Hilift

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by Hilift 1y ago
Oh sure, and the publicity would actually be worse. But these were organized crime gangs that would check in, steal everything, and leave in 15 minutes. So the investigation and targeting was fairly narrow. It wasn't designed to filter
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Something like 4 million lines of code with hundreds of people working on the same thing. It was converted to Java by 2002 so they knew it was a crisis.
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Around 1999, eBay code was c++ compiled into a "ebayisapi.dll". It became too large for x86. I'm guessing it had lots of COM+ and must have been a disaster, bodies everywhere. https://www.cs.cornell.edu/course
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by Hilift 1y ago
Deet works on most things except deer flies. One bite is usually enough to itch for hours. They feed during the daytime. "Their mouthparts include two pairs of cutting "blades" that lacerate skin and cause flow of blood out o
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by Hilift 1y ago
I saw lightning bugs and dragon flies for the first time in a long time this year. Our county banned pesticides for residential and recreation areas.
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There's complexity here that could sway a court. A few years ago, we engaged an AI company to identify potentially problematic hospitality customers. Those were required to check in in person at the front desk instead of the app. Sound
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It's probably relevant due to companies usually dump EOL hardware, and some of it gets a new life in a non-business environment. But if it needs a firmware update for a security vulnerability you're out of luck. There is legitimat
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by Hilift 1y ago
Usenet groups pre-dated the web. There were "discussion" groups like alt.startrek. However, by volume, uunet was extremely popular for distributing pictures like for desktop wallpaper. It was also 100% accessible by dialup modem,
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by Hilift 1y ago
> These payment processors seem to be basically levying a 1-3% tax for the convenience of using their service, and we are willingly paying it. Fixed.
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> what is Meta doing to get around Apple's iOS privacy protections? Money always finds a way. Everyone thought the changes made a few years ago would hurt Meta but they make $70 billion net profit. At a minimum, they only need a goo
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by Hilift 1y ago
There's probably a federal or local law requiring some sound. Like the Waymos that incessantly beep beep beep when backing up at the recharging station at 1 mph. You're about five years away from hearing beep beep beep everywhere
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by Hilift 1y ago
It is "CrowdTested".
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"Artificial engine sounds" is the next step in that evolution pipeline. Or just blast advertisements.
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Hard to get to tangible with an ecosystem that is fragmented. There are products that support two or three distros but if you have something else it could be a deal breaker. We had some oddball distro for special devices that was imperfect
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It's been used by state actors for years. May as well publish the API for it. These aren't rare and special flowers that are each artisanally discovered after searching for a million hours. And it is nicely packaged in an app that
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by Hilift 1y ago
Go further: "We have never built a back door or master key" The feature is not named "back door" or "master key". It's a feature of iMessage with various names such as "zero click". Also note the
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https://www.nfpa.org/news-blogs-and-articles/blogs/2023/11/1... "...sources with knowledge of the incident have told news outlets that it appears to have been intentionally set and that the storage
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by Hilift 1y ago
This is an absurd diversion from how poorly LA leadership is performing. Six months on, and no permits have been drawn for the Palisades/Malibu reconstruction. There are 7,000 destroyed homes, in the most bureaucratic municipality for
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Imagine this in perfect French.
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These resume's aren't going to write themselves.
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This is hardly a philosophical debate. Oakland is a mess. The previous police chief was fired, and the person that fired him, the mayor, was recalled by voters. And the DA in 2023-2024 was recalled by voters. The governor warned Oakland in
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by Hilift 1y ago
Is it really that hidden? In 2021, a guy went to another person's home to exact revenge for something 50 years earlier. Security video showed him holding the PeopleFinders folder. What should surprise people is their governments are se
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by Hilift 1y ago
Do you allow permissive outgoing Internet traffic from your servers? To domains recently created? This malware is for you.
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I agree, and/or give an option to specify the DST offset. That is sometimes useful. I was always confused that Excel did not infer the format when using CSV's though.
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The review at the time was if you weren't a particularly good artist, MacPaint wouldn't change that.
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They were lucky. Remote DC's were always entertaining for us. We had hundreds, and it was usually and reluctantly due to environmental conditions where they didn't want to deal with authentication issues if the network was down. T
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People killed the trees. The rats ate the tree seed fruit. A palm probably produces 200 pounds of seed fruit per year. The only native palm was Paschalococos disperta, which is extinct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pas
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by Hilift 1y ago
Reminds me of Maersk. They had poor endpoint hygiene and no EDR. In 2017 about 90% of their infrastructure was wiped in less than one minute. They had to reinstall a lot of things due to backups weren't up to par. Usually level 1 merc
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"Experts differ on when Polynesian inhabitants first reached the island. While many in the research community cited evidence that they arrived around the year 800, a 2007 study provided compelling evidence suggesting their arrival was
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> Brusatte writes that while a Tyrannasaur could indeed run quite fast, adults couldn’t move as quickly as their young. Therefore, an adult wouldn't be able to speed up enough to match the horsepower of a Jeep like it does as it tra

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