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Comment · 11 days ago
Apple doesn't want security researchers to find bugs? Then why do they have a $2m bug bounty?
Comment · 12 days ago
CAs check CAA records, clients don't.
Comment · 1 month ago
Sam and Dario really maxed out their rigs.
Comment · 2 months ago
Google is not the payment processor. This is about the app including a link to a donation page on opencollective.com.

Other 501(c)(6) organizations you might have heard of include the Linux Foundation and the Rust Foundation.

Comment · 2 months ago
NixOS 25.11 was EOL a month and a half ago. Where's NixOS 26.05?
Comment · 3 months ago
Ardour does not seem to require a CLA or copyright assignment, so the maintainers don't own the copyright over contributions either way. The contributor would not be able to sue someone over a GPL violation if their contribution is public domain, but what random small contributor is going to participate in a GPL infringement suit anyway? Doesn't change the maintainer's rights to do so with any of their own human-authored contributions.
Comment · 5 months ago
Also "The page pool is only created on a real ZCRX-capable NIC (mlx5 ConnectX-6+, Intel E800, NFP)"
Comment · 5 months ago
Cargo will still pick the latest for transitive dependencies that aren't explicitly specified in your Cargo.toml. This is what Cargo.lock is for.
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Comment · 6 months ago
USB devices cannot directly address host memory like PCIe or FireWire, but the XHCI controller does DMA to/from host memory, and most USB device controllers have some kind of DMA between USB and the device's RAM.
Comment · 6 months ago
No need to pretend to be HID. Windows has WinUSB for userspace USB drivers that don't need special signing.
Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
Send a message to a socket-activated daemon running as a UID with write access to the password database.
Comment · 9 months ago

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