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#Linux #Kernel 5.7 will *not* contain the filesystem information retrieval patches (aka fsinfo), despite what a few news websites claim. Seems one wrote it's a feature of 5.7 only after
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So over the weekend I was knee-deep in C-code and when this thread popped up in my stream again right now I read"People working in teams that use sprintf's: the
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thread of grep'ing the XP source for interesting bits... "hack" ... don't do this, there are thousands.but some funny ones:"It probably is a file created by a hacker.""a hacker can
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More fun publisher surveillance:Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is *unique for each time a PDF is downloaded*, this is a diff between metadata from two of
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Well... a funny thing happened.I stole a Domain Controller.Like... physically stole it. I have it here with me. It's... well. It's unencrypted. I can mount it like a hard drive.Now
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Excellent paper.“we describe the first native RNA sequence of SARS-CoV-2 [using direct nanopore sequencing], detailing the coronaviral transcriptome [all the RNA, mRNA, sgRNA, made by the virus] and epitranscriptome [all
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I’ve been digging into the Ruby docs a lot recently and I’m reminded of lots of small things I love about the language. Setting myself a little goal for march
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¿Querés saber quiénes son los principales morosos del sistema financiero argentino? Sólo necesitás entrar a la AFIP con tu clave fiscal y un poco de maña con Mac o Linux.
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Ancient sysadmin wisdom: don’t use ‘>’ as part of your shell prompt. You’re one copy/paste error away from truncating a file. There’s a reason root’s ‘#’ prompt gets interpreted as
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(A few) Ops Lessons We All Learn The Hard Way -- a Twitter : 1. Email is the worst monitoring and alerting mechanism except for all the others.2. Absence of
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