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Red Hat security bulletin on this incident: https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2026... Quote: > The affected packages are frontend libraries that are compiled …

You can listen to the Wizball tunes here: https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/G/Galway_Marti... (use the little up/down arrows to switch between subtunes)

Minio recently started removing features from the community version. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44136108

Good question. Something to do with interactive mode? $ cat l.sh alias l=ls l $ sh l.sh file1 file2 l.sh $ bash l.sh l.sh: line 2: l: command not found $ bash -i l.sh file1 file2 l…

Report from the Taiwan agency: https://www.cwa.gov.tw/V8/E/E/EQ/EQ113019-0403-075809.html And a list of all recent earthquakes, showing the aftershocks: https://www.cwa.gov.tw/V8/E…

At least 1.2PB... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2S2RMNv7OU

> is for them to have broken the encryption algorithms behind TLS/HTTPS. Or if they have access to, or can subpoena, a MitMaaS for HTTPS. Like Cloudflare.

This is nice, but unfortunately > Rosetta doesn’t support the bootstrapping or installation of Intel Linux distributions on Mac computers with Apple silicon using the Virtualizatio…

> do they consider the memory is faulty when there are correctable errors? It depends on the frequency. Occasional CEs are somewhat expected (on a large enough scale) and one can l…

> The question was: which DIMM should we replace? On server-class machines, ECC errors often also show up in the system event log, so one can run "ipmitool sel list" and inspect th…

The author mentions that they also wrote a backup program (bup), and for backup programs it would be very convenient if directory mtimes would get updated like this (recursively up…

> pow(pow(pow(pow(pow(2, 2), 2), 2), 2), 2)) The Julia equivalent is: julia> ((((2^2)^2)^2)^2)^2 4294967296 Julia's ^ is right-associative.

The root password hash is not sufficient to log in as root, but knowing the hash enables an attacker to run an offline brute-force attack to crack the password. Depending on the pa…

Well, that's sorted then.

XFS V5 filesystems can be upgraded: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/XFS#Year_2038_timestamp_support... Edit: I see that V5 is the upstream default since "only" ~2015, so indeed there …

> The person who knows most about the hardware on which the program will be run is the person running it, not the programmer. Then again, in scientific computing, often these are t…

Also: https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/08/google_blocking_priva... According to this, Google wants to drop Manifest v2 support in Jan 2023.

Great timing. Here in the UK it's a four-day weekend. Can imagine that many affected will see this too late...

Perhaps see this past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18612590

> Anyone interested in mechanical keyboards surely is able to use Google to find decent offers. Umm, there are now almost daily threads on HN about how bad Google search has become…

Careful, your #2 and #3 are incorrect -- skip and seek operate with blocks, not bytes. So your #2 would copy 32 bytes after the first 32kB of data, and #3 would write 512 bytes at …

> but practical algorithms with better exponents exist for all of them. I'm aware of randomized algorithms with better complexity, which come at the cost of only giving approximate…

Thanks! This also works in Firefox 100.