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by ashleyn 6y ago
The article mentions the Oki 900. Here's a Wired article mentioning how hackable it really was: https://archive.is/AEq0B
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by ashleyn 6y ago
What length PIN would you recommend in light of what commercially-available equipment is capable of cracking? Is an actual, honest-to-god password supported on latest Android?
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by ashleyn 6y ago
I wouldn't do it now considering you'd either suffocate in the cargo hold of a jet, or get radiation poisoning from customs' X-ray machine.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
"Modern" BASICs/Pascal are also otherwise decent languages that suffer from a reputation of newbies writing bad code with them.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
I already treat city visits like an oversized theme park. You go there, park in a lot, and everywhere else you take the train and bus.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
It's not just your imagination. I tried to look up "how valve index controllers work" and was steered into shopping links and reviews. Not one technical detail about how the Index reads finger gestures. I can't help but
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by ashleyn 6y ago
I suspect linked lists are not used because they are notorious for wrecking cache performance.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
> Lately there's been posts on HN reminiscing about QBasic, which is great, but it seems almost like a niche group of people who in the 90s were still using DOS a lot. (Which, granted, was a lot of people). But I completely missed i
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by ashleyn 6y ago
What also might go unsaid here is: the practical effect of Level 3's requirements vs. its capabilities is that it probably will not be able to engage often. If the car can't safely do it, it's not going to do it. So you'
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by ashleyn 6y ago
The way I see this is, prison should not be taken lightly. The cavalier attitude of simply shoving addicts into prison glosses over the gravity of using this option. There are appropriate use cases for prison, and violence in prison will be
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by ashleyn 6y ago
It's kind of the same reason people will call something a "tape" when they mean a "audio/video recording". Or they "wire" you money. Or that welfare is paid with "food stamps" (it actually c
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by ashleyn 6y ago
On Android at least, a LOT of the non-flagship devices stop getting security updates anywhere from 6 months to a year after release.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
This reminds me of a story I saw on Reddit once. A man worked for a payment processing firm that didn't sanitize their database inputs at all. One day, they get a new customer called "Select". Absolutely everything stopped wo
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by ashleyn 6y ago
Banning bitcoin won't fix anything, they'll just go back to Panamanian mailboxes and moneypak.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
Derivative works from a biology paper can result in disinformation.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
It's the Clipper chip all over again. They never learn.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
If there's anything the past four years have taught me, it's that our political system is in such shambles that if "we" need to "act" to fix anything then it's safe to assume the problem will not be fixed.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
It's about right if you grew up poor in that time period, and bought something secondhand. I was part of a small club out in the (impoverished) country where we were learning on DOS computers using Qbasic in like the early-mid 00s.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
Is there an actual magnetic tape inside or are they claiming a "recording" under the name "tape"? Left me kind of confused.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
> The Swiss "bank account" is no longer a thing. Except for the big guys who, until now, still enjoy a nice playground. But these times might be coming to an end. It's now called "crypto". Bitcoin/altcoins m
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by ashleyn 6y ago
Individuals have the right to choose obesity and pay their own costs related to it. This isn't "mob rule" because nobody is really forcing anyone else to be obese. There's no problem to solve other than being more cogniz
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by ashleyn 6y ago
Counterpoint: Elon, in retrospect, called the Lotus Elise strategy "super dumb." [1] 1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanbaptiste/2018/09/18/elon-mu...
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by ashleyn 6y ago
Wow. I wasn't quite expecting something as simple as "if CPU is not intel, make everything worse."
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by ashleyn 6y ago
laughs in JavaScript
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by ashleyn 6y ago
Only way I see something like that working is AI/ML and you'd need to vastly expand voice bandwidth past what PSTN is in order to have enough information for it to work. And even then who's to say people's voices, verbal
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by ashleyn 6y ago
Are smartphone architectures really this amazing, or is Intel just dropping the ball so hard that they're getting lapped by mobile hardware?
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by ashleyn 6y ago
He's being charged with 30 felonies but at the same time exposed how woefully inadequate Twitter is at securing the accounts of high-profile people, some of which with control of apocalyptic weapons. I predict he'll plea out to do
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by ashleyn 6y ago
It really defies the original vision of the internet to have so many services depend on a single company. Almost every news site I was reading dropped off at once. I thought for a second that I lost internet in my own house.
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by ashleyn 6y ago
Not that I think "oppositional defiant disorder" is even a sound classification to begin with, but the lawyer's assertion that estrogen is not an accepted or common treatment for males with ODD is spot on. This was done solel
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by ashleyn 6y ago
There is no "theory". This is a sickening attempt at using a farcical medical diagnosis to ruin the entire life of a prisoner, even worse, a youth prisoner. History is littered with examples of lobotomies and chemical pacifiers be

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