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by brbsix 11y ago
Of course they are profiting these (pirate) courses. Content creators with infringed content have already charted these waters. One creator had $7k+ of his (stolen) content sold. There were no refunds and Udemy refused to reimburse the crea
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by brbsix 11y ago
Wow that is scummy. Can't you do a chargeback?
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by brbsix 11y ago
How much would you have made (posting it on Udemy) after all was said and done? Pretty impressive to see such numbers on your first attempt. You must have been doing something right (or perhaps the company did a hell of a job promoting it).
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by brbsix 11y ago
^This. I cringe every time I hear someone say X is democratizing Y or that X is the "sharing economy". These are unregulated (near) monopoly markets. Craigslist was democratizing. "Freebie" mailing lists and swap meets a
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by brbsix 11y ago
Surveillance cameras constitute an "illegal eavesdropping operation", says Santa Ana Police Association. Sick. More and more you have to consider LE as the enemy when worrying about security (both physical and digital).
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by brbsix 11y ago
There were no GPS satellites in orbit in 1968. They don't appear to be remote controlled.
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by brbsix 11y ago
Interesting topic. I recall the first drone (or I suppose more accurately remote-controlled) aircraft crossed the Atlantic in the early 1920's. This is all off a poor recollection, but I seem to recall there were only a few simple comm
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by brbsix 11y ago
I only search based on pattern in the filename. So I was using find: -name '*something*' locate: --basename Or to search the cached find output: grep -P '(?<=/)[^/]*something[^/]*$' fi
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by brbsix 11y ago
I was incorrect. It does support other mounted filesystems, just not multiple root trees. As you suspected, `updatedb.conf` had /media in PRUNEPATH.
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find is great, just slow. I'm interested in some sort of solution that can scale.
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by brbsix 11y ago
The system `updatedb` job (that creates the database `locate` uses) only scans one root tree. This one root tree includes lots of random junk (basically your entire filesystem minus a few things) and does not support multiple filesystems&#x
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by brbsix 11y ago
Yes, this was one of the first things I tried. It cut down on the extremely long queries, but on average was about the same time if not longer. The cached output from find was hundreds of mB in total. Despite it's drawbacks, `mlocate`
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Ask HN: How to (instantly) search by filename in Linux?
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by brbsix 11y ago
This sort of "perk" (if you could call it that) sounds like a good indicator to stay far, far away. http://40.media.tumblr.com/800d5eb1d5b829b2943d3ee237ec1fc3/...
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by brbsix 11y ago
Wow, surprised to see Gingery books are still around! They got me started melting down aluminum cans with a coffee can charcoal furnace as a kid. I always wanted to build the lathe but never got around to it.
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by brbsix 11y ago
It certainly wouldn't have been called swatting. Prior to the 1990's, only large metro departments like the LAPD had SWAT teams. The Internet really is necessary for this sort of sustained attack to be successful. It requires a la
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by brbsix 11y ago
It's awesome to see the US Military (or more specifically, people who've studied at military schools) doing work in crypto and cyber-security, especially with all the effort on the part of civilian agencies to erode it.
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by brbsix 11y ago
Webpass is the best Internet service ever. I signed up as soon as our building got it, it was $50/mo then for the 100Mbs. Definitely worth it if you have the opportunity to live in a building that has it. Really straightforward website
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by brbsix 11y ago
Unfortunately I think this is the experience of most people in the U.S. At least in my adult life, the choice has mostly been between AT&T and Comcast. I was lucky to get 100Mbs for $50/mo for a while (obviously with a small ISP),
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by brbsix 11y ago
Can you elaborate on static type checking? Is this the type hinting a.k.a type annotations outlined in PEP 0484 or something else? What is this even useful for? Better documentation or integration with an IDE like PyCharm?
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by brbsix 11y ago
The only insidious issues I've encountered with porting apps have been related to Unicode as well. A lot of old Python 2 code is (what appears to me) very hackish compared to the elegance that is Python 3.
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by brbsix 11y ago
There is a library (and script) called 2to3 that automates code translation from Python 2 to 3. I wouldn't rely on it for my own projects, but I have seen a number of authors use it successfully (e.g. write their app in Python 2 and te
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by brbsix 11y ago
Cameras embedded in TVs? Apart from the Samsung "smart TVs" with an obvious camera that can be rolled in/out of use, are there really cameras on television sets? I've heard people talk about hidden cameras in set top box
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by brbsix 11y ago
Oh right, yes exactly... Though some of the "Anti-virus" apps are pretty good about identifying ad networks, so I suspect it's not a big problem to detect one way or another. Of course SilverPush could get pretty nefarious if
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by brbsix 11y ago
I'm not sure what you're referring to. An aapt dump shows the package name as 'SilverPush Demo App' (version 1.0.3). It appears the same in the app drawer. If you mean the class files, then yes they are obfuscated. ProGu
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by brbsix 11y ago
Below is just a little bit of relevant source from the demo app. As you can see it certainly appears to be listening for audio beacons. Now the interesting part would be to find an easy way to determine which other apps are using this.
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by brbsix 11y ago
Yeah I'm looking over it right now... I'll see what I can find out, if anything.
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by brbsix 11y ago
I'm a little dumbfounded that someone who works for SilverPush is soliciting StackOverflow for help integrating the their own SDK within an app. Anyways... Here's the (clean) link to com.silverpush.sdk: https://www.drop
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by brbsix 11y ago
Sorry about that. I've had problems with Dropbox removing APKs in the past. Tusfiles is very lenient with that sort of thing but clearly there's a downside I hadn't noticed (ad block was enabled).
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by brbsix 11y ago
Nope. Tempting as it was, I just ended up using Disqus. :)

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