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beaconfield | 4 years ago | on: Back Orifice (1998)

OK I have to say this: reading some of the comments here makes me think I was actually friends with you back in 1998/1999 because that's about when I was doing this same shit in my high school computer lab. Small world.

beaconfield | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?

I definitely use IRC to communicate with users of open-source projects like Spacewalk or Fedora. Anytime I can't get decent help using forums or Google searches, I go to IRC and work with the community there. Works very well!

beaconfield | 6 years ago | on: The universe may be a billion years younger than we thought

This is a really cool story. Science FTW! We have new evidence and people are starting to adjust their frame of mind and thinking in regards to the new evidence. Hopefully they can prove their hypothesis and we'll have a better idea of the actual age of the universe.

beaconfield | 6 years ago | on: Linux distros without systemd

It's comical how people get so "jazzed" about something like not liking systemd and make a whole movement about it (with their t-shirts and everything). I get people may not love everything about systemd (or maybe they hate it), but I'm not convinced it's so bad. I've been using it since RHEL 7 and I've really gotten used to all of the benefits of systemd. It also doesn't hurt that I went to the session on pid 1 by Lennart Poettering at Red Hat Summit 2014 and he convinced me of the at least not-horribleness of systemd.

beaconfield | 7 years ago | on: Photography Composition

This is an amazingly well thought out and written article. As a budding (astro)photographer, I'm keen to read this over and over.

beaconfield | 7 years ago | on: Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

As a long time Google user who, for privacy reasons, migrated most of my stuff away from Google I welcome this effort. I've been using Apple Maps for some time now and it's better than it was at launch, though not as good as Google.

I hope their renewed effort to improve Apple Maps pays off mainly because of their privacy-first mentality.

Also, I've noticed that whenever I submit a request for them to fix something, say, a business that's not listed I get a response and the item fixed within a day or two.

beaconfield | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Firefox vs. Chrome security

From Peter Bright at Ars: "And security remains a pressing concern, prompting the use of new techniques to protect against exploitation. Some of the rebuilt portions are even using Mozilla's new Rust programming language, which is designed to offer improved security compared to C++.

While today's release represents a major step forward in the browser's performance and reliability, work on Quantum continues. One major weakness of Firefox, relative to Chrome and Edge, is its use of sandboxing and process isolation to limit the impact that security flaws can have. Next year Mozilla will be working to improve these areas. Early next year should also see the rollout of a new GPU-accelerated rendering engine."

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