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This is a fantastic in-depth look at debugging a complex problem, and the fact that the rest of the system remained stable is a testament to the quality of the engineering work tha…

Do be aware, though, that this is just a way to make builds fail fast if you have an older compiler. It doesn't put the compiler in a mode that makes it reject features introduced …

Disclaimer: I'm not an expert in Cilium! Only recently got into reading about it because of Jessie Frazelle's tweet about it. Still planning on deploying it into my small homelab. …

This depends on the CNI plugin you're using. In particular, Cilium implements the entire firewall in eBPF.

I highly recommend you do a search for Firesheep - the tool that really started the push for HTTPS everywhere. You're right that a malicious network operator would be in a position…

> until we embrace screens and render arial and images or even monospaced fonts that are perfectly readable This is part of what I meant when I said "drastically restrict the probl…

Another fascinating look into text on computer screens is this article: https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/ . Just goes to show that text rendering is actually absurdly c…

> You can for the most part just convert the LLVM bitcode that the Rust compiler would output to the equivalent C snippet. Sounds like a good argument to resurrect the LLVM C backe…

Honestly, even with minor versions, I'd prefer to use something like dependabot, or for a bot to open a pull request bumping versions. Tons of authors mess up semver in subtle ways…

For one, respected community member pcwalton has argued against compiling to C, citing the difficulty in producing performant, memory-safe output. For another, from personal experi…

What's more, the Gentoo maintainer that filed the issue lists a number of platforms that CPython itself doesn't even support.

Indeed, a commenter demonstrates that resolving the issue on Alpine Linux was as simple as adding an `apk add rustc cargo` to their Dockerfile.

Uhh, they do embrace bigotry. The official Gab twitter feed has posted openly bigoted comments, not just quoted from their site.

That's unfortunate, since an IOMMU is an excellent solution to this kind of problem, especially when one considers all the potential Linux USB stack vulnerabilities that can be exp…

You can use an IOMMU to isolate DMA to a separate security domain. This is how Qubes OS works.

Fellow UMich grad here. Shapiro library (formal name for UgLi) was always a great place to study because you had plenty of noise isolation from other people, especially the upper f…

I'm excited about this project too, but how does it "reduce the influence that Google and Facebook have on the Web"? It seems pretty orthogonal if you ask me.

> On the flipside, the kernel developers are a group of people with a detailed understanding of what makes C unsafe, and how to watch out for it in code reviews. I'm not saying tha…

All of these sources show memory safety problems getting worse or staying equally prevalent, which directly contradicts the parent's claim that memory safety is "much less of an is…

> Memory safety is much less of an issue than it used to be. This is demonstrably false: https://twitter.com/LazyFishBarrel/status/112900096574140416... Additionally, new "safe" C+…

That can be made a runtime concern - if you use Kata Containers as a runtime for Docker, it'll use a VM instead of kernel namespaces.

Algebraic data types!

This is an excellent analogy and I can't understand why it's being downvoted. Software is only as useful as its surroundings find it useful.

To those of us who actually contribute to the Linux desktop ecosystem, this isn't news.

Signal can use WebSockets, as their non-FCM version (downloaded from their website) does. I've come to agree with Daniel Micay about the best way to separate apps from Google servi…