bsamuels

7 ms·

31.
by bsamuels 4y ago
Attacks coming from the same IP address are literally kids just running port scanners. Blocking individual IP addresses has never been a valid mitigation against professional attackers. Attackers will just pivot to renting a different botne
32.
by bsamuels 4y ago
Attackers are using hacked IoT devices to do these attacks. These devices have roughly the same computing power as a mid level smartphone. Attackers do not use their own hardware, and don't care about how much energy is used by their b
33.
by bsamuels 4y ago
Every tech company is losing the war against credential stuffing. I have a friend working at a series B startup with <10k MAU, you wanna know how many login attempts there are each month? 25,000 login attempts. Per user. That's 250m
34.
by bsamuels 4y ago
Shame that this was flagged; engineers at social media companies should face the reality they've created and profited off of.
35.
by bsamuels 4y ago
Are you seriously going to grandstand whether the word "smart contract" can include non-turing-complete runtimes? No, Bitcoin does not have smart contracts. It has a limited scripting environment that you can't do much with o
36.
by bsamuels 4y ago
If you ask any engineer outside the BTC cult if bitcoin script and the EVM is comparable, they would say no.
37.
by bsamuels 5y ago
it's up to whoever created it. there's good permanent storage solutions out there like arweave, but if you're just trying to grift people, imgur should be fine.
38.
by bsamuels 5y ago
Seems a little silly since one wouldn't expect most laymen to understand how TLS works, but enjoy: https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/12/05/zksnarks-in-a-nutshell/
39.
by bsamuels 5y ago
looks like there must be some serious differences in methodology between these 2 sources. sfchronicle has the overdose death rate for: SF at 61 per 100k Humboldt at 31 per 100k Cited from Cali Dept of public health CountryHealthRankings has
40.
by bsamuels 5y ago
San Francisco has the second highest overdose rate in the US behind Harris County. Please be more careful when sharing information. https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/san-francisco-drug...
41.
by bsamuels 5y ago
about half of these concerns evaporate if you just use a hardware wallet. web3 will almost certainly never achieve its goals if hardware wallet adoption isn't ubiquitous. if you want to lever criticism, criticize how expensive hardware
42.
by bsamuels 5y ago
It's really easy to sound smart when criticizing something, and HN promotes content that sounds smart. I used to play a drinking game with friends where we would read HN submission titles and try to guess how the top comment was going
43.
by bsamuels 5y ago
im pretty sure it's not a blurry line between teenagers doing scantily clad dances and literal child abuse imagery
44.
by bsamuels 5y ago
There's a lot of uninformed takes in this thread, but this really takes the cake. There is literally nobody in the Ethereum space who sees MEV as anything other than rent extraction. Flashbots' mission is for MEV to disappear. The
45.
by bsamuels 5y ago
> I need to make a general remark to people who are evaluating (and/or) planning to introduce anti-bot software on their websites. Anti-bot software is nonsense. Its snake oil sold to people without technical knowledge for heavy buc
46.
by bsamuels 5y ago
probably as a static page hosted on arweave
47.
by bsamuels 5y ago
Social consensus should _always_ override rule of law. Society is not formed around people's relationship with the law, it's based on people's relationship with each other. The hard fork required social consensus to trump rul
48.
by bsamuels 5y ago
If I could go back, single cluster. Any benefits you get from going multi-cluster can be achieved by configuring a single cluster correctly.
49.
by bsamuels 5y ago
Bug bounty prizes are set to encourage a certain quantity of bugs to be reported. If you offer 10x as much, your triage channels will get overwhelmed and you'll have to deal with a bunch of hostile researchers and development teams who
50.
by bsamuels 5y ago
the size of the fee is a function of 1) the amount of data you wish to store and 2) the estimated cost of storing the weave between the current time and the end of the storage period ("forever" is actually assumed to be about 200
51.
by bsamuels 5y ago
the fee pays into an endowment. the endowment is only paid out to miners if the block reward in USD terms is too low to justify storing the full weave.
52.
by bsamuels 5y ago
Miners technically do have seigniorage authority since they can collectively decide to change the underlying cryptocurrency. Miner's de facto control of the network is a huge problem. It's why Bitcoin will never solve its energy u
53.
by bsamuels 5y ago
Tesla's FSD is a complete fraud. Musk has been saying it's less than a year away since 2018 https://youtu.be/antLneVlxcs?t=639 https://youtu.be/antLneVlxcs?t=725 https://youtu.be/a
54.
by bsamuels 5y ago
white and black is an artifact of the American caste system. It has meaning to you because you are an American, it is the system you live in. In Europe, it does not have meaning. blackness and whiteness is not a thing in the way it is in Am
55.
by bsamuels 5y ago
By far the biggest missing control is you can't restrict access to google secrets manager by source CIDR. There were a bunch of other smaller nitpicks, but that was the overwhelming reason last time I looked at it.
56.
by bsamuels 5y ago
Here's to hoping there's finally a Hashicorp Vault competitor. It's shocking that the only mature option for runtime secret delivery is Vault after all these years. Some companies have created 'competitors', but the
57.
by bsamuels 6y ago
Based on how outlandish the GW setup is, this is definitely a bank. It could conceivably belong to a defense organization, but if it did, they wouldn't be able to write up a blog about their findings.
58.
by bsamuels 6y ago
A lot of the problem in the US has to do with the petrodollar system. OPEC has only been allowed to accept US dollars for their oil since the 70s. That generates massive demand for dollars outside the US. Foreign countries obtain the dollar
59.
by bsamuels 6y ago
the whole file is still there until it gets overwritten by new data
60.
by bsamuels 6y ago
they don't replace the battery when they perform battery service, they just replace the airpod entirely.

More ›