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Stream gets faster fixes in general, but yeah for embargoed security fixes it goes the other way around Even if you are Meta. The only trick we use is something anyone can do - hot…

Right. But it does not matter in this case - Meta rolls out its own kernel (we employ a lot of kernel engineers, and PSA our Linux teams are hiring software engineers!) and we main…

> That is: on 64-bit x86, you have with frame pointers twice as many available registers as 32-bit x86 has without frame pointers Indeed. > I don't think getting rid of frame point…

Big Tech firm - acknowledged it with a day of learning but no day off, which is not fun especially for parents whose kids' schools do close on Monday

yeah, I wonder when the Facebook container will make it to mobile - it's one of their own after all so there should be no safety issue.

Freenode's IRC servers were down which was unexpected for me. I was expecting old-school communication networks to not have a dependency on Cloudflare.

Ironically, the best phones to do that are Google's own Pixels - to give credit where it's due, at least the phones have unlockable bootloaders (unless you buy the Verizon variants…

Roku and Amazon Fire TV works fine with captive portals though (Roku elegantly asks you to connect to a custom WiFi AP that just forwards the captive portal to your phone). So this…

It's been awesome. The one feature I'm still missing from LastPass is being able to mark some entries as more secure and reprompting auth on those.

Which desktop client did you try? The official Mac client, at least, has secret chat just like the mobile clients (I just used it yesterday) Note that Telegram secret chats are end…

Ouch, which university is that? I've heard of universities negotiating deals to get student discounts with certain vendors, and others requiring students (normally in engineering p…

> Maybe you could make the argument that the really poor Facebook users are essentially drafting off of imperfectly targeted advertising? Note that the really poor Facebook users c…

Indonesian ISPs are required to filter certain domains, but go further than the Denmark case - they also block access to third-party DNS servers. Using DNScrypt or a VPN (or hostin…

The one recent kernel bug I remember is poll returning early: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/10/11/poll-on-mac-10-12-is-...

From what I hear, at Apple you're not allowed to contribute to open source projects (unless it's part of your day job) even in your own time - in contrast to Google (from what I he…

from a previous blog post: "Our engineers were comfortable with Git and we preferred to stay with a familiar tool, so we took a long, hard look at improving it to work at scale. Af…

It's not as simple as choosing which service not to use - for example, people who have your details in their address book might inadvertently leak your data without your knowledge.…

This is a refreshing move. Doing a traditional IPO is not a recipe for success anyway (hello, Snap). I personally would be watching this and probably try and buy a couple of shares…

I personally am fine with using Firefox (though after Looking Glass I've disabled the setting to allow experiments). IIRC the person that advocated for Chromium (instead of a third…

Indeed. I'm seeing people recommending Chromium (not Chrome) instead of Firefox because of this.

That's similar to my experience when using HDMI cables. Switched to using USB C -> MiniDP cables and things are better now, except since I can't daisy-chain the two monitors with D…