Hacker News: YtvwlD

New comment by YtvwlD in "Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced"

YtvwlD — Wed, 01 May 2024 07:55:41 +0000

If this is the only bug, then this is easily solvable: create the pty in the daemon.

New comment by YtvwlD in "Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced"

YtvwlD — Wed, 01 May 2024 07:54:16 +0000

You'd need to be root already, so hard.

New comment by YtvwlD in "Mozilla's new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives"

YtvwlD — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:50:58 +0000

You can use https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/, but that's no official Mozilla repository.

New comment by YtvwlD in "Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM"

YtvwlD — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:11:11 +0000

The FP2 got 7 years of updates.

New comment by YtvwlD in "Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM"

YtvwlD — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:10:06 +0000

They exist for ten years now.

New comment by YtvwlD in "Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM"

YtvwlD — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:08:55 +0000

Fairphones do, too.

New comment by YtvwlD in "MDN - AI Help: Your Trusted Companion for Web Development"

YtvwlD — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 22:17:54 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542267

New comment by YtvwlD in "Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture"

YtvwlD — Sat, 20 May 2023 23:27:57 +0000

Shouldn't VMs run in ring 3, anyway?

New comment by YtvwlD in "So this guy is now S3. All of S3"

YtvwlD — Thu, 04 May 2023 19:33:38 +0000

Okay, yes, but this indicates that they didn't read the ActivityPub before developing their own new shiny protocol.

New comment by YtvwlD in "GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful"

YtvwlD — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:21:30 +0000

afaik no, but you might lose some features

New comment by YtvwlD in "Greenfield – The In-Browser Wayland Compositor"

YtvwlD — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 19:49:50 +0000

> Maynard, Weston, Wellesley all are near Wayland and seem less connected to existing buzzwords.

Weston already exists and is a Wayland compositor. :)

New comment by YtvwlD in "Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys"

YtvwlD — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:53:04 +0000

This is the default on any modern distro (which has logind).

New comment by YtvwlD in "Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys"

YtvwlD — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:52:13 +0000

No.

New comment by YtvwlD in "How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home"

YtvwlD — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 12:52:59 +0000

No, you can't attach to processes (that are not child-processes of yours) with the default Ubuntu configuration.

New comment by YtvwlD in "How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home"

YtvwlD — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 12:51:26 +0000

No, you can't usually attach a debugger to a process (with Ubuntu's default settings).

New comment by YtvwlD in "GRUB2 UEFI SecureBoot Vulnerability: 'BootHole'"

YtvwlD — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:48:28 +0000

That's why you should be careful when using dist-upgrade or full-upgrade. safe-upgrade wouldn't remove packages.

New comment by YtvwlD in "GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers"

YtvwlD — Sat, 26 May 2018 19:36:03 +0000

1. No, but you shouldn't need to store PII. Simply disable cookie usage and enable IP address anonymization in Google Analytics.

2. You can simply exclude IP addresses from logging.

New comment by YtvwlD in "Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany"

YtvwlD — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 07:04:07 +0000

Unitymedia doesn't seem to be blocked either.

New comment by YtvwlD in "Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany"

YtvwlD — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 07:02:08 +0000

Oh, wow.

Yes, it works here with IPv6.

New comment by YtvwlD in "Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser"

YtvwlD — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 14:21:48 +0000

Ubuntu stable seems to have disabled this as well.