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New comment by whacker in "The SBOM Frenzy Is Premature"

whacker — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 23:50:16 +0000

> That also means that unless you build a project on two identical hosts then it is unlikely you will get the same SBOMs.

I don't understand why the author thinks this is such an insurmountable issue.

Reproducible builds are possible with a little care: large parts of Debian are built reproducible. There are tools from https://reproducible-builds.org/

Bazel and similar build systems support reproducible builds, and thus identical SBOMs.

New comment by whacker in "The Protobuf Language Specification"

whacker — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 21:33:50 +0000

proto predates gob by quite a bit. gob was introduced with golang, and it's not really used anywhere else.

New comment by whacker in "Vcluster – Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters"

whacker — Tue, 18 May 2021 00:13:40 +0000

Not quite fake: but this might be close enough? https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind

Alternatively you could create a CRI plugin that does what you want. https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/242a97307b3407...

New comment by whacker in "Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups"

whacker — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:43:39 +0000

Out of Band. Registrars cannot intercept whois searches?

New comment by whacker in "Attacks against GPG signed APT repositories"

whacker — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 02:52:58 +0000

The release files have 'Valid-Until' fields, which will cause apt to reject it on replay.

New comment by whacker in "Attacks against GPG signed APT repositories"

whacker — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 22:36:31 +0000

This is such a frustrating clickbait headline!

Most of the 'attack' s are:

1. Plain old bugs in apt. 2. Involve disabling the very security features (GPG and checksum verification) designed to prevent that attack!

New comment by whacker in "Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep"

whacker — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:07:51 +0000

I mean you can use grep as a filter for tail -f output.

New comment by whacker in "Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep"

whacker — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:29:48 +0000

The equivalent in grep is '--line-buffered'.

New comment by whacker in "Regression in Linux 4.14 – using bcache can destroy the file system"

whacker — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:44:45 +0000

Yes, it does.

New comment by whacker in "Regression in Linux 4.14 – using bcache can destroy the file system"

whacker — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:48:09 +0000

Debian/Ubuntu has a similar mechanism. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/apt-mark.8.h...

New comment by whacker in "Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers"

whacker — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 20:22:07 +0000

Well, chess is eastern too (originated in India)

New comment by whacker in "The U.S. Isn’t Prepared for the Next Recession"

whacker — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 23:46:08 +0000

I think the car issue is caused by rise of emissions controls. Efficiency and emissions control have been improved by computerizing the car - thats what puts car maintenance out of reach. Its hard for the average person to understand/fix things that we cannot see or touch.

New comment by whacker in "Is Mindfulness Meditation Bullshit?"

whacker — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:56:17 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

New comment by whacker in "JSC loves ES6"

whacker — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 17:33:55 +0000

Not having to pay does not make it 'open' either, but I see your point.

New comment by whacker in "Behind the Scenes of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel"

whacker — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 05:10:45 +0000

actually its attributed to pablo escobar, and he was from columbia.

New comment by whacker in "Show HN: Hostsctl – Control /etc/hosts easily, block ads, social networks, etc"

whacker — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 03:00:10 +0000

oh nss modules wouldn't either. Perhaps intercepting and rewriting every dns request would be needed.

New comment by whacker in "Show HN: Hostsctl – Control /etc/hosts easily, block ads, social networks, etc"

whacker — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 06:28:29 +0000

I think (on linux, at least), its better to implement this as a nss- module (/etc/nsswitch.conf). You can do things like lookup a hashtable, automatically update databases, etc without having to rewrite system config files.

Also this does not protect you from programs that perform their own dns lookups, and ignore /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf entirely!

New comment by whacker in "Show HN: MCVirt – Lightweight VM clustering using distributed storage (DRBD)"

whacker — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 17:02:31 +0000

Why DRBD when something like `sheepdog/ceph` is available?

The latter offer much better scalability and features.

New comment by whacker in "Are Index Funds Eating the World?"

whacker — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:53:49 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...

New comment by whacker in "Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail"

whacker — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 17:29:05 +0000

The default I have seen everywhere (qmail, postfix) is a week.