Hacker News: skozharinov

New comment by skozharinov in "First in-the-wild UEFI bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot"

skozharinov — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:57:56 +0000

It does. Windows ships them as part of security updates, Linux distributions can use fwupd.

New comment by skozharinov in "Ask HN: Is anyone successfully self-hosting Firefox Sync?"

skozharinov — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 08:51:03 +0000

I self-host syncserver in Docker, it is relatively easy to set up. The main issue is that it would not tell you that it doesn't work, instead it would silently leave a log file in your browser (about:sync-log). Once it is up and running, however, it works flawlessly. You also have to consider that syncserver is unmaintained and uses Python 2, which has long been EOL.

New comment by skozharinov in "GCC undefined behaviors are getting wild"

skozharinov — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 12:07:29 +0000

Well, that's undefined behaviour. It could have inserted system("rm -rf /*"); instead and be right about that.

New comment by skozharinov in "GCC undefined behaviors are getting wild"

skozharinov — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 12:04:17 +0000

Because there are internet providers out in the wild that can and will insert some garbage into any unencrypted HTML page, including ads or phishing.

New comment by skozharinov in "New EU law on gender balance on corporate boards"

skozharinov — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 11:35:43 +0000

How about balancing HR? Teachers? Or jobs regarded as dangerous and/or unpleasant, like miners or garbage collectors? What about prisoners? I heard there are huge gender balance issues too.

New comment by skozharinov in "Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation"

skozharinov — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:53:57 +0000

> trimming down Firefox memory consumption

Of that Firefox that can fill 16 Gb zram with lz4 compression and all remaining physical RAM with less than 100 tabs loaded?

New comment by skozharinov in "Whatever your fears for Twitter future are, Mastodon is already that"

skozharinov — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 15:04:16 +0000

Good luck running your mail server in your basement :) You will be able to receive most mail that is sent to you, but sending without being sent to spam or rejected is trickier, and I don't think sending reliably is possible at all from a residential network.

New comment by skozharinov in "Using a catch-all domain is a mistake"

skozharinov — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 06:03:39 +0000

I personally have no problems with catch-all. I even append random salt to email.

New comment by skozharinov in "IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (2018)"

skozharinov — Sat, 14 May 2022 11:20:25 +0000

Isn't IQ designed to average at 100?

New comment by skozharinov in "Waterloo faculty job only for 'women, transgender, non-binary, or two-spirit' [pdf]"

skozharinov — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 01:00:26 +0000

Pretend to be non-binary, problem solved.

New comment by skozharinov in "Fedora 36: A brave new (DRM/KMS only) world"

skozharinov — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 17:18:38 +0000

Fedora is a bleeding edge distro, I thibk it's okay to disable legacy stuff there.