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superpatosainz··on Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced
It's inspired by Apple's launchd.
superpatosainz··on Did insurance fire brigades let uninsured buildings burn?
That's not what universal healthcare means.
superpatosainz··on We took a hacker to a public WiFi café (2014)
There was once even an easy to use software that shipped with an attack. It was called Firesheep and it let anyone skillful enough to install a browser extension get into the Facebook and Twitter sessions of anyone who shares the same network.
superpatosainz··on The Hard Raise
That's kind of what Socrates did. Not everybody thinks it's acceptable (just look at how well it turned out for him), but it's important to challenge all beliefs.
superpatosainz··on Diversity and Inclusion at GitHub
Different indigenous people can share almost the same blood but have vastly different ethnicities, because ethnicity is cultural. Check your history.
superpatosainz··on Diversity and Inclusion at GitHub
To add (and replying to rco8786): I think this is not racism. Because ethnicity is not race, and almost everybody by now through mestizaje has native blood. The early colonial period might have a racist component with "sistema de castas" (Spaniard born in America = Criollo, Spaniard with Native = Mestizo, Spaniard with African slave = Mulato, so on).

But now race doesn't even matter because we are all almost the same genetically (it just happens that at least in Chile, the fair-haired blue-eyed people are the richest, but hate here is about wealth and politics rather than race itself).

superpatosainz··on Diversity and Inclusion at GitHub
Mapuches you mean?

Well, living in Chile, I've learnt that there's no racism here BUT:

-There's classism, a lot. Both from the lower classes to the upper and vice versa. There's also a lot of anger left from the various dictatorships that ruled in the eighties.

-In some countries, here included, there's also big prejudice against native cultures like the Mapuches. "They're all lazy drunkards".

These problems mostly stem from colonial times, where the Spanish didn't respect native culture and since the Europeans were seen as the "civilized, more advanced people", the aristocrats here did everything to imitate their lifestyle.

See also: mestizaje.

superpatosainz··on WikiLeaks reveals the NSA spied on Berlusconi and his closest advisors
Well that's what bothers me too: You have no rights as a non-American person. The NSA could not care less about your privacy.

I'm not a terrorist and yet the NSA can do whatever it wants with me, and that's scary.

superpatosainz··on Analysis and Exploitation of a Linux Kernel Vulnerability
Yes.

Well, Android and most RHEL-derivated distros use SELinux and it can mitigate this kind of problems (assuming it is well configured) and Ubuntu has "AppArmor" but I don't know if it mitigates this issue as well.

superpatosainz··on Berlin public transport in real time
That sounds like the switchman by Juan Jose Arreola.

Full text: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25293822

superpatosainz··on Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds
I think he means Aquinas' Quinque Viae
superpatosainz··on A Richter scale for outages
There's one like what you say: Mercali.
superpatosainz··on A Richter scale for outages
It's a very interesting concept, because now in 2015 I've seen more and more things using technology and computers where they shouldn't be used. People seem to not understand that the gimmick feature that needs a computer just adds a billion moving parts (one for each transistor, statement of code, etc) that may fail.

I was in the process of buying a new TV and I couldn't find a good ol' TV, nope, all there was "super awesome smart voice commanded can see the weather TVs"... so I bought one intending to just use it for cable (I still used netflix in my computer) and after a whole damn day of updating firmwares and waiting for it to boot (I miss the CRT days)... some capacitors that were in the backlight circuit blew. Thank you very much Samsung. (Btw another clear example of misusing technology was yesterday's post about trains using GPS for "smart door controls")

Oh also, the scale in your post is more of a Mercali than Richter.

superpatosainz··on US segment of ISS evacuated due to possible cooling system leak
This actually makes me wonder: what if there's a false bomb report in the ISS? Akin to when some 12 year old prankster says in twitter that there's a bomb in flight XYZ123, will chaos happen up in the ISS?
superpatosainz··on The Magic SysRq key
Well, at least in my Spanish keyboard there are two functions for the SysRq key, as the keycap says:

Impr. Pant. | Pet. Sis. -- which is expanded to --> Imprimir Pantalla | Petición a Sistema -- which translates to --> Prnt Scr | SysRq

So that binding makes the key actually useful for everyday activities.

superpatosainz··on Ask HN: Maybe found huge security problem, unsure what to do
Defamation/libel/etc. is only when you claim something false to be a fact.
superpatosainz··on Why Stealing Cars Went Out of Fashion
Some Chilean startup is trying to do something akin to that, embedding a big lock in the frame, so stealing the bike would render it useless (tho, of course, it's an urban-only bike).

http://nadiemelaroba.cl

superpatosainz··on One second per second is harder than it sounds
Yes, there is. Just not in the client side, it's server-to-server, and due to the centralised nature of IRC, it's critical.

For example, here's a paragraph from the UnrealIRCd server protocol (http://www.unrealircd.com/files/docs/technical/serverprotoco...):

> Unreal is very time-dependant. Users and channels, for example, are timestamped, and if server clocks are not synchronized properly, things can go very wrong very fast. See http://vulnscan.org/UnrealIrcd/faq/#67 for more information on this. Note that there is a slight difference between server time and what is actually reported by the UNIX date command or by the C time() function.

The other major side of IRC server protocol is the TS6 protocol (You can see it by yourself at http://irc-wiki.org/IRCd_Comparison). TS stands for TimeStamp, and you can see how critical timestamps are at https://github.com/avenj/irc-server-pluggable/blob/master/do... and https://github.com/atheme/charybdis/blob/master/doc/technica.... You can see TS are what control almost everything related to nicks, channels and their properties.

Before the implementation of TimeStamps and Services, it was really easy to abuse netsplits to take over channels and people's nicks.

There's a complete explanation at http://codeidol.com/internet/irc/The-IRC-Protocol/Timestamp-... (and of course, a Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat#Timestampin...).

superpatosainz··on One second per second is harder than it sounds
IRC: everything is timestamped to the subsecond. Any drifting causes channel takeovers and "random" nick kills, even links fail. Also, since a message from a server is broadcasted across the entire network, one misconfigured server can cause chaos in your hubs or completely unrelated leafs.

Or at least that's how I remember my experience managing an unstable (as in ddosed, every irc service in active development, a few in-house bots, etc) IRC network and having read the IRC and IRCv3 specs and unreal's and TS6 server message specs. If I'm wrong I'm sure someone here could correct me.

superpatosainz··on Open Source Explained In Lego
"I'd like to interject for a moment, what you call Open Source is actually FSF/Open Source or as I'd come to call it recently, FSF+Open Source".
superpatosainz··on Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls
:) Fellow Monstercat fan.
superpatosainz··on Writing The Snowden Files: 'The paragraph began to self-delete'
This is exactly the time when you'd want to write about such a topic in pen and paper.
superpatosainz··on Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
I based that statement on what I saw in Michael Sandel's HarvardX (edX partner) Justice course. There's a lot of thought experiments and hypothetical situations premises are tested against to see if they still hold to be moral; really interesting.
superpatosainz··on Payments Startup Stripe (YC S10) Joins the Billion Dollar Club
Thanks for the answer!

Also, I just looked your profile and I can just say good luck with what you're doing!

superpatosainz··on Payments Startup Stripe (YC S10) Joins the Billion Dollar Club
As a fellow Chilean citizen I can just say: what?!

Is it Transbank? Redcompra?

superpatosainz··on An old system and a SWAT team
Indeed, it was a clever trick.

But in no way was the attack "serious", just for the lols, I know the attacker and swatting is just another way to get lols.

superpatosainz··on An old system and a SWAT team
Do you seriously don't know what "swatting" means? Somebody called SWAT on them, while he hacked into that machine. Nowhere was said that a SWAT operative was the hacker.
superpatosainz··on Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
Not to be pedantic, but Piñera at this very moment is still governing and Michelle Bachelet has not taken his post yet.
superpatosainz··on Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
Sir, if I preoperly recall, that's exactly how you discard premises. Taking a premise and applying it to a more extreme situation just battletests it. It's done in justice and law courses, etc.

"If the common good justifies killing X agent, then it must be ok for a doctor to kill a patient in their sleep, take his organs and save three people with his two kidneys and heart."

Also, what Yale did wasn't right, and the students just defend themselves... If, for example, you were robbed wouldn't you care? "Oh but there are thousands more people poorer than me, I shouldn't bother".

superpatosainz··on Optimal Characters Per Line
I love how this carefully designed site is sensible with its readibility and then you get the Facebook-powered comments with letters smaller than ants.

Not OP's fault, but just a heads up.

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