aftbit

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by aftbit 2y ago
Why not exit the tab with Ctrl-W?
602.
by aftbit 2y ago
Well I'd be careful, that's a classic example of untrusted user data.
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by aftbit 2y ago
One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Python just loves to break working code on a regular basis with its new releases. If your code is protected from untrusted user data and the internet, Python 2 is actually a really nice language that doesn&#
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by aftbit 2y ago
Ask not what you can do to the attack helicopter, but instead what the attack helicopter can do to you. Increase vulnerability is only one side of the coin. If there are still valuable missions that can be better done by an attack helicopte
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by aftbit 2y ago
I'm not sure, all of the recent Pixels were on the Cellebrite leak list as accessible without brute-force even while cold. Of course, the recent iPhones were too. Maybe there is no solution, or maybe Cellebrite is lying a little bit wi
606.
by aftbit 2y ago
"curl http://blahblah > blahblah.html" What other common cases take flags on curl but not wget?
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by aftbit 2y ago
Could be, yeah. I'm a bit skeptical though. This took place months ago, and the conversation ended in a pretty reasonable place, something like "nice to meet you, take care" from me. I would have expected a few more engagemen
608.
by aftbit 2y ago
So gross. How much do they really make per month from each customer who sees these kinds of ads? Can I just pay them an extra $10/yr to _never_ show me an extra ad? My Roku TV just pushed a new channel to my home screen, alongside a gi
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by aftbit 2y ago
I have gotten three kinds of those: 1. Someone texting the previous owner of my number (John). I got all kinds of traffic for him, including debt collectors, friends, ex-girlfriends, employers, etc. I gather John ran into a spot of financia
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by aftbit 2y ago
Hmm I wonder why the downvotes? Maybe people felt this did not add enough to the discussion. Let me try again with more words. I am pointing out that the world is full of risk. Under-prepared kids with half-developed prefrontal cortexes dri
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by aftbit 2y ago
Is this just a newer release of the Stock firmware, or is it a custom branch?
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by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah but less scary than a teenager driving a car.
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by aftbit 2y ago
It is certainly possible for a small group to cause disproportionate harm. Physical access is a powerful tool. Then again, what is worse than a small group who hates? A large group who doesn't care.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Of course, but these systems are installed and active with the intention of providing a safety barrier. If they are disabled while transiting jammed airspace, then they are not providing that safety barrier at that time, which is itself a v
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by aftbit 2y ago
Not to be a jerk, but you would be wrong. GPS spoofing is a growing problem in commercial aviation. So far it has not led to any fatalities, but it has led to a significant number of system malfunctions which degrade the safety features ava
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by aftbit 2y ago
I respect the "fine we'll take our ball and go home then" approach to put some actual pressure on Google. I do wonder if they could have just chosen to stop offering Google Drive support on Android and instead pivot to storin
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by aftbit 2y ago
License plates are incredibly insecure. They are a short, easy to automatically recognize ID that is expensive to change, and it is a crime to drive while they are covered.
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by aftbit 2y ago
I cannot believe that the police are allowed to destroy private property and then not pay for it. One particularly egregious example is from Greenwood Village, Colorado[1]. If the destruction of property is necessary to achieve a public goo
619.
by aftbit 2y ago
Why does it need to run as `root` user and not `cups`?
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by aftbit 2y ago
Because it offers the content to everyone anywhere for free without authentication or a limit on the number of concurrent copies available. Is this a good tradeoff between protecting IP to incentivize creation through monetization and the v
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by aftbit 2y ago
That's totally fair. After all, laws are about what people will force you to do using (the threat of) violence, while ethics and morals are about how you personally navigate the world, and a bit about how people will try to shame or so
622.
by aftbit 2y ago
Really? I would expect that safely bringing everything back to room temp might take a while, but why would it take a long time to stop the magnets? The whole point of this machine is to rapidly switch the magnetic field on and off, right? T
623.
by aftbit 2y ago
In my opinion, the better way to design such a thing would be for there to be a private key held in a secure environment inside the car which is used to sign credentials which offer entitlements to some set of features. So for example, when
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by aftbit 2y ago
Wait a moment, the key vulnerability appears to be that anyone could register as a dealer, but also any dealer could lookup information on any Kia even if they didn't sell it or if it was already activated!? That seems insane. What if
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by aftbit 2y ago
>These attacks could be executed remotely on any hardware-equipped vehicle in about 30 seconds, regardless of whether it had an active Kia Connect subscription.
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by aftbit 2y ago
>An officer then allegedly pulled a sealed emergency release button that shut the MRI machine down, deactivating it, evaporating thousands of liters of helium gas and damaging the machine in the process. The officer then grabbed his rifl
627.
by aftbit 2y ago
This makes it sound like some kind of retaliation, instead of Meta attempting to comply with the very regulations you're talking about. Maybe llama3.2 would violate the existing face recognition database policies?
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by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah I am very confused. This isn't like 2048 at all. The pieces move individually? And why are there multiple different colors of knights? What is the king doing? How do I mute the game entirely? Interesting take but needs some more p
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by aftbit 2y ago
I dunno, I think its pretty acceptable for FOSS project leaders to call out behavior they don't like, even if it is technically legal. That's sort of the point of moral leadership, right? I do wonder to what extent this blog post
630.
by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah, 100%. I'm not a hardcore FOSS only person, but for my core workflow, when a FOSS tool exists and works well, I am not likely to use a proprietary alternative if I can avoid it at all. So yeah, I'll use Excel to interoperate

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