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Depends which news you're talking about. MS guy who discovered it found it March 29th, published to oss. It was in infosec news same day as redhat, others pushed out critical advisories. Patch didn't come til a day or two later.

Hmm? It was released for two plus months? 5.6.0 and 5.6.1

I'd also say this wasn't a good example of 'linux handling it better': usually when a mess like this occurs on windows all the corps get a quiet tap on the shoulder that they need to immediately patch when MS releases it, then a few days later it hits the news. In XZ's case, the backdoor was published before the team knew about it, huge mess.

zx sounds better

I don't understand this sort of blindness? Linux fails all the time, with rather terrible nobody to root vulns because some idiot failed to use the right bounds check. Ye gods, XZ utils was barely a few months ago!

1. this is a crowdstrike issue not windows

2. plenty of malware and c2 systems happily operate off all systems, regardless of how hardened (or how unix) they are - IDS/IPS is a reactive way to try and mitigate this

3. you don't need third party software to compromise the unix kernel, you just need to wait a week or two until someone finds a bug in the kernel itself

all that being said, this has solarwinds vibes. the push for these enterprise IDS systems needs to be weighted, the approach adjusted

Yeah but this is more from the perspective of a blue teamer, someone actively looking for/protecting against malware or performing forensics. If you're not in that position, just have some good AV and don't do anything that might make you a target.

"[Enter Company Name] Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says". Any company, you pick.

Hmm, I'm studying first year biology at uni and they convey a lot of wonder with it. Especially when at the same time you study human bioscience (organ systems, tissues etc) and chemistry for biology the sheer wonder of all the little machines working together effectively by random collisions comes off as magical.

I just wish we had a better way to see it. Some sort of approach that would allow us to observe molecules in real time :| An electron microscope of some very dead extracted material just isn't the same.

I was put on it by nuwen.net, went from 110 to 80 some 15 years ago, changed my life. RIP

Isn't this just EFTPOS? I've been paying with that since I first got a eftpos card thirty years ago in NZ

Before opening the article I was thinking "I bet its another 2D side-on platformer". The genre isn't even mentioned in the article, but from looking at all the screenshots (as I would on steam) I can't see why I would buy this over the other three thousand or so 'indie platformers' released each week. They need to do something different, not in theme, appearance, gimmicks or whatever, but in actual game style.

I wrote F# for a long time, and there were definite phases to learning and becoming comfortable with it. For example, it's often pitched as a functional language but in reality its a functional-first hybrid language on the .NET framework - to be efficient with it is to embrace this and write imperatively when you need to.

Pure syntax wise, its pretty nice, though having a single pass compiler makes it a bit dated feeling compared to other languages.

I've use this. Slightly slower, but for my use case that was fine (a small blog) and immeasurably better doing away with all the CGO hassle. Especially when I might cross compile to an Arm architecture, or some docker container that uses a different approach to the c libraries (like Alpine vs Ubuntu Server or whatever) it was always a hassle, and thats all gone away now.

Always seemed silly that one of the most popular storage technologies couldn't be accessed with pure Go.

Someone's bot farm just lost a member

Bash does not work the same on Linux and Mac, as the version for Mac is the GPLv2 option which has a different, reduced syntax vs the common version in Linux (or WSL2 versions of linux), so a linux bash script may well fail when run on MacOS. Further more, the binary architectures are different so a linux ELF binary wont work on Mac either.

Your WSL comparisons are incorrect as well: WSL Linux on Windows can not only access and run commands like find over the entire windows file system, but it can also run windows executables - these start in windows even though triggered from bash or whatever in Linux. And vice versa: Windows can run linux binaries which start in WSL (or dual use it like Docker for windows which uses a wsl backend). Furthermore, if that floats your boat, if you start a linux gui application (I occasionally do with browsers or certain recon tools) it runs fine in a window as part of the windows ui experience.

So its not really like a linux vm on mac at all, not even considering the vastly better performance you get from WSL vs a VM.

No I wasn't, but if I was it works like this: Surface Go = iPad, same rough price and specs, Surface Laptop Go, Surface Laptop vs Macbook Air or low-end Macbook Pro, same rough price (Laptop Go is a few hundred cheaper), Surface Book vs medium-high-end Macbook Pro, same rough price.

Right now a entry level Macbook Air in NZ is ~1600, 1400 on special, and a Surface Laptop Go 2 is ~1400. Same size, same ram, same hdd, higher res on the air, touch screen on the surface, m1 on the air, intel x64 on the surface, basically same target market.

Tbf you can uninstall all these apps (rage about windows being preinstalled with bloatware, but thats been a thing forever), and if you feel like you are technical enough to use linux, then you are absolutely technical enough to open regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager, and disable all that 'user experience' stuff.

I think Mac and surfaces are in the same price bracket definitely. My surface book was a cool 4k in NZD when I grabbed it, comparative to a similar MacBook pro.

I'll do you one better, used Mac for two years, Windows for most of the rest, and a hell of a lot of Linux all throughout. Found the opposite regarding cognitive load with MacOS - it feels like a ten year old operating system full of weird quirks and I got annoyed with its almost-linux-but-not command line. Win11 with WSL2 is my preferred driver, both for hacking and development (primarily Rust/Go not Node so maybe that makes a difference).

Its all subjective though.

Hmm, I'd say the Surface line are the direct competitors, and have real nice quality. Better keyboards and a nicer screen form factor 3:2. Was quite a fan of the Surface Book 2, and recently picked up a Laptop Go which is great, for less than a Macbook Air.

Sure, each to their own. I'd just argue that comments like the one that concludes the article, 'Could the 2020s become the decade when mainstream PC gaming turns handheld?' sound about as credible as the hype around how the iPad was going to replace the desktop.

I play PC games because I like having a comfortable gaming chair, a keyboard and a mouse in front of a large screen. I've never understood the point of the Steam Deck - if I want to play 'mobile friendly games' I'll use my switch, but the games are definitely not the sort of games I'd play on the PC.

I think it takes a lot more than a language, no matter how efficient to get top 10 in AoC - its more about being able to parse the problem exceptionally quickly, or rather recognise practically from memory the class of problem that the day is asking for and be halfway through coding it before you have even finalised the specifics.

I managed to get 47th on one of the days once... and that was after solving it in under a minute.

Now sell to NZ and AU pleeeeeeease

A game I have been playing for 25 years. Usually try to get it running on every new device as a poc - latest was a Pi 4.

I think the problem was it _felt_ vague and under specified. But when I read it closely enough, it actually was exactly specific.

That one wiped me out for a week too, and caused borderline psychological problems.

Ultimately though I realised that if I followed the description word by word, and made no assumptions, then I got the right solution. Still, a nightmare: you could pass all the examples, or even some alternate real sample data, and still get it wrong if you got the ordering slightly incorrect.

Any game you play, particularly the ones running through distribution platforms like Steam, is wired up with enough telemetry that it would make Windows 10 blush. And they run with full privilege a lot of the time, too.

So if you are on Windows 7 'for privacy considerations', but use it as a gaming machine, then I have a bridge to sell you.

Didn't the US blow up 30 afghani civilians a few months ago with drone strikes? Didn't even make the front page.

We all make deals with monsters for economic safety, or because there is near nothing we can do about it. That includes China AND the US.

That's probably more of a distinction between individualism and collectivism, than democracy per se.