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GPL only requires providing build scripts for GPL software. In this case it means they can't strip kernel makefiles from the kernel source to make it harder to build independently.
First time I hear of RFC7710, all I see is HTTP hijacking. Does anybody support it, in particular OS vendors? I suppose some new UI or a new API for browsers would be required.
A few years ago some Ford cars had been found to amplify their engine noise through the speakers. At least they kept it to the driver.
much more diverse tech industry and a much more functional one.
As a Darwinist of sorts, I'm afraid that if this actually were true, we would be seeing some serious disruption of those nerds by much more functional diverse teams. The cat's been of the bag for so many years that somebody ought to have exploited it by now. But so far, it seems that one poster child example of a company which made tons of money bringing computing to the masses is Apple, under the lead of no one else but You Know Who, and (allegedly) with quite obsessive, arrogant, nitpicking and abrasive people working under him.
They all are equal shitshows. This one even seems to have lower proportion of grey comments than the one I linked.
In fact, if GitHub were a less popular service he wouldn't need to spend nearly as much time dealing with people who don't RTFM and submit GitHub PRs despite Linus' objections to them.
Does he even bother reading them nowadays?
If anything, I would say that if git were less popular, its developers wouldn't have to deal with constant complaints that their UI scares noobs.
He really talks in extremes. I see all his points but it doesn't make these things pure garbage.
Why, from his point of view - if GH lacks functionality he needs and git proper delivers this functionality in conjunction with email, GH is just about as useful as an empty beer can ;)
But sure, outsiders with zero idea of what is being discussed love to take his words out of context and derive all sorts of bizarre conclusions.
Can't speak for the OP, but as a (maybe possibly somewhat arrogant) man, the most I have ever mustered towards unwanted people bothering me was cold, superficial politeness, just barely enough that they can't say I'm wronging them. Not sure if that counts as being "nice" under intimidation.
I sometimes meet people, most (all?) of them women, who were not nice to one idiot groping them and woke up in the hospital.
In Europe? I suppose it's possible in some pathological neighborhoods but I would be surprised to hear it's a common occurrence. But then, I guess, once per lifetime is dangerous enough, as you say.
Therefore there is suspicion that spooks may have been using that for years and revealed it once they've had enough for some reason. I'm not familiar with any proven case of such situation, but people speculate.
Everybody knows it and I wouldn't be bringing attention to myself like that if I used flags often enough to care, I come here in part to read about all sorts of weird stuff people post and flagging is largely counterproductive to that. Plus I doubt that I'm going to have it disabled for merely selective enforcement of the official guidelines.
I think they are common on Intel systems, my old laptop with ICH7-M chipset has one.
Observation: the length of the censored "XXX hardware bug" text on the slides matches neither Intel, AMD nor Transmeta. Unlikely to be VIA too.
Either it's deception or perhaps some obscure low-end embedded vendor.
edit: for the curious, it's "(redacted) hardware bugs" :)
This looks funny, it seems that RDI is never modified by the loop (?) so lines 18-24 always load the same data, presumably from L1. It's mysterious why of all those instructions, 20 and 24 get most interrupt hits.
People working on OpenZFS are unlikely to switch licenses, but somebody (presumably a company) could possibly develop an "improved" fork to make money on it and refuse to contribute back, at which point Oracle would be forced to switch to GPL if the fork takes off.
Dunno, it's just a hypothetical question and speculation whether there are any sensible reasons for Oracle to maintain status quo.
FDE isn't really "full disk" because it still leaves the kernel image unencrypted so that it is accessible to the bootloader. This image can then be maliciously edited by an "evil maid" attacker.
Chromebooks use kernel signing to prevent this. The problem is, Google doesn't give you keys to your hardware so you have to replace them yourself or use devmode which disables kernel verification.
Another possible solution is to keep the kernel on an external, physically secured pendrive and never forget to press CTRL-U during boot (to stop a hypothetical attack involving a malicious kernel installed to the internal flash which exfiltrates your FDE passphrase or something like that).
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
I too normally dislike things disappearing from the front page in 5 minutes but I made an exception for this submission and flagged it because such stories are dime in a dozen and this one brings zero new information, solves nothing and mainly just perpetuates hostility.
There are no female coworkers on an all-male team, you just rejected such jokes on principle.
And no, I'm not from SV. I think many developers from all over the world, particularly of the sort hanging out at HN, will consider your stance somewhat crazy.
Nearly every how-to and blog post I've found on "Chromebooks for developers" essentially starts with either: "Boot into Developer Mode" or "Install Debian/Ubuntu as the main OS". I'll just say it: This is bad advice. It would be akin to recommending that friends jailbreak their shiny new iPhone. You're obviously free to do as you wish with your own gear, but recognize that at Step 1, you'll have lost most of the core security features of Chromebook
Well, it's possible to temporarily unlock firmware write protection and replace Google key with your own and run self-signed kernels and arbitrary distribution securely. But indeed, I haven't heard of anyone actually going through the effort to do so.
Oracle could release a new version of CDDL that explicitly made the ZoL project GPL compatible.
By allowing ZFS-derived works to be licensed under GPL, I suppose. I wonder if they could do it without allowing for a GPL fork which would become unmergable to the upstream?
Why not?
Without links this post is useless to everybody besides people who know about this case. Both of them.
So let's count: the OP is one and I'm another. It follows that nobody else knows ;)
I think the problem is not only with the Internet but mainly with people having no idea of just how large and varied the world is, how other people see things and how bizarre shit lurks just behind the horizon of their own life experience. The Internet only connected different strains of people together and now they are surprised, disgusted, scared or angered by what they see. And such phenomenon isn't even limited to the Internet.
For example, in case of this "sexual harassment in tech", I really think it's a matter of significant lack of understanding between the parties involved. Apparently it's not the case that most women would agree to have sex with just any random dude, but nevertheless some men seem to expect exactly that. OTOH, I very much doubt that they would be willing to take them by force, but nevertheless women end up worrying about all the possible things that may have happened.
good policy and good laws depend on a logical and unemotional view of things
That's plausible. Good policy probably benefits from understanding, which seems to be improved by familiarity, which reduces emotional reactions, particularly the negative ones.
You should not, however, make decisions based on how you feel about things.
But OTOH, if for whatever reason you can't obtain familiarity and understanding, it probably may be safer to follow your gut feeling. I think that's what guides many people and they probably don't think about it much.
The internet is all about the feels - the mob, the pain, the sadness, the outrage.
THB, you could equally well describe Bolsheviks or Nazis that way. And they have this curious property of predating the Internet by several decades ;)
Sorry, I live too far. Care to elaborate?
I'm under impression that the part about "riding the publicity to raise a round" referred to some other case involving 500 startups, not this one here.
Of course this needs to be done with care because retraction shouldn't be a reliable get-out-of-jail card if you use false accusations as a normal way of conducting business ;)
The man accused of sexual harassment is a real victim
... so he needs protection in case his lawsuit fails for lack of evidence and the defamer maliciously counter-sues him for defamation.
That's exactly parent's point. "Real" victims refers to victims of crime that actually happened and wasn't just made up, not some classification of crimes as serious or not.
Basically, the OP forgot to mention that harsh punishment should be reserved for cases where it can be solidly proven that allegations were made up and people started to nitpick on it.
The thing is that PiS, Kukiz and TVP have normalized and brought into daily life in Poland extremely aggressive language and rhetoric.
Same thing as with Trump. It's because literally nothing else works today against self-righteous leftists.
You said in another comment that majority of Poles would rather leave EU than deal with the Islamic mess. AFAIK the most credible opposition to the current government is still PO, who were the ruling party before and literally in the last days of their term they signed an extremely unpopular obligation to accept forced resettlement of German Muslims, which the current government had to backpedal from, damaging the country's international credibility.
The Polish government doesn't really have to do anything to stay in power indefinitely now. Until something changes on the political scene and a credible opposition arrives which isn't a puppet of Brussels, it's enough that they shake their fist at Merkel's social policies every now and then and they are literally guaranteed to win every election forever.
So what exactly has happened there? They say that some "transport agency" has uploaded their database to a 3rd party and this somehow implies compromise of military databases too? How is "EU secure intranet" relevant?
On the Internet there is also the problem of remote attackers. Even if you preemptively jail all people in your jurisdiction, your system still isn't safe. It doesn't make any sense at all to call sending some malicious data to your server "breaking in" when anybody and his dog can do it from the comfort of their chair on the other side of the planet.
And you can always do it anonymously.
Assuming you have done the hacking anonymously in the first place.