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Comment #46744743
> it is likely rearranged by systemd, therefore only non-systemd glibc distributions are affected. systemd doesn't imply installed and running systemd-resolved though. I believe it…
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Comment #40558177
Matrix has so-called spaces, which group rooms together. Chaos Computer Club used this for 37C3, it was quite neat.
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Comment #38912396
> Actually, this guy lives in Luhansk, active war zone in eastern Ukraine. They apparently has left Ukraine since the full-scale war broke out, and travelling around the world: Tha…
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Comment #37716344
Pseudo-anglicism?
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Comment #34392646
Is it really about light vs. heavy though? I thought it was mostly about multiplexing notifications through a single app (usually through a single connection as well), so only one …
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Comment #30370490
> I mean, isn't the appeal of a relational DBMS that it is a black box to the user and it's the query planner's job to yield an efficient search for a given goal? I wish
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Comment #29607740
Just for the record, in Russia, we write all identifiers in English and practically all comments in (sometimes broken) English as well. Russian comments seem heavily discouraged, b…
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Comment #29574578
Is this the solution for the infamous "foobar: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by foobar)" problem?
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Comment #29497404
There's also "computed gotos". It's not the same as function pointers, though. https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/07/12/computed-goto-for-e... - article about them being used in CP…
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Comment #29030158
That's an interesting scenario for sure, but "defeats the purpose" is a stretch.
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Comment #28993920
I understand it as a part of "crappy CGI" aesthetic.
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Comment #28631246
I wish it could optionally ignore the info boxes and navbars. They kinda feel like cheating.
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Comment #28521451
Not really. From the website: > Contrary to similar solutions, this application does not intercept SSL connections, minimising privacy risks and allowing for usage on unrooted Andr…
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Comment #27903700
> It sounds like using systemd is a terrible idea for memory-constrained devices, so you really don’t want to see it in the embedded world. On the other hand, proper event-driven i…
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Comment #27565467
Maybe page cache (the thing tmpfs relies on) doesn't do full copy when reallocation, but rather, roughly speaking, appends extra pages to some sort of linked list? It would explain…
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Comment #26476959
You could put epoll fd in non-blocking mode, wrap it with os.NewFile, use SyscallConn() to get syscall.RawConn object, and then use its Read method. Its Read method is special: you…
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Comment #26281277
It really depends. In our case, Gmail rejects our IPv6, but accepts IPv4. The IPs are from university network and they don't have any history other than being used by us. SPF, DKIM…
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Comment #25804618
Lots of CTF organizers are security researchers. This particular CTF is organized by people from Chaitin Tech, which is a cybersecurity company. They emphasize that their challenge…
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Comment #25804588
The QEMU task was likely inspired by a real vulnerability as well: https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-09/msg0090... (discovered by CTF organizers, I think)
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Comment #25087978
Isn't it in the vanilla game, though?
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Comment #25002123
Wow, didn't expect to find a reference to RD-Sounds on HN.
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Comment #25000957
Sometimes tautology helps understands acronyms faster, without having to reconstruct context.
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Comment #24660558
In this particular example, I think the error is as specific as it gets, though.
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Comment #24424226
Matrix as well. https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/06/cross-signing-and-end-to-...
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Comment #24400170
> OpenID is a single sign-on protocol built on top of Oauth. Note that there's older OpenID (without "Connect"), which, to my knowledge, is more or less dead nowadays, and OpenID C…