ElvishJerricco
Re:Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation
on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @12:02AM (#41497044)
The problem is that arbitrary users can cause nix to unpack arbitrary nars and edit arbitrary files that user shouldn't have permissions for. The system doesn't have to be configured to trust any particular binary cache. This is just straight up persistent privilege escalation, plain and simple.
Re:GHC 8.0.1 is available
on Sunday May 22, 2016 @07:43PM (#11750805)
It's ok... But I think we really want a more comprehensive solution. Anonymous record types are really what we want.
Re:Swift open source – let the revolution begin
on Thursday December 10, 2015 @01:02AM (#10709114)
Objective C was poorly supported outside of the Apple ecosystem. Plus Objective C as a language hasn't been all that preferable to most developers. There was basically no reason to use Objective C at all outside of iOS and Mac development.
Swift, on the other hand, will now have full Apple support on Linux, and is a much nicer, and potentially more useful language. I think that with some effort on the community's part, it could become a serious contender for server side development.
Re:Swift open source – let the revolution begin
on Thursday December 10, 2015 @12:59AM (#10709113)
If I'm not mistaken, you can use the installation guidelines on swift.org, and just skip the Xcode related parts. I believe you just need to run the downloadable packages and install them, and they shouldn't require Xcode or anything. Then just add Swift's bin folder to your shell path.