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by NegativeK 8mo ago
I had a drawn out conversation with a friend about erasing NVME drives in a way that met compliance needs. The procedure they were given was to install Windows, with Bitlocker, twice with no effort to retain the key. But that doesn't e
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
With regards to a community, I once heard someone say that it takes 10 "atta boy"'s to counteract 1 "you suck". I also remember, roughly 10 years ago, people saying that the amount of effort to discredit bullshit is
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
I think that's the difference. First security job I had, the CISO had already declared that enforcing "no Youtube, porn, whatever" at work was a managerial problem and not a security problem [0]. And when management needed da
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
I didn't know that about the overnight; that's neat. I'm often in my garage before work, and I always assumed the 5am reset time was just because only weirdos are noticing a clock whir its arms around then.
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
I use it for two things: as a lubricant for machining aluminum and as a way to remove built up, old ass grease. But I'd still never pay for it.
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
First, make me care and tell me the answer. In 30 seconds. Then expand on it in increasingly advanced levels of detail. If your knowledge is high, I won't care about the video production. If you're not getting to the point quickly
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
I now try to follow something like bottom line up front (BLUF) when I'm trying to quickly communicate something and respect someone's time: the most important, actionable detail first with details expanding as you read more. I fir
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
Would a general person in your situation know that it's doing criminal things? If not, then you're not on the hook - the person who wrote the secret code is. You can't sit back and go "lalalala" to some tool (AI, ph
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by NegativeK 9mo ago
I wish people didn't have to be like us to have privacy.
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by NegativeK 9mo ago
> If you design it so you don't have access to the data, how do you make money? The same way companies used to make money, before they started bulk harvesting of data and forcing ads into products that we're _already_ _paying_
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by NegativeK 9mo ago
> has nothing to do with open source I partially disagree. It does have to do with open source: Github (et al) are about creating a community around an open source project. It's hard to get adoption without a community; it gives you
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by NegativeK 9mo ago
I think you're interpreting the commenter's/article's point in a way that they didn't intend. At all. Assume the LLM has the answer a student wants. Instead of just blurting it out to the student, the LLM can: * Ask
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by NegativeK 9mo ago
My eternal issue with paper is that it's not always physically on me. A phone, however, is. GDocs/a wiki have actually worked well, though I don't do the re-reading. Just crapping it out into a known place works pretty well.
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by NegativeK 9mo ago
I have so many text files (technically wikis and GDocs text docs, but I'm not doing more than lines of text). I was talking to a coworker today about our graveyard of pen and paper notebooks, todo apps, reminder thingies, post-its.. I
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by NegativeK 9mo ago
There are some really good suggestions in this thread: sleep, exercise, medication. Therapy also helps some. Externalizing my brain helped massively before I was diagnosed. Pages and pages of notes -- both to write an idea down to move away
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by NegativeK 9mo ago
I've downvoted you for being incredibly aggressive in your responses. I'm not sure why you're ad homineming the parent commenter, but it's not helping the discussion.
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by NegativeK 9mo ago
> We stuck with them when they brought their support back to the US. Each tech person wanted to make a career out of each ticket. We couldn't get broken hardware fixed without screaming and begging. The people I talk to doing laptop
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by NegativeK 9mo ago
> I have been using Linux exclusively for twenty years now. Ditto. I can't stand other OSs; they are constantly in my way for just the basic tasks. > I don't understand people who use anything else, to be honest. Anti-ditto.
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by NegativeK 9mo ago
> If the retort to this is it impacts poorer people more We've ended up, though, with a growing wealth gap and more tolls.
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by NegativeK 9mo ago
I think you're misrepresenting what Pike is mad about, why he's as mad as he is, and what Markov bots are.
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by NegativeK 10mo ago
I don't know if that's a thing here in the states, but I'll keep it in mind! It probably wouldn't be hard to advertise via the local (different) hackerspace. But I'll probably have to get through my backlog of curre
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by NegativeK 10mo ago
It was climbing, but that one I've fully walked away from.
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by NegativeK 10mo ago
I've slowly pushed away the classic attention manipulating applications -- basically anything that will find new content to keep you engaged. Tiktok feels like the maximalist example, but other similar apps, social media text feeds, an
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by NegativeK 10mo ago
I've taken somewhat of a parallel path. I set foot in a shop for the first time at a hackerspace 11 or 12 years ago and eventually feel deep into machining. I spent huge swaths of my days there, and when I wasn't, I was reading ab
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by NegativeK 10mo ago
One of the secondary awful things about AI is that I have to hear news sources I like listening to complain about it constantly. This AI hype is frustrating, but it's also frustrating that it dominates conversations with valid points t
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by NegativeK 10mo ago
When they were first released, there was a fleet/commercial only model that was stripped down and roughly $40k. _That_ was the model that I expected to succeed. Presumably the same type of truck my employer bought from dealerships 20 y
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by NegativeK 10mo ago
> I'd need to build twice the nodes. Why twice the nodes? The manager is optional -- but do you need multiples? Also, when I looked into clusters (that I haven't implemented,) I did see qdevices. It's a way to have a cheap
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by NegativeK 10mo ago
They're not the only ones to claim that absurdity. https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...
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by NegativeK 10mo ago
> People are capable, and should be helped to make decisions based on all available information. To relay a quote, with the source not being very important: "I'm not going to waste a dime on cybersecurity when my officers need
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by NegativeK 10mo ago
1. People are terrible at creating strong passwords. People will NOT create hundreds of strong passwords. 2. People will not use complex solutions unless actively and rigidly enforced. 3. At best, we can hope that they can create one really

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