In Belgium, our Minister of Defence talks about buying services from Palantir, and wants to let Oracle build a cloud for the Defence department. He even dares to say that this will result in our own Sovereign Data Streams [1]. I can imagine this is a guy that will have not a single issue sharing the requested data with the US Government, even in the face of the recent hostility of the US towards the EU.
On the pictures, the sound proofing of the ceiling caught fire quite quickly, my gut feeling is that a lot of tragedies like this could be avoided by having more strict regulations on the fireproofness of the used materials.
I once reported several UB bugs to a HackerOne-led cryptocurrency bounty program. They were rejected because the software was working as intended and that they would "inspect the assembly every time they compiled". Yeah right.
I'm "fearful" of a future where every random appliance needs to be connected to the internet in order to function at all. I hope some legislation gets passed (in the EU in my case) that forces manufacturers to ensure the machine works offline and connecting it is purely an opt-in feature.
edit: in the past you would always get blocked, now I don't get blocked anymore when visiting lobste.rs with Brave. Anyway, do with this information as you please.
Why do you even bring this up, the blog post does not contain this message, they rewrote it to eliminate a class of bugs. They don’t bash C, so refrain yourself from mentioning what hypothetically could have been written…
> TLS inspection products can intercept the paste transaction before the data leaves the company network, hitting the user with a "No you didn't! Shame on you!"-banner and notify the admins how a user just tried to paste hundreds of customers' personal information and credit card details into some snooping website, or into otherwise allowed LLM chat which still is not allowed to be used with confidential information."
Are there tools that do this reliably today without a whole bunch of false positives?
shameless self promotion: I just launched a website [1] that tracks CVEs per kernel version since 2.6.12, it makes use of the tools that Greg KH will probably talk about in his next blog posts.
Yeah, I have been thinking about hosting a small internet facing service on my home server, but I’m just not willing to take the risk. I’d do it on a separate internet connection, but not on my main one.
I don’t think it’s hard to imagine that people work better together when they are in the same office. It’s also not hard to imagine people work harder when there’s more social control. From the perspective of the business owner, this makes total sense. Yes, some people work harder and better at home, but, in general WFH is net negative for a company I think.
The Travelling Salesman Problem in 1 dimension, on a line, is trivial, I wonder what the connection is between the dimensions and the hardness of problems like this.
Man, those people using LLMs in competitive programming ... where's the fun in that? I don't get people for whom it's just about winning, I wish everyone would just have some basic form of dignity and respect.
I think Linux is one of the great accomplishments of modern human society, together with Wikipedia. OpenSSL and the other Open Source cryptographic libraries for providing a safety net when our politicians decide to tighten their grip on privacy and secure communications. At least we as developers can still fall back on all the OpenSSL cloned repos and see from there.