Some of that was driven by people wanting hibernation to be reliable. The other part was that it kinda matched the money you were spending on the machine. The guy with 128MB of ram could likely afford to spend the extra…
In the distant past there was plenty of times I tried to fix dying web servers by logging in and restarting a rogue process or cleaning up a memory leak... only to have my SSH session and shell sessions being repeatedly…
It just meant that you spent too much on servers. Either that or they could of been doing more. Not a big deal. Being efficient isn't really all it is cracked up to be. Sometimes having a big server that sits mostly…
There are lots of very good reasons why running small root partitions on Linux desktops is a very bad idea. The smart money is on a single large partition for home and root and everything else. This way you get 100%…
Zswap has improved to the point where it is now preferable over Zram. https://linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/ There is a few other people documenting the same thing if you look around. As far as Linux and swap…
> I've never really understood why we chase Android-alikes on mobile platforms instead of trying to build on mainstream Linux. Because there is no such thing as "mainstream Linux" when it comes to anything related to…
XWayland is actively developed. XFree86, which is the "standalone DDX" you see on X11 desktops, is being actively maintained.
Nowhere (and everywhere). It is my understanding that XACE doesn't actually provide any security features itself. It just provides the "hooks" to implement security extensions. Like LSM feature in Linux kernel. You have…
probably because there is a ton of open source projects out there with disabled tests in their training data.
Lobbyists turning into government regulator is a lot more common then people realize. It is normal regardless of what party occupies the Whitehouse. This is one of those things were most people don't realize this goes…
Fixing X11's security would of broken window positioning as well. Since that is a security issue. The deal here is that the only way to fix X11's security issues is by breaking all those types of workflows and forcing…
Yes it was bit uncharitable, but I couldn't resist based on the way he phrased it. It was just a joke. "Preventing" the vulnerability would indeed require going back to 1994. Since it is a vulnerability that has existed…
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The way X11 developers ended up fixing this is by creating Wayland. This way privileged operations (like keylogging, screen capture, etc) require the cooperation and authentication through the display server.
Microsoft is guilty of giving incompetent administrators enough rope to hang themselves.
That shpool looks like a good idea.
Modern science is derived from Christian Scholasticism from the middle ages so this way of talking and thinking about science as being divinely originated is only unusual in the past couple centuries or so. It is from…
I think that using the term 'application containers' to reference docker and 'system containers' to reference LXC is a bit of a meaningless distinction. You can 100% host "systems containers" on Docker and you can host…
"Systems containers" are almost certainly isn't more secure since 'root' means things, even in a container. Containers just leverage existing Linux namespace isolation techniques to isolate applications. A good way to…
Copyright exists to protect publishers, not the people actually doing the work. Copyright was created for the specific purpose of censorship.
Generally speaking the cells that are welded on are designed to be welded on in the areas were you do the welding. Doing something other then welding on them properly is going to be more unsafe then welding. The proper…
Replace well known, fast, and efficient image to text algorithms that can happily run on my ancient Kindle with a gigantic black box of ML mush that requires tens of thousands of dollars of GPU to run? Sign me up! Might…
Rabies anti-virus require very carefully handling and refrigeration and thus can be extremely expensive for hospitals to keep in stock. And, yes, it needs to be applied before symptoms start to appear. Otherwise death…
One of the effects of ISG15 deficiency is a disease called "Type I interferonopathy". Among the symptoms of this disease includes things like necrotic lesions and severe multi-systemic damages. From what I gather the…
AMDgpu is the driver for newer GPUs, radeon is for the older GPUs. This is like circa 7 or 10 years ago. So it is both driver changes and architectural changes. There is also AMDGPU-PRO, which is the proprietary version…
Some of that was driven by people wanting hibernation to be reliable. The other part was that it kinda matched the money you were spending on the machine. The guy with 128MB of ram could likely afford to spend the extra…
In the distant past there was plenty of times I tried to fix dying web servers by logging in and restarting a rogue process or cleaning up a memory leak... only to have my SSH session and shell sessions being repeatedly…
It just meant that you spent too much on servers. Either that or they could of been doing more. Not a big deal. Being efficient isn't really all it is cracked up to be. Sometimes having a big server that sits mostly…
There are lots of very good reasons why running small root partitions on Linux desktops is a very bad idea. The smart money is on a single large partition for home and root and everything else. This way you get 100%…
Zswap has improved to the point where it is now preferable over Zram. https://linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/ There is a few other people documenting the same thing if you look around. As far as Linux and swap…
> I've never really understood why we chase Android-alikes on mobile platforms instead of trying to build on mainstream Linux. Because there is no such thing as "mainstream Linux" when it comes to anything related to…
XWayland is actively developed. XFree86, which is the "standalone DDX" you see on X11 desktops, is being actively maintained.
Nowhere (and everywhere). It is my understanding that XACE doesn't actually provide any security features itself. It just provides the "hooks" to implement security extensions. Like LSM feature in Linux kernel. You have…
probably because there is a ton of open source projects out there with disabled tests in their training data.
Lobbyists turning into government regulator is a lot more common then people realize. It is normal regardless of what party occupies the Whitehouse. This is one of those things were most people don't realize this goes…
Fixing X11's security would of broken window positioning as well. Since that is a security issue. The deal here is that the only way to fix X11's security issues is by breaking all those types of workflows and forcing…
Yes it was bit uncharitable, but I couldn't resist based on the way he phrased it. It was just a joke. "Preventing" the vulnerability would indeed require going back to 1994. Since it is a vulnerability that has existed…
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The way X11 developers ended up fixing this is by creating Wayland. This way privileged operations (like keylogging, screen capture, etc) require the cooperation and authentication through the display server.
Microsoft is guilty of giving incompetent administrators enough rope to hang themselves.
That shpool looks like a good idea.
Modern science is derived from Christian Scholasticism from the middle ages so this way of talking and thinking about science as being divinely originated is only unusual in the past couple centuries or so. It is from…
I think that using the term 'application containers' to reference docker and 'system containers' to reference LXC is a bit of a meaningless distinction. You can 100% host "systems containers" on Docker and you can host…
"Systems containers" are almost certainly isn't more secure since 'root' means things, even in a container. Containers just leverage existing Linux namespace isolation techniques to isolate applications. A good way to…
Copyright exists to protect publishers, not the people actually doing the work. Copyright was created for the specific purpose of censorship.
Generally speaking the cells that are welded on are designed to be welded on in the areas were you do the welding. Doing something other then welding on them properly is going to be more unsafe then welding. The proper…
Replace well known, fast, and efficient image to text algorithms that can happily run on my ancient Kindle with a gigantic black box of ML mush that requires tens of thousands of dollars of GPU to run? Sign me up! Might…
Rabies anti-virus require very carefully handling and refrigeration and thus can be extremely expensive for hospitals to keep in stock. And, yes, it needs to be applied before symptoms start to appear. Otherwise death…
One of the effects of ISG15 deficiency is a disease called "Type I interferonopathy". Among the symptoms of this disease includes things like necrotic lesions and severe multi-systemic damages. From what I gather the…
AMDgpu is the driver for newer GPUs, radeon is for the older GPUs. This is like circa 7 or 10 years ago. So it is both driver changes and architectural changes. There is also AMDGPU-PRO, which is the proprietary version…