Jajcus

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[–] Jajcus 2 points 7 hours ago

Yes, Xorg being suid is stupid. That used to be needed due to several historical reasons, but is not any more.

But for 'su' or 'sudo' suid is still the right mechanism to use. Capabilities won't help, when the tool is supposed to give one full privileges. Of course, in some use cases no such command is needed, then the system can run with no suid. Similar functionality could be implemented without suid too (e.g. ssh to localhost), but with its own security implications, usually bigger than those brought but a mechanism as simple as suid (the KISS rule).

[–] Jajcus 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Of course, you are right.

I mean, the punishment was the occupation by forces which won the war. Americans and Russians had to control Germany for some time, as their current government could not continue for obvious reasons. The cruel part was giving control of half of the country to Soviets. BTW, worse was doing the same to Poland, which was victim, not the aggressor in this war, and other countries in similar situation.

[–] Jajcus 17 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

But Germany were the baddies in WW2 and this was a part of their (cruel) punishment. How did Ukraine deserve this?

Or, maybe, USA and Russia want to get half of Ukraine each, for free?

[–] Jajcus 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

We do have a successful bus manufacturer (Solaris). Does this count? We also have lots of car parts industry here.

[–] Jajcus 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Amazon already makes money on many products that should not be sold, as are fake or/and dangerous. They will still be making money by selling smuggled good. 'It is not us, it is the independent seller. We just provide a platform. Will still work.'

[–] Jajcus 2 points 1 month ago

Most of the time, yes, but not always. Sometimes you actually need local time stored rather than UTC. Simple example: alarm clock. User wants to be waken up at 7:00. No matter if it is summer time or winter time. Even if they travels to a different time zone - still will want to be waken up in the morning. If we store this time as UTC much more unnecessary and error-prone conversions will be needed. Similar issues may arise with other calendar events. Of course, at some point this will be converted to UTC for comparison with actual point in time.

[–] Jajcus 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are lots of systems (embedded, mostly offline, abandoned by its vendor) which are not easily upgradeable and their timezone database cannot be easily replaced. Not everything is a PC getting its regular software update.

[–] Jajcus 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In case of Stellaris it is more like you would buy Stellaris, Steallaris 2, Stellaris 3, etc. Each big DLC is like another game in the series. And the smaller ones (like species pack) are completely optional. For me this is an example of DLC done right.

It is not like e.g. City Skylines, that most DLCs just give some minor additions and for a meaningful change in the game you would have to buy lots of them.

[–] Jajcus 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Isn't he supposed to be 'the left'?

[–] Jajcus 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Jajcus 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We need to see Doom running On these planes first. That is always the first step.

[–] Jajcus 7 points 2 months ago

Single use plastic items laying on the beach is what bothers people the most, but this doesn't mean it is the biggest problems. There is much more plastic in the oceans that we do not see.

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