[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

First Albatross, First Out

[-] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ah yes, the "extended Berkeley Packet Filter".
Wikipedia:

eBPF is a technology that can run programs in a privileged context such as the operating system kernel.

Phoronix:

Hornet uses a similar signature verification scheme similar to that of kernel modules. A pkcs#7 signature is appended to the end of an executable file. During an invocation of bpf_prog_load, the signature is fetched from the current task's executable file. That signature is used to verify the integrity of the bpf instructions and maps which where passed into the kernel. Additionally, Hornet implicitly trusts any programs which where loaded from inside kernel rather than userspace, which allows BPF_PRELOAD programs along with outputs for BPF_SYSCALL programs to run.

So this is to make kernel-level instructions from userspace (something that's already happening) more secure.

The thread linked by the OP is Jarkko Sakkinen (kernel maintainer) seemingly saying "show your work, your patch is full of nonsense" in a patch submitted for review to the Linux kernel.
Edit: the OP has edited the link, it used to point to this comment in the mailing list chain.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago

Since I had it handy, here's the source meme for the uninitiated: An edited picture of an early reader book. A young man is leaning over the open hood of a car, gesturing with his offhand, facing the viewer. The title of the book has been edited to say "Everything I don't like is WOKE" and the subtitle is "A book for basic dickheads". Text over the young man says "This engine is woke".

[-] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago

I see a lot of overlap from where I'm standing.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago

You got me curious, so I looked it up.
This isn't a "let me google that for you", it's an "I'm joining you on this journey".

https://develop.kde.org/docs/apps/dolphin/service-menus/
(KDE)

Looks like you drop a .desktop file into ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus.
Name the file extensions, write your Exec= line, fill in a couple other details like what icon to use and what it should be called in the right-click menu, save it, and you're done.
I imagine it's similar in xfce.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago

Ooh, world building.
I have wondered about True's reputation. People tend to be pretty bold around him, but the man in the bottom panel seems to have a very good idea of what's coming his way, and where True's opinions fall.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago

Step one: use Dendrite instead.
Step two: come back and help me set up my Dendrite instance, it's definitely not easier.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

I feel a sense of ownership over my OS. I tinker, I experiment, I break things and sometimes I fix them.
I still get mad, but it's our problem. We got here together and I know that we can do better.
Windows feels like renting. The landlord only shows up when I'm not ready, fixes stuff that wasn't broken, doesn't fix any of the things that I need fixed, keeps raising the rent and installing hidden cameras. If I want to fix anything, it costs way more, is way harder because the landlord won't tell me where anything is, gets un-fixed every time the landlord visits, and after all that it's just fixing someone else's house.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

Speed test to 127.0.0.1

[-] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago

Good old Bobby Droptables

[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I hate those condescending "goodwill gestures"

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