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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
Re:Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops (update: caused by a Crowdstrike ...
on Friday July 19, 2024 @02:30AM (#41002499)
> 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.
Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations
on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @03:02AM (#40714865)
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.
Re:Apple's M4 Has Reportedly Adopted the ARMv9 Architecture
on Friday May 24, 2024 @09:26PM (#40471956)
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
Re:Arc 1.0 – a freeware web browser developed by The Browser Company
on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:47PM (#36869226)
I'd say at this point the most important part is "correctness" (rendering etc) and security
Re:Arc 1.0 – a freeware web browser developed by The Browser Company
on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:42PM (#36869136)
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:Kata Containers: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like contai...
on Monday July 17, 2023 @04:43PM (#36763793)
You mean like http://www.lambdashell.com/ ?
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
Discovering Headroll (CVE-2023–0704) in Chromium
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.
Re:Microsoft to Support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs Through Par...
on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:22PM (#34826457)
You're worried about performance but want x86 emulation on ARM?
Re:ASX drops plan to replace CHESS with blockchain, writes off $250M AUD
on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:11AM (#33638371)
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/
Re:Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app ...
on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:41PM (#32420938)
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?
Re:Paige Thompson convicted over data theft from AWS user accounts
on Monday June 20, 2022 @06:38PM (#31817117)
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