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Re:I'm Terrified of Old People on Saturday June 29, 2024 @04:51AM (#40828805)
Engagement-bait.

With a dash of humble-brag.

Re:The Death of NYC Congestion Pricing on Friday June 28, 2024 @02:58AM (#40818375)
Phoenix is a desert oven. It will never grow like Paris.
Re:Sohu: The First Transformer ASIC on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @07:06PM (#40794720)
They mention something about not wasting space for unnecessary memory.
A bit difficult given that incandescent lights stopped being sold 10 years ago.
Re:Mozilla's Original Sin on Sunday June 23, 2024 @04:04AM (#40765570)
Freedom also means being free to use DRM if you want to.

Nobody is holding a gun to your head to open a Netflix account.

Re:Memory sealing for the GNU C Library on Saturday June 22, 2024 @04:06AM (#40757305)
Sometimes you do get arbitrary code execution, but you are in a Chrome sandbox.

One use of mseal is for defense in depth, where you try making it as hard as possible to un-sandbox the sandbox.

Re:Sei pays out $2M bug bounty on Monday June 17, 2024 @06:38PM (#40711969)
Despite what many programmers think, code is not law.

Just like a bug in a smart lock does not allow you to enter a house because "you were allowed in".

Re:Sei pays out $2M bug bounty on Monday June 17, 2024 @06:35PM (#40711931)
People keep saying that, but not even one case is documented.

These chains are created by startups with VC money, they are not going to hire hitmans.