The former happens a lot when people try to block specific commands for sudo, instead of taking a "permit these only" approach. If your sudoers file says you can access "all these commands but not cat", the site points…
I doubt we'll see it, but one thing I'd really like is for them to release cleaner drivers or specs for the hardware in Intel Macs. Now that they're committed to removing Intel support from the OS, it would be really…
Yep, I concur: this explains a bizarre behavior I’ve noted in my Mac laptops for ages now. I have a tendency to just suspend them without rebooting for ages, especially the work one that doesn’t leave my office as…
That’s fair! There were a couple comments that used similar language; I didn’t mean to call you out. Yours was the first I saw with it, so I hit reply. Thanks for clarifying.
> The point of communication between engineers is usually to establish a mutual understanding... I tried to let this pass in the discussion, I really did, but since it came up in various other replies I felt like I just…
Many companies miss how important this is, too: they get caught up in "but if they buy it second-hand, they're not buying our new stuff!". When people buy the stuff second-hand, though, they become Bose fans — that…
Genuinely saddened by this. I had Dr. Newby for a Linux admin class in college in the late 90s and it was one of the courses that got me interested in systems administration. I remember him as patient, kind, and…
Agreed, and it’s not just the hardware keyboard (on which I could comfortably have written an entire novel) that I miss. It had just enough access to email that I could reply to things when necessary, even if it…
Side note that not remembering it has nothing to do with memory deterioration. Neurons that fire together wire together: if you haven’t used that particular piece of information in a while, your brain gradually clears…
> (That's usually used to justify 'And that's why I don't need to spend time looking into the actual details and just give up') Just FWIW, giving up wasn't my point at all. I'm just not particularly optimistic that…
Yeah, call me overly cynical but I'm waiting for this cycle to play out: - CA bans face-masks for law-enforcement - White House issues executive order requiring face-mask use for all federal law enforcement - Both are…
Interestingly, it has held up quite well, too: outside of the occasional bit of old tech sticking out here and there, the whole thing could be set in 2025 with a minimum of updating. The problem the MacGuffin solves,…
sigh Is it that time of the year again that we start publishing these? Boy, how time flies... Too frequently, what people (and clearly the author of this piece) mean when they say "tougher grading" is just a return to…
Note that Quakers never rejected the possibility of being killed for their beliefs, just the choice of killing others for them. Pacifism does not equate to passivism, after all: it simply means that they reject the…
That Friend speaks my mind. :) In seriousness, I agree — it's always odd to see Quakerism discussed in other contexts, as well as running into other Quakers in other contexts outside of things like /r/quakerism or such.…
I was puzzled by that, too: I'm always mystified when people share their entire screen on a Zoom call instead of just the one window they need to show me. Zoom even makes it easy to change out what you're sharing (add /…
The only place I'm insistent about source-code is things like this that need access to a ton of my data at all times. An app that only has access to the data I choose to share with it, I'm more willing to give-and-take…
I'm aware this is old-man-shakes-fist-at-cloud territory, but I don't want an AI-based AI browser with AI integration to AI the AI in all the AIs. I want a freaking browser. If I want to leverage AI features, I'll use a…
I'm experimenting with moving to Zen, but finding it frustrating. I think I can get around the containers-vs-workspaces-as-separate-things shift, but the last time I tried it I found it really opinionated and you lose a…
A music history prof in college described this as "the ultimate raised middle-finger to the audience — Beethoven at his most I'm-writing-for-me-only."
I was genuinely taken aback by visiting a restaurant website last night that was only served over HTTP. (Attempting to hit it with HTTPS generated a cert error because their shared provider didn't have a cert for it.)…
You're not wrong: there's definitely evidence, for instance, of savvy attackers watching the CT logs for things like newly-instantiated WordPress servers and then attacking them before the admins have set the initial…
Oh definitely, but her point was she didn’t want the ACME client having the rights to frob the webserver — I figured that meant restart-rights too. :)
They’ve been making it harder and harder to serve things over HTTP-only for a while now. Steps like marking HTTP with big “NOT SECURE” labels and trying to auto-push to HTTP have been pretty effective. (With the…
Fortunately that’s only needed if you’re using the DNS validation method — necessary if you’re getting wildcards (but…eek, wildcards). For HTTP-01, no DNS changes are needed unless you want to add CAA records to block…
The former happens a lot when people try to block specific commands for sudo, instead of taking a "permit these only" approach. If your sudoers file says you can access "all these commands but not cat", the site points…
I doubt we'll see it, but one thing I'd really like is for them to release cleaner drivers or specs for the hardware in Intel Macs. Now that they're committed to removing Intel support from the OS, it would be really…
Yep, I concur: this explains a bizarre behavior I’ve noted in my Mac laptops for ages now. I have a tendency to just suspend them without rebooting for ages, especially the work one that doesn’t leave my office as…
That’s fair! There were a couple comments that used similar language; I didn’t mean to call you out. Yours was the first I saw with it, so I hit reply. Thanks for clarifying.
> The point of communication between engineers is usually to establish a mutual understanding... I tried to let this pass in the discussion, I really did, but since it came up in various other replies I felt like I just…
Many companies miss how important this is, too: they get caught up in "but if they buy it second-hand, they're not buying our new stuff!". When people buy the stuff second-hand, though, they become Bose fans — that…
Genuinely saddened by this. I had Dr. Newby for a Linux admin class in college in the late 90s and it was one of the courses that got me interested in systems administration. I remember him as patient, kind, and…
Agreed, and it’s not just the hardware keyboard (on which I could comfortably have written an entire novel) that I miss. It had just enough access to email that I could reply to things when necessary, even if it…
Side note that not remembering it has nothing to do with memory deterioration. Neurons that fire together wire together: if you haven’t used that particular piece of information in a while, your brain gradually clears…
> (That's usually used to justify 'And that's why I don't need to spend time looking into the actual details and just give up') Just FWIW, giving up wasn't my point at all. I'm just not particularly optimistic that…
Yeah, call me overly cynical but I'm waiting for this cycle to play out: - CA bans face-masks for law-enforcement - White House issues executive order requiring face-mask use for all federal law enforcement - Both are…
Interestingly, it has held up quite well, too: outside of the occasional bit of old tech sticking out here and there, the whole thing could be set in 2025 with a minimum of updating. The problem the MacGuffin solves,…
sigh Is it that time of the year again that we start publishing these? Boy, how time flies... Too frequently, what people (and clearly the author of this piece) mean when they say "tougher grading" is just a return to…
Note that Quakers never rejected the possibility of being killed for their beliefs, just the choice of killing others for them. Pacifism does not equate to passivism, after all: it simply means that they reject the…
That Friend speaks my mind. :) In seriousness, I agree — it's always odd to see Quakerism discussed in other contexts, as well as running into other Quakers in other contexts outside of things like /r/quakerism or such.…
I was puzzled by that, too: I'm always mystified when people share their entire screen on a Zoom call instead of just the one window they need to show me. Zoom even makes it easy to change out what you're sharing (add /…
The only place I'm insistent about source-code is things like this that need access to a ton of my data at all times. An app that only has access to the data I choose to share with it, I'm more willing to give-and-take…
I'm aware this is old-man-shakes-fist-at-cloud territory, but I don't want an AI-based AI browser with AI integration to AI the AI in all the AIs. I want a freaking browser. If I want to leverage AI features, I'll use a…
I'm experimenting with moving to Zen, but finding it frustrating. I think I can get around the containers-vs-workspaces-as-separate-things shift, but the last time I tried it I found it really opinionated and you lose a…
A music history prof in college described this as "the ultimate raised middle-finger to the audience — Beethoven at his most I'm-writing-for-me-only."
I was genuinely taken aback by visiting a restaurant website last night that was only served over HTTP. (Attempting to hit it with HTTPS generated a cert error because their shared provider didn't have a cert for it.)…
You're not wrong: there's definitely evidence, for instance, of savvy attackers watching the CT logs for things like newly-instantiated WordPress servers and then attacking them before the admins have set the initial…
Oh definitely, but her point was she didn’t want the ACME client having the rights to frob the webserver — I figured that meant restart-rights too. :)
They’ve been making it harder and harder to serve things over HTTP-only for a while now. Steps like marking HTTP with big “NOT SECURE” labels and trying to auto-push to HTTP have been pretty effective. (With the…
Fortunately that’s only needed if you’re using the DNS validation method — necessary if you’re getting wildcards (but…eek, wildcards). For HTTP-01, no DNS changes are needed unless you want to add CAA records to block…