TheDong

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by TheDong 3y ago
No, str2hax isn't a DNS exploit. str2hax exploits CVE-2009-0689 in opera. See https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Str2hax#How_it_works
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by TheDong 3y ago
Yeah. When my dad had a kidney failure I had a lot of fun proving to the doctors that I did not in fact love my dad, and that's why I was giving him a kidney. Really though, the definition of "compelled" is fuzzy, and mostly
843.
by TheDong 3y ago
It seems like such a bizarre jump to say "if we build trains, simply riding the train will drive people to drugs and mass murder, causing a new problem outweighing the benefits of the train". If the train is not what is driving pe
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by TheDong 3y ago
Effective Altruists. See also SBF/FTX, and https://time.com/6252617/effective-altruism-sexual-harassmen...
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by TheDong 3y ago
We have a long waiting list for recipients, and we don't have an excess of donors to be picky with. Why are you assuming Scott was not "able to see" the explanation you laid out, when in all likelyhood that thought has crosse
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by TheDong 3y ago
> Evolution has equipped us with two kidneys for presumably good reasons As the article pointed out, on average you live a totally fine life with only 1 kidney, so clearly no. Like, that same argument would be "evolution gave us poo
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by TheDong 3y ago
the fact that it's solved outside of the US is irrelevant here. the American Dream requires that each successful American owns a Car (and House, which is another reason American Cities can't be like other country's cities). t
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by TheDong 3y ago
It is likely the following tweet: https://twitter.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/171333500612114051... > I have always viscerally opposed war. I have dedicated my life to conflict resolution and reconciliation. >
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by TheDong 3y ago
> the rest of the web is better off with flash gone and nothing new to fill that role. What has filled the role of flash for commercial websites is native iOS and android apps, which still somehow end up being way larger than a flash pay
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by TheDong 3y ago
Unironically, because of rust. Rust's type system encodes more information than most languages, and so you can offload more work to it. That becomes more and more valuable as the project grows. Rust also attracts good developers in gen
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by TheDong 3y ago
Yes, the blog author has created such a hand-crafted URL, but note that the callback url in the attack's url is to a harvestapp domain, and the attacker controlled portion is in the state, which is pretty much opaque to the oauth serve
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by TheDong 3y ago
Back in the old day, when men were men, saying "toilet paper" wouldn't cause a room full of people to faint in shock at the dirty word. People were hard then. All these people trying to make their language more soft and welco
853.
by TheDong 3y ago
Presumably realm in Element for Android. https://realm.io/ "Realm by MongoDB" See also https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/1025
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by TheDong 3y ago
May I suggest joining the fediverse and following the right set of people. You could try lobsters, but it's basically the same as this site, with maybe 30% fewer transphobic techbros.
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by TheDong 3y ago
Hacker news is a site for "hackers", which is to say people who like to tinker and explore. Making the css awful is part of the experience. It encourages you to learn how to tinker with your way of consuming the web to be able to
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by TheDong 3y ago
"This guy was trying to make a profit, what an asshole. I, on the other hand, made and sold a snake-oil SEO shopify plugin, and sure, some of the shopify users who have purchased fine snake-oil from me may think I'm an asshole ...
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by TheDong 3y ago
> Point me to a resistant monopoly or cartel and I will show you a government granted/supported one. Microsoft famously made deals with laptop vendors to prevent Dell, HP, and so on from selling computers with any operating system o
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by TheDong 3y ago
Sorry, friend, but you're on a website created by a "startup accelerator" company surrounded by people who genuinely believe in capitalism and the free market, and have strong libertarian streaks. The point of startups and VC
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by TheDong 3y ago
The environment for both windows and linux provides unsandboxed acccess to the roaming/home folders, where game saves are typically stored. That's also where your browser's cookies to access your bank are stored. Many of thes
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by TheDong 3y ago
> virtual OS-platform to run games indefinitely They encourage windows games to bundle old and insecure dlls, which the games generally did anyway. On windows, they don't really do anything here, it's mostly just that windows p
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by TheDong 3y ago
There are 2^128 ipv6 addresses. If you store 1 bit (banned/unbanned) + a unix timestamp (ban expiration) for each of those IPs, that requires more storage space than exists many billion times over. To store such a block table you propo
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by TheDong 3y ago
In the "test setup", it says: "a t3a.micro" and "a t4g.micro". To me, this implies they used a single ec2 instance of each size. However, ec2 instance p99s or so can be impacted by "noisy neighbors",
863.
by TheDong 3y ago
Fitbit Premium appears to cost $80/year, but side-loading an app so you can play with data yourself is free. On the other hand, the Apple Watch requires buying a macbook ($1000 one time) + a $100/year annual subscription for ad-ho
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by TheDong 3y ago
It is so simple it does not have a name. It is simply a double deref + borrow. Since "deref" can be implemented differently for each type, you cannot know what it does in general, but in this case '*Vec<T>' turns i
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by TheDong 3y ago
In go, the stdlib impl is actually: func Clone[S ~[]E, E any](s S) S { if s == nil { return nil } return append(S([]E{}), s...) } For comparison, `vec.clone()` in the rust stdlib is: pub tra
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by TheDong 3y ago
My guess is that originally, the post didn't have "// body omitted" below. The actual implementation requires having the `S` type to refer to, and the point of this post is to explain why the `S` type has to be name
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by TheDong 3y ago
> I've heard Linux support was down to like one guy [...] Linux support is down to you. It's down to all of us. Install rr ( https://rr-project.org/ ) and capture a crash with it. Then you can replay the crash, f
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by TheDong 3y ago
I feel like it's fine to commit and push that code to some non-master branch, and what really helps is a CI check to verify that code doesn't merge to master. I use git to sync work between multiple computers, and I want to be abl
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by TheDong 3y ago
You're on hacker news, which means you're technically capable and probably make about $400k/year from google. That means you can do this right. Setup an AS and buy a /24 (roughly $10k), buy a server and router for BGP, c
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by TheDong 3y ago
> The International was heavily advertised on Steam products. Which is the biggest gaming store. The biggest gaming store is almost certainly the Android Google Play Store's gaming section. It also wouldn't surprise me if the n

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