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Re:Are the BSDs dying? Some security researchers think so
on Monday January 20, 2020 @08:12PM (#22103475)
(January 2018)
FreeBSD has always been so far behind in basic security migitations. It is 2020, and FreeBSD still doesn't have ASLR.
Re:Show HN: Get IP Geolocation Data with Confidence
on Sunday December 22, 2019 @05:22AM (#21856325)
This is your fourth (fifth? sixth?) Show HN for this product. I doubt opinions have changed.
Re:Auth0 Having a Major Outage
on Thursday December 19, 2019 @02:04PM (#21838072)
Meta: $1B valuation: https://auth0.com/blog/auth0-closes-103m-in-funding-passes-1...
Not notable enough for Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
ARM64 CPUs speculatively execute instructions after ERET
Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud
Factoring RSA Keys in the IoT Era
Re:Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google C...
on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @01:28PM (#21765288)
The technical details about the E2 instance class are really interesting:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/understanding...
Rather than a guaranteed core and RAM as with N1/N2, resources for the underlying host can be dynamically balanced through live migrations, which GCP has already been using for years. Cool solution, and should work to save money for most workloads.
Venturing a Perspective on the Drug Pricing Debate
Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:55PM (#21708078)
The pricing level for the ARM instances should be interesting. If Amazon prices them well below their Intel and AMD instance types, they could really drive adoption and lock-in.
Remote SSH user can force fake screensaver execution through dbus / systemd
Want to Escape Global Warming? These Cities Promise Cool Relief
Re:An Overview of Cryptography
on Friday November 29, 2019 @08:16AM (#21664151)
Great paper! Given the write-ups of old and broken crypto, perhaps a better title would be History of Cryptography?
Re:Data leak reveals how China 'brainwashes' Uighurs in prison camps
on Sunday November 24, 2019 @01:13PM (#21622176)
Maybe Tim Cook will show some "courage" now.
[Edit] Sorry for the snark. In a market economy, the only way companies like Apple might act in the same way that compassionate human beings would, is if it were in the interests of their bottom line. Perhaps articles like this will hit critical mass, and Apple will put out a statement, carefully composed to ensure that China doesn't lose face. Perhaps they'll do something tangible.
Come back 12 months later and nothing will have changed.
Re:Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers
on Saturday November 23, 2019 @05:12PM (#21616961)
I do this personally and it's great. I've even set this up for extended family. But any real solutions to the problem will not be technological, they will have to be legislative...
Given that no reasonable legislation will likely pass against adtech, I'll be stuck buying rpis as gifts again for the next several years.