anonymouzz

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by anonymouzz 8y ago
Any chance someone could upload the VX Heavens dataset of viruses to the Internet Archive? https://archive.org/details/malwaremuseum
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
Afaik it's a custom system with download-and-cache-on-demand. Note that there's nothing forbidding you from writing a virtual git filesystem that fetches objects from some centralized repo as files are open()ed. Git on cloud stero
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
Yes but why not send a single email to the manufacturer before making it public? Does it really hurt so much? From a "cyberpunk hacker" mentality this only gives you an opportunity to roast the manufacturer if they do nothing. Per
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
It's not about the companies. I do not care much about them. It's about people that may be hacked between someone's 0day disclosure and manufacturer's response. And if the manufacturer doesn't care to fix the bug -
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
What bothers me is that they did not responsibly disclose the vulnerabilities to the manufacturers ahead of time. This is not moral, and I'm not sure what one gains by not doing that. I think that conference organizers should pressure
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
I'd be interested. The two still offending tools (spell and f77) sound super rarely used these days. I think it's fair to compare samples of commonly used tools in 1995 with samples of commonly used tools in 2018 even if those sam
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. There's research indicating links between gut bacteria and (among others) mental health: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4662178/ And of course one&
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
Yup, climate change is real - it's evident from computing average temperatures. No point in debating that. I completely agree that smog is terrible and essentially kills people. My point was the really bad consequences of warming (mass
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
My point is that we can deploy more aerosols. See the first link
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
There are alternatives that can be deployed without reducing carbon emissions: https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/11/23/health/sun-dimming-aero... We'd already be over 2*C if not the aerosols that human
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
It's firmware. Very little firmware is. In information theoretic sense it's much more surprising if some firmware is open source.
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
Heh I was thinking that > 1TiB of data in an sqlite db is a bad idea :). How do you process that? The restrictions I had in my mind come from that it's infeasible to concurrently process a large dataset in mapreduce/bigquery st
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
I wish more people would publish data as SQLite databases (if the size permits, of course; usually it does). It's so much more reliable than CSVs, which have at least a few dimensions of significant differences (quoted/unquoted, c
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
Yup, see no reason why not. This is answered in the post: > Any application state that can be recorded in a pile-of-files can also be recorded in an SQLite database with a simple key/value schema like this: CREATE TABLE files(
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
I don't understand these naysayers. I'm not trying to be mean here, but is there anything more to that than an old guy complaining about how it was awesome in his time and age, and how we get everything wrong nowadays? I'm ge
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
This is a good point, and I agree with you completely. Perhaps the Brave org will come up with a working solution. It's likely the largest problem with the Internet economy today. Personally, for now, I'm paying monthly to those n
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
Off-topic, but you should want to pay for news. You should want to pay a lot . Which kind of meal would you prefer? 1) Expensive, tasty and healthy. 2) Cheap and loaded with sugar (so you come back to get more) while ads flash all around y
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
(this is based on chats with guides in Auschwitz) Apparently survival inside the camp for this long was only possible if you knew how to climb the hierarchy, and Pilecki did it well. For example - on the day he (and a few of his friends) fl
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
At first nobody believed because there really was no concrete evidence. This was changed by Witold Pilecki: > During World War II, Pilecki volunteered for a Polish resistance operation that involved being imprisoned in the Auschwitz con
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On Disbelieving Atrocities (1944)(pastebin.com)
73 points by anonymouzz 8y ago|45 comments
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
Depends on the company. I had a friend who spent most of his time at work not doing any work, but for example browsing catalogs and fixing his new apartment (while financing that with his salary). Although after a year or two he started to
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
Are you up for working 8 hours a day? My experience is that many jobs (even in the top companies) allow you to stay relatively unmotivated after a certain point which is fairly easy to reach (1 to 2 years). You still have to do something, t
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On Disbelieving Atrocities [1944](pastebin.com)
2 points by anonymouzz 8y ago|0 comments
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
I think the Internet is different. You see the absolute tops, be it real or slightly "boosted", of everyone's highs and project all of that onto a single imaginary awesome person to which you compare yourself. I think most of
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
I'd see which newspaper had a reaction to the Khashoggi's death and try to directly contact the journalists writing the articles. They're people and they may be quite happy for the ammunition provided. For example: https:&#x
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
Pretty sure that's generally the case at Google too: > Under normal company protocol, analysis of people’s search queries is subject to tight constraints and should be reviewed by the company’s privacy staff, whose job is to safegu
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
Perhaps I'm taking the moral high ground here, but you should contact the media or human rights organizations, spill the beans to help them investigate. Anonymously if necessary.
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
Yeah I get that fear, but the truth is we'd already be over 2*C if not the aerosols that humans released: https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/img/figure/figure2_1.png These took out much of the heat from greenho
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
Why is no one talking about alternative means to cooling the planet, like aerosols? https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/11/23/health/sun-dimming-aero... This would be a great opportunity for stalling (or even
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by anonymouzz 8y ago
My view on this is that wealth is something real that actually impacts people's lives. At the same time money is not, it's the story told around wealth so that we can all agree on how one "wealth" compares to another. Th

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