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Afaik it's a custom system with download-and-cache-on-demand.

Note that there's nothing forbidding you from writing a virtual git filesystem that fetches objects from some centralized repo as files are open()ed. Git on cloud steroids.

Yes but why not send a single email to the manufacturer before making it public? Does it really hurt so much?

From a "cyberpunk hacker" mentality this only gives you an opportunity to roast the manufacturer if they do nothing. Perhaps even bankrupt them, I don't care. Competition will take their places and hopefully be better.

It's not about the companies. I do not care much about them.

It's about people that may be hacked between someone's 0day disclosure and manufacturer's response. And if the manufacturer doesn't care to fix the bug - roast them about that. It's their fault.

It's not moral because people (not companies) may suffer. Your actions have consequences.

What bothers me is that they did not responsibly disclose the vulnerabilities to the manufacturers ahead of time. This is not moral, and I'm not sure what one gains by not doing that. I think that conference organizers should pressure presenters to do that before talks.

Either that or attendees should apply bottom up pressure and ask live questions like "what did you do to responsibly disclose this issue?". I think I'll do that on future security conferences I attend.

I'd be interested. The two still offending tools (spell and f77) sound super rarely used these days. I think it's fair to compare samples of commonly used tools in 1995 with samples of commonly used tools in 2018 even if those samples are widely different. This would be more related to the change in the probability that an average user sees a crash.

Yup, climate change is real - it's evident from computing average temperatures. No point in debating that.

I completely agree that smog is terrible and essentially kills people. My point was the really bad consequences of warming (mass migrations from deserted areas and subsequent refugee crises, wars over farmable land, exodus from flooded areas) can be avoided via aerosols.

My point is that we can deploy more aerosols. See the first link

It's firmware. Very little firmware is. In information theoretic sense it's much more surprising if some firmware is open source.

Heh I was thinking that > 1TiB of data in an sqlite db is a bad idea :).

How do you process that? The restrictions I had in my mind come from that it's infeasible to concurrently process a large dataset in mapreduce/bigquery style.

I wish more people would publish data as SQLite databases (if the size permits, of course; usually it does). It's so much more reliable than CSVs, which have at least a few dimensions of significant differences (quoted/unquoted, comma vs semicolon vs tab vs space, headers/no headers, comments). Not to mention that initial data exploration can be done right in an SQLite explorer/browser tool.