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mishafb

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    Comment #44598481

    I agree on the last point of the lack of composition here. While it's true that writers need to be aware of buffering to make use of fancy syscalls, implementing that should be an …

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    Comment #32129557

    1. You mean ctrl-shift-r?

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    Comment #31846607

    You do need an suid binary to e.g. set a new user id map, since this requires comparing the user id range owned by you to what you're mapping, but you only do it once and it's a si…

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    Comment #31800868

    It is a real cdn with paying customers, trying to advertise its product, there is no catch

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    Comment #31170079

    There's a payment app that detects the installation source is not google play store, and I haven't found a way to use it

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    Comment #31017249

    Daemons that care about security setuid temporarily before opening a file and then setuid back

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    Comment #30966363

    On the mdn page for it they say there are other less legitimate techniques like adding an image which will start loading and delay the page unloading. So if they didn't add beacons…

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    Comment #30829352

    Try replacing medium.com with scribe.rip

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    Comment #30596955

    I think you would need a pipe reading from (using splice) a file you're not supposed to write to, which also accepts your input, which you're very unlikely to find, and you would o…

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    Comment #30453221

    We have atomic bitwise operations already (look at glibc's mutex implementation), and the unit atomic operations work on is a 64-byte cache line. Cache lines are useful because rea…

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    Comment #29359251

    You could encrypt and archive everything and back that up periodically with rclone, or get external hard drives with a copy and store them separately

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    Comment #29116692

    A timeline for seeing what tabs were open yesterday at any hour

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    Comment #29031850

    With IPv6, you don't have CG-NAT, or double NATting, at the ISP level. If both sides are behind CG-NAT, then direct peer-to-peer communication is impossible or at least unstable to…

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    Comment #28916554

    The lambdas aren't actually lambdas, they are anonymous classes with a single metthod according to the type-inferred interface, and they can't use variables that aren't effectively…

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    Comment #28736297

    Many realtek wifi adapters cause issues on Linux, and require buggy kernel modules. You should do some research before getting a wifi adapter. I just repurposed a wifi extender to …

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    Comment #28698277

    What kind of home routing would require a Pi?

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    Comment #28459804

    Zig has painless cross compilation, with gcc or clang it's a nightmare

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    Comment #28444320

    Signal has since changed their encryption methods so that it's harder to know who's sending messages to who, and what groups exist. On WhatsApp, these changes have obviously not be…

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    Comment #28432387

    Yeah, but obviosuly facebook doesn't have shadow profiles /s

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    Comment #28431342

    So our computers are getting more powerful every day for nothing but Electron?

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    Comment #28423869

    Before this is loaded and completely ready, you probably load resources with your regular CDN

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    Comment #28422259

    This is equivalent to running a Makefile or a pre-built executable as your user which you're bound to do anyway

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    Comment #28422194

    Is it compressible or already compressed?

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    Comment #28396336

    Truly wireless keyboard where every key is connected via bluetooth

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    Comment #28384017

    I know it works but it just feels wrong