Viewing profile — andyjpb

Being able to select desktops/workspaces per screen is half the solution. The other half is allowing the selection to come from a pool of desktops/workspaces common to all screens.…

I've longed for a window manager that can assign different virtual desktops to different screens. Of course, there are compositing, scaling and resolution issues to overcome, but i…

Hi, This reply is a bit late because someone pointed me at it and suggested it was worth answering. ...so I hope that this is useful! I have experience using Chicken Scheme in prod…

I can't find any docs other than what's on the page but my reading suggests that the idea is that you can get/set values "in-band" using a regular lookup query to a resolver rather…

There is still Hesiod support in GlibC / NSS, etc on most modern systems. When put together with Kerberos it's a nice way to provision auth on lots of machines automatically. It's …

If you have hypervisor access you can simply ask the guest to read the memory for you.

Encryption only helps if you can guarantee that your attacker can't get access to the layer below where the runtime decrypts things. A cloud hack like the parent poster talks about…

Mutually Assured Destruction relies on the victim knowing that they've been destroyed. Lots of these so-called "Cyber weapons" are operated by actors who are very effective at leav…

I think this outlook is very much part of the reason that Britons are worried about Facebook's move to Californian terms. In the UK we do have very well established "Consumer Law" …

You're not strictly wrong... But what I'm trying to say is that what's in your database should be well defined. You shouldn't just put any old stuff in there. You should have a sta…

This will allow your program to be used as a vector to attack the things your program depends on. It's true that those bits of eMail infrastructure are probably more robust but it'…

Yes! http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/email-address https://bitbucket.org/knodium/email-address/src/master/email... It's a fair few lines of code but most of it comes directly from…

Facebook don't "sell ads". Well, literally, they do. ...but the product they're actually offering is "behaviour". They sell access to the levers to influence behaviour.

The author seems to be soliciting artwork submissions for a "Pobox clock" as well so perhaps we could use this opportunity to help out! https://humanclock.com/poboxclock.php

I usually put a few paths in between "find" and "-type", use the other predicates of "find" and often rewrite if from a just executed `find ... | grep`. One particular modification…

`find |grep -i ...` and `find -type f |xargs grep -i ...` have become old favourites. This seems like an interesting system, provided you don't have more categories than you can ea…