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by blincoln 5y ago
Couldn't it be hidden underground (or in a mountain/large hill), with something like a ring shaped trench or slit leading to the launch aperture? Basically a big, camouflaged version of WWI/WWII-style concrete coastal gun emp
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by blincoln 5y ago
Maybe it's from back before Windows had a built-in TCP/IP stack? If it were a third-party/optional driver, having files related to it in a path under system32\drivers would make sense.
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by blincoln 5y ago
I don't know how common it is, but a lot of the English writing I've seen from years gone by was written using extremely long continuous sentences.[1][2] I find it hard to parse some of it, because of having to mentally maintain s
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by blincoln 5y ago
Most of it is safe to have in a display case. I have an antique uranium glass photo filter that's hot enough that I keep it in a metal box. All of the pieces I have put out enough beta radiation to easily detect. I don't have an a
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by blincoln 5y ago
I ran into this a few weeks ago with a PR I submitted. Auto-closed as stale after ten days after no interaction with a human. As someone who's been on both sides of writing and using software, this is not a good way to encourage people
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by blincoln 5y ago
> My brain keeps telling me that the words I would search for would show up in the content even if they're used in a template. Thats exactly how I read the description of the original problem. The issue template says something like
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by blincoln 5y ago
Most cultures have a wide variety of opinions. If someone wants to wear clothing associated with another culture, should they listen to the people saying "no, that's just for us", or the ones saying "we like seeing our i
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by blincoln 5y ago
> Alternatively, they were shaped by hand, though I'd expect them to be smoother if that were the case. Maybe they were a way of marking the passage of time in one's life? If the owners made a tiny amount of progress toward a s
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by blincoln 5y ago
I also really appreciated the software archaeology, and the projection forward of what were then common ways of communicating on the internet (Usenet, etc.) into the distant future where they might actually make sense again due to the trans
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by blincoln 5y ago
The asterisks for Australia and New Zealand indicate that mail sent using "Priority Mail Express International" (the service that essentially the entire rest of the world outside the US calls "EMS") is still going throug
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by blincoln 5y ago
Google does similar things with files stored in the corporate G-Drive product, which is supposed to be a replacement for on-premise file servers (i.e. there is likely no other copy of the data). At a previous job, we had a forensic image of
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by blincoln 5y ago
There aren't very many syscalls in Linux - 335 for x86_64[1], 190 for i386[2], etc. I tend to like GUIDs, but AFAIK it would cause a massive backward-compatibility problem to switch to something other than an integer. If I'm readi
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by blincoln 5y ago
I wonder how Teflon (PTFE) compares to this stuff. In the DIY multispectral photography community, a lot of people use it as a reference material because not only is it pure white to our eyes, it also reflects (diffusely) UV-A, UV-B, and SW
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by blincoln 5y ago
I interpreted that one (perhaps too charitably) as being about business logic flaws, design decisions that are inherently dangerous, that sort of thing. i.e. most of the other things on the list are issues that were introduced unintentional
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by blincoln 5y ago
Network firewalls don't usually work well as a strong control in this scenario, because if the application is hosted in AWS (or GCP, Azure, etc.) then IP addresses of the systems the app is connecting to are constantly changing, can nu
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by blincoln 5y ago
There are a lot of information security discussions that only take place on Twitter, so it's kind of a self-perpetuating situation. The entire reason I signed up for a Twitter account, after something like 5 years of refusing to do so,
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by blincoln 5y ago
That's a much shorter wavelength part of the spectrum than thermal imagers operate in, even though it's also infrared. CCDs pick up the kind of infrared that IR remote controls use.
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by blincoln 5y ago
I'm not very familiar with the Tu-160, so I'm curious to hear your opinion. It seems like it was a Soviet success at building something like North American attempted (unsuccessfully) with the XB-70. I'm not suggesting it was
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by blincoln 5y ago
I wonder if their ears are physically more resistant to hearing damage than ours, or if they're just guaranteed to go deaf as they age.
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by blincoln 5y ago
I don't use this specific WD product, but I've had some other network devices automatically and silently add port-forwarding rules to my router using uPnP, even though I never planned to access them from the internet. Maybe that&#
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by blincoln 5y ago
The research paper this article is based on covers a pretty broad spectrum of political (pro- and anti-Erdoğan), and non-political topics in Turkey. I always assume that probably 95% or more of accounts on Twitter are fake, based on my expe
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by blincoln 5y ago
A few possibilities I can think of: - Trying to figure out commonly-mistyped domain names in order to buy them for ad placement. - Trying to obtain confidential information that's accidentally pasted into the address bar. - Trying to o
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by blincoln 6y ago
Historically, Cellebrite devices included exploit code that could unlock most types of phone.[1] I don't know how well modern versions of iOS and Android are supported in that regard. [1] https://www.wired.com/story&#x2
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by blincoln 6y ago
Yes, this. I originally learned how to build accessible web sites and apps in 1996,when I interned at a startup. Most web standards make it easy to implement accessibility. It's generally only when building complex, custom stuff that i
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by blincoln 6y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. I agree with him that if the SVR specifically targeted a particular organization with a specific goal in mind, it wouldn't really matter if they had weak passwords or not. OTOH, I think it's not o
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by blincoln 6y ago
No. Please see my other post in this thread. I'm struggling to think of a non-technical analogy, but basically what's going on here is that most data-copying tools, when used in the most common ways, are looking at CD-ROMs like th
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by blincoln 6y ago
Because depending on what level the software is operating at, it may not even be aware of the correct data, and the file format used to store the image might not be capable of representing it accurately. I'm simplifying here somewhat f
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by blincoln 6y ago
Any time CDs/CD-ROMs (as opposed to DVDs) are discussed, I get really nervous unless someone explicitly confirms that the tool being used handles XA/2352-bytes-per-sector data correctly. Supposedly cdrdao will.[1] DVDs are for the
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by blincoln 6y ago
I've read about people getting cataract surgery and ending up with UV sensitivity due to the material some older synthetic implants were made from, so I always assumed artificial corneas weren't uncommon.[1] I've actually kin
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by blincoln 6y ago
But it's not. Only the first tier of servers is managed by a central authority. Everything else is delegated to tiers further down the tree.

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