Sick of it... Downgrading flash...

g0g0d1d1 · 10 days

Just turn on click to enable in about:flags and only run known good flash apps. Granted it's a shitty, insecure plugin, but disable it by default and you'll effortlessly avoid most attacks unless you're the kind of user who clicks everything in sight.

edjca · 13 days

Or a hideous checkerboard screen that burns the eyes, depending on what patches were applied.

barnibee · 13 days

Yes, I run a tiling wm full-time and occasionally pop a shell next to my browser just to make it narrower. It's really the fault of the web designer for not specifying a maximum width, but I've gotta put up with it anyways.

sidcool1234 · 14 days

Chrome cannot do a SOCKS5 proxy.

Nope, just add --proxy-server="socks5://host:port"

At least that's how it is on Linux, but based on this I think it's cross-platform. Not nearly as point-and-click as Firefox, though.

pdoubleya · 17 days

I use GNU/Linux. The neat thing about window managers in X is that each one can arrange and control windows in entirely different ways. When applications leave the duty of drawing chrome to the WM, it lets the chrome have a consistent look that can be customized in one place and change to fit the management style of that WM. For instance, a conventional (Windows-like) desktop arrangement would want borders, a title bar, and min/max/close buttons, but a tiling window manager wouldn't want any of that. That kind of consistency and flexibility is impossible if each application tries to dictate how the user can view and control its windows (via the chrome) in a different way.

So yeah, even in the *nix world where we have a huge diversity of tools and styles being used to build our apps, applications drawing their own chrome is frowned upon. It's a pretty ugly idea in many ways. (Also one of the perceived disadvantages to Wayland, but I digress.)

sporkexec · 18 days

I like how the load average is only 0.23 in spite of that. It's used 8m of CPU time in total. Assuming it has maintained about 400% usage all the time, it has been running like that for 2m, which should dramatically affect the 1m and 5m averages and put a good dent in the 15m one. Unless it had been running for a long time at a much lower usage, they didn't do their homework on that part.

The process tree for the virus is somewhat coherent. There was a local login (with the infected disk, if you're watching along), then a controlling program which spawns the actual virus. The escalation to root doesn't make much sense, but everything else sort of works:

maybe getty? (76) - unknown user
    Also (4200) - unprivileged user
        login (4202) - root
            virus_check (4203) - unprivileged user
                virus (4206) - root

Also,

447 threads, 99 problems, 0 bitches

undeterminant · 20 days

I'm starting to really like ratpoison, not because I actually use it much, but because the more I use tmux the more I wish my entire WM worked like that.

arcticblue12 · 26 days

Congratulations, you're in, but chances are you're doing very little but downloading and seeding. Many trackers desire users who are competent enough to upload their own quality content. Requiring a basic knowledge of technical details isn't just elitism, it helps ensure that users both upload and seed. Dismissing this as "superfluous" shows that you either don't know or don't care how these communities work.

_not_you · 27 days

Creators of new parameters to be used in the context of application protocols SHOULD assume that all parameters they create might become standardized, public, commonly deployed, or used across multiple implementations.

Designers of new application protocols that allow extensions using parameters MUST NOT assume that a parameter with an "X-" prefix or similar constructs is unstandardized.

So, they're encouraging extensions headers without the X- prefix because de-facto standards arise naturally?

Funny how the W3C seems to be taking the entirely opposite direction with CSS (edit: vendor prefixes, in case that's not clear), and takes a lot of flak as a result because it can't keep the standards current with what browsers are implementing.

sastrone · 1 month

I see what you're saying now, thanks! I thought we were talking about this kind of rotation, not like with a Caesar cipher. In hindsight, OP's "to shift them more than 9 spaces max" makes a lot more sense with the correct kind of rotation.

sastrone · 1 month

I still don't get it. If a plaintext byte is, say, 10110110, won't a rotation by any digit be one of:

10110110    rotate by 0 (or 8n)
01101101           by 1 (or 8n+1)
11011010           by 2 (or 8n+2)
10110101           by 3 (or 8n+3)
01101011           by 4 (or 8n+4)
11010110           by 5 (or 8n+5)
10101101           by 6 (or 8n+6)
01011011           by 7 (or 8n+7)

Are we talking about a different kind of rotation or am I missing something else? Please explain, I'm not fantastic with crypto.

sastrone · 1 month

Everyone keeps saying it's a one-time pad, but I don't think rotating by some value is anywhere near as good as XORing with some value. Assuming 8-bit chars, rotating has 8 possible states per character while XORing has 2**8, as each bit can change. Preserving the values and order of bits by rotating leaks a lot of information.

And of course pi isn't random as in unpredictable. We might as well just use a PRNG with a fixed seed.

sporkexec · 1 month

Not at all, actually. TAILS, for example, complains if it can't get the time set. For some security reason, Tor needs an accurate clock. Hmm, this might still be considered an "odd thing," though.

Puzzel · 1 month

Seriously, we're downvoting politeness?

don't judge the downvotes as assassinations of his character or slights against his person. Downvotes are not marks of disrespect against the person making the comment

Make up your fucking mind here. If downvotes just get demote useless content and aren't an insult, why wouldn't you downvote a pointless yet polite comment?

I throw politeness out the window. Just downvote the pointless shit, upvote the helpful shit.

Puzzel · 1 month

I aggressively downvote shit like "thanks", "oh okay", "TIL", or anything of the sort be it rude or polite. "Thanks" or "TIL" are what upvotes are for. Pointless angry replies are best represented by downvotes, and although that's not really kosher (if you can't find some helpful feedback to go with your downvote, either you or the commenter is shitposting), that's how they go.

Puzzel · 1 month

It's an obvious question that he could have answered for himself by spending ten seconds on google.

Noone thinks its a "stupid question"

mfw

TheBraverBarrel · 1 month

Not at all, I've only been running it for 5 years. That was when I was 16, running Slackware on some beat-up beige box. So the age thing is all I've got for an epenis, although I'm sure many of you've got me beat.

TheBraverBarrel · 1 month

For all the expansiveness of the other questions, ">4 years" seems like an awfully low upper bound for experience with Linux.

Puzzel · 1 month

The downvotes on this comment are a prime example of shitty voting practices on reddit. He didn't claim to be correct, he made it pretty clear he might be wrong. He didn't insult anybody or discredit the correct answer. He had a legitimate (albeit really fucking stupid) question as to how this worked and got smacked with downvotes.

As hard as it may be to accept, you can't banish people with less knowledge than you by flooding them with downvotes. This doesn't make them leave and it doesn't teach them anything.

("Ah, okay, cool," though, deserves all the downvotes because it's completely pointless.)

psYberspRe4Dd · 1 month

Absolutely. TAILS' only purpose is navigate TOR and similar networks safely and without leaving traces, yet even they are constantly pushing out new releases to fix bugs which could compromise users' anonymity. If a dedicated distribution can't get this perfectly right, it's absurd to think that you can just drop the browser bundle on your system and be truly safe.

If whatever you're doing on TOR endangers your freedom or safety, you'd be wise to spend the extra couple minutes and boot into a safer system.

To be more paranoid: Many of you probably have an older laptop or even desktop you don't really use that could be repurposed as your dedicated OnionSurfer (tm). Yank out the hard drive: it shouldn't be touched by TAILS anyways, but if the system is somehow rooted, any attached media can be read and written. Boot from cd/dvd: a USB key works, but again, it is ultimately writable unless you've got a hardware read-only switch.

naleag · 1 month

I started with xmonad, and switched to scrotwm once I started using an EeePC 701 which only had 4GB of storage. Half a gig for ghc and friends is fucking ridiculous. Then scrotwm changed names to spectrwm (because "some people took offense to it", so better change it) and started adding weird/useless features (confusing iconification, strange move/resize functionality, inability to move windows outside of region whatsoever, etc etc), so now I just run my own fork, sscrotwm.

pomle · 1 month

Jesus fucking Christ, go learn mercurial or git. "Too much work," "useless for one person", phrases like these make you the fucking poster child of ignorant devs. It's easy, it'll save you a ton of time, you can get all nostalgic about your old code, and those assholes on the internet will finally shut up.

pomle · 1 month

The fact that there's an open tag for the language is pretty strange in a world where we should rarely if ever actually embed code into a document. Short tags I can understand for templating, but actual code shouldn't need them at all (it should be in a separate file). It's a relic from the "hypertext preprocessor" days when that was the recommended usage.

kimme · 1 month

Or just change it in about:flags. Should persist that way, too.

sporkexec

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