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zsims··on OpenAUTH: Universal, standards-based auth provider
Tradeoff is all the edge cases of cookies, CSRF etc. It's not a simple "cookies are better"
zsims··on Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust
> 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++

zsims··on Google's AI weather prediction model is pretty darn good
We do, I want to know if it's going to rain on my birthday
zsims··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
> 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.

zsims··on FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations
Blame for Flash? Or celebrated for killing Flash?

Flash was a security nightmare

zsims··on Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?
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.
zsims··on Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture
The problem is, it's not their software. No control over Slack, Outlook etc
zsims··on A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign
Useful because you can support existing passwords without requiring everyone to login or reset their password. Still has flaws though, like password shucking.
zsims··on Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map
Western Australia could be the ongoing emu war - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
zsims··on Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot
Nix has no security guarantees, nor sandboxing primitives. So not really comparable.
zsims··on When URL parsers disagree
It's from https://mathiasbynens.be/demo/url-regex and rather fantastic. Thanks for sharing
zsims··on Arc Browser 1.0
I'd say at this point the most important part is "correctness" (rendering etc) and security
zsims··on Arc Browser 1.0
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.
zsims··on Kata Containers: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers
You mean like http://www.lambdashell.com/ ?
zsims··on Vim-like “jump” cursor for Mac OS Window Management
I haven't been maintaining this much lately. Suffers from the same problems as other tools - the accessibility APIs are slow
zsims··on Discovering Headroll (CVE-2023–0704) in Chromium
Discovery of Headless Chromium security vulnerability, how it works, and mitigations that should be applied to similar configurations
zsims··on Goodbye to Google Code Jam
Unless they see Bard as fulfilling that.
zsims··on Microsoft to support Windows 11 on M1 and M2 Macs through Parallels partnership
You're worried about performance but want x86 emulation on ARM?
zsims··on ASX drops plan to replace CHESS with blockchain, writes off AUD $250M
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
zsims··on Framework is now available in Australia
> $18321AUD

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

zsims··on Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux?
Flatpack only came out in 2015
zsims··on Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework
And the commercial fork: https://www.bsimm.com/
zsims··on Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
Um excuse me, how will people know I had an açai bowl for lunch?
zsims··on It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
At that point, how much of the internet is that?
zsims··on Paige Thompson convicted over data theft from AWS user accounts
Partial mitigation. It's not SSRF "proof" but I suppose nothing really is.
zsims··on Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
Unsure if joking. XUL was awful.
zsims··on Ask HN: Pros and cons of V8 isolates?
If the patch gap is small, yes. But are you patching V8? Node generally isn't.
zsims··on I'm all-in on server-side SQLite
> It was reasonable to overlook this option 170 years ago, when the Rails Blog Tutorial was first written.

Woah. Rails is really old

zsims··on .NET Myths Dispelled
LINQ is very hard to debug, especially depending on the provider. With anything remotely complicated it becomes write-once (like Perl :p)
zsims··on Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
Does it come with ads? Because that's my favourite part of Ubuntu
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