"The Cobra Effect"
The British government was concerned about the number of venomous cobra snakes in Delhi.
The government therefore offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially this was a successful strategy as large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward.
Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income.
SHA-1 is a Shambles
> We have computed the very first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1. In a nutshell, this means a complete and practical break of the SHA-1 hash function, with dangerous practical implications if you are still using this hash function. To put it in another way: all attacks that are practical on MD5 are now also practical on SHA-1.
@alexcleac not sure what the "there" is, and I am surely missing a bunch of context, but my answer (as a software developer, sysadmin, infosec person, and a user of technology in 2020) is: software engineering is still largely missing the "engineering" part.
By that I mean the ethos and the risk aversion, and the personal responsibility in case of catastrophic failure.
Because we are having way too many catastrophic failures in IT still. This needs to be fixed.
It appears I'm the first who updated their #GNUnet nodes to 0.12 release.
Can only see my other* node in connection monitor.
* With another one recompiling at the moment.
Linguists Hear An Accent Begin - Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/linguists-hear-an-accent-begin/ #linguistics
"Today, the difference between a programmer and a nonprogrammer is that the programmer was told to overcome obstacles while the nonprogrammer was told to give up."
Rv8 – RISC-V simulator for x86-64
https://rv8.io/
(submitted by lelf)
@Blort join the #VOICE group and test with us! Reports on the tests we've done so far are (or will be) here:
https://hub.libranet.de/channel/voice
But TL;DR based on my experiences so far ...
Google is blocking niche Linux browsers from accessing services like Gmail https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/12/couldnt-sign-you-in-google-browser-error-linux
I wonder why #GCC specification files use such a weird language.