I just tried building and running it. Surprisingly many websites already load fine, though Youtube doesn't and Vimeo/Reddit comment section crashed it. Still, the results are quite encouraging! It takes ~6GB of HDD to build it.
I've recently been wondering: could you re-compress gzip to a better compression format, while keeping all instructions that would let you recover a byte-exact copy of the original file? I often work with huge gzip files and they're a pain to work with, because decompression is slow even with zlib-ng.
I worry that 7-Zip is going to lose relevance because lack of zstd support. zlib's performance is intolerable for large files and zlib-ng's SIMD implementation only helps here a bit. Which is a shame, because 7-Zip is a pretty amazing container format, especially with its encryption and file splitting capabilities.
I don't want this to sound cynical, but do we have any examples where the US government successfully got the corporations to actually increase security, as opposed to just gaming the regulations to make more money instead?
Previously mentioned Depthboot from Eupnea Project (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36888598), while allows you to install Linux distributions on Chromebooks, requires user to generate modified images with custom kernels, which is harder to maintain than mainline/original distribution kernels.
Meanwhile Chrultrabook project is actively contributing to upstream projects, allowing for installation of Linux distributions from original images thanks to proper UEFI support with Coreboot - this makes it more future proof, despite more steps required for Coreboot installation.
Timely! I just deployed it on our company server. There's a hidden gem that's not enabled by default and really helps when pair programming in Jupyter:
> The Scream Test is simple – remove it and wait for the screams. If someone screams, put it back. The Scream Test can be applied to any product, service or capability – particularly when there is poor ownership or understanding of it’s importance.
For that to work you have to trust the firmware. Overwriting with something random, saving what was fed and then cross-referencing that against the storage could work better, but there's still some non-zero chance that something you're looking for is in a buffer, unreachable part of the disk or the like.
Encrypting the hard drive and then removing the key has a better chance of rendering the data unusable.
https://www.youtube.com/c/DANLIAOFreeToLearn - "Free To Learn Chinese", teacher uses a "natural method" where all of the content is in Chinese and most difficult words are paraphrased (HSK1-6)
One thing that I wonder about is: could we write extra code that makes those reversible? I understand that there are no stack frames other than the topmost one, but maybe if we recorded the first and last one as well as a copy of the arguments, it could be enough to reconstruct the flow?