photon-torpedo

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by photon-torpedo 4mo ago
Red Hat security bulletin on this incident: https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2026... Quote: > The affected packages are frontend libraries that are compiled and bundled into some containe
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by photon-torpedo 5mo ago
You can listen to the Wizball tunes here: https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/G/Galway_Marti... (use the little up/down arrows to switch between subtunes)
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Privilege Escalation Attacks on GPUs Using Rowhammer(gpubreach.ca)
1 points by photon-torpedo 5mo ago|0 comments
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by photon-torpedo 1y ago
Minio recently started removing features from the community version. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136108
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TSMC evacuates employees following earthquakes(focustaiwan.tw)
4 points by photon-torpedo 2y ago|0 comments
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by photon-torpedo 2y ago
Good question. Something to do with interactive mode? $ cat l.sh alias l=ls l $ sh l.sh file1 file2 l.sh $ bash l.sh l.sh: line 2: l: command not found $ bash -i l.sh file1 file2 l.sh Edit: Ah yes, the man page sa
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by photon-torpedo 2y ago
Report from the Taiwan agency: https://www.cwa.gov.tw/V8/E/E/EQ/EQ113019-0403-075809.html And a list of all recent earthquakes, showing the aftershocks: https://www.cwa.gov.tw/V8/E&#
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by photon-torpedo 3y ago
At least 1.2PB... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2S2RMNv7OU
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by photon-torpedo 3y ago
> is for them to have broken the encryption algorithms behind TLS/HTTPS. Or if they have access to, or can subpoena, a MitMaaS for HTTPS. Like Cloudflare.
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
This is nice, but unfortunately > Rosetta doesn’t support the bootstrapping or installation of Intel Linux distributions on Mac computers with Apple silicon using the Virtualization framework. So I guess it still won't be possible t
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
> do they consider the memory is faulty when there are correctable errors? It depends on the frequency. Occasional CEs are somewhat expected (on a large enough scale) and one can live with them, after all that's what ECC is for. Whe
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
> The question was: which DIMM should we replace? On server-class machines, ECC errors often also show up in the system event log, so one can run "ipmitool sel list" and inspect the most recent messages, and they often point to
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
The author mentions that they also wrote a backup program (bup), and for backup programs it would be very convenient if directory mtimes would get updated like this (recursively up to the root), as it would allow to skip scanning the enti
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
> pow(pow(pow(pow(pow(2, 2), 2), 2), 2), 2)) The Julia equivalent is: julia> ((((2^2)^2)^2)^2)^2 4294967296 Julia's ^ is right-associative.
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
The root password hash is not sufficient to log in as root, but knowing the hash enables an attacker to run an offline brute-force attack to crack the password. Depending on the password complexity, this may or may not be feasible. That s
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
Well, that's sorted then.
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
XFS V5 filesystems can be upgraded: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/XFS#Year_2038_timestamp_support... Edit: I see that V5 is the upstream default since "only" ~2015, so indeed there are likely many V4 filesyste
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
> The person who knows most about the hardware on which the program will be run is the person running it, not the programmer. Then again, in scientific computing, often these are the same person.
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
Also: https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/08/google_blocking_priva... According to this, Google wants to drop Manifest v2 support in Jan 2023.
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
Great timing. Here in the UK it's a four-day weekend. Can imagine that many affected will see this too late...
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
Perhaps see this past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18612590
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
> Anyone interested in mechanical keyboards surely is able to use Google to find decent offers. Umm, there are now almost daily threads on HN about how bad Google search has become, especially for product search... So I'd guess many
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
Careful, your #2 and #3 are incorrect -- skip and seek operate with blocks, not bytes. So your #2 would copy 32 bytes after the first 32kB of data, and #3 would write 512 bytes at position 5120k.
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
> but practical algorithms with better exponents exist for all of them. I'm aware of randomized algorithms with better complexity, which come at the cost of only giving approximate results (though the approximation may be perfectly
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
Thanks! This also works in Firefox 100.
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
Apart from the local lockdowns, China as a whole has recently issued a ban on international travel from China, making it difficult for people to leave the country. So in some sense, the whole population is locked down (or locked in). Sour
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
P2P market places already exists, I guess. The tricky part is how parties can trust each other, and I think this might actually be solvable by blockchain / smart contract tech. Basically a smart contract takes the role of the trusted i
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
Another lesson: Keep your own copy of all files. Use takeout.google.com.
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
Then if the password manager is compromised, the second factor wouldn't add any protection over just a password. Then again, people that use password managers at all usually have stronger passwords and less password reuse, so it can be
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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
Apart from all the advice on how to do such destructive operations more safely, I think there's also a lesson to be learned about communicating more actively: 1. Vimeo responds to the original request with "will look into it"

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