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by aftbit 2y ago
You can see it in the URL too.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah, maybe something like LORAN? Or maybe quantum gyroscopes will shrink in cost and size to allow totally offline navigation without references beyond a known starting point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gyro
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by aftbit 2y ago
>this specific viral pandemic we're collectively in denial of Interesting way to phrase it. I think this could probably apply to the flu or HIV equally well as to the more recent one.
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by aftbit 2y ago
So wait, is this fixed in BIOS or microcode? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...
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by aftbit 2y ago
>You would, at this point, be forgiven for thinking that this class of attack - controlling WHOIS server responses to exploit parsing implementations within WHOIS clients - isn’t a tangible threat in the real world. Let's flip that
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by aftbit 2y ago
If you are having trouble getting 10TB of disk space from IT, you have bad IT. Not saying that's uncommon or anything, but 10TB fits on one external hard drive for $300 from Best Buy, or less than $1000/mo using EBS on AWS if you
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by aftbit 2y ago
This reminds me a bit of the Airbus patent for using bike seats on airplanes to save weight.[1][2] Of course it's a "good" idea in one narrow sense, saving weight on flights, but it's a bad idea in a few other senses, in
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by aftbit 2y ago
Nice one! I have hit something similar in the past around text input parsing. I bet that `e` notation for entering numbers has caused more bugs than it has actually been used as intended, at least in non-scientific code.
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by aftbit 2y ago
I don't really understand why anyone would use an "alternative" microblogging platform / social network that doesn't offer decentralization or federation. If you are okay with centralized, just go to the cesspool of
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by aftbit 2y ago
Wow that seems massively overcomplicated. Why not just do this comparison in the database layer (what he's calling the X layer, I think, although maybe it's the W layer)?
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by aftbit 2y ago
That sounds like ST. They make some really intriguing chips at good prices, but the tradeoff is that their hardware and software are full of bugs.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Other than being part of the broader trend of hobbyist open source maintainer burnout, what exactly does this mean?
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by aftbit 2y ago
s/consider of/consider if/
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by aftbit 2y ago
His name was Javed Iqbal. The charge was "providing material support to Hizballah". He plead guilty and was sentenced to 69 months. The government's story was that: "From approximately 2005 through 2006, IQBAL, through a
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by aftbit 2y ago
>and an industrial blender at a cattle-culling facility in Alberta whose whirl wouldn’t cease even when unplugged from a power source. What? We discovered a perpetual motion machine at Y2K and I never heard of it?
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by aftbit 2y ago
Creepy stuff. Maybe we ought not to constantly record everything happening around us all the time.
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by aftbit 2y ago
In the way that Brazil has ordered Apple and Google to delete VPN apps from users' phones?
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by aftbit 2y ago
Interesting that the author highlights Telegram as associated with crypto bros and the far right. In my circles, Telegram is most known as used by whistleblowers and uncensored Ukraine war reporters. I suppose this is the obvious niche for
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by aftbit 2y ago
People want that judge to be recalled? So not only are people opposed to trial by jury, they also want the judge to be biased towards the prosecution? Why? Just the usual "tough on crime" dogwhistles?
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by aftbit 2y ago
Thanks for posting the links. I looked for 5 minutes but couldn't get Google to give me what I wanted, so I gave up and hoped for a kind internet stranger to help. Today you were that hero!
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by aftbit 2y ago
I had a very similar situation when I was called. The trial subject was systematic elder abuse and neglect by a person in a position of power at a hospital. I was very glad to not be chosen. I would not have nullified and I did not want to
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by aftbit 2y ago
Hi Kragen, small world! At an individual scale, I think plan B is pretty much always a small tri-fuel generator. At a society scale, it's probably a natural gas turbine. If batteries continue to follow their own price curve down, stora
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by aftbit 2y ago
Best case, assuming you even get charged, your case gets picked up by the EFF, ACLU, IFJ, etc. You spend nothing, you win, and you get a lot of free publicity for your pen testing company. Worst case, nobody comes to help you, you spend all
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by aftbit 2y ago
What about 0% margins? Is there actually enough money in social media to pay for moderation even with no profit?
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by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah, no moderation leads to spams, scams, rampant hate, and CSAM. I spent all of an hour on Voat when it was in its heyday and it mostly literal Nazis calling for the extermination of undesirables. The normies just stayed on moderated Redd
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by aftbit 2y ago
That's what I expected too, and this immediately reminded me of Wikileak's "all pages from 9/11" site. https://911.wikileaks.org/
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by aftbit 2y ago
I know this isn't quite the right place, but can anyone point to some research or writeups on the Chrome ad topics stuff? How does that impact user privacy? What is shared with third parties? I know next to nothing about it at the mome
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by aftbit 2y ago
That sounds like a pitch for one of those "singles near you" apps. Find hot women in your area who share your birthdate!
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by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah I wouldn't have convicted weev either. There is a difference though. He used that incremented number to access actual user PII. These guys created a user with no PII and no actual malicious use.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Does anyone remember Bruce Schneier and his faked boarding passes? The TSA scribble used to be the weak point of the entire system.

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