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wademealing

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    Comment #25485019

    >> My advice would be that if you're consistently getting negative feedback about personality traits from others, take it seriously. This is bland and simple advice at best, that o…

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    Comment #25174176

    Ive recently learned that the 'write protection' of sd is an honor system.

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    Comment #24997246

    Historical evidence shows this to be factual.

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    Comment #24949913

    I feel like writing a 'goodbye goodbyes' medium piece which talks about never listening to a 'goodbye' article again.

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    Comment #21561372

    I have a feeling that its a CPU designed with side-channel attacks in mind. Could be Intel, could be ARM.

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    Comment #21519967

    I think that IBM know if they get their hands dirty in Red Hat, they wont have much ROI from their investment.

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    Comment #21397016

    This reminds me of the same discussion back in the late 90's

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    Comment #21199441

    I think thats changing with CentOS stream ( see https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/09/24/changes-to-cen... ) this probably means that CentOS will have a reduced ramp up time f…

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    Comment #21189229

    I'd rather use gimp than photoshop. Photoshop, ergg.. what a confusing tool!, who would use a 'cloud service' for your important data.. lol.

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    Comment #21187640

    No, its the fact that you need to re-upload that app every 7 days..

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    Comment #21143346

    > If you introduce a technology into the world, you have to consider the possibilities every type of person You can't.. the human mind simply can't understand every type of person …

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    Comment #21143260

    There is almost 0% reason why this can't be done already.

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    Comment #21045248

    Is this difficult to believe, do you delete users hundreds of times a day ?

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    Comment #21022781

    I'd be very interested in if you find something specific. Do you have any details regarding the AWS contacts because i'd like to see if i can generalize it for the RHEL6 case and m…

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    Comment #20857293

    I believe that the blame here is mostly misattributed. Caching (a good thing) and also the remote sites being bloated. I'm not sure if or should the browser be fixing that ?

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    Comment #20774327

    I might be missing the point here, but larger binaries are not always slower.

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    Comment #20631938

    I believe that this (SWAPGS) vector is impractical but previous spectre proof of concepts exists if you look hard enough.

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    Comment #20631932

    I agree its unfair. Microsoft also played ball with Linux vendors alerting them to this vector. This allowed them to get the swapGS fixes tested and sane. This interaction with the…

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    Comment #20514526

    I will wear my vendor hat here for a moment, AC not about the attacker, but the configuration of the component being assessed.

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    Comment #20514499

    I wrote to NIST/NVD tis morning about the CVSS score (12+ hours ago now) they haven't got back to me.

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    Comment #20389774

    You dont, usually.. I keep one for the code and the other for the browser/private stuff. You can setup a 'scene' in obs to switch to the other window if you need to, but keeping it…

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    Comment #20210327

    and Generic Segment offloading.

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    Comment #20210315

    Thanks for the report, getting our team to fix that.

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    Comment #20208490

    Similar concept, different operating system.

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    Comment #20208474

    Disclaimer: I worked on initial Red Hat article linked above. In my personal AWS instance from the last few days less than half a percent of the traffic had hit the firewall rule t…