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crowellon ‘Low End’ Means Good Enough

there was no point to be made. I wasn't saying that either platform is insecure. Just seems the link wasn't to show anything other than if you care about security, using the latest version of macos is prudent.

crowellon ‘Low End’ Means Good Enough

also on newer machines you get more security features, such as SMAP/SMEP which were introduced in the Broadwell chips (2015 macs?)

crowellon ‘Low End’ Means Good Enough

It's pretty hard to take this article seriously.

The author writes

"I don’t consider Windows good enough. Historically there have been to many ways to compromise a Windows-based computer, and new techniques keep showing up with alarming regularity."

And then later

"I am writing this on my newest computer, a Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook running OS X 10.11 El Capitan"

If you're going to knock Windows on a lack of security, at the very least do as much as you can do to protect yourself on a Mac. Note the long list of security fixes in the latest version of MacOS https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222

crowellon Ask HN: What laptop do you use?

2012 Samsung series 9 (15")

I really love my laptop, but it's getting old. I think I'd be happy with another samsung, but am not totally sure.

Pros:

+Thin + Light/small bezels on the display

+upgradable ram (came with 8gb, I have 16gb in it now).

+great trackpad/keyboard (only now the 'a' key feels weird, but only after 5 years, so I'm not super upset about that).

+Linux support is good (it didn't start out perfect, things like keyboard backlight only started working like 2-3 years ago, but it's great now).

cons:

-battery life isn't that great. I get a few hours (~2.5-ish? I never checked).

-screen is 1600x900, I'd prefer a 1080p panel. The new ones are 1080p

-ssd is really really slow. like spinning disk slow.

crowellon Show HN: Tenta – A private encrypted browser

vpn is enough to bypass censorship in china. How do you think international corporations do it?

crowellon Radare2 (RE framework) collects money for it's own Summer of Code

this is a really great piece of software that is deserving of love/donations. If you've ever wanted a free, supported version of a tool like ida, or a user-friendly tool for assembling/disassembling (radare2 can make use of libraries like keystone/capstone in ways that don't require writing new C code), then you owe it to yourself to donate to, or at least try radare2.

crowellon Reverse Engineering with Radare2

sys/static.sh - compile a static bin

crowellon Zyan Disassembler Engine

while possible, what benefit would it have over the current default of capstone for x86/amd64? I've never heard of zyan before.

crowellon How to get a B.S. in CS without BS

Some great links here. Awesome job curating it!

crowellon Show HN: Slap – a command line client for Github Gists

currently, no. that would be a simple addition though.

crowellon Show HN: Slap – a command line client for Github Gists

good idea, I will add that as an update

crowellon Show HN: Slap – a command line client for Github Gists

to be honest, I was not aware of that piece of software.

One features of my client that I prefer is the auto-copy to clipboard. gist does look nice though.

crowellon Show HN: Slap – a command line client for Github Gists

I originally started the project on bitbucket, and never ended up moving it to github. I should probably do that, seeing as it is targeted to a github project.

crowellon Show HN: Slap – a command line client for Github Gists

bitbucket project page can be found here

https://bitbucket.org/crowell/slaprb

can be installed with "gem install slap"

crowellon Show HN: Watson – inline issue manager with GitHub support

I helped to test this and have been using it since. it is much less disruptive to work flow to just add comments in one place rather than add comments and have to go through github's ui for work items, bugs, etc.

crowellon Hostnames

I use locations from the Zelda universe.

my current machines are

lakehylia, lostwoods, termina, koholint, skyloft, deathmountain, minishwoods

crowellon Cgdb: a lightweight curses (terminal-based) interface to GDB

I've given it a try before. I really just prefer the -tui switch on gdb if I want to work with multiple panes. It allows src/console/registers/asm panes. really quite useful.

http://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/TUI.html

crowellon Introducing Apk2Gold, an easy and comprehensive Android APK decompiler

V10S goes to java as well. I've really enjoyed using it and the work flow is quite nice.

crowellon Introducing Apk2Gold, an easy and comprehensive Android APK decompiler

very cool. How does the output compare with something like Virtuous 10 Studio?

crowellon Retina MacBook Pro review as a Mac Pro owner

I'm glad you love your macbook, but would a similar-enough computer _really_ not do it for you? When I upgraded from a netbook as my main machine to my Toshiba Z830, it was amazing, but then again, that is comparing a $200 machine to a $700 machine.

I can't really see that same $500 difference in price making something like the $1200 MBP so much better than what I've got, with marginal utility and all that going.

I don't by any means think that getting a high end machine is a bad idea, but I do think that once you get something that is a high quality item, you definitely reach the "good enough for me" stage.

crowellon Show HN: Wordsmith - jquery plugin that adds on-demand word definitions

very cool plugin. I'd like the definition to show up in a tooltip or something by default though. opening up a new window is a bit annoying.

crowellon ZeroBin, opensource Pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data

Interesting. I'll still stick with KDE paste for their api, but seems promising