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whacker··on The SBOM Frenzy Is Premature
> That also means that unless you build a project on two identical hosts then it is unlikely you will get the same SBOMs.

I don't understand why the author thinks this is such an insurmountable issue.

Reproducible builds are possible with a little care: large parts of Debian are built reproducible. There are tools from https://reproducible-builds.org/

Bazel and similar build systems support reproducible builds, and thus identical SBOMs.

whacker··on The Protobuf Language Specification
proto predates gob by quite a bit. gob was introduced with golang, and it's not really used anywhere else.
whacker··on Vcluster – Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters
Not quite fake: but this might be close enough? https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind

Alternatively you could create a CRI plugin that does what you want. https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/242a97307b3407...

whacker··on Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups
Out of Band. Registrars cannot intercept whois searches?
whacker··on Attacks against GPG signed APT repositories
The release files have 'Valid-Until' fields, which will cause apt to reject it on replay.
whacker··on Attacks against GPG signed APT repositories
This is such a frustrating clickbait headline!

Most of the 'attack' s are:

1. Plain old bugs in apt. 2. Involve disabling the very security features (GPG and checksum verification) designed to prevent that attack!

whacker··on Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
I mean you can use grep as a filter for tail -f output.
whacker··on Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
The equivalent in grep is '--line-buffered'.
whacker··on Regression in Linux 4.14 – using bcache can destroy the file system
Yes, it does.
whacker··on Regression in Linux 4.14 – using bcache can destroy the file system
Debian/Ubuntu has a similar mechanism. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/apt-mark.8.h...
whacker··on Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers
Well, chess is eastern too (originated in India)
whacker··on The U.S. Isn’t Prepared for the Next Recession
I think the car issue is caused by rise of emissions controls. Efficiency and emissions control have been improved by computerizing the car - thats what puts car maintenance out of reach. Its hard for the average person to understand/fix things that we cannot see or touch.
whacker··on Is Mindfulness Meditation Bullshit?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
whacker··on JSC loves ES6
Not having to pay does not make it 'open' either, but I see your point.
whacker··on Behind the Scenes of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel
actually its attributed to pablo escobar, and he was from columbia.
whacker··on Show HN: Hostsctl – Control /etc/hosts easily, block ads, social networks, etc
oh nss modules wouldn't either. Perhaps intercepting and rewriting every dns request would be needed.
whacker··on Show HN: Hostsctl – Control /etc/hosts easily, block ads, social networks, etc
I think (on linux, at least), its better to implement this as a nss- module (/etc/nsswitch.conf). You can do things like lookup a hashtable, automatically update databases, etc without having to rewrite system config files.

Also this does not protect you from programs that perform their own dns lookups, and ignore /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf entirely!

whacker··on Show HN: MCVirt – Lightweight VM clustering using distributed storage (DRBD)
Why DRBD when something like `sheepdog/ceph` is available?

The latter offer much better scalability and features.

whacker··on Are Index Funds Eating the World?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
whacker··on Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
The default I have seen everywhere (qmail, postfix) is a week.
whacker··on Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in the United States
what on earth is 'possible possession of drugs'?
whacker··on Why do we keep building rotten foundations?
I can imagine some of the complaints with gnome, although I feel its gotten far better, what exactly are the problems with gtk3 vs 2+?
whacker··on Say_what: Using speech-to-text to fully check out during conference calls
I think a note taker taking live notes that everyone can see, and perhaps edit, is a great way to record meetings. As a bonus, you even have something tangible to show the time you put in!
whacker··on Walgreen Terminates Partnership with Theranos
All the other replies are misinterpreting this: There was once hope that this would democratize/commoditize medical testing.

Sad that it did not come true.

whacker··on PyPy3.3 v5.2 alpha 1 released
hallelujah!
whacker··on Show HN: Kajero – Interactive JavaScript notebooks
looks awesome!

A link to installation instructions would be nice.

whacker··on React v15.0 Release Candidate
https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/02/19/new-version...
whacker··on ReactJS is better without Flux/Redux/RxJS
Well, we we don't need any of the other stuff, if you just replace redux, etc with their equivalents in clojurescript!
whacker··on Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your TV show
webcam + motion detection would be a way to do this without additional hardware.
whacker··on Chrome kills the HTTP-HTTPS “mixed content” warning
and what if they simply get a certificate from another source?!
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