jwilk

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by jwilk 5d ago
LSM = Linux Security Module What's TCB though?
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by jwilk 5d ago
Also, fallocate+chmod is racy: between the two calls, an attacker could open the file, and then keep it open until next reboot. OTOH, mkswap creates the swap file with the correct permissions straight away. The --size and --file options are
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by jwilk 5d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49603335 (30 comments at the moment)
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by jwilk 8d ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562262 (22 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538096 (4 comments)
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by jwilk 11d ago
You can use www.reddit.com (yes, this domain, not old.reddit.com) with the old UI if you set cookie "redesign_optout=true".
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by jwilk 12d ago
It's a soft keyword: https://docs.python.org/3.15/reference/lexical_analysis.html... > As soft keywords, their use in the grammar is possible while still preserving compatibility with existing code that u
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by jwilk 13d ago
The HN submission title is a garden-path sentence: Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned (Huh? How do you scan a company?) The original title is easier to parse: Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verifica
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by jwilk 13d ago
Discussed in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6069353 (105 comments) Sadly the original domain has been usurped.
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by jwilk 14d ago
The lack or determinism is irrelevant. It's trivial to make an LLM deterministic (certianly much easier than to make a human deterministic!), but that wouldn't make it any more trustworthy.
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by jwilk 16d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465158 (7 comments)
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by jwilk 16d ago
Hmm… To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest 1 to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively 2 state the exclusion of warranty 3; and 4 each 5 file 6 should 7 have 8 at 9 10 least
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by jwilk 17d ago
From the HN guidelines < https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shorten
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by jwilk 17d ago
Huh? Are you saying there's an Argon2 implementation in the kernel?
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by jwilk 17d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491791 (over 200 comments at the moment)
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by jwilk 17d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491791 (over 200 comments at the moment)
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by jwilk 18d ago
Curiously, this makes Firefox display the default favicon (instead of no favicon): https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/raw/refs/heads/ma...
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by jwilk 19d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481018 (9 comments at the moment)
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by jwilk 19d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481018 (9 comments at the moment)
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by jwilk 20d ago
Other interesting APIs are: https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/tweet/[tweetid] https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/tweet/[tweetid]/replies
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by jwilk 21d ago
What is the uid parameter for? It looks to me it's ignored.
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by jwilk 21d ago
The latter URL looks wrong.
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by jwilk 21d ago
Still on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283 (nearly 900 comments)
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by jwilk 22d ago
I thought we were talking about alternative ways to read Twitter. Alternative microblogging services are not of any help to me, because nobody (that I wanted to read) posts there.
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by jwilk 22d ago
I had the same experience with XCancel, but nitter.net worked for me.
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by jwilk 22d ago
It did, and then it came back. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/discussions/1212
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by jwilk 22d ago
What are they?
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by jwilk 22d ago
The first sentence sounds as if they modified the implementemention of str.lower(). That would be bonkers, but that's not what they did. https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7e109d084d55e7eb The impo
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by jwilk 1mo ago
Discussed in 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28157117 (34 comments)
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Reconsidering O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY(lwn.net)
2 points by jwilk 2mo ago|0 comments
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by jwilk 2mo ago
You accidentally a verb.

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