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by buffington 3y ago
I have about fifty private github repos and hundreds more public github repos (half of them forks of other public repos). I've verified that none of my private repos are in the dataset, and all of my public repos are. I was expecting t
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by buffington 3y ago
It's being read as both. See, the beauty in what we're now calling the joke, is that it's both a joke for those who know, and it's actual valid commentary that meets your expectations of this forum.
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by buffington 3y ago
I'm not invested enough to do the napkin math, but I wonder what costs more: ignoring security and paying the ransom, or investing in the right strategy to prevent being held ransom. If I consider my own experience in tech for the past
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by buffington 3y ago
If it's to watch a movie, why bother with the capture card at all? Why not throw together a way to stream the video from the Pi doing the text overlay to all the remote participants. Is the GP commenter suggesting that they'd like
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by buffington 3y ago
Can you describe what a "38-in-1" device is? Is it even a device?
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by buffington 3y ago
While it's not the same as what you're asking for, you could do this pretty easily with a Raspberry Pi. That feels like such an obvious thing to say that I hesitated even saying it, but then I started thinking about how funny it i
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by buffington 3y ago
I agree with your thoughts about the bus, but I started thinking about how many car brands started out selling practical cars, and now have, if not supercars, very high end sports cars - it's a lot of them. It's also kind of how A
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by buffington 3y ago
I have severe ADHD and know better than to assume anything about remote vs. in person preferences of other people.
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by buffington 3y ago
From a comment on the blog post: > iirc it's generated from a script in asterisk, with the delay and tone durations set "short" (I think it was the minimum EIA/TIA DTMF mark/space numbers, not sure.) > My phon
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by buffington 3y ago
I know! I thought all the jibberish was just to be silly, but no, it visually looks like the wave forms of the audio.
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by buffington 3y ago
Credential stuffing attacks are detectable and preventable, which is what you're describing. When detected (trivial with the right tools), you can then require users to reset their passwords for the suspected accounts (with the traditi
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by buffington 3y ago
There are many enterprise security tools that can detect compromised accounts. These tools monitor traffic and behavior and report or actively block traffic that doesn't look "normal." What looks "normal" depends on
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by buffington 3y ago
You disagree with what? The author's embarrassment? I'm not even being snarky - I honestly have no idea what you're trying to say.
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by buffington 3y ago
If the customer loses the key to the encrypted data, then it's useless to everyone , including bad actors. This is not what happened here. 23&Me exercised poor security. I deal with financial data for my job, (like, transactiona
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by buffington 3y ago
Or if a neo-Nazi firebombs your house, your cousin's house, your parents' house, and some guy who you didn't know was your uncle since he was given up for adoption, but was also Jewish. How do you correlate that to a data bre
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by buffington 3y ago
Are you saying you'd be ok a company leaking not just your sequenced DNA (and the avalanche of things that says about you), but who you're related to, by DNA?
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by buffington 3y ago
I feel like the author deserves a unique Hugo for their graciousness, all things considered.
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by buffington 3y ago
What do you suppose makes it harder to work on the Quest 3 than the AVP?
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by buffington 3y ago
I have the Quest 2 and the text isn't legible enough for me to write code for any length of time. I work with someone who has said "if the Quest 2 was a 0 on the usability scale, the Quest 3 is an easy 8 - it's that much bett
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by buffington 3y ago
Someone asking "what's your greatest weakness" style questions isn't typically looking for specifics - they're looking for reasons to disqualify you. There's also little value to the answer. You either learn th
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by buffington 3y ago
I keep remembering interviews with candidates where the candidate was the exact opposite of being like the arrogant candidate from the article. I don't recall the question that brought out this story, but the candidate was describing w
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by buffington 3y ago
I've interviewed candidates as arrogant as this, and they never make it. It does remind me of a candidate who did though, for the exact opposite sort of behavior. One of the people on my panel wasn't very creative, and asked the c
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by buffington 3y ago
I've interviewed hundreds of people, possibly closer to 1000, and can confirm: there are actually people like this. I once asked a candidate how DNS worked. It's something that even junior candidates for this role should have know
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by buffington 3y ago
Usually I deserve downvotes, but why would anyone downvote this?
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by buffington 3y ago
I have ADHD and I'd love to understand this. Can someone give a layperson's explanation of the abstract?
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by buffington 3y ago
I'm truly sorry this happened to you. I'll admit that I'm not as "plugged in" to what pop culture is pushing these days, so can't speak to that, but my own experience with cannabis puts it in a different light
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by buffington 3y ago
Am I right in seeing that the data referenced in that article was collected between 2001-2004? If so, I wonder how that compares to today. I suspect we'd see much higher numbers for data collected 2019-2023, given the pandemic and asso
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by buffington 3y ago
I'd be interested in reading about some of what you describe in more detail. Can you provide any links to things?
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by buffington 3y ago
It's totally reasonable that one can observe the many videos of the AVP in use and in many real world situations with plenty of evidence of "physical reactions and responses to the hardware," and draw their own conclusions ab
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by buffington 3y ago
It'd be fantastic, and I agree. I never said otherwise. I was simply offering examples of "normal" deductions that can easily change what you owe, and how those deductions aren't as uncommon as the person I was commentin

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