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loo··on The urgent need for memory safety in software products
Red Hat should switch to Zig.
loo··on “Support for System V scripts now deprecated; will be removed in future release”
They should have just offered a way to make it write text log files.

I have a prototype FUSE filesystem which renders the journal as a tree of .log files (https://github.com/awfulcooking/journalfs)

But my muscles finally learned `journalctl` and after reading the docs I mainly use it.

Patches welcome to make journalfs practical (i think it may be lagging output when you `tail -f` atm)

Would love to see systemd offer a virtual filesystem interface by default.

loo··on “Support for System V scripts now deprecated; will be removed in future release”
An OS has a lot of things to be done downstream of the kernel in userspace.

Having one interface to them is useful.

i respect the BSD hacker style, minimal init ethos.

But man is it handy to have declarative sandboxing in service files.

`loginctl` as a standard for listing, locking, killing user sessions.

`machinectl` as a container / virtual machine manager.

And --host / --machine to remote all of the above.

loo··on “Support for System V scripts now deprecated; will be removed in future release”
https://github.com/awfulcooking/journalfs
loo··on Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noreferrer to certain links
I had a conversation with someone who was religiously homophobic on HN recently.

Their mind probably wasn't changed, but having civil discourse about intolerance is important.

I'd much rather see a racist post with thoughtful dissent (which the OP can then read, and is pretty much guaranteed on HN) than for racists to just get excluded, and have no cause to change their mind.

They then go to a more extreme forum, with people who only agree with them. The hate gets amplified instead of dissuaded.

loo··on UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition
** lie
loo··on Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
[it's Ruby Tui, the New Zealand Rugby Union player, grid of photos heading]
loo··on New Alzheimer’s drug slows cognitive decline by 35%, trial results show
Maybe it's like "low serotonin levels" is to depression. A mechanism through which some effects are expressed, but not the root cause, and only one aspect of the condition.
loo··on Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
We are here. We do not harm each other. We do not harm other people. I believe God wills it. Peace, Nas.
loo··on Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
You feel attraction for both sexes, but choose to ignore one?
loo··on Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
I am not bisexual, but tried to be. The choice wasn't available.

Have you felt strong attraction for both sexes? If not, have you tried to?

loo··on I just learned about HTML redirects (2020)
Me too :-D

I think you're right that Comet refers more to the JavaScript techniques that came from those "forever frames".. but to me it was all about the streaming HTTP hack at the heart of it.

I guess it's academic now :-)

Regarding holy grail layout and IE6.. so you're telling me you're a masochist!

loo··on I just learned about HTML redirects (2020)
Looks like 'Comet' got coined in 2006. The CGI:IRC approach.. I had a smile and an "aha" on seeing the term "forever frames" :-)

I think the wiki page is wrong that it involved chunked encoding

loo··on I just learned about HTML redirects (2020)
The broader technique became known as Comet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)

CGI:IRC used an early frame approach, no JS required.

At some point JSONP became popular, even for 3rd party APIs.

  <script src="http://dont-xss-me/please?format=jsonp&callback=lol">
Server writes:

  lol({ ... })

  lol({ ... })
loo··on Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
Under your axioms, it may be equivalent, but I think they're mistaken.

Orientation is not a choice, and is orthogonal to identification.

I believe that same-sex relationships can be as profoundly fulfilling, enriching, and pro-social as heterosexual relationships.

That marrying a straight woman with a gay man is profoundly unfulfilling for both.

And that denying a class of people something so profound, freely enjoyed by everyone else, and which does not harm anyone else, can indeed be seen as inhumane.

loo··on Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
You've buried the lede that the core framework does see homosexual behavior as "wrongful sexual desire", "regressive behaviour".

You can accept that or not, but it's disingenuous to equate asking gays never to have sexual or romantic relationships, to asking non-gay people just to curb excess.

That's not an equal imposition, it feels like self-equivocating ad-hominem to read "you're not being targeted here, so can you stop with the victim complex please?"

If you agree that it's better for gay people to never experience intimacy, please just say so, without labelling the concern (that gay people may feel less invited) as ridiculous

loo··on Website hosted on a 24 year old Linux server
$ apt install redis-server

$ redis-cli INCR hit-count

loo··on Twitter updates its website logo to Dogecoin
Some friends had to do a hard refresh, now they see it.
loo··on Avoiding HTTP/3 (for a while) as a pragmatic default
> Some people spent hundreds of hours making something better, why would you want to use the result?
loo··on Sometimes there are a lot of options
This was linked in a Discord discussion about giving in to using modals, maintaining context, in apps.

Derek was languishing:

"Lots of situations where I can't really get around the modal..."

I guess the page doesn't necessarily say how a modal might be avoided, but the anchor with this title seemed strong enough as a "QED" on its own.

loo··on Promotion of alternative social platforms policy
Didn't Elon say he was gonna stop those walls?
loo··on CVE-2022-41924 – tailscaled can be used to remotely execute code on Windows
Heads up that I had to update through the UI twice - first brought me from 1.30.x 1.32.2, then second to 1.32.3.
loo··on Telegram is asking German users when to share information with law enforcement
As secure as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Security at Secure University?
loo··on Google has banned the training of deepfakes in Colab
Thanks. Edited.
loo··on Google has banned the training of deepfakes in Colab
> turns out that nature doesn't make SAAS

E pur si existit.

loo··on Google has banned the training of deepfakes in Colab
That includes private data. Thou critical thinkest too little.
loo··on Firejail: Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox
An SUID binary written in C, no less.
loo··on A Voracious Reader: Stalin through his books
They missed a trick. 'Voracious Leader' left right on the table.
loo··on Compromising Angular via expired NPM publisher email domains
That's not the case. Generate a unique ID on activation. Ask us to CNAME => <unique-id>.pages.github.tld. Drop the record when page is deactivated. Sorted.
loo··on In 2001, I said “I use Linux” to RMS's face
He was interviewed by Alex Jones in 2012 who dared to say "Linux", too :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwz_vMdxmDU&t=669s

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