Any list of laptops, motherboards that's good for opensource firmware development?
Readit Newssrcmap commented on Open Source Firmware Conference 2022 [videos] osfc.io/2022/schedule/... · Posted by u/transpute
> Why hide it if it’s legal?
Legal and moral are two different things, and the police is a public service. Public trust and perception are important because they give legitimacy to government.
Also PR problem. Public opinions can trigger state/congress to make service illegal or limited.
srcmap commented on How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson dataswamp.org/~solene/202... · Posted by u/hucste
srcmap commented on eBPF for tracing how Firefox uses page faults to load libraries taras.glek.net/post/ebpf-... · Posted by u/mehal
I would be curious to know what malicious implications eBPF could have. related discussion [1] [2] For example, could a file-less trojan be injected via eBPF to reroute specific data payloads or copy specific payloads to different destinations? Or silently censor specific destinations?
Are there ways that eBPF could be abused and if so what mitigations, limitations and logging can one implement so that eBPF can remain enabled in a hardened and sensitive environment?
[1] - https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/DisablingUser...
ebpf requires root privilege to run. If you're root, there are a lots of harms one can do a system without any ebpf script/commands.
srcmap commented on Ask HN: Are Microsoft development stack and Azure a dead-end career path? · Posted by u/a_brawling_boo
Scott Hanselman coined the phrase "Dark Matter Developers" nearly a decade ago (!) [1] to describe the idea that something like "99%" of developers in the world are doing stuff that is "unsexy" and "boring" and "mature" and "gets the job done" and "I can just clock out at 5pm and stop worrying about it".
One of the key complaints about "Dark Matter Developers" is that you mostly don't hear from them (especially on HN): they don't have splashy startups to advertise, they aren't exciting recruiters with the things they claim to be doing. They are getting jobs done and clocking out.
That continues to describe a LOT of the jobs using the Microsoft stack, they are Dark Matter Jobs: they are in almost every industry in the world. They pay well enough, but not too well. They aren't exciting. HN and sometimes Big Shot Recruiters generally have no reason to hear from them (because they hire more directly, or because they only need a couple developers at a time).
The Microsoft Stack jobs will probably always be like that. Just quietly out there (and all around). Numbers and statistics (and revenue) all suggest that there are a lot of them. They just sound like a "dead end" mostly because they are "stable" and "boring".
[1] https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un...
I search job site such indeed.com for demands of job categories. (Data driven)
Here are the returns for jobs within 25 miles of where I live (bay area.)
Keywords jobs
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Azure 3094
AWS 7408
Google Cloud 2157
React 3829 (not cloud tech, but just curious to know.)srcmap commented on Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage canarymedia.com/articles/... · Posted by u/rwmj
you don't have to build those caverns as they already exist and we have extracted gas and liquids from them, also the volume should be already known as we know how much we pumped out (unless it's an old site)
Isn't the complexities related to making those caverns air and water tight for long period of time for long term energy storage requirements?
Would be nice if Santander bank can be a real Santa this time and write off the 'mistake'.
I like Dr John Campbell's daily videos on Covid / Omicron: https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching/videos A lot details explanations on latest data from all over the world and discussion of scientific papers in normal language.
srcmap commented on Where have all the insects gone? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/jseliger
Same here, but in California's Central Valley.
Remember need to scrape off bugs from windshield after each trip thru I5 ~10 years ago. No need to do that anymore.....
On the other hand, in my back yard, I grow a lot veggi, strawberry with worm casting from kitchen scraps. I do still lot of insects. A lot of birds nested around my house. Produce 10-15 young birds. I found a very cool looking giant tomato worm a size of my biggest finger. It ate half of (7 ft height ) tomato plant in 2 days.
The Strawberry, cucumbers, other veggies grow with worm casting taste SO much better than from anything store .
Make it one SQLite file per user. All the read/write are parallelized per user. Backup db file would be smaller, easier. Each service node can handle N users, less for heavy follow users. Should be easier to scale horizontally the with user count by adding system nodes and Storage, networks, web handling process.