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all evolving systems … are composed of diverse components that can combine into configurational states that are then selected for or against based on function

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7년 전discuss

Whoa. Does the addition of Thunderbolt imply that all USB4 host systems are exposed to DMA attacks[0]?

Doesn't this open up every USB system (all systems?) to arbitrary, uncontrolled memory access including silently flashing new firmware/microcode to system components?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMA_attack

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10년 전discuss

Ubuntu - http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-20...

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12년 전discuss

What DNS hosting providers can you recommend?

Preferably with an API or other means to programmatically make changes to zones. Bonus points for SRV and TXT records support.

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13년 전discuss

If you use `configure --prefix=/usr/bin`, you'll end up with sudo installed in /usr/bin/bin/sudo. Instead, try

   ./configure --prefix=/usr

to use the /usr hierarchy (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/share, etc...) instead of the /usr/local hierarchy.

Also, if you're able to run an executable in the current directory without specifying its location, as in configure instead of ./configure, then you have . (pwd) in your $PATH, which isn't recommended because a malicious executable might be in the directory you're in, and it might be named something like ls. Just listing the directory could have you owned.

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14년 전discuss

Hooking into Groove Salad or Deepvibes Radio http://deepvibes.co.uk/ [320 Kbps] nearly always creates an environment to get lost in the code flow.

Assign a hotkey to each of your favorite stations and jump around without losing your flow.

One way to do this is to trigger the launch of a .pls file. Save the following as deepvibes_320.pls without leading spaces

  [playlist]
  NumberOfEntries=1
  File1=http://deepvibes.co.uk:9106/

groove_salad_130aac.pls

  [playlist]
  numberofentries=1
  File1=http://voxsc1.somafm.com:3000

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Proposed new law of nature, expanding on evolution

Accelerometers have unique fingerprints [pdf]

Cells: logic gates + DNA state storage + system IO

EFF taking on software patent reform

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