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Maintaining Security CTF Skills with Spaced Repetition(williamparks.github.io)
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by albntomat0 2y ago
I posted this in a comment already, but the results here line up with the original BOLT paper. “For the GCC and Clang compilers, our evaluation shows that BOLT speeds up their binaries by up to 20.4% on top of FDO and LTO, and up to 52.1% i
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by albntomat0 2y ago
There’s a section of the article at the end about how Postgres doesn’t have LTO enabled by default. I’m assuming they’re not doing PGO/FDO either? From the Bolt paper: “For the GCC and Clang compilers, our evaluation shows that BOLT s
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by albntomat0 3y ago
A large number of people, less than the “hundred million” that you mention (Wikipedia says FTX had “over one million” customers [0]) lost their highly speculative investment. Yes it’s a crime, and yes it’s serious. All I’m asking for is s
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by albntomat0 3y ago
My view is that folks lost their life savings on crypto on FTX is only a more extreme version of those who lost their live savings on crypto on some other exchange. The fraud is terrible, but only exasperates the problems of those gambling
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by albntomat0 3y ago
I do not. My comment was in response to the parent comment saying that financial crime “absolutely causes people to die” and “create far more misery than your average mugger”.
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by albntomat0 3y ago
To what degree was the money lost by SBF/etc going to be put towards saving lives, versus the dreams of the average crypto person?
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by albntomat0 3y ago
I’ve used their tarballed installer, which is straightforward. The app itself then checks for updates, and displays a reminder when there’s a new version. Not as nice as having an updated version in apt, but it’s a trivial amount of work f
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by albntomat0 3y ago
Written, a combination of New York Times, Washington Post, and what Google News aggregates (frequently includes Fox and a mix of websites of local news websites)
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by albntomat0 3y ago
> In America, it's wall-to-wall "police say"-like IDF clips and Bill Maher condemnation, dehumanization, and equivocating Palestine supporters with Hamas terrorists. The talking heads cheerfully greet Netanyahu. As someone
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by albntomat0 3y ago
I find it hard to believe there’s correlation between the beginnings of Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas and who the US president is. If anything, Russia and Hamas are each less likely to spark each conflict (in the specific sense of invadin
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by albntomat0 3y ago
It’s disingenuous because they intentionally chose numbers on the pricing curve that resulted in the most clickbaity results. There are plenty of valid criticisms, but I felt the author’s post missed sufficient nuance.
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by albntomat0 3y ago
I can’t say I’m a fan of the pricing model, but the linked tweet makes specific choices regarding the number of installs, which in turn determines the pricing. The tweet has 10M installs, where each one makes a $1. 5M installs where each o
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by albntomat0 3y ago
I looked it up, and the extended security updates for Google Pixel is only a recent change: Pixel 8: released in 2023, updates through 2030 Pixel 5: released in 2020, stopped getting updates in October 2023. https://support.googl
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by albntomat0 3y ago
Is there a concrete explanation of what Masimo’s actual innovation was in their patents? They were posted in a previous thread, and the way they were written made it unclear what was actually covered. Is Apple allegedly infringing on the i
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by albntomat0 3y ago
T-Mobile also doesn’t send your texts to millions of people based on the engagement they generate.
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by albntomat0 3y ago
Summary: Tesla has decreased its prices over the last year, affecting the resale value of existing vehicles. Author makes this out to be entirely bad.
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by albntomat0 3y ago
I’ve often wondered if a similar result happened for me. Six year old me got Pokémon Blue, which is pretty much all text based. Coupled with comic books at a friends house, I had great internal motivation to figure those out!
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by albntomat0 3y ago
I got accustomed to pausing whenever the machine was speaking, to avoid the race condition I mentioned above. I went with a friend to a different store, in a new city, and she was very confused by the weird set of behaviors I had learned t
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by albntomat0 3y ago
I’ve had significant issues with some particular models of self-checkout. They have some sort of weight check after scanning an item, to see if I’ve placed it in the basket. I assume they’re matching up the items known weight, with the ch
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by albntomat0 3y ago
Direct from the article: "BUT YOU JUST WANT TO SELL YOUR COURSE!!! Ahahaha, you caught me! It’s true. I do have something to sell you. I run a community for small-time entrepreneurs who are satisfied with reliably attainable mediocre s
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by albntomat0 3y ago
Yes, and I’m free to criticize it for being a mediocre article with a clickbait headline.
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by albntomat0 3y ago
I considered that as an issue with being a vc funded startup founder. I could have made that part slightly more clear. Once again, a much broader issue than just YC! The author could have written the exact same article, just with VC inste
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by albntomat0 3y ago
The article discusses known issues being a startup founder, such as the low odds of success, as if they’re unique to YC, followed by a pitch for his own product.
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by albntomat0 3y ago
I agree it's definitely possible, and I'm certain we'll see a vuln due to some crazy Rust optimizations in the future. That said, not switching over to a memory safe language, in my opinion, is letting perfect be the enemy of
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by albntomat0 3y ago
Ahh cool! I was unaware of Wuffs. Thanks for sharing!
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by albntomat0 3y ago
There's a substantial difference between a hobbyist writing a random project in C, and Google writing an image processing implementation, and then including it in Chrome and Android.
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by albntomat0 3y ago
Yes, and so are Python, Lisp, Haskell, and a million other languages that were available in 2010. None of those are suitable options for an image decoding library on the range of WebP supported platforms.
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by albntomat0 3y ago
Additional timeline info, as I was curious myself. WebP is old enough that a memory safe language was not a feasible option when the project started. Android 12 was the first version to support Rust code, and came out in 2021 [0, link talk
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by albntomat0 3y ago
Apple and Chrome specifically matter here because those where the targets being exploited in the wild, and have the most direct attack surface with the largest number of users. The author mentions that many other systems need to patch as we

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