, please be
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by dozzie 8y ago
Of course it doesn't need to be audio nor video. It doesn't change the fact that you used a term that has more than one meaning without providing any context in which to interpret it. If somebody misreads it, then the problem is w
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by dozzie 8y ago
That's a big surprise, I thoguht it's about sending audio and video somehow.
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by dozzie 8y ago
> Ciao dozzie, I have omitted "implementation" from the title because I thought that was obvious enough. It seems not. Keep the proper terminology. If you omit words left and right, it becomes incomprehensible garbage. > If
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by dozzie 8y ago
Protocol cannot be open source . It can have a full specification published. A protocol does not have a source code, it's something that its implementation can have. Also, what the heck does it do? Neither README nor title says an
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by dozzie 8y ago
So basically you're using an overcomplicated chroot as nothing more than chroot.
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by dozzie 8y ago
Yes, I've seen. Even more unwieldy than OpenSSL's one, and you need whole Hashicorp's thing, too.
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by dozzie 8y ago
If only there was a certificate authority management tool that was convenient to use from command line and through an API, so it could be made into a company-wide service. There is this old tinyCA that comes with OpenVPN, but it's awfu
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by dozzie 8y ago
> And unless you're aggressively tracking your distro's package releases you'd better hope that the new libdep doesn't introduce any breaking bugs. Or use a distribution that does not break shit left and right, like D
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by dozzie 8y ago
>> Those were never necessary for operational purposes. If you were selling your users to get Google's analytics, that's a different matter. > What about simple session cookies? You need to give end-users the information
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by dozzie 8y ago
> Are you including cookie banners, Those were never necessary for operational purposes. If you were selling your users to get Google's analytics, that's a different matter. > privacy statements or EULAs in your product, so
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by dozzie 8y ago
> The BEAM is a preemptive VM. The BEAM Book shared by armitron disagrees: https://happi.github.io/theBeamBook/#_scheduling_non_preempt... Though an Erlang programmer never sees this in practice, because compiler in
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by dozzie 8y ago
> Samsung stopped making drivers for their MFCs so I needed to toss a perfectly working laser MFC because it stopped working with Linux, just like that. Erm... The old drivers stopped working with this particular device? I had a very sim
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by dozzie 8y ago
Why? Because you want somebody to be able to censor out your whole website without notifying you and without giving you any meaningful way to protest (CA revoking your certificate and giving you as much support as Google gives to its non-pa
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by dozzie 8y ago
Vacation is not about having less work. Vacation is about doing something different than you do usually, on a different schedule and probably with no big expectations to meet. Helping one's uncle to build a shed can be vacation to some
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by dozzie 8y ago
My guess is that it's because learning a different paradigm is difficult and you don't see its benefits until you're proficient with it. It's like learning functional or logic programming. Ansible gives you merely a way
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by dozzie 8y ago
So you have discovered how we were using chroot for decades. Congratulations.
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by dozzie 8y ago
That's not disrespecting HTTP standard. That's the consequence of using HTTP in place of a proper RPC protocol.
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by dozzie 8y ago
> All those things sound like antipatterns to me. If your application is supposed to fetch HTTPS pages then there should be an integration test for that [...] It's not something to regularly rely on, but something that helps in debu
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by dozzie 8y ago
Sure I can remember. Checking libraries the binary uses ("why this cURL fails on HTTPs? oh, it's linked against GnuTLS, that explains everything"), injecting your own library, intercepting a function (maybe syscall, or rather
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by dozzie 8y ago
> I doubt anyone can answer this for you, but why shouldn't it be [popular in the industry at the moment]? Its build system is poor if you want to rebuild the binary from the same sources (you can't precompile the libraries use
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by dozzie 8y ago
My company-supplied Dell Latitude 7480, running Debian stable with its stock kernel: > - M2 SSD requires changing some BIOS preferences to work on Linux No BIOS fiddling, except for disabling Thunderbolt security for docking station to w
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by dozzie 8y ago
I know you'd happily bash PHP author for such an incomprehensible error message, but it's not his own message, but something that comes from Yacc/Bison, when the next parsed token is not what can legally follow whatever the p
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by dozzie 8y ago
Ada?
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by dozzie 8y ago
Note that blockchains are not distributed databases. They're document timestamping services.
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by dozzie 8y ago
> Who the hell even prints anymore from a personal computer? Dude, I print fsckin' source code to read . I specifically bought an office-grade laser printer with a print server built in so I could do so. I also occasionally print p
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by dozzie 8y ago
And then we go back to processes, System V-like IPC (shmget()/semget()/msgget()), and network configuration subsystem (routing, firewall, bringing interfaces up or down, and the like; netlink is only a recent development, after 20
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by dozzie 8y ago
Note that he only yells at people who have a long track of submitting patches, so he already has an established relationship with them. From what I hear repeatedly , he's polite and helpful towards the newcomers.
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by dozzie 8y ago
And then you hit ioctls, which are necessary even by the very file-like way of working with terminals. The slogan in the unix world never matched anything well, or at least never since '90s.
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by dozzie 8y ago
> [SIOCSIFADDR] is a thing, although it targets a socket on the interface, not the interface itself. If we're cheating by using file descriptors instead of files , then you could go all the way and used AF_NETLINK sockets, they a

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