bvttf | 5 months ago | on: Erlang ARM32 JIT is born
loved them complaining about having "only" 16 registers
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bvttf | 2 years ago | on: Has HN Changed? I assume it's just me
It's mostly the same in my experience.
Less Lisp now, which is too bad.
bvttf | 6 years ago | on: Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome
Wouldn't this just make a ftp:// url fallthrough to the ftp client in Dolphin/Finder/Explorer/xdg?
Like, worst-case ChromeOS loses ftp?
bvttf | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract
So much software is dual purpose, though. "We need this moving object recognition for, uh, cars. So it knows where a moving person is, so it can avoid them."
"Yes, that's a thing we're totally doing. Cars."
bvttf | 8 years ago | on: Protecting Against HSTS Abuse
While I'd also like https as a default, that's not going to prevent this tracking if you still respect the intent of HSTS.
If you try https first, and that fails, do you try again over http? Whether or not you'd fallback would leak the same information.
bvttf | 8 years ago | on: How EU Cookie Law Myths Affect Web Security
going to go with Burp's devs on this one
http://blog.portswigger.net/2016/05/web-storage-lesser-evil-...
bvttf | 8 years ago | on: How New York's Roosevelt Island Sucks Away Summer Trash Stink
So in summary, the garbage collection is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your [trash] in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
bvttf | 8 years ago | on: Makers of Crowdfunded “Gravity Blanket” Withdraw Unsupported Medical Claims
A "knock-off" like the dozen or so companies who have been selling weighted blankets for years? Forget six months, you could have one before this campaign ends.
bvttf | 9 years ago | on: Buttery Smooth Emacs
Don't believe Debian's lies, xscreensaver just got an update this month.
bvttf | 9 years ago | on: Krita 3.0: The Animation Release
Not only that, the download/announcement page says there are preview rendering bugs in OSX, and a workaround is provided.
bvttf | 10 years ago | on: Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come with Ubuntu preinstalled
> thinkpad has removed BIOS whitelist.
Wait, what. Link please?
bvttf | 10 years ago | on: Hackers and Heroes: Rise of the CCC and Hackerspaces
> What about Maker Faire, HOPE, DEF CON, etc.
OK, as someone who's been to all of these.
The team/cooperation part I think he's referring to is that CCC will have a large area dedicated different hackerspaces/assemblies. So c-base gets a corner that they decorate, as does Metalab, while many smaller hackerspaces will have a ~12-seat table dedicated to their group, where they can put up any cool projects they want to show off.
Maker Faire has something similar, where local groups will get an area to show off. HOPE has had some more topic-based assemblies like TOOOL. DEFCON has workshop tracks and more thematic "events" that happen, like DEFCON Shoot or the bike ride, but not as much of groups of real-life co-conspirators making things happen, with the notable exception of 303.
bvttf | 10 years ago | on: Birds that fear death
Did they do a control test with that mask and no dead bird? That fucking mask might be enough on its own.
/twajs
bvttf | 10 years ago | on: Encrypted database case #1
Any attacker above a script kiddie (where they can/want to make money off you) will have someone not as good as Dennis, but with the skill to do what's demonstrated here.
It's not that different from lots of DRM breaks.
bvttf | 10 years ago | on: Encrypted database case #1
like he says in the next paragraph, yes.
bvttf | 11 years ago | on: Purism Aims to Build a Philosophically Pure Laptop
Long answer: http://youtu.be/WOcYTqoSQ68
Short answer, iirc the atheros will usually play within the rules, and the free drivers aren't super officially supported so what those crazy hackers do isn't so much their responsibility.
But that's based on half-remembering that talk, which I watched five months ago.
bvttf | 11 years ago | on: USBCondom
I bought a few, the ones I got had a thick clear plastic wrapper that's not in the pictures.
bvttf | 11 years ago | on: CERN Particle Clicker
but don't hacked particles taste terrible?
bvttf | 12 years ago | on: 4chan announces vulnerability disclosure program
Sad this isn't an announcement of a new /0day board that serves as a pastebin alternative.
bvttf | 12 years ago | on: TLS/SSL implementation in Haskell
Not him, but I don't think the regular lazy evaluation worry about building up a million thunks and GC hell would be as much of a problem as it being awkward to not have things happen too fast and leave side channel attacks from timing.
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