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by amenghra 9y ago
The hunt for the A-12[0], "its sneaky black older brother", is a fun read. [0] http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange...
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by amenghra 9y ago
Chernobyl journal by a Elena Filatova, who biked around the ghostly place a few years later, is worth reading: https://www.elenafilatova.net/post/the-chernobyl-journal-vol...
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Given enough time, get Shakespeare(monkeynumber.xyz)
4 points by amenghra 9y ago|0 comments
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by amenghra 9y ago
Reminds me tricks people used to crash debuggers. E.g. https://reverse.put.as/2012/01/31/anti-debug-trick-1-abusing... , http://blog.ioactive.com/2012/12/striking-back-gdb-and-ida-d..
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by amenghra 9y ago
The best way to solve precedence confusion (IMHO) is to have your IDE show you how the expression is going to get parsed. Possible ways to achieve this include highlighting subexpressions, underlines, light-colored parenthesis, showing a tr
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by amenghra 9y ago
Relevant talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYG0NxoG7yw
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Former NASA astronaut Richard “Dick” Gordon Jr. has died at the age of 88(businessinsider.com)
1 points by amenghra 9y ago|0 comments
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by amenghra 9y ago
If they can't access the data, then they shouldn't be able to moderate it. There are plenty of things on the web where you can upload data and they don't use machine learning algorithms to decide if your content is "vali
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by amenghra 9y ago
Good timing with Google incorrectly flagging some Docs as abusive? ( https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmz3yw/why-is-my-... )
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by amenghra 9y ago
Reminds me https://forthsalon.appspot.com/
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by amenghra 9y ago
Minimalisme isn't about making things hard to read. Just adding a single inline style makes things easier on the eye (IMHO): style="width: 40em; padding-top: 1em; margin: auto"
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by amenghra 9y ago
Fun story, there was a pretty serious vulnerability in there [1]. Lessons learned: don't run CTFs "too close" to your real infrastructure. [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8708392&#
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Square 2017 CTF(squarectf.com)
1 points by amenghra 9y ago|0 comments
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by amenghra 9y ago
Square is running a CTF. You can signup on https://squarectf.com/ and the puzzles will be released on Wednesday (Oct 4th). You'll have until Friday of the following week to solve puzzles if you want to compete for the
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Announcing the Square CTF(squarectf.com)
7 points by amenghra 9y ago|1 comments
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by amenghra 9y ago
If you want something similar for GitHub, you can probably combine GitHub + Travis. You can set things up so Travis has a bunch of encrypted variables and can push to your github.
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by amenghra 9y ago
> cryptographically locked to Sonic's vendor ID and any stolen stored CC info could only be used at other Sonics. That's not how chip cards work.
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Capture the Flag: Learning to Hack for Fun and Profit(eiseverywhere.com)
2 points by amenghra 9y ago|0 comments
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by amenghra 9y ago
Sadely not all banks validate the billing address. Some just check the zip code, others don't even do that.
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by amenghra 9y ago
I don't have an answer to that. If you are really concerned about having your card skimmed, you can take any simple magnet and erase/scramble the data by waving it over the mag tape. You can check that things worked by swiping bef
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by amenghra 9y ago
Get rid of the magstripe and bad actors will steal your card info using cameras (pretty much all the info in the magstripe is also printed on the card, that's how online shopping works). It would be good to raise the bar, but it won&#x
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by amenghra 9y ago
Gas pumps are going to be among the last places to use mag stripes because they might not have network connectivity. Pretty much everything else is moving to chip'n pin or tap. I look forward to having banks issue cards without any mag
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by amenghra 9y ago
Doesnt prevent taking two or more plates, splitting them vertically and re-combining them.
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by amenghra 9y ago
It's proprietary in some way: it's patent encumbeted (lookup Microsoft vs TomTom and Microsoft vs Motorola).
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by amenghra 9y ago
Fun! I once made a Fat filesystem driver in JavaScript: https://www.quaxio.com/fat12js/index.htm
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by amenghra 9y ago
Yes, 8860. A few years before the 8865.
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by amenghra 9y ago
The 8865 was the first model with a differential. I wrote about being an adult fan of lego[1]. Over time, I purchased all 7 "super cars" that Lego manufactured. One of each car was sold every ~5 years and each one improved the pre
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by amenghra 9y ago
You can buy a Lego differential gear to keep as a desk toy: https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Technic-Differential-connectors-...
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by amenghra 9y ago
Correct. A few people have landed with their wingsuits, but that's pretty rare. Look up Gary Connery or Jeb Corliss for example. You are still going pretty fast, you need ideal terrain (angle, water or boxes), and a hundred things have
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by amenghra 9y ago
Unless you perform a proper statistical analysis it's unfair to draw a conclusion from a single run. Furthermore, when I see a second run that's faster than the first one, I immediately wonder if it's the cache being cold for

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