zanchey
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Comment · 11 months ago
LWN's article on unveil() is a good explanation - the restrictions are permanently applied to the process and its children until termination:
https://lwn.net/Articles/767137/
Comment · 1 year ago
Someone gave me a book called "Danger UXB", about the teams that removed unexploded bombs across the UK during and after WWII, which was unexpectedly fascinating. Incredibly dangerous and painstaking work.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's hopefully not too tricky - it can't be packaged as a crate using (say) debcargo, as the install path still requires CMake. The Debian experimental package changes are mostly about pulling in the right dependencies (including some internal mangling to support some policy choices).
Comment · 2 years ago
The University Computer Club at UWA also has a door sensor!
https://door-status.ucc.asn.au/ucc
Runs off a Raspberry Pi with a bodged-up version of https://github.com/ide/pico-door-sensor/tree/main
This is at least the third iteration; some previous iterations are documented here:
Comment · 3 years ago
It's geek code in the cloud!
https://web.archive.org/web/20090220181018/http://geekcode.c...
Comment · 3 years ago
Mostly it's because you can't copy and paste stuff from blogs or Stack Overflow.
Comment · 3 years ago
If you want to write C++03, that's true, but as a maintainer of the fish build system I was having to backport compilers in order to use C++11 features on supported systems until 2020. Modern C++ is still a moving target and newer versions contain a number of features that make it much more pleasant to work with, but it takes decades to percolate into distributions.
Comment · 3 years ago
They're animated GIFs, which were an extension of the longstanding format and predate CSS
Comment · 3 years ago
No, through the excellent b3ta newsletter