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Yes, I have a noisy fan and if the browser makes it turn on it's distracting.

it's not bad because of misguided intentions, it's bad because it lacks resources. really badly, even.

Cairo is currently desperately asking for development help, so uhh... https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/helping-cairo.html

Mad respect to sales guy. I'm doing the same and avoiding arms companies (my background is very useful for military research). I acknowledge some warfare may be legitimate (having …

I've been reading stories about a corruption case and apparently there's a lot of easy money to be had doing that.

I have an awful ISP - having a local mirror is a massive improvement. It almost seems like the web is unusable aside from companies large enough to have a mirror here.

I think in this hypothetical scenario the uid 0 attacker can create its own node for /dev/rwd0 and use raw disk accesses to get around filesystem limits.

Why do you need ACLs to run a few services on their own server?

> Breaking dords into bytes and vice-versa involves long sequences of shifts and logical operations modern MIPS has "ext" and "ins", which are probably an improvement in that regar…

I'm still putting off contributions because the CLA signing mechanism asked me for my phone number.

I'm assuming you're talking about the reviewer and long term contributor side of it. personally I found initial setup as a drive-by contributor to be very tedious. GitHub is the lo…

I agree, it's a hella questionable language choice, and not limited to C. I found out about it through https://github.com/rohe/pysaml2/issues/451

asserts are for diagnostic-enabled code, don't use them for security checks.

tnftp does HTTP and HTTPS. the command name is a misnomer.

Libarchive (sometimes known as bsdtar) supports 7z with an independent implementation.

As for NetBSD, there's hundreds of people with commit access and a small group of respected developers to resolve disputes, with some extra democracy / laws restricting it. FreeBSD…

Linus Torvalds again uses abusive wording when he could've made his point just as clearly without it. As the leader of a project he should avoid that - it's massively detrimental t…

I don't think you necessarily have to miss it on a threaded CPU, but that isn't as optimal.

Notify groups who have to develop fixes (in this case: OS, compiler developers). Especially when they have a record of not violating embargoes and good faith in fixing issues. When…

Our git repository went down when crawlers decided to index it

Those captchas are the worst. Google asks me to answer one whenever I make search queries in the middle of the night.

just a heads up, skia doesn't work on big endian.