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wolf550e commented on IBM's Power11 Processor Architecture   servethehome.com/ibms-pow... · Posted by u/ksec
CursedSilicon · 5 days ago
On the low-end. Ever shopped at Costco? It's all IBM AS/400's handling the back-end. That's why all their Windows 11 PC's have big black and green terminal apps running front and center

On the high-end? Banks, airports, hospitals, research labs. There's a lot of places that need the kind of fault tolerance that specifically IBM POWER systems provide

EDIT: Okay, IBM POWER "systems". They've been described as mainframes to me so I went with that terminology

wolf550e · 5 days ago
"mainframes" are z/Architecture, not POWER.
wolf550e commented on PuTTY has a new website   putty.software/... · Posted by u/GalaxySnail
ok_computer · 14 days ago
If you hadn’t discovered this already with you mac CLI commands, OpenSSH from OpenSSL ‘ssh-keygen’ command is a good way to create SSH keys in ClI and ships in many OSes or is a lightweight download. The OpenSSL website name is unambiguous, which is a benefit.

https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-gith...

wolf550e · 14 days ago
OpenSSH and OpenSSL are completely unrelated projects.
wolf550e commented on ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler   latimes.com/entertainment... · Posted by u/_shadi
slt2021 · a month ago
I love that you brought up right to self-determination.

However it comes with the bundle with all human rights and international laws, including Prohibion on forced displacement (like Nakhba), full recognition of Human Rights (apartheid state), territorial integrity (settlements), prohibion on genocide (ICC/ICJ is awaiting trial)

The international law has been settled on this: Two state solution, 1967 borders, full rights to Palestinian state, etc.

wolf550e · a month ago
The vast majority of Israelis wanted the Palestinians to have a state. That's why Barak, Sharon and Olmert were elected. Israel tried twice to negotiate for a Palestinian state, and once gave the Palestinians Gaza unilaterally. The Palestinian leadership did not agree both times, and we have seen what they did with Gaza since 2005.

The problem is that the goal of the Palestinians is not a Palestinian state, it's to ensure that the Jews don't have a state. Otherwise they would have gotten a state in 1947. Except that the Palestinians didn't exist as a polity in 1947, and the West Bank was claimed by Jordan until 1988. The PLO was established in 1964, not to free the West Bank from Jordan, but to undo the 1948 war.

There is no Palestinian opposition that says not agreeing then was a mistake and they should have taken the offer (e.g. in 2008).

The main issue is not that some Palestinians are under the rule of horrible leaders like Hamas, the problem is that Hamas is the most popular party. The Palestinians completely support the goal of undoing the establishment of Israel. And apparently are mostly ok with the principle that it doesn't matter how many lives it costs, as long as Muslim land is freed, i.e. no sovereign Jews.

Basically, Israel has peaceniks and leftists, and even right wing governments were very willing to give land for peace, believing in the two state solution. The Palestinians have never had any peaceniks. The Israeli peace camp was badly wounded by the second intifada and it seems completely killed by October 7th.

wolf550e commented on ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler   latimes.com/entertainment... · Posted by u/_shadi
wolf550e · a month ago
There have been Jews in Jerusalem, even a majority of Jews, in Ottoman times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Jerusal...

The Jews of Morocco (or Baghdad, or Tehran) can't go back. For that matter, surviving Polish Jews were chased out of Poland after WWII. Most Israeli Jews are Mizrahi and most Israeli Jews don't have a 2nd passport.

And, of course, people have a right to self determination. Jews don't have to beg to be allowed to live as dhimmi or as a minority in Europe.

One people from the middle east managed to actually decolonize their tiny piece of land from the Arabs, and people have lost their minds. Every minority in the middle east is under attack (Kurds, Druze, Christians, etc.), and Westerners always side with the Arab colonizers.

wolf550e commented on Memory safety is table stakes   usenix.org/publications/l... · Posted by u/comradelion
adgjlsfhk1 · 2 months ago
iphones have already CVEs from memory safety issued in image formats. is entirely plausible that a similar issue could exist in video or audio codecs
wolf550e · 2 months ago
The parser is attack surface, but that's the only part of something like Photoshop that has to be secure. The actual editing features can be insecure.
wolf550e commented on Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)   spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-im... · Posted by u/purpleko
wolf550e · 2 months ago
The reason JPEGs still rule is because Google Chrome removed support for JPEG-XL, the actually better photo format, because the Google guys who did AVIF decided they don't want competition.
wolf550e commented on Notes on Tunisia   mattlakeman.org/2025/05/2... · Posted by u/returningfory2
oa335 · 3 months ago
> a plurality of Israeli Jewish people are indigenous at least to the region.

Do you have a source for that?

Britannica says:

> The largest proportion of Jews trace their roots to Europe (including the former Soviet Union) and North America, though some also hail from Africa (mostly North Africa), Asia, and the Middle East.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Israel/Demographic-trends

I think this is partially supported by immigration statistics:

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/total-immigration-to-is...

wolf550e · 3 months ago
The demographics are changing, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews_in_Israel
wolf550e commented on Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site   rachelbythebay.com/w/2025... · Posted by u/mcbain
abujazar · 3 months ago
Lost me at "make an RSA key". RSA is ancient.
wolf550e · 3 months ago
They also support P-256 and P-384 ECDSA, but I think 4096 bit RSA is ok for account key.

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/integration-guide/#supported-ke...

wolf550e commented on Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site   rachelbythebay.com/w/2025... · Posted by u/mcbain
mr_toad · 3 months ago
Not everyone wants to deal with maintaining Python and untold dependencies on their web server. A C++ binary often has no additional dependencies, and even if it does they’ll be dealt with by the OS package manager.
wolf550e · 3 months ago
I think uv[1] basically solved this problem for python scripts. Go creates statically linked executables that are easy to deploy.

1 - https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/

wolf550e commented on Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site   rachelbythebay.com/w/2025... · Posted by u/mcbain
wolf550e · 3 months ago
Implementing an ACME client in python using pyca/cryptography (or in Go) would be fine, but why do it in C++ ?

u/wolf550e

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