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rsa25519··on Bubblewrap: Unprivileged sandboxing tool for Linux
Note that a sandbox escape is often possible via TIOCSTI (CVE-2017-5226) [0] unless a special flag (--new-session) is used.

Bubblewrap is aware of this, yet their documentation gives no indication that this flag is necessary to produce a secure sandbox. In --help, the documentation of --new-session is simply "Create a new terminal session," which severely understates its importance.

It's frustrating to have such a useful tool be knowingly easy to misuse.

[0]: https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/issues/142

rsa25519··on Please put units in names
Note that the wonderful Go type system interprets time.Second * time.Second as 277777h46m40s with the type time.Second (not sec^2)
rsa25519··on CDC Internal Delta Variant Presentation
This is an unfair comparison because covid death reporting lags far behind other data
rsa25519··on Element raises $30M to boost Matrix
> Hopefully they also improve the UX

They're making great progress! There's still more work to do, but I've been very impressed by the improvements made by the Element team over the past year, ranging from many small details to large usability features like the UI for spaces as an easier way to organize communities

rsa25519··on A database with 3.8B phone numbers from Clubhouse is up for sale
You're describing entrapment
rsa25519··on Why wood has gotten so dang expensive
This issue is that HN didn't include the trailing exclamation mark as part of the link
rsa25519··on I can't stand developing for Safari anymore
In that case, Safari should make it clear that its users should not expect web application to work well. OP proposes helping Safari do that by displaying informational banners when appropriate.
rsa25519··on There are no results for tank man
Also try searching "journalist in blue" via the default (not image) article search on Bing. It lacks the relevant results found on Google or DuckDuckGo.
rsa25519··on The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman (2015)
> In this: "the host will open the door at random and in this example it happen to have a goat" vs "the host will never open a door with a car behind it".)

If the host opens a door with a goat, then it doesn't matter whether or not it was intentional.

rsa25519··on PatchELF: Simple utility for modifying existing ELF executables and libraries
You can be partially in :-)

I highly recommend using the Nix package manager alongside whatever you're comfortable with. That way you can `nix shell -p foobar` when you need a package quickly or fallback to brew/apt/etc if you're not yet comfortable addressing the situation in Nix.

rsa25519··on Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of speech
> The people who do well on the test are given the job on a probationary basis.

This sounds terrible. Not everyone can take tests well (even if they strongly understand the content), and few people can afford to accept a job that's probationary.

rsa25519··on Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster
> No more cookie banners or ads.

I'm not sure how I feel about making money off ad-blocking.

rsa25519··on Signald: Unofficial daemon for interacting with Signal
The Discord and Slack bridges use the respective platforms' official APIs, fwiw
rsa25519··on Swift on the Server (2020)
> Linux distributions don't depend on running random code from GitHub repositories like Homebrew does, it has package repositories.

Is the Homebrew github repo not a package repository?

rsa25519··on Want to Resist? Delete Your Facebook Account
> The only meaningful act of protest in the 21st century is to permanently delete your digital accounts?

Surely this is an exaggeration?

I'd like to quote more (it feels gross to seemingly quote-snipe) but the site blocks copy-paste on mobile, making productive discussion of its contents needlessly difficult.

rsa25519··on Why MPs have two mobile phones
> They can also stop screenshots being taken of exchanges if they are using an Android phone.

This is terribly misleading. A Signal user can disable screenshots being taken on their own device (something like "disable screenshots on my phone when I'm using this app") but Signal makes no attempt to apply this policy to other people in a conversation. It's not like Snapchat, which attempt to block/track screenshots taken by any party.

rsa25519··on Why MPs have two mobile phones
Good thing that Android allows side-loading apps
rsa25519··on Looks like you are typing while in full screen
> This issues goes way back: imagine if after executing a program on CLI instead of closing it gave you a fake shell, where you eventually went about your day until you had to type your password into sudo..

As a fun fact, even worse might be a program maliciously aliasing sudo in ~/.profile

rsa25519··on Gravity batteries try to beat chemical ones with winches, weights, mine shafts
> Hm, you also need to consider that 5 trucks can have a much higher combined output than the 1 truck 5 times as high.

How so?

rsa25519··on You might as well timestamp it
Yep. And I assume you could use Time.IsZero() for Go https://stackoverflow.com/a/36234533
rsa25519··on You might as well timestamp it
Fortunately `published_at == null` is much more intuitive that using `!!` to typecast.
rsa25519··on You might as well timestamp it
> To quote the author: "it depends"

Where do you see this? To quote the article I'm reading: "it doesn’t really depend"

rsa25519··on Apple reportedly expanding iMessage to compete with Facebook
> "The #1 most difficult [reason] to leave the Apple universe app is iMessage ... iMessage amounts to serious lock-in,” was how one unnamed former Apple employee put it in an email in 2016, prompting Schiller to respond that, “moving iMessage to Android will hurt us more than help us, this email illustrates why.”

> “iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove [an] obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones,” was Federighi’s concern according to the Epic filing. Although workarounds to using iMessage on Android have emerged over the years, none have been particularly convenient or reliable.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375128/apple-imessage-an...

rsa25519··on Apple reportedly expanding iMessage to compete with Facebook
I wish they were that innocent.

> iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove [an] obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375128/apple-imessage-an...

rsa25519··on Open Source Goes to Mars
Hovering on the achievement shows which contribution(s) were the cause
rsa25519··on Apple admits that iMessage for Android was killed to keep its walled garden
iMessage intentionally attaches social inclusion to ability to buy premium hardware. I think that's wrong.
rsa25519··on Apple doesn't care about album cover art
> Maybe album cover art is just less meaningful in the year 2021

This might be too broad of a generalization. I find a lot of cover art quite interesting, and I hope it remains prominent. I think a (dis)like for cover art might just be a personal preference.

rsa25519··on English++ Project (2008)
From the book:

> In the English++ project a foreign language is naturally English and a specific purpose is the field of computer science.

I actually might spend time time reading this. I'm a native English speaker, but it covers a lot of computer at a high level in a way that's very easy to understand.

rsa25519··on Multiple US Navy destroyers swarmed by mysterious 'drones' off California coast
And, we're only going to hear of events that were seen. Even if the locations of events were random, we simply would be more capable of spotting ones that happen in that area
rsa25519··on LastPass Android app has got 7 trackers in it
> it fails even on HN!

Huh, weird, it works fine for me in Firefox.

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