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> A leak was detected in one of the fittings and an attempt was made to correct it by striking the fitting with a large wrench.

> is this pressure from the gun manufacturing lobby Definitely not, it's pressure from the anti-gun lobby that keeps pushing "one more bill that this time will actually change viol…

This is fair, but I would venture to guess 99% of people including software developers and even most IT professionals completely rely on the vendor pre-installed root CAs.

DOD Cyber Exchange, home of DISA STIGs among other resources, appears to be signed by a root CA "US DoD CCEB Interoperability Root CA 2" which does not appear to be in any browser …

From my anecdotal observation this is true. Gun sales are also growing among demographics not typically associated with gun ownership (non-white, non-conservative.)

> the salesman wasn't supposed to TELL YOU that we are monitoring what you install Exactly. The old "I'm sorry I got caught" and not "I'm sorry I did it."

> There's always the risk that the West might internally reject the scientific revolution. In the US I am pretty sure we are already on the decline. I think it has to do with, duri…

I agree, for a couple reasons. One, while you usually have to deal with a cross toolchain (usually intel-> ARM) it's easier to build and debug on a target board versus booting and …

This sounds a bit like the custom bicycle frame builder phenomenon as well. Well-known builders/shops can have years-long wait lists and their builds will go for 2x, 5x or 10x the …

I was curious, and since the author of this answer provided links to what they called leaks [1], it's not difficult to download both the leak and ReactOS source [2] and look for si…

I clicked the article link just because I was expecting to see this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Urkel#/media/File:Steve_...

Beyond the Abstract, can anyone give a TL;DR on novel or interesting things covered in this paper?

I actually implemented something on an embedded linux product once: a busybox initramfs that you could boot into "recovery mode," then along with dropbear, SSH into a completely in…

The issue becomes when you're calling some generic library that's unaware that it is running in a request handler. If you want to log from deeper in some logic, maybe you've passed…

I have not used Java in many years now, but I'm curious if anyone has anecdotal experience using OpenJDK in production? Performance vs Oracle Java, bugs/ idiosyncrasies due to inte…

I tried this as well, can't reproduce. I've got a 15" "late 2013" rMBP, set display options to "more space." I've got a total of 45 tabs open between a couple different windows (I …

If anyone is interested in other lightweight tools to complement a minimal embedded linux distro, check out Troglobit's GitHub repo: https://github.com/troglobit . He has a collect…

I hate to say it, but demonizing ICE seems like the wrong thing. It's the executive administration that direct ICE and Congress that tells ICE the laws to enforce. That's not to sa…

How about a web interface on an embedded device?

> I really don't want to learn dart Literally half of programmers: "Ugh why can't everything be Javascript" Other half of programmers: "Ugh Javascript is the worst language in exis…

This is true. Thankfully node-pre-gyp helps here because you can build the native modules once for each target arch/platform. I actually have a node app that uses several native mo…

Have you looked into a DIY battery replacement?[1] I've replaced "non removable" batteries and cracked screens in several phones over the years (the latest being a Nexus 5X) and it…

> There is no real demand for alternatives to the RPi. Only if you quality that with "among consumers." There is tons of demand for ARM-based modules that are designed to be embedd…

I don't know firsthand, but "Debian" is primarily responsible for userspace binaries, which just need to be built for aarch64. Just about everything specific to the chip & peripher…