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Re:OpenAUTH: Universal, standards-based auth provider on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @08:29PM (#42447300)
Tradeoff is all the edge cases of cookies, CSRF etc. It's not a simple "cookies are better"
Re:Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @03:09PM (#42380892)
> The U.S. government wants everyone to abandon C/C++ -- how will they do this if they depend on SQLite3?

ABI, the same way you don't need the Linux kernel to be rewritten to remove your app dependency on C/C++

Re:Google's AI weather prediction model is pretty darn good on Saturday December 07, 2024 @03:47PM (#42352761)
We do, I want to know if it's going to rain on my birthday
> Whilst Crowdstrike are going to cop a potentially existential-threatening amount of blame, an application shouldn't be able to do this kind of damage to an operating system.

It doesn't operate in user space, they install a kernel driver.

Blame for Flash? Or celebrated for killing Flash?

Flash was a security nightmare

Re:Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway? on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @08:48AM (#40573980)
There are other paths to the attack he mentioned. Eg you find an API that accepts ciphertext or part of. Or a cloud backup/restore flow. Likely you need another vulnerability but it does happen.
The problem is, it's not their software. No control over Slack, Outlook etc
Re:Dropbox Sign Has Been Hacked on Thursday May 02, 2024 @05:45PM (#40241707)
Useful because you can support existing passwords without requiring everyone to login or reset their password. Still has flaws though, like password shucking.
Re:Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @03:58PM (#39771308)
Western Australia could be the ongoing emu war - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
Re:Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:35PM (#37627258)
Nix has no security guarantees, nor sandboxing primitives. So not really comparable.
Re:When URL parsers disagree (CVE-2023-38633, librsvg) on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:36PM (#37425938)
It's from https://mathiasbynens.be/demo/url-regex and rather fantastic. Thanks for sharing
I'd say at this point the most important part is "correctness" (rendering etc) and security
Doesn't that argument apply to tabs also? Eg IE6 days where there were no tabs, and everything was deferred to the OS/desktop window management. It was clunky and painful.
Re:Vim-like “jump” cursor for Mac OS Window Management on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:55PM (#35463549)
I haven't been maintaining this much lately. Suffers from the same problems as other tools - the accessibility APIs are slow
Re:Discovering Headroll (CVE-2023–0704) in Chromium on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:46PM (#35462112)
Discovery of Headless Chromium security vulnerability, how it works, and mitigations that should be applied to similar configurations
Re:Goodbye to Google Code Jam on Saturday March 25, 2023 @09:41AM (#35302526)
Unless they see Bard as fulfilling that.
You're worried about performance but want x86 emulation on ARM?
You're just making up things trying to find a reason. HTTP was only invented in 1989, so these imaginary early 80s clients likely don't exist
Re:Framework is now available in Australia on Friday September 02, 2022 @05:23AM (#32688596)
> $18321AUD

Is that a typo? Or are they actually that exxy?

Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:38PM (#32475744)
Flatpack only came out in 2015
Re:Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:52PM (#32432187)
And the commercial fork: https://www.bsimm.com/
Um excuse me, how will people know I had an açai bowl for lunch?
Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past on Monday July 25, 2022 @05:53PM (#32231435)
At that point, how much of the internet is that?
Partial mitigation. It's not SSRF "proof" but I suppose nothing really is.
Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go on Thursday June 16, 2022 @06:01PM (#31771541)
Unsure if joking. XUL was awful.
Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of V8 isolates? on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @06:38PM (#31760317)
If the patch gap is small, yes. But are you patching V8? Node generally isn't.
Re:I'm all-in on server-side SQLite on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @08:18AM (#31326170)
> It was reasonable to overlook this option 170 years ago, when the Rails Blog Tutorial was first written.

Woah. Rails is really old

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