flexibeast

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System-hardening pinsyscalls(2) work on OpenBSD, summarized by Theo de Raadt. "The direct-syscalls-inside-the-binary model used by go ... provided the biggest resistance against this effort." (www.undeadly.org)
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[–] flexibeast 1 points 10 months ago

It does indeed. 🙂 Thanks!

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[–] flexibeast 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Don't know if this is a factor, but my preferred Android client, Liftoff, doesn't yet support 0.19.x; maybe other clients are in the same boat.

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[History] 1 February 1988: "Perl, a 'replacement' for awk and sed, Part01/10" (usenet.trashworldnews.com)
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Timeline to remove DSA support in OpenSSH (lists.mindrot.org)
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The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance in c/technology
[–] flexibeast 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Some non-HTTP(S) Internet stuff:

Email is transferred to its destination (where, sure it might be accessed through a Web UI) via SMTP. Even where things like Slack are used internally, email usage between organisations is still extensive, due to effectively being a federated lowest-common-denominator system that's not completely at the mercy of a single vendor.

VoIP, which increasingly underlies telephony/mobile networks, uses things like SIP, RTP and RTCP - even if, again, it might be accessed via a Web UI, it doesn't have to be, and there are dedicated clients.

SSH is widely used for remote system administration. SFTP, built on top of SSH, is used to transfer sensitive data, e.g. (in the US) medical records covered by HIPAA.

SNMP is used for network device management, sometimes doing so via the Internet.

Don't confuse certain end-user applications with the Internet more generally.

‘It’s all about entitlement. Simple’: the rampant acts of tree vandalism on Australia’s foreshores | Paul Daley in c/environment@aussie.zone
[–] flexibeast 6 points 11 months ago

On the one hand, trees are a critical component of the biosphere. On the other hand, taking this fact into consideration, and comparing it to the psychological and monetary value of a nice view, well .... "It'll have to go," the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home.