aortega

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by aortega 5y ago
I'm an old Argentinan and lived through many inflation and hyperinflation cycles already. The cause is trivial: Governments are given the 'infinite money' machine and they abuse it. They abuse it like if they were primary sch
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by aortega 5y ago
IIRC Mitnik is good at technical hacking, but mostly known for being a master at conning people. Not as good as the cops that got him, surely.
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by aortega 5y ago
Exactly, you need to be credible and non-threatening. There is an history of a Japanese pentester that was always allowed to get into the datacenter because everybody trust a Japanese engineer.
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by aortega 5y ago
You dont need to be a genius to play a journalist.
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by aortega 5y ago
To be honest, you are right. I believe the word is 'fabulous'.
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by aortega 5y ago
Yeah, the writer cooperated in writing bullshit, because bullshit sells. She didn't fact check a single thing on purpose.
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by aortega 5y ago
She also claimed she entered area 51. Likely she was playing with the interviewer to see how much bullshit she would believe.
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by aortega 5y ago
>A good pentester has good social engineering skills. There is a difference between a pentester and a con man. A con man with technical skills is still a con man. A hacker is more similar to a modern-day wizard commanding computers to do
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by aortega 5y ago
Wow she was beautiful, no wonder she was good at social engineering.
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by aortega 5y ago
>Not sure how it's an insult. Its an insult for a very good reason: Con men are dangerous. In the same way actual hackers see computers as targets, they see people as targets, not as human beings. They usually end up with some degre
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by aortega 5y ago
Once again, the media trying to pass someone with social engineering skills as a hacker. You might as well call it Lying engineering, those people are just good at lying and manipulation, for me, hacking is another entirely different activi
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by aortega 5y ago
See this article. Theres an updated one with even more striking statistics. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/health/drug-overdoses-fen...
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by aortega 5y ago
> just look at total deaths for the period. Where do you think they are coming from? People clearly died. Now, the question is, they died directly from covid, or died from effects of the lockdown?
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by aortega 5y ago
>Are you implying that someone in government has alterior motives to desire a lockdown? They have obvious ulterior motives. Political motives, or ass-covering. If they don't do a lockdown they will be utterly attacked by the opposit
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by aortega 5y ago
VHDL has horrible syntax. Verilog has a much more friendly c-like syntax, even if the friendliness is only a trap.
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by aortega 5y ago
>Its main competitor was of course Visual C++ Visual C++ wasn't visual. Perhaps the main competitor was Visual Basic.
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by aortega 5y ago
It's kinda sad that Microsoft pawned all Delphi devs to start .NET. It basically killed it, together with c++ builder and all other VCL frameworks. However, I'm doing a big project using Lazarus and free-pascal (the GPL version of
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by aortega 5y ago
Rust syntax really is crazy. It's designed to be utterly incomprehensible.
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by aortega 5y ago
The Garmin instinct have that function and works great. There are way cheaper options like the Fitbit charge, it also has a body-battery and is very accurate. BTW I never had covid but if my body battery gets below 20, I also feel like shit
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by aortega 5y ago
Dude, like you, I don't like to be locked up. Disregard comments sending you to the psych, I believe you are sane and the rest of the people, living in fear and locked up are the insane. Its good to be angry because this is bullshit, a
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by aortega 5y ago
It's quite low quality, only 1 Khz sampling rate and not a lot of resolution. I think you could figure out human voice, though.
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A mouse is also a microphone(github.com)
5 points by aortega 5y ago|3 comments
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by aortega 5y ago
I wrote a small tool to amplify mouse movements. Modern mouses like the Logitech G502 are very sensitive, and can easily pickup vibrations and sound, acting like a microphone. In the repository is the tool, and a quick video demonstration
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by aortega 6y ago
But if we can only access, interact or see a bubble of 62 billion light years like the paper says, do the rest really exist for us?
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by aortega 6y ago
Do you take everything literally? Who are you, Drax the destroyer?
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by aortega 6y ago
>There is no context in which this is acceptable. Oh for christ's sake. Have you ever tell a joke to talk to a girl?
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by aortega 6y ago
I think we can all agree that RMS has been too abusive to corporations. Corporations that now push back in the form of twitter lobbyists.
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by aortega 6y ago
>Is an extremely obnoxious man capable of doing the job of a publicly visible board member? Clearly he can.
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by aortega 6y ago
>>Richard Stallman told me of his misery and that he’d kill himself if I didn’t go out with him. I said exactly that many times to girls when I was a teenager. It was a joke. Taken out of context, those phrases can mean anything good
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by aortega 6y ago
Not everyone is fine all of the time, and autistic personalities can get high and lows. To me, he seem quite normal and a cool guy that likes make totally inappropriate jokes or comments (that makes them even more funny), but I'm a lit

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