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8개월 전discuss

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/FIREFOX_143_...

  # Use 17 for Ctrl, 18 for Alt, 91 or 224 for Meta, 0 for none.
  - name: ui.key.accelKey
    type: uint32_t
  #ifdef XP_MACOSX
    value: 224
  #else
    value: 17
  #endif

  // user.js
  user_pref("ui.key.accelKey", 91);

guns

8개월 전discuss

You could use Firefox and then set the accelerator key to Super, changing all application bindings to use Super instead of Control. This is my setup and it’s great.

guns

2년 전discuss

Reminds me of “Flashed face distortion effect”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashed_face_distortion_effe...

https://youtu.be/VT9i99D_9gI?si=QHhzR00tib3ZuX-5

guns

3년 전discuss

> People keep forgetting to sanitize inputs, for example. Does that render input sanitization a broken idea?

Possibly. You could prevent careless use of unsanitized inputs with a type system. Fail-safe designs should be more common.

guns

3년 전discuss

This is what Stephen Wolfram concludes in a recent article about ChatGPT:

> The specific engineering of ChatGPT has made it quite compelling. But ultimately (at least until it can use outside tools) ChatGPT is “merely” pulling out some “coherent thread of text” from the “statistics of conventional wisdom” that it’s accumulated. But it’s amazing how human-like the results are. And as I’ve discussed, this suggests something that’s at least scientifically very important: that human language (and the patterns of thinking behind it) are somehow simpler and more “law like” in their structure than we thought.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

guns

3년 전discuss

This attack also doesn't work if you `exec su lowpriv_user` since there is no parent shell.

guns

4년 전discuss

Essay writing unconsciously reinforces one’s opinion on a topic. This is an excellent tool for intellectual development when the student is free to argue any sensible position. Unfortunately, teachers often require students to choose orthodox positions, and thus essays become a primary tool for indoctrination.

Cheating has no place in an academic institution, but machine generated essays are an interesting way for students to avoid enforced compliance.

guns

4년 전discuss

> Layoffs like this can have a more pronounced impact on marginalized communities, so we were particularly focused on ensuring our layoffs – while a business necessity today – were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens.

You are mistaken. The letter is quite clear.

guns

4년 전discuss

> In the above example how is someone going to send traffic to 172.17.0.2:80 through the Docker host from a box on a different network than the Docker host?

The attacker and host will generally need to be on the same network so that the attacker's packets are not dropped because they are addressed to a non-routable private IP address.

You could access the containers at 106.12.52.111 if you were in the same network (e.g. 106.12.52.0/24) and the packets did not have to traverse a router.

> Also is this still exploitable if you reject everything at the iptables level before you start using Docker?

Yes. Docker appends the FORWARD chain with custom rules that explicitly forward traffic to published ports.

guns

4년 전discuss

Docker users on the Mac are not affected by this issue, but they should be aware that the "Automatically allow downloaded signed software to receive incoming connections" option in the firewall settings must be unchecked in order to block incoming connections to container ports published to 0.0.0.0.

This is necessary because Docker Desktop for Mac is presumably signed by Apple.

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4년 전discuss

Publishing ports to '*' is commonly done to allow Mac and Windows users to access containers through their browsers.

The macos firewall is able to block connections to these exposed sockets but:

1. The user has to explicitly turn on the firewall since it is off by default

2. The option "Automatically allow downloaded signed software to receive incoming connections" must be unchecked because Docker Desktop is signed by Apple.

I don't use a Mac, but all of the developers that use Macs at my company either did not have their firewall enabled or did not realize that connections to Docker Desktop were whitelisted.

guns

4년 전discuss

Original author of password-store was Jason Donenfeld (of Wireguard fame), and it was indeed well-written.

guns

8년 전discuss

> I am not against conservative people and also not against people with different views. … It becomes a problem when some of those people can't tell the difference between truth and lie.

Perhaps we should create camps that educate these people on political issues.

guns

8년 전discuss

The problem is that most programmers do not bother to make whitespace visible, so tabs-for-indentation-spaces-for-alignment inevitably leads to a mess of mixed tabs and spaces.

I personally use tabs-for-indentation-spaces-for-alignment in my personal code, but I think I'd lose my mind if I tried to mandate it for a public or team project without a standard code formatter like gofmt.

guns

9년 전discuss

> [EDIT] No, this is not a charitable view of someone's potentially pure motivations. But after a few dozen iterations of the same thing again and again, you stop being charitable. Sorry.

falcolas, I was going to ask something similar to Doreen had she not posted first. While I can understand why you might assume that these posts are intended to derail and deceive, I think it's more parsimonious to believe that these HN posters are genuinely looking for discussion and enlightenment.

None of the posts you provided seem sinister. The only thing shared between them is that the posters are hesitant to throw in their support without a detailed argument befitting a complicated issue like net neutrality. An explanation like the following (battleforthenet.com):

    What is net neutrality? Why does it matter?

    Net neutrality is the principle that Internet providers like
    Comcast & Verizon should not control what we see and do online.

is insufficient to someone looking for something more comprehensive. If anything, the FUD and tribalism¹ surrounding this issue are clear signals that the underlying truth is probably quite complicated.

¹ From battleforthenet.com:

    We are Team Internet. We support net neutrality, freedom of speech.

    They are Team Cable. They want to end net neutrality, to control & tax the Internet.

guns

9년 전discuss

> TL;DR: Someone, at this point, who claims they have never "understood" net neutrality and wants a "thoughtful discussion" is lying to us in an attempt to derail discussions.

This is not a charitable opinion. Reading old threads on NANOG¹ has convinced me that net neutrality is more nuanced and technical than the "people vs big-ISP" narrative advanced by campaigns such as the OP. If anything, the reddit and battleforthenet bandwagons have created a hostile environment for actual debate.

¹ AFAICT, the majority NANOG opinion on net neutrality is that it doesn't actually address the underlying issue that prevents natural competition in the ISP market.

guns

9년 전discuss

Thanks for this tip! Private browsing mode causes the tab bar to reappear (though the tabs are still hidden), so I found that the selector #TabsToolbar works even better.

Also, the large, bright sidebar header can be hidden with the #sidebar-header selector.

Combining those, we have:

    #TabsToolbar, #sidebar-header { visibility: collapse !important; }

guns

9년 전discuss

> PGP tooling sucks (especially in gmail, but really everywhere)

GPG integration doesn't suck in Mutt.

guns

10년 전discuss

> But the greatest thing that ever happened to them wasn't that they studied hard, or that they benefited from tiger moms or Confucian values. It's that other Americans started treating them with a little more respect.

It seems strange to ignore the possibility that one led to the other.

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11년 전discuss

> It may have to do with knowing anyone could own and possess either legal or illegal firearms.

While this may have an influence, it's important to remember that police officers are also trained to be wary of knives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_KJ1R2PCMM

You can't totally disarm a population, so there are diminishing returns on this front.

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