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Slightly off topic, but does anybody know why the OpenBSD community has started using Comic Sans in all their material? Is it some kind of inside joke? I don't find it neither good nor wrong, but there must be some reason behind it.
I remember Bob Beck saying it was one of the three fonts that works with MagicPoint and the one that is most readable on projector.
> Random PIDs > Eliminates race conditions > Say you have a root daemon that forks then the child drops privileges. If you can beat the child you can inherit root privileges Can someone explain this? I don't see what this has to do with the randomness of pids.
Slightly off topic, but does anybody know why the OpenBSD community has started using Comic Sans in all their material? Is it some kind of inside joke? I don't find it neither good nor wrong, but there must be some reason behind it.
Slightly off topic, but does anybody know why the OpenBSD community has started using Comic Sans in all their material? Is it some kind of inside joke? I don't find it neither good nor wrong, but there must be some reason behind it.
There was another discussion about it recently on HN, which linked to this: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00025.htm...
Ummm. Citation needed?
"OpenBSD's OpenBGPD responsible for 30% of worldwide BGP communication" Ummm. Citation needed?
Slightly off topic, but does anybody know why the OpenBSD community has started using Comic Sans in all their material? Is it some kind of inside joke? I don't find it neither good nor wrong, but there must be some reason behind it.
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> Proactive security ●64-bit long long time_t (NetBSD technically did it first) The best kind of first. Joking aside -- why is so much OpenBSD advocacy backhanded like this ? Do the writers not think that OpenBSD can stand on it's own ?
You left off the following bullet point: * NetBSD technically did it first * But OpenBSD is the one who engaged with the rest of the software community to fix bugs that were uncovered Now it doesn't seem so backhanded.