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yottamus··on Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence
Over the next 50 years, Canada is set to benefit immensely from climate change. Trade routes will open up, huge amounts of land will become arable, and resource extraction will become easier.
yottamus··on GPT‑Live
I worry what this will do to human communication if it becomes commonplace. Will everyone learn to be a forceful speaker, speaking over anyone they want to stop speaking?
yottamus··on Grok 4.5
As someone also not happy with my bike computer (some truly horrific UI/UX decisions), could you share or explain what you made? I like your web server.
yottamus··on 18 year old critical vulnerability found in Nginx
F5 says: "Additionally, for systems with Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR ) disabled, code execution is possible." https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000161019

But in the write up it says: "Luckily, NGINX uses a multi process architecture where worker processes fork from a single master process. Because of this design, the memory space is duplicated exactly for every child worker. This means the heap layout remains entirely deterministic across different workers. If our exploit fails and crashes a worker, the master process simply spawns a new one with the exact same memory layout. This allows us to safely try multiple times until we succeed without worrying about the worker crashing and changing the memory layout. Theoretically, we could leverage this design to leak ASLR by progressively overwriting pointers byte by byte."

Is this F5 being dishonest?

yottamus··on Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal

    git difftool --tool=vimdiff
yottamus··on Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
I basically only trust GiveWell on global aid, have you been evaluated by them?