l-albertovich

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Open source maintainer, musician, woodworker and UFO nutcase.

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Interests: Books, Cybersecurity, Hacking, Hardware, Hiking, Mentorship, Music, Open Source, Programming, Startups, Fitness

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Comment · 15 days ago
Not really, we did consider one of those fancy new induction systems that goes through the countertop but there were too many limitations (ie. there had to be a cut in the countertop which was a deal breaker for my wife).

The reason for the thinner countertop was merely preference, she wanted it that way and I wanted her to be happy.

Comment · 16 days ago
Well, I didn't check the git history so I can't confirm or deny that he implemented the feature, in any case, if you read the comment about how the passwords are anonymized it sounds pretty reasonable.

Leaving that aside, even if you diagree with it you (the user) are not entitled to anything, especially not entitled to have an attitude.

Just think about it differently, what do you think would happen if you do the same in the real world?

I'm pretty sure in the best case scenario you may be asked to leave and in the worst case scenario you may be "escorted" out of the premises.

A little bit of politeness goes a long way.

Comment · 16 days ago
I mean, none of them behaved like an adult.

It's pretty clear that the maintainer should've handled it better but I'd be lying if I said I never felt like telling a petulant user off. The problem is he didn't handle it professionally.

Comment · 16 days ago
I wouldn't go in debt but I'd pay the premium again, we're really happy with our countertops, especially considering that it allowed us to make them thinner which my wife wanted seemed to be a big no-no with other materials.
Comment · 16 days ago
And that kids is a clear example of how not to interact with people online.
Comment · 3 months ago
Thanks CJ, you've put some pretty cool things out there!
Comment · 5 months ago
You know, Fox turned into a hardcore sex channel so gradually, I didn't even notice.
Comment · 7 months ago
Yeah, I tried all of them with all the combinations of presets and orbit styles and the closest I could get was using tinkercad but couldn't match the orbit style correctly.
Comment · 7 months ago
I just tested it out of curiosity and found that viewport manipulation behaves in a very similar way to onshape which feels very natural to me.

I've been thinking about trying to implement this in freecad but I'm still exploring the idea.

Comment · 7 months ago
It's not even about API boundaries, it's about logic and the language isn't really responsible for that.

Expecting it to prevent it would be as gullible as expecting it to prevent a toctou or any other type of non trivial vulnerability.

That's why even though I appreciate the role of these slightly safer languages I still have a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to the exagerated claims of their benefits and how much of a piece of crap C is.

Spoiler, crappy programmers write crappy code regardless of the language so maybe we should focus on teaching students to think of the code they're writing from a different perspective and focus safety and maintainability rather than "flashiness"

Comment · 7 months ago
It's a race condition that can be used as a primitive to achieve privilege escalation which makes it legitimate but even if it you couldn't use it for anything else but to trick the system into acting on a directory it didn't meant to it would still be a valid vulnerability (regardless of the application).

Claiming it's not a valid bug would be similar to claiming an infoleak isn't as well when it's one of the building blocks of modern exploitation.

I'm not trying to be an ass, I'm just trying to add a bit of context to ensure that the implication is well understood.

Comment · 10 months ago
I felt the same way when I read the bold part that says "But that C codebase is an issue" so I quickly checked out the public databases and couldn't find a single serious vulnerability in the past 7 years.

Admittedly I stopped after going through a bunch of useless stuff related to CVE-2017-8823 (which was initially reported as remotely exploitable with no proof at all).

I went through the tor repository (not vidalia though) and read a bunch of conversations about some of the memory related bugs but none of those were exploitable either (exploitable as in remote execution, not a DoS) and most of the (not so many) bugs were actually logical bugs.

I really don't care what they decide to do with their project and honestly anything that can potentially improve the security of such a system is fine by me but I really think they're doing themselves and the language a disservice by communicating the way they do.

Also, as a side note, even with a C codebase there is SO MUCH you could (and should) do to minimize the impact of a vulnerability that the fact that some choose to present just rewriting code in a different language is not even funny.

Comment · 11 months ago
Something I hadn't thought about is, could it be that electric cars are not perceived as a threat due to the lack / different of noise, vibration and heat when compared to a combustion car?

I know animals nap under cars all the time but at least with "regular" cars they seemed to be more aware of the danger.

I'm not talking about waymo, self driving, human in the loop or any of that here, I'm just curious because I wonder if the same thing would've happened with a combustion engine and if there are any "easy wins" in terms of deterrence.

Comment · 1 year ago
You know it's not about the disagreement, it's about that toxic need to be a smart-ass that's so prevalent in social media (including this platform).

I would've loved to engage in a conversation about coding styles such as MISRA, CERTs or even the small tweaks such as the one that offended you so deeply but you wasted the opportunity to engage in a constructive convesartion and instead chose to nitpick the "reformatting" thing (seriously, I just moved things around slightly, it's the same thing) or the nothing-burger "bug"...

I don't know, maybe I misinterpreted you and if that's the case then I apologize but when I saw that code and felt the urge to play/doodle I thought it could be a fun way to connect with someone over something silly and I just got disappointed.

Comment · 1 year ago
Oh no, I accidentally duplicated a function call while quickly rewriting the code for fun, what a terrible sin! (as a side note, I didn't even compile the code but I after quick check I don't see any notes on the man page that suggest that the accidental spurious repeated call could cause a problem)

I understand that you might not like that style but I think you're comming a bit too strong on this, especially considering how carefully I worded my message in terms of not hurting any feeling and being clear about this being MY preference.

I guess I shouldn't probably even answer but it saddens me and makes me a bit angry to get a reminder of why I don't usually participate in social media.

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