altmind

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by altmind 7y ago
Your bio-metrics - your face, your voice, your fingerprints are your login, not your password. You cannot change them, you leave this data everywhere and this data can be snooped and replayed easily. Moreover, this data is singular for a pe
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by altmind 7y ago
Even if there is a foul play of trading on unannounced news, this should not be called "market manipulation". That may be informed trading, that is not illegal. And there is no evidence that this was done by all the same actor. --
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by altmind 7y ago
What are the things VMS did the best? How it compares to linux nowadays? What is behind OpenVMS project - nostalgia or some pragmatic reasons?
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by altmind 7y ago
MS buying aQuantive for 6.3Bil and then doing nothing with their products and resources always bogged me on how un-resourceful corporations can be. 6.2Bil of this acquisition was written off in 2012, 5 years after the purchase.
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by altmind 7y ago
https://twitter.com/modestproposal1/status/10855834347880202...
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by altmind 7y ago
My inner skeptic says if you have enough money and demand for phone decryption that is using a low-entropy key; your best bet is to take a dump of the phone NVRAM and feed it to inhouse iphone emulator, brute-forcing the key in parallel, wi
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by altmind 7y ago
I remember people were selling premium UIDs in ICQ. Also, low, 5-digit UIDs could be sold for single hundreds dollars. A novel way to indicate you were an ICQ veteran.
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by altmind 7y ago
Isnt there some microsoft ODBC provider that can execute sql-like query against text or csv file? I faintly remember something like that.
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by altmind 7y ago
java had: * bundled xerces around 1.6, breaking apps that also carried their own xerces * removed sun.misc.Unsafe from v11, breaking legit apps the apps that use off-heap memory * sun and later oracle made everything to make applets useless
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by altmind 7y ago
I am also disappointed by NYT reporting, and the problem is quite simple - they picked a side in a trump battle. They are far from neutral point of view, their choice of events to report and their reliance on polar opinion columns leaves th
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by altmind 7y ago
business cards punch-down patch pannels "call for quote"
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by altmind 7y ago
You sure? There is more than one way to clear funds between banks. I remember banks using Fedwire between each other.
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by altmind 7y ago
Remember "The office space" where they were making laughs on cubicles? Guess what, now we're dont even have this.
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by altmind 7y ago
Submitted 2 days ago. Linked wikipedia article gives more doubt on what happened and who was responsible https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21039013
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by altmind 7y ago
... according to geekbench that was always favoring iphone cpus.
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by altmind 7y ago
Mind me asking some questions here? (openjdk 8) Do you need to install graalvm separately on the target system, or can the compiler and runtime be packaged with the application in the uberjar? Do you need to change the the java execution co
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by altmind 7y ago
airtable is great, a lot of interactive features, great possibilities to add programmability to your data.
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by altmind 7y ago
Movie theater does not give you the popcorn and tell you the price a week after. Also, you can say no to the popcorn in a movie theater; you cannot control the fine details of your treatment.
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by altmind 7y ago
Exactly my thoughts - its wolfenstein fizzlefade or LSFR that you learn in crypto 101 that can pick all the numbers in the range randomly. "Algorithm No One Knows About" is such a condescending title...
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by altmind 7y ago
>> Royan has frustrated some of his investors by sitting on some of their money rather than investing it in startups — while almost certainly raking in millions of dollars in fees for himself. its the first time i hear about legal con
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by altmind 7y ago
It's been delayed again "WireGuard Releases New Snapshot While Not Expected For Linux 5.4 Mainline" https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WireGuar...
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by altmind 7y ago
From the experience with servers, having all DIMM slots populated(usually over two-thirds) clocks down the memory frequencies. Not something that you want for the maximum performance. Its unclear what is this article about, yes large module
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by altmind 7y ago
>> Almost 7% of autonoumous systems in US will lose internet access in case of Level3 faulure(misconfiguration, poisoned routes injection) >> Transit ISPs in US are getting more and more consolidated with merger of CenturyLink a
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by altmind 7y ago
If these security reports are valid, this may affect not only Supermicro, but other vendors too. From the top of my head, Asus and Gigabyte workstation motherboards also carried AST2400 based BMCs, and theirs ipmi web interface looked very
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by altmind 7y ago
Can't Feds ask mobile phone servers providers(there are only couple of them in US) for phones registered at specific base station? I think police have been doing this for ages.
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by altmind 7y ago
No Russia, Ukraine, Belarus in the countries list. Obviously, they have at least western union and moneygram.
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by altmind 7y ago
threadreader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1166451306183254016.html
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by altmind 7y ago
Cant you order a free replacement card if you care so much about scuff and marks?
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by altmind 7y ago
I really like C++FQA that covers a lot of inconsistencies and shortcomings in C++ design https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/
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by altmind 7y ago
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