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"Render useless" makes me think of something more like the F00F bug - hard lockup until a reboot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug OS vendors worked around it in soft…

Here's one for credential scanning: https://github.com/dxa4481/truffleHog

For starters, that "just" is swallowing: - Identify the relevant tokens you want to scan for, and create regular expressions to capture them. - Create a token alert service which a…

We do several of these things, and bundling them together looks nice; I imagine troubleshooting the pipeline is much easier. We would need the enterprise version because we are on-…

Reminds me of a saying from the first dot.com crash. (Or at least I heard it then first.) Tying two bricks together doesn't make them float.

Why keep yourself in a position where you have to ask FB for permission to speak? Vote with your feet. Build a website FB doesn't control.

Many of us in California don't care if you think they "shouldn't" live here. I'm perfectly well aware of the economic and tribal arguments. The former are not convincing and the pr…

So, explain this. I mean, it is a positive step that you've backed off your strange "rage" accusation, but why do you consider my stance on the technical merits of this step irrati…

Why does any criticism of systemd have to be due to "rage"? There is this ongoing behavior whereby anything other than fawning praise is treated as irrational and emotion-driven. Y…

I think this may be where I step off the train. I grumbled, but can live with it as init, and it is easy enough to disable the ntp and name resolution nonsense to use decent tools.…

There has been more than one Cisco vulnerability that struck people as suspicious. I know it comes to my mind every time I see the string "Cisco zero day", whether or not it seems …

Don't fall for the trap that this is about "big tech". It isn't. It is about your freedom of speech and ability to protect yourself.

The problem would be that they would no longer be academics. For a lot of people who head down that path, they consider it more of a vocation than a job. It may well be a good thin…

Some time ago I saw an Iphone app that could "read" resistors by pointing your camera at them, but can't find it now. Googling, I see one for Android, which I don't use: https://pl…

> Academics should [...] vot[e] with their feet. You do see the problem here, don't you?

> In the end the charity still gets more money than they had before and the runners get some exercise So "they" should be thankful for any old crumbs left on the table after their …

Conservative != bigot/anti-gay. We do have a brood of reactionaries attempting to blur that distinction like they always do, but there are plenty of conservatives who do not share …

Sounds like you turned on dedupe, or had an absurdly wide stripe size. You do need to match your array structure to your needs as well as tune ZFS. On our backup servers (45 disks,…

Linus is just wrong as far as maintenance, as a look at the linux-zfs lists would show. From my perspective, it has no real competitor under linux, which is why I use it. I don't c…

No, but even if the crazy person is correct in this instance, I'm still not relying on them for political/personal safety/vitamin/any other information of any consequence.

> And for most people it seems to work satisfactorily Most people apparently don't look at their pictures. The "enhanced" photos I've gotten from the Iphone for the last few models…

I'd guess traffic was rerouted.

> Recaptcha can make you cycle through a half-dozen different images That's when I just leave. If I'm feeling nice, I'll drop the site owner a note explaining why, but usually not.…

Education is a very "enterprisey" market in which the purchasers are not the users, who are essentially powerless. Pearson doesn't need to deliver quality, they need to deliver fun…