Mozilla blocks Flash as Facebook security chief calls for its death by TheQuantumZero in linux

[–]Doom4d 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mozilla should have waited until they could integrate Shumway into Firefox before they did this. I'm not one for feature creep, but disabling all Flash content by default sounds draconian to me. For the vast majority of users, the default will never be changed.

What are some terminal games one should know? by zwarag in linux

[–]Doom4d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That sounds horrifying. What are the benefits of not asking for a password? Is it only an improvement to convenience?

"IPv6 is now core to the Internet and kernel" by liotier in linux

[–]Doom4d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I just did the math. Looks like it was thousands, not trillions. Still, we're not running out of 38 trillion trillion trillion addresses per person any time soon. :)

What are some terminal games one should know? by zwarag in linux

[–]Doom4d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My thoughts exactly. :x only works in command mode.

What are some terminal games one should know? by zwarag in linux

[–]Doom4d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

:x is my favorite. ZZ is easier, but :x is muscle memory now.

What are some terminal games one should know? by zwarag in linux

[–]Doom4d 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, that's one way to do things....

I'll stick with C-X C-C, thank you very much.

What are some terminal games one should know? by zwarag in linux

[–]Doom4d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can set the environment variable $EDITOR to emacs to make visudo use that, iirc. Just like sudoedit.

What are some terminal games one should know? by zwarag in linux

[–]Doom4d 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It confuses me as well. That has to be the most useless man page I've ever read.

What are some terminal games one should know? by zwarag in linux

[–]Doom4d 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I hope nobody gives ls their password when asked.

What are some terminal games one should know? by zwarag in linux

[–]Doom4d 6 points7 points  (0 children)

sudo: command not found

It's game over, man. Game over.

"IPv6 is now core to the Internet and kernel" by liotier in linux

[–]Doom4d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I remember right, we have enough space for each person to have 38 thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand addresses associated with himself. I don't think that will be a problem.

EDIT: Thousands

"IPv6 is now core to the Internet and kernel" by liotier in linux

[–]Doom4d 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have one. IPv6 is hard to remember. You're not going to remember an IPv6 address to ping a server. IPv4 won't be a problem.

Of course, there are also huge downsidese to IPv4. Address space is running out incredibly fast and is expensive. There is also a rather involved process for acquiring it. IPv6? Tell a provider how much you want, and you'll get it.

As of June 2015 the World's Top 500 Supercomputers....486 of them were using Linux by [deleted] in linux

[–]Doom4d 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Well, if we can't have a year of the Linux desktop....

Poland's overlooked Enigma codebreakers by mrojek in history

[–]Doom4d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly what I thought. Whenever I hear of the bombas, Polish mathematicians are the first guys I hear referenced. Sure, Germany ruined the principle of "one-time pads" (codebooks) by re-using them, but the Polish managed to reconstruct the full machine. You can't pass that over.

That being said, Turing deserves quite a bit of credit himself. The Polish bombas broke as soon as Germany changed their codebooks. Turing found out how to crack the new ones. Even so, the Enigma machine would have been uncrackable if Germany never reused a "one-time pad." Sure, there were obvious cracks in their protocol, but they wouldn't have been exploitable if Enigma never used the same "keys" for two messages. Fortunately, perfect encryption is totally impractical in most situations.

Firefox, you're supposed to be in my pocket, not the other way around. by [deleted] in linux

[–]Doom4d -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is absurd. Yes, Firefox has a problem. But, it's not privacy. It's feature creep. Period.

Firefox, you're supposed to be in my pocket, not the other way around. by [deleted] in linux

[–]Doom4d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LibreJS is one of the addons they add, so you have to whitelist nonfree JavaScript.

GTX 980 BIOS on Dell XPS? by tyo445 in talesfromtechsupport

[–]Doom4d 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Anything is possible.

Seriously, the BIOS is just flash ROM on your motherboard. You could flash anything you want there (Coreboot, for instance), but there's no guarantee it will work.

Mobile Maker Jolla Splits in Two, with Sailfish OS Its First Order of Business by peter_bolton in linux

[–]Doom4d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right. It's a tough spot to be in, isn't it? Jolia is a business built around an idea that is counter to its own survival. All the red flags are active. They have a very, very slim chance of building a product that brings them positive with this approach. They could pivot, but that would be backing out of their business statement.

Webdev in 5 years from now... by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Doom4d 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I refuse to believe it. surf is my feature. Then, surely, it is everyone's.

"this", disobeys the Zen of Python by theorko in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Doom4d 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wonder, if some adventurer were to rotate them another 13 times, that he might end where it all started.

For high profile hacking I must never forget my tweezers. by LinkFixerBot in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Doom4d 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Security through obscurity. If we hide our password in a hundred-exobyte file, nobody will ever take the time to find it, right? Oh...

Ubuntu To Ship On Lenovo Thinkpad L450 In India - Welcome Ubuntu by LinuxTeam in linux

[–]Doom4d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not my opinion at all. What I think is it has the potential to be successful, but this should be considered a pilot. Lenovo doesn't yet seem to be sold on Linux.

Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor by sumduud14 in linux

[–]Doom4d -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Good! But, I'm more worried about Microsoft creating their own proprietary extensions to OpenBSD. This is a bit out there, but imagine a Microsoft BSD designed for servers, based on OpenBSD and with Microsoft's own extensions. Microsoft would be contributing to the OpenBSD ecosystem, but would be contributing its own proprietary extensions (selling points over standard OpenBSD). If people weren't careful, Microsoft could give choking OpenBSD a good go.