bigiain

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by bigiain 6d ago
Arguably, there's at least two kinds on "average HN people", which I think of as participants and spectators. For me (and I'm not claiming my opinion is any more than a probable "No true HN person" fallacy), pe
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by bigiain 6d ago
It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that was purely automated based on 4chan organised Gamergater's dogpiling and looking exactly like voting rings and/or manufactured controversy.
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by bigiain 6d ago
I wouldn't be too surprised if the ranking system worked pretty much exactly as the article describes still. But I also assume the automated (and manual) penalty system has evolved significantly. I'll bet it's evolving rapidl
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by bigiain 6d ago
I wonder how many of the companies sending you those sort of emails are YC backed? (and how many of them are disgruntled founders who were rejected by YC?)
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by bigiain 7d ago
It's a pity GrapheneOS is allowing AI code contributions...
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by bigiain 7d ago
Australia also uses pspspsps - at least my part of it and my family and friends. (and for some Australians some of the time, "ps ps fuckin ps, ya cunting cat!" of course. ;- ) )
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by bigiain 7d ago
Your phone isn't going to have a "very high end HSM" any time soon. n Not until you're paying mid range car prices or more for your very specialised secure phone (and then that phone will probably be factory backdoored A
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by bigiain 7d ago
Same. I wonder if my Yubikeys have anything to mitigate this sort of attack. My gut feel says that at their pricepoint and form factor, probably not.
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by bigiain 7d ago
That's cynical, but without doubt true for some people. I wouldn't want to be someone the NSA is "interested in". I wouldn't even want to be someone that a customer of NSO Group is interested in. (Just ask Jamal Kas
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by bigiain 9d ago
We've beer-o-clock wargamed this a bit. If I had an "important enough" client, I think I'd store all out local (Sydney + Melbourne AWS cross region) data to AWS Singapore (to protect against Australian jurisdictional and
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by bigiain 9d ago
I'm comfortable enough with the Sydney and Melbourne AWS regions - about 700km (400 miles) apart and with (at least) 3 AZs in each. If something takes out enough AWS datacenters to lose some of work's or client data stored across
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by bigiain 9d ago
Isn't S3 claiming eleven nines of data durability? https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/ "Additionally, S3 stores data redundantly across a minimum of 3 Availability Zones by default, providing buil
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by bigiain 12d ago
I reckon there's a decent argument to be made that an authorization to scan *.tesla.com definitively does NOT extend to any hosts resolved via a CNAME chain that goes foo.tesla.com -> bah.not-tesla.com -> host-that-never-authoriz
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by bigiain 15d ago
I'm guessing that maybe 4 of them maintain that in their "20% time", while the 99,996 other engineers are: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." -Jeff Hammerbacher
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by bigiain 16d ago
They still run Macintosh System 7 with wireless AppleTalk, right?
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by bigiain 16d ago
I agree, but there's still a big "Why now?" question in my head. I suspect the board knows of something even more spectacularly stupid he's about to do.
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by bigiain 22d ago
leftpad
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by bigiain 24d ago
I was hoping for this to end with "I wrote emacs, and Karl wrote vi."
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by bigiain 26d ago
"Only works with Juicero brand C cells."
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by bigiain 1mo ago
There's a reasonable argument to be made that people who talk big game already dominate.
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by bigiain 1mo ago
Within her family friendly choice of language, she wasn't shy of making jokes about her own appearance: “I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she
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by bigiain 1mo ago
> we would have to assume the vendor's update server was compromised You say "compromised". I say "monetised". :sigh:
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by bigiain 1mo ago
Some guy, profiling his linux distro, wonders why ssh connections are a few hundred milliseconds slower than expected, finds there PR introduced and RCE backdoor and p0wns the whole project.
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by bigiain 1mo ago
> Why this word Because an AI company made their LLM "roll a dice" that was loaded in a specific way to choose that word, so they could claim ownership of your document later. :sigh:
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by bigiain 2mo ago
I wonder if that's the golden handcuffed founder equivalent of blinking out SOS in morse code?
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by bigiain 2mo ago
Yep. It can be power - see Reddit and Wikipedia mods - but it's usually money. And once VC fundraising is involved, it's pretty much always money.
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by bigiain 2mo ago
Every staff member with a ChatGPT account gets a complimentary promotion to CISO...
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by bigiain 2mo ago
I had a Timex Data Watch over 30 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink It'd transfer phone numbers and calendar entries to the watch by blinking the screen of your computer. Kinda a 1 pixel versi
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by bigiain 2mo ago
I remember asking a chippie (carpenter tradesman) a while back why he was using Ozito brand power tools (the cheapest Chinese brand from the local tool barn). He said "The good gear like Milwaukee and Makita last years. The cheap Chine
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by bigiain 2mo ago
Your legless manager in the daily Workrooms stand^h^h^h^h^floatup glares at you.

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