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On the notion of "unhackable" I commented here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12671744

"What's important is hackable by who, and in what way." I strongly agree with this statement but my explanantion of it may be somewhat different. Hackable means controllable. Hack …

"Now, it's been a few years since gcc has been able to produce a real listing..." Can you share with readers the version number for the last gcc that can do this satisfactorily?

The author argues DDoS causes centralization because it's "just too easy to knock unprotected websites offline" and so they need to pay some organization that makes money from cent…

No. But they could theoretically kill the "big guys" internet. If a company controlled search, blogs, video content distribution, email, web browser, mobile phone OS, regional inte…

Avoiding DRM is easy. Avoid corporate-sponsored browsers. Writing programs that download files is not beyond the capabilities of average programmers. And internet users have ample …

I have a similar issue. Sometimes, but not every time, when I turn on a particular halogen lamp using the same outlet as a particular computer, it triggers USB detection and I get …

He is suggesting something much easier and different from DNS. WHOIS is one of the simplest internet protocols. The RFC is beautifully short. Unlike DNS, there's no rules on sizes …

Any plans to include i386?

"... we have not forced anybody to use it." What kind of an argument is that? Send everybody a binding agreement that allows the company to collect data and use it for commerical p…

Why not have a competition to see who can produce an alternative? Similar to the competitions between ciphers. Any language should be allowed. The problem is not necessarily the la…

You want enhanced privacy, control and transparency? Use a less complex program to retrieve web pages, with less features. (Or to post data.) Then use another program that cannot c…

"I feel like a broken record..." But it needs to be said. No one is going to ever say it, but SSL/TLS can be used to better hide the fact that companies like Microsoft and Google a…

"... remove the Phone from the iPhone" I read a comment on HN that said AppleTV is what you describe. The author seems to be ignoring the Mac G3/G4/G5/Pro computers. Apple is still…

Here's an interesting retweet from ProDOS's author last month. @JBrooksBSI [59]Aug 17 Was MS-DOS copied from CP/M? [60]embedded.com/electronics-bl... 60. https://t.co/mOR5mLBHwC ht…

"Slack for everyone". (After paying some registrar and ICANN gets its 13 cents or whatever.) Pay to play DNS aside, this is really what the "web 2.0" should have been. IMHO, an IRC…

There are other ways to block ads besides this one solution. The web ad delivery mechanism is brittle. But when will this game end? Advertisers should just pay consumers (users). W…

You never tried NetBSD? If you are suggesting NetBSD has more things enabled by default than OpenBSD I would bet that is incorrect. I have tried a lot of different projects and Net…

Is "Analyzing Sun Networks" out of print? I remember this book as being quite good. So many of those "old" Sun ideas are still around today, in one form or another.

Do web developers find ways to create work for themselves? You allude to it below when you say "zillions of hours". There is a significant amount of money moving through the "web d…

"TinyOS". It's on Github.

Why I'm dropping Rust (hackernoon.com) Why the redirect from medium.com?