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Jaguar Land Rover hack 'has cost 30k cars and threatens supply chain'

3 pointsby eadmund10 mesi fa0 comments

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8 mesi fadiscuss

> I noticed that Whatsapp is even worse than Chrome, it opens HTT PS even if I share HTTP links.

Firefox does this when I type in a URL and the server is down. I absolutely hate this behaviour, because I run a bunch of services inside my network.

If I tell my browser ‘fetch http://site.example,’ I mean for it to connect to site.example on HTTP on port 80 nothing more. If there is a web server run ning which wants to redirect me to https://site.example, awesome, but my browser should never assume I mean anything I did not say.)

8 mesi fadiscuss

Some motherboards only support firmware updates applied from Windows. In 2025, which is just crazy to me.

8 mesi fadiscuss

Ironically, this Google page itself fails to work without Javascript enabled!

9 mesi fadiscuss

> I applaud the author for trying. The underlying viewpoint is valid

Is it valid? I’m not really convinced. I’m not particularly a fan of copyright to begin with, and this looks like yet another abuse of it. I consider myself a creative person, and I fundamentally do not believe it is ethical to try to prevent people from employing tools to manipulate the creative works one gives to them.

9 mesi fadiscuss

Is the restriction on grantees not violating federal law a new one, or has it been around for ages?

9 mesi fadiscuss

Reaching out only to members of certain groups rather than others is still invidious discrimination. When based on characteristics like race, sex or national origin it is probably illegal, although I am not a lawyer.

9 mesi fadiscuss

Regardless of what others do, the best thing to do is to choose the best license for one’s own software. One which preserves the freedom of one’s users and the openness of one’s code.

9 mesi fadiscuss

> I have never once thought Visual Studio needs some way to edit its own source code on the fly... whats [sic] the actual use case?

Writing Visual Studio, for example. Debugging Visual Studio. Extending Visual Studio in more than the ways it has already provided.

It means not being constrained to do only those things someone else had seen fit to permit you to do. It means freedom.

9 mesi fadiscuss

> with your logic, you can take the lisp interpreter out of emacs, stick it into say mspaint, and have an equally powerful program.

Yes, that would be pretty awesome. The GIMP tries to be something like that.

9 mesi fadiscuss

> direnv does exactly what you describe (and a lot more) using flake.nix

Direnv is awesome! Note, thought, that it does not depend on Nix, just a Unix-like OS and a supported shell: https://direnv.net/#prerequisites

9 mesi fadiscuss

I recommend direnv for that: https://direnv.net/

Its intended use case is loading environment variables (you could use this to load your virtualenv), but it works by sourcing a script — and that script can be ‘cat usage.txt.’

Great tool.

If you use Emacs (and you should!), there’s a direnv mode. Emacs also has its own way to set configuration items within a directory (directory-local variables), and is smart enough to support two files, so that there can be one file checked into source control for all members of a project and another ignored for one’s personal config.

9 mesi fadiscuss

Doh, I missed the secondary sort.

Were I trying to optimise this, I would test to see if a hash table of alphabetical characters is better, or just checking (or (and (char>= c #\A) (char<= c #\Z)) (and (char>= c #\a) (char<= c #\z))). The accumulator would probably be better as an adjustable array with a fill pointer allocated once, filled with VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and reset each time. It might be better to use DO, initializing C and declaring its type.

Also worth giving it a shot with (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0)) just to see if it makes a difference.

Yes, definitely more verbose. Perl is good at this sort of task!

9 mesi fadiscuss

He’s also saying that Magit is so good that he doesn’t recognise the complaints which motivate some people to switch from Git to Jujutsu.

FWIW, I agree. Jujutsu seems fine, but Magit is fine too. Maybe Magit is the Blub of version control, and Jujutsu would change my life for the better, but … I seem to be able to run in circles around my Git-CLI–using colleagues as it is.

9 mesi fadiscuss

> splitting a line into words is a whole project on its own

Is it[1]? My version below accumulates alphabetical characters until it encounters a non-alphabetical one, then increments the count for the accumulated word and resets the accumulator.

    (let (c accumulator (counts (make-hash-table :test #'equal)))
      (handler-case
          (loop
            (setq c (read-char))
            (if (find c "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" :test #'char-equal)
                (push (char-downcase c) accumulator)
                (when accumulator
                  (incf (gethash (coerce (reverse accumulator) 'string) counts 0))
                  (setq accumulator nil))))
        (end-of-file ()
          (when accumulator
            (incf (gethash (coerce (reverse accumulator) 'string) counts 0))
            (setq accumulator nil))
          (maphash #'(lambda (word count)
                       (push (list count word) accumulator))
                   counts)
          (format t "~{~&~{~a ~a~}~%~}" (reverse (last (sort accumulator #'< :key #'car)
                                                       (let ((n (second sb-ext:*posix-argv*)))
                                                         (if n (parse-integer n) 100))))))))

It’s not exactly pretty or idiomatic, but its 19 lines appear to get the job done.

1: Well, technically it is, because there is SPLIT-SEQUENCE: https://github.com/sharplispers/split-sequence

9 mesi fadiscuss

Everybody wants to charge as much as he can. Workers do the same: we all want to charge as much for our labour as possible. Unions do the same thing too.

Everyone also wants to pay as little as he can, too.

Fortunately, as long as there are many buyers and many sellers, the market tends to find efficient prices. When there is a monopoly or a monopsony, though, prices get out of wack.

9 mesi fadiscuss

If customers keep trying to do something … let them do it? Charge them to do it?

It’s crazy to me: folks quite clearly want to run Windows 11 without an account. What is it worth to Microsoft let someone do that? $12? $144? $1,728?

9 mesi fadiscuss

Sure, but those are not backwards-compatible. If Wayland let me run my existing window manager then I would be glad to try it out.

9 mesi fadiscuss

> Life-or-death care almost certainly needs to be a government-run, single-payer system.

> If giving another kid their cancer meds means one less gold-leaf-covered item in the presidential ballroom, so be it.

Why do you think a government would choose to cover an additional kid’s cancer medications rather than an additional luxury for government workers? You’re placing a ton of faith in governments.

At least with private companies there is choice (normally). And private companies do not directly wield government power (normally).

9 mesi fadiscuss

An issue with his remote setup is that the remote VPS decrypts packets from the remote laptop, then re-encrypts them for the LAN — this means that the remote VPS can see the plaintext of all those packets. He’ll need to layer TLS or something similar, or run Wireguard over Wireguard.

9 mesi fadiscuss

Nope, while it is possible to run normal X11 apps under Wayland, there is no support for running X11 window managers.

Which is a damn shame, because window managers are where some of the greatest innovation is happening.