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alrlroipsp··on Mozilla VPN: CVE-2023-4104: vpndaemon wrongly implements Polkit authentication
The summary seems to ignore upstream.

They did infact

removed polkit : https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client/pull/70...

refactor auth using D-Bus: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client/pull/71...

These are why author's PR was dropped.

alrlroipsp··on Ask HN: Who is using small OS LLMs in production?
Free vs monthly cost. What is there to elaborate on?
alrlroipsp··on Linux Lite: Easy to Use Free Linux Operating System
> they seem to highlight some text in a sentence by making it blue, but it's not a link. Quite annoying.

This is a blast from the past, indeed!

Blue links is the ancient default when you don't use css.

It was news for me that any websites still would not override the default css, though.

alrlroipsp··on Nintendo Is Taking Down My Videos [video]
> the freedom you have by right

That's not how law works.

alrlroipsp··on Is it time to open source SublimeText?
Just uninstall and get old versions at https://www.sublimetext.com/2 or https://www.sublimetext.com/3

Since you are licensed you can just disable update check.

I used my licensed old ST for years like this, but recently purchased the new version to get wayland support.

alrlroipsp··on Is it time to open source SublimeText?
Come on, just pay for good software.
alrlroipsp··on Finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in H.264 decoders [pdf]
The claim is in the quote itself, in their use of the expression "as if" ...

You could also call it a baseless rant.

alrlroipsp··on Is Elon Right?
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
alrlroipsp··on VMware Fusion 13 – native support for Apple Silicon Macs
> I want it to appear at some_ip:443 on my Mac, not on something like localhost:8443

You can add hostnames to /etc/hosts if "localhost" bothers you.

Then you map ports to host ports using the -p docker argument.

Solving this with wireguard sounds like super overkill.

alrlroipsp··on 'I took magic mushrooms at 64 and the fog I've lived under my whole life lifted'
Nature without mushrooms would be sick. They are essential for breaking down organic matter.
alrlroipsp··on The Wa Programming Language
~7B of those would not pick up a new fringe language either way.
alrlroipsp··on The Wa Programming Language
> At first glance it looks a lot like Go

But, this is not at all how go looks:

    fn add(a: i32, b: i32) => i32 {
        return a+b
    }
It looks heavily inspired from the syntax used in rust or zig tho. (fn keyword, variable type syntax, return value)

> what are the differences or use case vs just using Go?

- go has a different syntax, different keywords, different ecosystem and so on.

- go is a general purpose programming language, while wa is explicit in targeting wasm.

I don't see any special similarities more than they are c-style family languages.

alrlroipsp··on NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages
Thanks for sharing that video.
alrlroipsp··on Ask HN: Open-Source GitHub Copilot?
> So the only reason for providing attribution will be as a product feature that some developers might want to use.

Not at all.

The reason for providing attribution is to create a incitement for anyone to even publish their work as FOSS in the first place.

We even put it explicit in our LICENSE files.

MIT license:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

BSD 4-clause:

> Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

alrlroipsp··on Ask HN: Open-Source GitHub Copilot?
I don't think most open source dev:s want CoPilot or a FOSS alternative for this very reason:

Code assist AI does no attribution.

This removes engagement between the dev and library authors. this ruins chances of engaging new contributors over time, eroding and killing the FOSS communities.

Code assist AI also does not care about licenses. See [1]

1: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-sue...

alrlroipsp··on Does anyone else finds AWS and other Amazon services overly complicated?
Just use aws sdk.
alrlroipsp··on At Xamarin I left every day at 5pm
Insisting on highly skilled developers burning out just to reach some quarterly goal.

I don't know if you can make a more obvious example as to why the elite needs to hang.

alrlroipsp··on Rise of generative AI will be comparable to the rise of CGI in the early 90s
I'm glad that you have no idea about the future.
alrlroipsp··on I’m taking some time away from Comma
We are "engineers who spent their teens and twenties coding like that was the meaning to life, all suffer from deep regret, burnout, resentment, depression".

Who is you? Not a comedian?

alrlroipsp··on A 23-byte “hello, world” program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS
Most if not all ANCIENT assembers did a 1-pass translation of input source and thus would not recognize tokens that was referenced but not yet declared.

Hence you declare your variables at the start of the program and jump past them.

alrlroipsp··on A 23-byte “hello, world” program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS
Meh. I still remember my ICQ #.
alrlroipsp··on A 23-byte “hello, world” program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS
Iirc MS-DOS 5 and older was DEBUG.COM.

Many shipped apps in MS-DOS 6 had became .EXE:s.

One limit of a .COM is that it is one segment size (64 kilobytes) max file size.

alrlroipsp··on A 23-byte “hello, world” program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS
As seen in 2022: Hello world example with 350 contributors.

Beat the enterprise Fizbuzz by 25 contribs.

alrlroipsp··on AdGuard Home: Network-wide ads and trackers blocking DNS server
Unless you want a randomly broken LAN, you should probably pay attention by manually updating things.
alrlroipsp··on AdGuard Home: Network-wide ads and trackers blocking DNS server
OpenWrt
alrlroipsp··on The Zig and Go Programming Showdown
> Nobody will put in the effort to write these kinds of articles over time unless they can make some money on it either through subscriptions or ads.

That's fine. Please stop doing it.

alrlroipsp··on Factorio for Nintendo Switch is now available
Tips for Factorio creators: Instead, make a expansion pack and sell it to all of us already sold on the base game!

I would pay another 20 dollar straight up for more to do.

alrlroipsp··on The Zig and Go Programming Showdown
Hey this article is paywalled. How are all of you discussing it?
alrlroipsp··on Google added HEVC support in Chrome
Cool guess, cowboy
alrlroipsp··on Butterfly wing patterns emerge from ancient ‘junk’ DNA
False. Read the article and learn what they found out in this case.
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