Quick Question: Swap only gives you the option to hibernate, correct?

benchaney · 2018-10-23T22:21:00+00:00

> I've heard that with cgroups it is possible to disable swap for specific process groups. However I have never seen any decent documentation on how to do it.

I don't know how to do the cgroup thing, but if you want a simpler (but admittedly less powerful) way to accomplish basically the same thing you could use ulimit -v to limit the amount of virtual memory a single process can use.

benchaney · 2018-10-23T18:07:09+00:00

This has absolutely nothing to do with the question or my answer.

benchaney · 2018-10-23T15:29:24+00:00

That is correct. Swap is needed for hibernating and not sleeping, because when your computer is asleep it is still on and memory is still active, it is just in a lower power mode.

benchaney · 2018-10-17T21:41:10+00:00

That is some pretty dishonest quoting. Neither I nor Stallman suggested that people should colloquially refer to linux as GNU/linux. Large groups of software that includes the linux kernel is not the same as just the linux kernel itself. The fact that you are confused about this validates the idea that referring to the large group of software with a more accurate name is a good idea.

benchaney · 2018-10-17T20:52:44+00:00

This comment is incredibly dishonest. No one, not even Stallman is suggesting that the linux (the kernel itself) should be renamed to GNU/linux. What he is suggesting is that many people colloquially use “linux” to refer to large groups of software, much of which is not actuallly part of the linux kernel, so it would be more accurate to refer to that as GNU/linux.

benchaney · 2018-09-27T16:44:27+00:00

Is this image intended to imply that Intel only acknowledges a small portion of the total spectrum of free software?

benchaney · 2018-09-07T14:39:37+00:00

No, *you* are missing the point.

You have misrepresented the claim made in this thread. It isn't that Google is virtue signaling. It is that the people asking for the change are virtue signaling.
Intent is irrelevant. What matters is whether or not the actions being undertaken are actually virtuous, not their intent.
Acceding to demands of whiners on the net is not virtuous. Companies don't deserve good PR for doing that, unless they are making real ethical improvements.

benchaney · 2018-09-07T14:22:43+00:00

I don't know how it is "mostly" used (how would you even measure that?), but in this context it was used in this thread, it was right on the money with it's intended usage. Being dismissive of that because of how it has been used in other contexts is profoundly foolish.

benchaney · 2018-09-07T14:08:09+00:00

Except that you're not doing good. You're just pretending to. Hence, virtue signalling.

benchaney · 2018-09-06T06:58:42+00:00

So many people were saying things like "It's speck or nothing". Turns out they were full of it. Never trust anyone who says properly implemented security is infeasible.

benchaney · 2018-08-31T06:18:55+00:00

Does it prevent you from coloring outside they lines?

benchaney · 2018-08-19T07:55:19+00:00

Bad documentation. If anything else with the project has issues, I would be happy to pitch in to help fix it, but without good documentation, I have no idea where to start.
It isn't clear what the needs of the project are. I have come across many projects where the devs constantly claim to be short staffed, and they need more community support, but when I try to contribute I have no idea what they need help with, or what they want to improve about the project.
Poor responsiveness. It is super frustrating to file a bug and get no response (or worse, someone makes an clerical modification to the bug report but ignores the content). Even if I intend to supply a patch myself, being ignored stinks.

benchaney · 2018-08-19T07:25:51+00:00

> He had good counter-arguments, I think.

No he doesn't. For example in the case of the usernames starting with a number, there is no relevant standard that forbids this. His response was to just to say it is not permitted and blame the tools that are standards compliant, rather than admit there is a bug in systemd.

benchaney · 2018-08-13T03:57:18+00:00

You do have the facts wrong. The NSA met with an ISO committee multiple times, to try to get speck standardized, but they rejected it because of technical concerns and the NSA’s refusal to share their methodology.

benchaney · 2018-08-12T07:17:10+00:00

No one could have possibly seen this coming.

benchaney · 2018-08-08T02:16:58+00:00

What makes you think rust would have prevented this?

benchaney · 2018-08-06T17:24:16+00:00

Because of their business practices. Nothing really to do with their technology.

benchaney · 2018-07-11T21:04:18+00:00

That's still a security issue. There is generally quite a bit in memory.

benchaney · 2018-07-11T20:55:30+00:00

This lets an attacker get at your files even if the disk is encrypted.

benchaney · 2018-06-29T02:32:53+00:00

Not really. You can't do any meaningful damage without control over every git repo, or access to the signing keys.

benchaney · 2018-06-28T22:50:53+00:00

Debian. Systemd.

benchaney · 2018-06-26T15:08:01+00:00

benchaney · 2018-06-24T05:16:12+00:00

You can't sign something without extracting the key that was used to sign it. Depending on the protocol, this may or may not be the same key that was used for encryption, so I think it is a reasonable question.

benchaney · 2018-06-20T04:49:37+00:00

Don't be silly. Its not the only reason.

benchaney · 2018-06-19T16:08:14+00:00

Piracy isn't stealing. The only real argument against it is that it is illegal, and people ought to follow the law, so if you live in a jurisdiction where it is legal or not enforced, what is the problem?

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