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by Sanzig 5y ago
On Gen Z CIA recruits having pre-existing social media presences: > They’re shrewd enough either to be circumspect users of social media from the start or to review (and delete) old problematic tweets and posts. Is this particularly effe
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by Sanzig 5y ago
I did the account nuke a few months ago. Felt great. The only social media accounts I still have are twitter (locked down account, never post, use it to follow a few local businesses and local public figures), HN, and Reddit. I'm also
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by Sanzig 5y ago
My Spotify account was originally created using a Facebook link. I eventually switched over to an email/password before I deleted my Facebook account, but my Spotify account name is an annoyingly long gibberish hash value that I can&#x
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by Sanzig 5y ago
See: The Underhanded C Contest. http://underhanded-c.org/ The whole point is to write C that appears on the level at first, but actually has a subtle exploitable flaw. The flaw is supposed to appear like a simple mistake fo
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by Sanzig 5y ago
> So this will force the issue of launch air traffic control which appears fairly primitive given that the US only has 2 launch locations. It's at least three, is it not? Vandenberg, Wallops, the Cape? Edit: there's also Kodiak
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by Sanzig 5y ago
Every Canadian wireline ISP, as far as I'm aware, issues routable IPv4 addresses to all customers. Usually dynamic, but the leases are generally very long.
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by Sanzig 5y ago
We have fixed interest rate mortgages in Canada, but the fixed rate is only valid for a specific period (typically 5 years). After this, the mortgage needs to be either renewed for another term at then-current rates, or transferred to a new
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by Sanzig 5y ago
I agree that GDPR-style privacy legislation is the ultimate solution, but unfortunately due to the international nature of the internet that sort of legislation will have difficulties until at least (1) the USA passes some sort of GDPR-styl
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by Sanzig 5y ago
> And robots.txt has been a thing since forever. Unfortunately, both archive.org and the affiliated Archive Team now intentionally ignore robots.txt files. Archive Team, in particular, wrote a very irritating and condescending screed cal
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by Sanzig 5y ago
My suggestion is to put the financial barrier at the government-industry interface, not at the industry-consumer interface. Right now a lot of brokers slurp up huge amounts of information from freely-available but generally not indexed publ
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by Sanzig 5y ago
I think one potential solution is to put a small financial barrier in the way of access to a public record. Say it costs a few bucks to view a record (depends on the sensitivity, but maybe $5-10). This won't deter people who are doing
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by Sanzig 5y ago
Define "garbage." If I know what my data looks like, I can anticipate the edge cases ahead of time. Plenty of CSV exports work this way, they don't need to be general if the schema is already imposed by the system. Have you e
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by Sanzig 5y ago
As I mentioned down-thread, I can generate a CSV with a couple of fprintf statements and a loop. I definitely can't do that with .xlsx. There is almost zero friction to bolting CSV export capability to an existing system, which is part
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by Sanzig 5y ago
The thing is, I need a hefty library to write parquet. I can write a CSV with a couple fprintf statements and a loop. A parser isn't much harder if we can make assumptions about CSV dialect ahead of time. If I'm trying to make an
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by Sanzig 5y ago
If you have a Pixel, or are willing to buy one, CalyxOS [1] may be worth a look. It's a privacy-focused ROM that still integrates microG, so it's compatible with most apps (unlike the other popular privacy-focused ROM GrapheneOS [
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Sequencing the Connectome(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by Sanzig 5y ago
Many Canadian provinces did a Moderna/Pfizer combo (one shot of each) to address shortages and get more people fully vaccinated faster.
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by Sanzig 5y ago
For that reason, laser blinding weapons are banned by international treaty. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_W...
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by Sanzig 5y ago
It's also name for the SI unit of magnetic flux density, which fits with the electric motor theme.
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Er... yep. Oops. That's embarassing, don't know how I made that mistake.
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Totally! And for a user that knows the importance of a secure password, that's fine. But the average user in an organization picks terrible passwords. A random 5 or 6 digit PIN generated by the IT department (to avoid the user picking
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by Sanzig 5y ago
I can't think of a key derivation function which would reliably make, say, a 6 digit PIN tough to crack while also not painfully impacting user experience waiting for the machine to unlock at boot. For a 6 digit PIN it's only 10 m
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by Sanzig 5y ago
> Secondly, to avoid the problem in this article, you should have an external password necessary to unlock the drive; not a TPM. This is, of course, not what most people do, since typing in passwords is tedious. TPM is fine, but you ne
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by Sanzig 5y ago
> Right, but you still can't easily look somebody up across the country - unless you pay for access to that data - which you could've done with phonebooks. Sure you can, all the phone directories are online and aggregated now -
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by Sanzig 5y ago
The internet and indexing changed the equation. Before the web, a phonebook was mainly a local thing: you could look somebody up in your area, but you couldn't easily look up somebody across the country. You'd have to dial directo
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> Nothing will save you from GPU cluster brute forcing it, if the adversary have your harddrive. Not really true. In the case where a password is used to derive the encryption key, the password is passed to a key derivation function whic
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by Sanzig 5y ago
I see there's no mention yet in this thread of A Mathematical Theory of Communication [1]. Claude Shannon launched the entire field of information theory with this paper. Admittedly, not useful to everyone , but information theory i
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by Sanzig 5y ago
> Perhaps what I'm missing is that clouds emit some radiative heat back to the surface, whereas a clear sky emits very little, so the net heat loss from the surface under a cloudy sky would be lower. This is exactly it, yes.
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by Sanzig 5y ago
One of the interesting consequences of interstellar colonization in a universe without FTL travel or communication (which, by all indications, appears to be our universe) is the sheer amount of cultural diversity it would create. Even adjac
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I actually laughed out loud when I got to the part where each opcode was its own microservice, implemented in a dozen different languages. Well done.

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