Hacker News: mdeslaur

New comment by mdeslaur in "Salesforce CEO Claims Half of the Company's Work Is Now Done by AI"

mdeslaur — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:04:37 +0000

So I expect to pay less for his product now that his biggest cost has been cut in half.

New comment by mdeslaur in "Amazon Rules Out Displaying Tariff Impact After White House Attack"

mdeslaur — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:51:45 +0000

So it's "political" to show tariffs, but it's not "political" to show sales tax?

New comment by mdeslaur in "Tell HN: Ubuntu 24.04 force enables password auth, need to disable differently"

mdeslaur — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 21:10:26 +0000

Bug was filed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/20...

New comment by mdeslaur in "Tell HN: Ubuntu Pro now required for security fixes, even for supported releases"

mdeslaur — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:29:54 +0000

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#Official%20Support

New comment by mdeslaur in "Tell HN: Ubuntu Pro now required for security fixes, even for supported releases"

mdeslaur — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:28:56 +0000

In the past, Universe packages only got security updates if a member of the Ubuntu community submitted a fix for sponsoring. The community can still do this, but additionally, Ubuntu Pro exists which also updates universe packages.

New comment by mdeslaur in "Tell HN: Ubuntu Pro now required for security fixes, even for supported releases"

mdeslaur — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 15:13:41 +0000

Ubuntu Pro covers Universe packages, which weren't previously covered by official security updates. All the packages in main still get the same security updates as before without requiring Ubuntu Pro.

New comment by mdeslaur in "The ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse (2020)"

mdeslaur — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:19:02 +0000

I don't understand how anyone manages to use a touchpad after getting used to how great trackpoints are. I have to use an external mouse on laptops that only have touchpads.

New comment by mdeslaur in "Linux Certificate Authority root stores have a too simple view of 'trust'"

mdeslaur — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:18:38 +0000

Oh no, our terrible secret is out! :)

New comment by mdeslaur in "Linux Certificate Authority root stores have a too simple view of 'trust'"

mdeslaur — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:12:44 +0000

> Ubuntu has never seemed to take security particularly seriously.

I haven't heard that before. Care to elaborate what we do that makes you believe we don't take security seriously?

New comment by mdeslaur in "Linux Certificate Authority root stores have a too simple view of 'trust'"

mdeslaur — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:11:34 +0000

> where Ubuntu just unilaterally reverted Mozilla’s removal of a cert in their package, because it was breaking nuget… Note that this was early 2021 — Mozilla removed Symantec from their trust store in October 2018!

Mozilla actually removed the certs from their trust store in February 2021: https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/9718a34c84429b1e5dc6...

Debian and Ubuntu had jumped the gun by a few weeks and there were certificates still being used that had not been renewed yet, so we had to revert temporarily.

Mozilla had used the CKA_NSS_SERVER_DISTRUST_AFTER tag with a date to specify newer certs issued by that CA were not valid, but as the article above states, the crypto libraries being used in Linux don't support that kind of thing.

New comment by mdeslaur in "Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Linux?"

mdeslaur — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:00:50 +0000

Yes, this.

New comment by mdeslaur in "iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics"

mdeslaur — Tue, 08 May 2018 16:54:12 +0000

Can a device still be wiped when this happens? I'm wondering how to recycle or recover locked devices if the USB port is disabled...

New comment by mdeslaur in "Exploiting Linux kernel heap off-by-one"

mdeslaur — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:19:39 +0000

Actually, Ubuntu 16.10 is listed as not-affected (4.8.0-11.12).

The "needs triage" you're seeing for Ubuntu 16.10 is for the "linux-goldfish" and "linux-flo" kernel packages for specific android devices.

New comment by mdeslaur in "Ca-certificates: removal of SPI CA"

mdeslaur — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:34:13 +0000

I will remove it in our next updates.

New comment by mdeslaur in "If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free software in practice"

mdeslaur — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:48:59 +0000

I don't see any Unity-specific patches in the glib package in Ubuntu. What are you referring to?

New comment by mdeslaur in "New Chromecast 2015"

mdeslaur — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 18:39:23 +0000

Three exciting colours to hide behind your tv! :)

New comment by mdeslaur in "Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud"

mdeslaur — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:24:41 +0000

That bug was fixed in all releases last july. This was the bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1443735

New comment by mdeslaur in "Google Will Launch Google Photos, a Photo Host With “Unlimited Storage”"

mdeslaur — Thu, 28 May 2015 16:57:20 +0000

"Unlimited" until they retire the service 18 months from now.

New comment by mdeslaur in "VMware just created its first Linux OS and it's rubbish"

mdeslaur — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 13:25:15 +0000

What a misleading title.

New comment by mdeslaur in "The new MacBook"

mdeslaur — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:53:01 +0000

Seriously? Couldn't they have put _two_ ports in it so you can plug something in while it's being charged without lugging around a usb hub?

Hacker News: mdeslaur

New comment by mdeslaur in "Salesforce CEO Claims Half of the Company's Work Is Now Done by AI"

New comment by mdeslaur in "Amazon Rules Out Displaying Tariff Impact After White House Attack"

New comment by mdeslaur in "Tell HN: Ubuntu 24.04 force enables password auth, need to disable differently"

New comment by mdeslaur in "Tell HN: Ubuntu Pro now required for security fixes, even for supported releases"

New comment by mdeslaur in "Tell HN: Ubuntu Pro now required for security fixes, even for supported releases"

New comment by mdeslaur in "Tell HN: Ubuntu Pro now required for security fixes, even for supported releases"

New comment by mdeslaur in "The ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse (2020)"

New comment by mdeslaur in "Linux Certificate Authority root stores have a too simple view of 'trust'"

New comment by mdeslaur in "Linux Certificate Authority root stores have a too simple view of 'trust'"

New comment by mdeslaur in "Linux Certificate Authority root stores have a too simple view of 'trust'"

New comment by mdeslaur in "Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Linux?"

New comment by mdeslaur in "iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics"

New comment by mdeslaur in "Exploiting Linux kernel heap off-by-one"

New comment by mdeslaur in "Ca-certificates: removal of SPI CA"

New comment by mdeslaur in "If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free software in practice"

New comment by mdeslaur in "New Chromecast 2015"

New comment by mdeslaur in "​Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud"

New comment by mdeslaur in "Google Will Launch Google Photos, a Photo Host With “Unlimited Storage”"

New comment by mdeslaur in "VMware just created its first Linux OS and it's rubbish"

New comment by mdeslaur in "The new MacBook"

New comment by mdeslaur in "Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud"