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by 13of40 4y ago
It's a perfect way for an APT to get a foothold in your environment. Imagine if you could check in a unit test that "downloads updates" from somewhere and executes them. Now you've got 30 devs on that floor running you
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by 13of40 4y ago
The really silly thing is that unlike at a movie theater, you can make yourself the same sandwich for $1.50 and bring it with you to the plane. The US has plugged this loophole, at least to a certain extent, by seizing your food even if yo
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by 13of40 4y ago
I'm not a serious mechanic, but I suspect one of the reasons the bearings and shaft on the hub are tapered is so you can tighten it down and accommodate for minor variations in the tolerances. That would have been more important befor
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by 13of40 4y ago
Sure, but you can pivot to various things. If you're running with the right set of privileges, you can disable branch policies and push unreviewed code changes into a repository, or you can exfiltrate code from a repo someone has clon
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by 13of40 4y ago
I have a car maintenance manual from very early in the 20th century (1910 or something) and the maintenance schedule it describes would be ludicrous nowadays. It talks about changing the oil and greasing all of the joints every couple hund
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by 13of40 4y ago
The place and time are variables. The constant is that some places are less welcoming to travelers than others, and I doubt that has changed.
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by 13of40 4y ago
When I was in my early teens, I ended up going on a month long hitchhiking trip that finished by going from Santa Barbara to Eugene. At the time (late 80s) I thought of California as a kind of harsh, materialistic, bourgeouis place and Ore
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by 13of40 4y ago
I wonder if dealerships and other auto shops behave like every other company today, and when they plug into your OBD2 port they just hoover up as much data as they can and sell it off.
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by 13of40 4y ago
I scrolled past the headline a couple times today because I thought it just meant self-pollinate.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Back when modems were a thing, I spent some time living at a friend's house, and shortly after I moved my computer in I started hearing voices. Very faint, but the content was ominous fire and brimstone stuff. I thought I was losing
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by 13of40 4y ago
> misleading cvs If you want a real chuckle, go look at the LinkedIn profiles of some of those "few-monthers" and take a look at how epic and groundbreaking their contribution was when they worked for you.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Whenever I interview vendors or contractors, I have a little bit of leeway from following company policy, so I sit them in front of a computer with Visual Studio and internet and tell them they can use whatever resources they want to solve
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by 13of40 4y ago
To be fair, a lot of the people involved in the offensive side find their forever homes in defensive cybersecurity orgs in the private sector. If you take a long view of it, the offensive/defensive split is a lot less ominous.
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by 13of40 4y ago
> While all “Ram doubling” software for Windows was always a scam I could be wrong, but Windows 10 and 11 have a memory compression feature built in, and I think it basically works the same way SoftRAM was supposed to, except with actual
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by 13of40 4y ago
It would be interesting to see how many of the remaining 23% are in the slice of society where a military career makes financial sense. When I joined the Army I was going from having been fired from McD's last month to making $1K a mo
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by 13of40 4y ago
Even that one's a little bit meta, since fewer people are using cash now.
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by 13of40 4y ago
My wife has been in the US for about 25 years at this point, and we just had our talk about how to pronounce February, Wednesday, and turmeric yesterday.
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by 13of40 4y ago
> Maybe the middle ground is to make it a military privilege to hunt feral hogs where you need to be a reservist, and if you join you get a lifetime rural open carry and hunting permit. I can't make out whether you're in the US
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by 13of40 4y ago
Well, I just came in this thread to lurk, so I guess I'm watching those who are watching those who watch the watchers.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Between rational actors who know everything from day 1, maybe, but there could be a little game theory at play here. Suppose the original estimate is $5B and it's accurate, so the customer doesn't bite. Both sides lose. Then su
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by 13of40 4y ago
I'm sure it's going to get exponentially better, but right now ChatGPT sounds like one very vanilla guy. The other day I asked it to write me a conversation between David Foster Wallace and Ernest Hemingway, and it came out somet
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by 13of40 4y ago
Back in the olden days, when people were using protocols like Kermit and XModem to download their questionable images from BBS's, You would often get a file whose size was rounded up to the nearest block size. In that situation, faili
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by 13of40 4y ago
It would be interesting to see if any popular ZIP libraries have a similar issue. If you add a file that's already in the archive, for example, and the new one is larger, I could see it just sticking the new one at the end of the arch
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by 13of40 4y ago
I agree. I know it's complete herecy, but I've done Europe-by-train and Europe-by-rental-car each many times, and I much prefer the latter. If you're talking about travel in America it's not even a question. You learn
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by 13of40 4y ago
Actually, it's just a primate brain.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Here's another factor: When something is far away from you, it appears to travel slower. For example, the sun is ~150M kilometers away. As the earth rotates through a day, from our perspective it travels ~942M kilometers, meaning it
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by 13of40 4y ago
I'm sure you've seen a plane traveling 400 mph but seemingly hovering in one spot in the sky. It's just not moving perpendicular to your vision.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Right now I'm just using the PowerShell part to move the cursor up and to the left and delete it. You can still see the PK$#@($!!!1 for a nanosecond, but that just gives it character in my opinion.
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by 13of40 4y ago
If you add a .CMD file as the first entry in a .ZIP, with compression set to "none", you can rename and run the .ZIP as a .CMD, because the PK header will be treated as a nonexistent command and execution will continue after that.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Any idea how this compares to enabling write caching on a drive or on your database layer, if you're using one? I mean other than the catastrophic effects of a sudden power outage.

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