hlandau

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by hlandau 3mo ago
I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I'm honestly having difficulty telling whether this is real or an extraordinary piece of performance art.
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by hlandau 1y ago
I'm a bit confused. This is described as being related to 'NitroTPM', which is described as a 'virtual device [...] which conforms to the TPM 2.0 specification'. Ordinarily, the way you do attestation with a TPM is
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by hlandau 2y ago
Most webapps would be dramatically improved if the developers were banned from using any JavaScript on the client side in the first version, and allowed only to apply progressive enhancements from there.
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by hlandau 2y ago
This seems overcomplicated. Maybe I'm missing something, but is there some reason not just to define a psuedoelement on the current option? option::picker-current { ... }
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by hlandau 2y ago
With every new PostgreSQL release we see yet more features and sugar added to the frontend, yet seemingly no meaningful improvement to the backend/storage layer which suffers these fundamental problems. I wish the PostgreSQL community
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by hlandau 2y ago
The underlying lesson here should be that centralised package registries are unnecessary, yet new language ecosystems keep making the same mistake. There's really no reason for NPM or crates.io to exist. Go got this right.
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3D Printed Peristalic Pump Has Impressive Capabilities (2015)(hackaday.com)
2 points by hlandau 2y ago|0 comments
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by hlandau 2y ago
This is lovely. This feels like a new genre of hardware hacking to me, where someone is motivated to make a device out of compassion for their family or others. It reminds me of this instance where someone designed their own peristaltic pum
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by hlandau 2y ago
Very nice! Not free, but the "Technic", "Simplex" and "ISOCP" fonts included with AutoCAD are also of this aesthetic, if people want an exhaustive list of candidates.
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by hlandau 2y ago
Personally I've always considered it bad hygiene to commit generated outputs, but this article notes that this takes on a new significance in the light of supply chain security concerns. Good changes from PostgreSQL here. Generated out
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by hlandau 2y ago
The problem (at least for me) is input format support. Assorted foobar2000 plugins support every obscure tracker format, every obscure video game music format (.vgz, etc.), and then foo_midi lets you render MIDIs not just with Soundfonts bu
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by hlandau 2y ago
foobar2000 is so good, and so unmatched, especially with its plugins ecosystem, I use it for my music playback needs under wine on Linux.
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by hlandau 2y ago
Interesting. Are there better MCUs on the market for these applications (other than massively expensive actual 'rad-hardened' space chips)? You can get MCUs with lockstep dual CPUs, for example (TMS570 etc., and I assume the autom
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by hlandau 2y ago
The context of this discussion is my claim that "the adoption of electric, centrally controlled doors was naturally motivated in major part by timeliness." You're claiming that this is refuted by the Wikipedia article, but I
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by hlandau 2y ago
I would absolutely consider prisons a technology, most obviously because we can see human societies where prisons are not a viable technology. If a member of a more primitive tribe starts killing people, the pragmatic solution is to kill th
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by hlandau 2y ago
The first quote is simply a statement that central locking is safer. I don't think that's really disputed, but it's not the same as saying that it was the defining motivation, especially in the 1920s. The second quote relates
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by hlandau 2y ago
Prisons are a technology as I define it, as is writing, agriculture, etc.
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by hlandau 2y ago
Author here. In a word: yes. The universe is cold, ruthless, and does not care about us. I make no claims otherwise. Society isn't that, though. Not least because nobody is particularly happy about the above fact and most people are tr
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by hlandau 2y ago
Author here. This misses the point that computers are a technology. Like any technology, the choice to adopt a technology is always made by a human actor with some knowledge of the relevant tradeoffs. Ergo, wilful adoption of a technology w
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by hlandau 2y ago
Author here. Can you elaborate? I don't see anything to support this claim from the link you provide. You are correct that the completion of the phase-out of slam-door rolling stock in the UK will relate to modern safety (and accessi
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by hlandau 2y ago
Indeed, double-free, not UAF; I should know better than to write comments while sleep-deprived... I suppose a cookie could be used in a "trust, but verify" approach if the free function takes both a pointer and a cookie. You would
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by hlandau 2y ago
My own view on this is that a hardened allocator API should separate the functions of an allocation identifier/cookie and the actual pointer to the allocated memory: func alloc(numBytes: usize) -> (ptr: void *, cookie: uword)
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by hlandau 2y ago
See comment below. More generally what I'm seeking is something in the card form factor which is suitable to store cryptographic secrets (i.e., a smartcard). Separate IC is a disadvantage here since it creates a vulnerable security bou
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by hlandau 2y ago
This is interesting but clearly not intended for security/cryptographic applications... no security hardening, no hardware cryptography, and it's also not available in a card form factor according to the datasheet.
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by hlandau 2y ago
The NFC chip I want still doesn't exist: a CPU and flash I can write a program for, directly, no VMs, no Java, without an NDA'd datasheet. These exist, but they're all behind NDAs and you're not allowed to have them. The
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by hlandau 2y ago
The Great Wave is fantastic art and I'm getting a bit tired of seeing it overused everywhere. This is going to make that even worse. It's good to celebrate outstanding artwork but having it in everyone's face all the time is
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by hlandau 2y ago
From my perspective, TF2 was ruined the moment microtransactions became involved. The point of a game, from my perspective, is that it allows people to compete in a game of skill or chance (or some mixture of both) in a way that is independ
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by hlandau 2y ago
Yeah, the low quality and informal "tutorial" presentation of the RISC-V "specification" has always been very jarring to me given the popularity of RISC-V. The authoritative description should be machine readable, but th
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by hlandau 2y ago
CGNAT should be illegal. Or at least it should be illegal to advertise a CGNAT service as an "Internet connection". It's not an Internet connection, you can't use it to send or receive arbitrary IP packets, only TCP&#x2F
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by hlandau 2y ago
My mail server has been known to deliver mail to Gmail using IPv6 if I don't tell it not to. Not sure if Gmail will use IPv6 for incoming mail though.

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