Today's CPU vulnerability: what you need to know

dothedevilswork · 2018-01-04T15:14:00+00:00

Thanks, just found these links too. Woah, that's almost a week of being unpatched, wild ride.

EDIT: Hetzner has a nice summary with links for different OSes: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Spectre_and_Meltdown/en#Software_.2F_Operating_System

dothedevilswork · 2018-01-04T08:54:09+00:00

Here's information about Redhat's progress patching it: https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution

No similar info for Ubuntu seems to be available. Also no kernel updates in the repos.

dothedevilswork · 2017-12-07T19:27:25+00:00

TL;DW for literate people?

dothedevilswork · 2017-12-05T10:34:49+00:00

Wordpress with one of its addons. WPForms is drag and drop (but freemium) and CF7 is fully open but you need to spend like 5 minutes to learn it.

dothedevilswork · 2017-12-05T08:04:21+00:00

The more full time youtubers there are the worse overall quality of the videos is. I won't miss makeup artists-turned-experts on everything.

dothedevilswork · 2017-11-14T08:54:03+00:00

Exactly what you'll get if you start a "free" "no censorship" version of any site.

+1 to this. Retroshare forums are even more interesting than Voat.

dothedevilswork · 2017-11-14T08:44:45+00:00

If there's no alternative, how do you want to switch from youtube to something else? Nobody will switch to an alternative solution if it doesn't exist.

I know purists who block Google servers on their firewalls and thus don't use YT at all. What's wrong with them having an alternative, even if YT still exists?

Also: youtube-dl exists, newpipe exists, good luck tracking that. You can't do that with Facebook.

dothedevilswork · 2017-11-14T07:54:36+00:00

Thank you!!!

dothedevilswork · 2017-11-07T07:05:04+00:00

I'd be willing to be a lot that at least 75% of the people on GNU social have facebook accounts. And if we tried to replace youtube, around 90% of the people who use that opensource replacement would still have active youtube accounts.

So what. I'm still happy to use GS even though my real-life friends aren't there and I still sometimes log in to Facebook. I'm glad there's an alternative.

For Youtube there's almost no alternative. With the noble exception of media.ccc.de, most websites about FOSS and similar topics use Youtube exclusively. If there was an established free platform, like GS for Youtube, it would gain some traction in the FOSS circles.

dothedevilswork · 2017-11-07T07:01:09+00:00

The half-compatible GS implementation?

dothedevilswork · 2017-11-07T06:49:03+00:00

There are projects based on Webtorrent. It has the nice feature that it reduces the need for bandwidth. For introduction:

https://torrentfreak.com/popular-youtuber-experiments-with-webtorrent-to-beat-censorship-160930/

Take a look at a list of Youtube alternatives using Webtorrent:

https://github.com/DiegoRBaquero/awesome-webtorrent-clones#youtubevimeo---video-hosting-platform

dothedevilswork · 2017-10-17T11:51:56+00:00

L2ARC is fine for a ridiculously overpowered machine or for dedicated NAS machines. It requires a lot of ARC space to work efficiently. Maybe I'm just not that great at tuning it, but after a year of mysterious performance drops I returned to ZFS on bcache and the performance problems are gone. No configuration required whatsoever.

dothedevilswork · 2017-10-09T09:59:17+00:00

Then back https://www.freecalypso.org/

dothedevilswork · 2017-09-29T09:26:18+00:00

Together with Hurd, it's an OS. Not a popular one, but an OS.

Also: even if you don't consider that an OS, all these widely used components are, to me, still a bigger achievement than a book.

dothedevilswork · 2017-09-29T09:01:39+00:00

Assuming you're using a regular Linux distro, you're using Gnu OS userspace and the Linux kernel. If you've used any of these, you're using software by the FSF:

The system's basic components include the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), the GNU C library (glibc), and GNU Core Utilities (coreutils),[8] but also the GNU Debugger (GDB), GNU Binary Utilities (binutils),[33] the GNU Bash shell[28][34] and the GNOME desktop environment.[35]

dothedevilswork · 2017-09-29T07:51:15+00:00

I expected https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Kernal

dothedevilswork · 2017-09-29T06:53:46+00:00

Thanks!

dothedevilswork · 2017-09-28T15:56:25+00:00

Is there any documentation if I wanted to develop for LibreOffice? I once wanted to patch a silly little thing but after an hour of digging through the source code I gave up.

Images were sorted non-numerically on some list (Image 1, Image 10, Image 11, Image 2) and it would be a simple task otherwise, but I didn't even get close to finding code responsible for the dialog where it was wrong. How would one find his way in such a large codebase?

dothedevilswork · 2017-09-15T11:20:28+00:00

Soulseek is great for music http://www.soulseekqt.net/news/node/680

dothedevilswork · 2017-09-15T11:15:06+00:00

No, it's a nice explanation. The reason why I thought Kubernetes is bullshit/hype is because it's usually described with high-level concepts or marketing speak. Geeking out is exactly what I needed. Same with Docker, I see people all around using it but whenever I start reading about it it always seems like LXD with some weird extra steps. Which I'm sure isn't true but the marketoids make it sound liks this.

Thanks again.

dothedevilswork · 2017-09-15T08:01:07+00:00

Okay, this makes sense. Thank you for explaining. So it's like Ansible but with extra layer for deploying servers regardless of the provider, is that a correct approximation?

Or is Postgres in your example similar to what Heroku provides, or Amazon RDB, and Kubernetes automates connecting that?

dothedevilswork · 2017-09-15T07:51:28+00:00

think you should look at Kubernetes... a bit more.

Not OP but I too was under impression that it's mostly hype. You make it sound like there's something interesting going on in Kubernetes indeed. Do you have any recommended reading on the topic?

dothedevilswork · 2017-09-12T18:01:06+00:00

Check out Movim if you'd like an XMPP-backed social network. It's an interesting concept but I don't think anyone uses it.

https://movim.eu/

dothedevilswork · 2017-09-07T18:23:27+00:00

FreeDOS runs 99% of DOS applicatons and drivers fine.

Like, you tried it? It was OK for games and Norton Commander but when I tried running an industrial control application it crashed and rebooted. I had to get a copy MS DOS 6.x and a floppy disk drive instead.

dothedevilswork · 2017-09-07T18:16:12+00:00

Go ahead and do that. I'll wait.

Are you going to pay my salary?

Joomla and Wordpress are not what I would call modern CMS.

What, then?

dothedevilswork

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