rc4algorithm

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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
Yeah, let's revert to 1988! Great solution! Muchly of advance!
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
It's not like de Raadt or Torvalds got arbitrarily dropped into their positions. People effectively chose them by investing usership and development effort into their projects.
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
> The overwhelming majority of C implementations additionally define the values of all-bits-zero floats and pointers. So... Clang and GCC? Regardless, you're ignoring the obvious difference: that isn't POSIX- or ISO-defined at
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
All of that useless zeroing is very painful from a performance perspective. It just isn't a reasonable option in performance-relevant code like kernels and core infrastructure. The Moore's Law argument doesn't apply because m
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
Unless the zeroing is defined by the language, assuming it t is incorrect and shouldn't be done.
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
OpenRISC has been stagnant for many years and will probably never make it to silicon.
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
This was written by Miod Vallet a couple days ago. He was the main nonstandard arch developer for OpenBSD and resigned last week. So, the context is that the author was one of the few leaders of the Luddites and considers it a lost cause.
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
The vast majority of MIPS systems are bargain-basement embedded systems, though. Also, the ISA is pretty messy (especially at the kernel layer) and doesn't support many modern features such as per-page W^X or crypto acceleration. I dis
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
This article suggests that there's no point in having a valid SMTP cert. However, consider end-users' clients, which store the SMTP domain (i.e. don't do MX lookups) and connect to it directly. For mail to users on the same e
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
> I would happily admit there is extensive room for improvement in systemd, but we UNIX folks have been working with worse-is-better and rough-consensus-and-running-code for decades. You're understanding "worse is better"
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
There's so much wrong with this comment... ETFs are just a way of buying equity, not a market that can be overcrowded. The 2008 meltdown happened because of subprime mortgages, the approximate opposite of conservative index fund invest
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
No no no no no. When you do this, you are: 1) Reinventing malloc for no good reason 2) Opening yourself up to a whole world of security holes See Bob Beck's talk on the first 30 days of LibreSSL. Heartbleed wouldn't have been near
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
I stopped reading after the first paragraph: > From September 2014 to June 2015 alone, it repelled more than 30 million known malicious attacks at the boundaries of its networks. Someone told them about SSHGuard and pf, I presume?
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
What a wonderful sentence. You can keep concocting winding philosophical sentences like that to defend the dignity of chickens, and the rest of us will keep trying feed people.
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
Do plants not die? Saying that people are causing death without clearly qualifying that its farm animals is childish. The environmental issue is legitimate, but they treated it as an afterthought. It also brings up issues of personal libert
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
Christ. Has it ever occurred to these hipsters that factory farming feeds people? It's simple science that conventional farming is the only way to feed 7+ billion (soon to be 9+ billion) people. And referring to slaughtered chickens as
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
It's really not that hard to install it yourself...
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
It's funny, one of the other top comments here is about how many features Firefox is removing. Vital, core stuff, like setting being able to set custom user agents for specific domains... I think the real reason many people are angry i
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
You're being pretty grim. Hello is fucking awesome, and while I don't use Pocket it isn't the end of the world. Firefox isn't Lynx, but even as a Unix guy I enjoy and appreciate it. I also appreciate that they're tr
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
> For example you can no longer set the User Agent string on a per site basis natively in Firefox preferences [0]. This seems like a uselessly fine-grained control. I was surprised to hear that they ever supported it.
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
Search the OpenBSD mailing list archives. Someone there got it working but ran into some problems.
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
> many
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
Who?
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
Some tasteful flaming is healthy in situations like this. Many people consider systemd to be a hijacking of the projects that they base their careers and livelihoods on, and many people see hundreds or thousands of hours of work they'v
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
Journalists need to start making a stronger distinction between Tor end-use and hidden services. End-use is solid - hidden services are experimental. That said, the fact that this research can identify what hidden service a user accesses sk
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
Don't be simple. This can reveal people that are using proxies like Tor and VPNs, and it's already being exploited by trackers: https://webrtchacks.com/dear-ny-times/
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
In many cases, this is a bad idea. For example, this is eventually equivalent to blocking Tor. I've been dealing with this issue lately.
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
Oh, jesus. They got $20,000-50,000. Such sellouts, right? Have you looked at Linux's sponsor list and budget lately? Good thing they GPL'd it - otherwise it might have ended up powering an intentionally obfuscated and user-restric
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
> Except for some basic UNIX tools, like grep or make, it's almost impossible to find anyting that's truly finished, not simply abandoned. Much of the stuff in the OpenBSD base. thttpd also comes to mind.
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by rc4algorithm 11y ago
People pay with their privacy. Google's support is generally considered to be somewhere between dismal and nonexistent for most of its services. Clearly, they're making enough money to be doing better. No one expects intensive 24&

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