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by blincoln 6y ago
It's for the best. A phonebook is a single list compiled by one organization. DNS is more like asking a librarian for information on a subject, and the librarian handing back a reference book. The librarian may or may not know anything
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by blincoln 6y ago
> You want oil soaked into the metal. Is there solid evidence that this is actually possible, as opposed to creating a layer on top of it? The only people I've ever heard suggest that it's possible were talking about cast iron
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by blincoln 6y ago
There's a writeup here that you may be interested in, if you haven't seen it already: https://toughsf.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-expanses-epstein-dr... The author suggests creating a fusion reaction well b
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by blincoln 6y ago
Does Zapata's turbine flyboard use a line to the surface? I haven't seen one in videos. The more common flyboards that pump water from the ocean or a lake up into the jets and then back down obviously do.
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by blincoln 6y ago
I did a bit more research, and found that it wasn't an official SolarWinds GitHub repo. It seems to have been an employee's personal repo containing company code that they accidentally made public.[1] The original URL of the file
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by blincoln 6y ago
I'm actually really curious now if the GitHub repo where the password was found was the initial cause of the breach. The article doesn't make this clear, but the original Twitter post[1] does: it was a password that allowed FTP up
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by blincoln 6y ago
I used to do this in Seattle with a DSL connection. The physical link was through Qwest (now CenturyLink), but the ISP was Avvanta (formerly blarg.net) so that I could host services from my home. Looks like still offer that option, although
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by blincoln 6y ago
> Hossenfelder doesn't claim that all the experts are wrong. "In his book, Hawking painted a neat picture for black hole evaporation that is now widely used. [...]. It’s simple, it’s intuitive, and it’s wrong."[1] When I r
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by blincoln 6y ago
> In this particular post, she referenced causality in one sentence Yes, precisely. She made an extraordinary claim, as if it were a minor footnote, instead of "every mainstream description of relativity is wrong in this very fundam
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by blincoln 6y ago
I'm also very curious about the opinions of other physicists. Dr. Hossenfelder seems to have a lengthy, strong background in physics. On the other hand, every time I read one of her transcripts, I see something along the lines of the &
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by blincoln 6y ago
(c) ("caustic design" or "caustic engineering") is fascinating to me. I'd never heard of this before, and it looks like it can even be done with real-world materials: https://lgg.epfl.ch/publications
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by blincoln 6y ago
Shodan (or anyone else) can't really get an authoritative count of live IPv6 devices of any kind, because the address space is too big to scan using brute force. They had (have?) a clever semi-workaround for this, by getting themselves
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by blincoln 6y ago
It may also be obscure enough that no one has noticed. Voice can probably be compressed using a lossy algorithm pretty heavily before it becomes useless for keyword matching. Maybe there's some sort of de-duping, and unique results are
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by blincoln 6y ago
The objects in the Navy footage behave basically the same as the WWII-era "foo fighters" that the article mentions. Seems me that this eliminates the "advanced aircraft built by humans" explanation. I also think it'
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by blincoln 6y ago
FWIW, it seems similar in the Seattle area. Lots of people moving out of the big cities. I assume it's a combination of being able to work from home and people no longer being able to afford their incredibly expensive in-city homes due
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by blincoln 6y ago
Most of the people who will use malicious signals won't set out to actually hurt other people. They'll just use them to make tailgaters' cars brake quickly, or manipulate traffic in some way that benefits them, like the peopl
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by blincoln 6y ago
So the attack will then be to hook into the car's on-board computer and tell it to send the falsified message with a fake plate number, and let the existing cryptographic code handle the signing. Alternatively, dump a legit cert once (
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by blincoln 6y ago
Are there any existing FHE algorithms with that property, or is it just a theoretical goal for the field? Every time I've heard FHE mentioned, I've had the same "this sounds like it has all the problems of ECB mode plus some
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by blincoln 6y ago
This is just an anecdote, but in 1998-1999, the iMacs we bought where I worked were the first desktop systems I worked with that used USB[1]. My PC at the time used PS/2 for the keyboard and mouse, SCSI for external storage, a PC joyst
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by blincoln 6y ago
If it was decoding a broadcast signal, how could the unique serial number of an individual decoder play any useful part in the decryption key? I didn't see any discussion of this in the article. Sorry if I missed it.
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by blincoln 6y ago
Blender is a truly fantastic tool, but some of the scripting is a bit hacky, IMO. I recently built some pretty complex Blender automation[1], and my experience was that while technically nearly everything that can be done in the UI can be a
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by blincoln 6y ago
Yeah, I don't recommend buying domains with trademarks in them, even for research (or similar) purposes. I registered a domain name with a client's trademarked name in it as part of an authorized penetration test of that client a
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by blincoln 6y ago
I'm really curious, because I tried something similar maybe 5-10 years ago with a moderately powerful Linux system, and it couldn't support more than 2 USB cameras recording simultaneously. What were the hardware specs on the PC l
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by blincoln 6y ago
> It's certainly not something you can simplify down to just the component sinusoids. Anything a human can perceive as sound can be simplified down to just the component sine waves. > You can say we perceive things as if they wer
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by blincoln 6y ago
> Symmetrical clipping and square waves both create odd-order harmonics (3x, 5x, 7x, 9x, etc) which are very unnatural. What do you mean by "unnatural"? A clarinet has mostly odd harmonics[1], for example. Clarinets don't
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by blincoln 6y ago
It's especially interesting to me because (as the article points out), it doesn't require any really exotic equipment or skills to build one. I'm a little surprised no one built one long before helium-neon lasers.
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by blincoln 6y ago
I'm really happy it was posted here, since I've never heard of this effect. Do you have some further reading on the "not useful or reliable" aspect? This site, for example, lists multiple applications for them: http:&#x
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by blincoln 6y ago
It's not that hard to get ahold of reasonably high-powered lasers. IIRC, one of the ones he used was ordered direct from China, sold as a tattoo remover. If you decide to experiment with them, please be very careful, and buy proper eye
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by blincoln 7y ago
It may be worth looking into further, but the section near the end of this very long article that recommends quack treatment websites really calls into question the quality of the rest of it and the motivations of the authors, if you ask me
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by blincoln 7y ago
UV LEDs probably won't do much against cameras. You want NIR, around 700-800nm. Security cameras are generally sensitive to it, unlike UV.

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