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Lt_Riza_Hawkeyeon Decoded: GNU Coreutils

ls is kind of complicated, has a billion flags, and has to print pretty so it has to do some ioctls to get the terminal width and such, then column things out nicely so they don't overflow. Glad I'm not implementing ls from scratch.

Lt_Riza_Hawkeyeon GNU APL 1.8

APL can do some pretty cool stuff: http://0x0.st/scHG.webm

Lt_Riza_Hawkeyeon OpenBSD Recent Security Innovations

If you have data you don't want written to a core dump, then MAP_CONCEAL will literally only help you if that memory is in an mmap'd region. If it's in regular old virtual memory, you're fucked.

So if you're going to add a flag to something to let users conceal a region of memory from a core dump, add it to madvise, adding it to mmap is just adding arbitrary restrictions on the programmer.

Linux got it right with MADV_DONTDUMP

Lt_Riza_Hawkeyeon Mystery meat OpenJDK builds strike again

>And any day Debian decides to stop using Foo, is always a happy day for Foo's upstream. Finally, the stream of bugs matching the below template will stop spamming Foo's bug tracker:

>> Debian X.x (stable) >> foo <5-10 years old release> >> >> <XXth duplicate of a 7 year old issue that has been fixed 3+ years ago | 5 year old Debian-only bug caused by a Debian patch>.

>The only appropriate reply to such bugs IMHO is:

>> Fuck off. And don't come back before switching to a distribution >> with a non-broken definition of stability.

>Unfortunately, most upstreams always try to stay civil.

Lt_Riza_Hawkeyeon Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

C++ is the most popular language at Facebook, I know that one for sure. They used to run PHP on HipHop VM which was written in C++, but now they transpile PHP to C++.

Lt_Riza_Hawkeyeon A Story About Piracy

I find it hilarious that they have https working properly, but visiting this URL with https redirects back to http

Lt_Riza_Hawkeyeon This Waifu Does Not Exist

They are absolutely hilarious: http://0x0.st/zoT2.png

Lt_Riza_Hawkeyeon Builder vs. Programmer Perspective

Yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVNvEGe2UOA&list=PLPXsMt57rL...

Lt_Riza_Hawkeyeon Preventing SQL Injections When WAF’s Not Enough

This is the correct answer. Unfortunately PCI dictates that you can use WAFs instead of real coding standards and testing.

For anyone curious why WAFs are so useless, there is a very beginner-accessible talk by Joe McCray here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBVThFwdYTc

Lt_Riza_Hawkeyeon I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days

Thank god. I interviewed with FB, moved through the first question in 15 minutes, and assumed that it was 3 questions with 15 minutes allotted each. When he didn't give me a third one after another 15, I assumed I had spent too much time struggling with the second and he had just given up. I got the job though, just wish I had known then. I start in a few months.

Lt_Riza_Hawkeyeon A tale of 132 e's

>To: iliana weller <ilianaw@buttslol.net>

Lt_Riza_Hawkeyeon Tumblr refugees trying to save its NSFW content

The text loaded fine for me with javascript disabled. No ads or autoplaying videos.

Lt_Riza_Hawkeyeon IBM’s Old Playbook

What's the difference between a car salesman and a software salesman? The car salesman knows he's lying to you.