<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: __jal</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=__jal</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 18:52:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=__jal" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jal in "New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own data into secure enclave"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Render useless" makes me think of something more like the F00F bug - hard lockup until a reboot.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug</a><p>OS vendors worked around it in software.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:51:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537713</link><dc:creator>__jal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537713</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jal in "Launch HN: Datree (YC W20) – Best practices and security policies on each commit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's one for credential scanning:<p><a href="https://github.com/dxa4481/truffleHog" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dxa4481/truffleHog</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:08:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537263</link><dc:creator>__jal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jal in "Launch HN: Datree (YC W20) – Best practices and security policies on each commit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For starters, that "just" is swallowing:<p>- Identify the relevant tokens you want to scan for, and create regular expressions to capture them.<p>- Create a token alert service which accepts webhooks from GitHub that contain the token scanning message payload.<p>- Implement signature verification in your token alert service.<p>- Implement token revocation and user notification in your token alert service.<p>And that would replace one piece of what this does.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:01:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537192</link><dc:creator>__jal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537192</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jal in "Launch HN: Datree (YC W20) – Best practices and security policies on each commit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We do several of these things, and bundling them together looks nice; I imagine troubleshooting the pipeline is much easier. We would need the enterprise version because we are on-prem, and our user count compared against the 'pro' edition makes me think this would be a hard sell - high 5 figures/year to replace a few shell scripts is tough.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:56:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537139</link><dc:creator>__jal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537139</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jal in "Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reminds me of a saying from the first dot.com crash. (Or at least I heard it then first.)<p>Tying two bricks together doesn't make them float.</p>
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<p>Why keep yourself in a position where you have to ask FB for permission to speak?<p>Vote with your feet. Build a website FB doesn't control.</p>
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<p>Many of us in California don't care if you think they "shouldn't" live here.<p>I'm perfectly well aware of the economic and tribal arguments. The former are not convincing and the proponents of the latter can go pound sand - given my preferences, I'd exclude them long before I'd exclude immigrants over paperwork.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 21:05:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22386729</link><dc:creator>__jal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22386729</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22386729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jal in "Systemd Home Directories"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, explain this. I mean, it is a positive step that you've backed off your strange "rage" accusation, but why do you consider my stance on the technical merits of this step irrational?</p>
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<p>Why does any criticism of systemd have to be  due to "rage"? There is this ongoing behavior whereby anything other than fawning praise is treated as irrational and emotion-driven.<p>You may as well ask why Lennart rages so hard against ZFS.</p>
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<p>I think this may be where I step off the train. I grumbled, but can live with it as init, and it is easy enough to disable the ntp and name resolution nonsense to use decent tools.<p>Buy systemd has no business sticking its nose in authentication or storage, or more generally telling me how to manage users. This is a no.</p>
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<p>There has been more than one Cisco vulnerability that struck people as suspicious.<p>I know it comes to my mind every time I see the string "Cisco zero day", whether or not it seems likely in any particular case.</p>
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<p>Don't fall for the trap that this is about "big tech".<p>It isn't.<p>It is about your freedom of speech and ability to protect yourself.</p>
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<p>The problem would be that they would no longer be academics.<p>For a lot of people who head down that path, they consider it more of a vocation than a job. It may well be a good thing for all the next folks who consider the path, but it choosing that would come at a large personal cost for them.<p>Most folks are not that altruistic.</p>
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<p>Some time ago I saw an Iphone app that could "read" resistors by pointing your camera at them, but can't find it now.<p>Googling, I see one for Android, which I don't use:<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhdev.resistorscanner&hl=en_US" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhdev.resi...</a></p>
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<p>> Academics should [...] vot[e] with their feet.<p>You do see the problem here, don't you?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 20:20:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22078784</link><dc:creator>__jal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22078784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22078784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jal in "Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (1999)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> In the end the charity still gets more money than they had before and the runners get some exercise<p>So "they" should be thankful for any old crumbs left on the table after their betters are done patting themselves on the back?<p>Honestly, I prefer the Randian take on charity to this. At least that one has the virtue of not obfuscating.</p>
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<p>Conservative != bigot/anti-gay.<p>We do have a brood of reactionaries attempting to blur that distinction like they always do, but there are plenty of conservatives who do not share that particular bias.</p>
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<p>Sounds like you turned on dedupe, or had an absurdly wide stripe size. You do need to match your array structure to your needs as well as tune ZFS.<p>On our backup servers (45 disks, 6-wide Z2 stripes) easily handle wire-speed 10G with 32G ARC.<p>And you're just wrong about snapshots and filesystem counts.<p>ZFS is no speed demon, but it performs just fine if you set it up correctly and tune it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 22:44:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22006695</link><dc:creator>__jal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22006695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22006695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jal in "Linus: Don't Use ZFS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Linus is just wrong as far as maintenance, as a look at the linux-zfs lists would show.<p>From my perspective, it has no real competitor under linux, which is why I use it. I don't consider brtfs mature enough for critical data. (Others can reasonably disagree, I have intentionally high standards for data durability.)<p>Aside from legal issues, he's talking out of his ass.</p>
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<p>No, but even if the crazy person is correct in this instance, I'm still not relying on them for political/personal safety/vitamin/any other information of any consequence.</p>
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