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by Jenda_ 4y ago
The problem is that you will need software/services that only run on the "trusted" platform. An early example of this are services that require "apps" that require Google Services on Android, detect rooting or even
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> Mobile is an entirely different beast. Why would desktop vendors not follow the same pathway? To me, it looks like it is only a "tradition" (desktop computers are from an era when it was deemed normal to tinker with your OS)
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> looks to me this is the direction society is slowly heading towards It's not, notice how easily it was circumvented in the story. In reality, it would not be possible to lend Lissa the computer with books, because there would be c
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by Jenda_ 4y ago
Transcript of a 2011 version: https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html The version linked here seems to be more about collected examples of such war, DRM, right to repair etc.
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by Jenda_ 4y ago
No, I (the author) am from Prague. However, I have something much better for people from Brno. Also, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia and neighboring countries. https://www.abclinuxu.cz/images/screenshots/1/0/250
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by Jenda_ 4y ago
In .cz, the universities are either completely open, or there are turnstiles/card entry which is possible to easily social-engineer[1]. The lectures are open and nobody asks if you actually study there (this would be even practically i
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by Jenda_ 4y ago
Various similar examples of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterozygote_advantage
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> But the humans who testify on the dogs' behalf have a cult-like behavior about what the dogs can realistically detect, and how they interpret the dogs behaviors. There was a scandal here in .cz regarding forensic odorology using d
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Dookhan I find it shocking that there is no "continuous quality assurance" of these labs - for example, one should take the lab as a blackbox, and send 10% known-negatives,
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It does, even for reading (cat /dev/nvme0n1 > /dev/null). As per changelog: 1.5.2 - 10 February 2014 allow --watchfd to look at block devices You can see the position in /proc/<pid>/fdinfo
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I first thought about different warning that GNU grep >= 3.8 emits: about "stray \" (it's also in the changelog - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-09/msg00001... ). I hav
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> I was essentially told that I hadn’t updated my app in three years and now it counts as outdated. I needed to update the app within 90 days or it would get automatically taken down. There are "obsolete" devices that require I
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For example I have allowed only my mail servers for Thunderbird. And then I have discovered that Thunderbird sends filenames and SHA-256 hashes of all received email attachments to Google (browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.url, https:&
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by Jenda_ 4y ago
Sure, get convex lens ("reading glasses") of about +1 to +1.5D and make the IPD as low as possible to induce a prism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prism_correction#Prentice's_ru... (in layman terms, this
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
A satire about renting a personal vegetarian to offset your meat-eating: http://www.tabootrades.com/veggie/ A more serious essay: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/04/ethics-offsets&#x2F
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
I don't understand this one: > In IM2000, mailing lists are a purely local matter for the receiver's software. We still need to manage list of users we want to send notifications to, right? ("The message isn't copied
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
I'm not sure about exact features of this service (I didn't know about it), but I'm using: - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ - nmap --script ssl-enum-ciphers news.ycombinator.com -p 443 The nmap one wor
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You may get a tty with no getty/shell running, you may get a getty login prompt (which was probably this case, as the author proceeds to login as root with an empty password), you may get a custom CLI that only allows you to set some d
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Oh, finally, a SMBC mystery thoroughly explained! ( https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pokemon )
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I would like to add a video on XRF from Applied Science, as the device is not very well known (at least in .cz, I have learned about it only recently). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdfHVcU8U7U
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If they want the first case, they can bind "xkill" to a keyboard shortcut. I actually have it on Win+C (like Ctrl+C in terminal). I'm not into the proposed "saving threads", I'm afraid they will get stuck for w
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It doesn't have biological significance, but it is more convenient to wrap the date when there is the least activity of people (the same reason why we switch DST between 2:00 and 3:00).
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I think permanent DST makes sense from the biological/physiological point of view. Almost no people go to bed at 20 "solar" time and wake up at 4 -- they have it shifted later, so the "biological midnight" is indeed
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
I don't have experience with ZFS, but in btrfs, you can get "corrupt leaf" on a FS passing scrub. This probably happens either because of bug or because the structures got corrupted (e.g. bad RAM) when they were constructed,
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Another story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Dookhan I don't get why they don't continuously send 10-20% of "control samples" (either with known result, or randomly sampled from e.g. the last
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Also have a look at --numeric-ids, otherwise it translates UIDs back and forth according to real user names - which will end up in a terrible mess, especially when you are restoring the backup from a live "CD" (which has different
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You can't (easily), the chip detects it (if you disconnect the old cells and then connect the new ones) and self-destructs itself. You need to do this without interrupting the power. https://hackaday.io/page/247-re
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I'd like to add a few practical examples - a LC filter might look like this https://www.qsl.net/kp4md/lpfilter2.jpg , by poking the turns of the coil, you change the frequency and width; with a real-time display on
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Because in some countries, like .cz, it is pretty common that your home network is behind NAT, the ISP does not want to forward a port for you, and there is either no option to get a public IP or it costs $5 to $10/month and is a lengt
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You can directly expose the port to the internet, not only localhost, with ssh: - put "GatewayPorts clientspecified" into /etc/ssh/sshd_config, restart sshd - ssh -R 0.0.0.0:8000:localhost:80 (the first parameter is

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