computersuck

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by computersuck 2y ago
That's not even a costume because she's definitely a wizard
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by computersuck 2y ago
Website not quite loading.. HN hug of death?
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by computersuck 2y ago
Mozilla's Anonym basically uses DRM-like blobs to track you and show ads
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by computersuck 2y ago
These practical problems make the project less feasible: 1. Making end applications implement your protocol (eg Facebook) makes it way harder to scale, simply because the enshittified big tech apps are unlikely to care. Now the apps will ha
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by computersuck 2y ago
It would be more useful to build a bluetooth mesh network (like what airtags already uses) to carry small pieces of information across long distances without internet access instead of having physical couriers that need to deliberately sto
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macOS Sequoia change breaks networking for VPN, antivirus software(bleepingcomputer.com)
8 points by computersuck 2y ago|0 comments
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by computersuck 2y ago
When there's no publicly known bug, someone needs to spend the time and effort to research it; when public POCs come out every skid cybercrime crew jumps on and starts exploiting it for financial gain.
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by computersuck 2y ago
It's about the barrier to entry and amount of effort to exploit something. When public information comes out about a vulnerability that can't be patched in a reasonable amount of time (due to EOL or some other reason), the bad act
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by computersuck 2y ago
Why would they do this? Knowing that any bugs found won't be patched since EOL, and will just be used for mass exploitation and harm?? Why is the cyber industry so desperately stupid for attention?
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by computersuck 2y ago
Because CTO Bryan Cantrill, who was a core contributor to illumos
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MIT CS Professor Tests AI's Impact on Educating Programmers(m.slashdot.org)
2 points by computersuck 2y ago|1 comments
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How the International Olympic Committee Fails Athletes(time.com)
2 points by computersuck 2y ago|0 comments
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Google Chrome will let you send money to your favourite website(bleepingcomputer.com)
27 points by computersuck 2y ago|13 comments
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Secrets are not a code security problem(trufflesecurity.com)
2 points by computersuck 2y ago|0 comments
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by computersuck 2y ago
Btw, DRM in this context stands for Direct Rendering Manager (man 7 drm) and not digital rights management. Took ages to figure out, I wish people would explain acronyms more often..
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by computersuck 2y ago
Single is referred here as "not married". Single and unmarried are completely different things.
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by computersuck 2y ago
Now imagine big saas companies hiring these 'scientists' / AI engineers at a large scale, ritualistically implementing features no one needs, without considering data bias, performance and environmental impact.. welcome to 20
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DARPA AI Cyber Security challenge rules [pdf](aicyberchallenge.com)
1 points by computersuck 2y ago|0 comments
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by computersuck 3y ago
Egypt now has a much bigger population than egypt then, and they are a very poor country Larger populations get significantly harder to manage and educate. 1 programmer can do in 1 month what 9 programmers can do in 9 months
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by computersuck 3y ago
Has nothing to do with 8-bit. Deep OS level knowledge can and should be taught starting from 64 bit (where most OSs run) and maybe tiny speck of 16 bit because most BIOS still runs on 16 bit intel It's about exposure to syscalls, C, as
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by computersuck 3y ago
Overcomplicated
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by computersuck 3y ago
This is some kind of Cory Doctorow dream come true
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by computersuck 3y ago
The modern equivalent of this is basically Obsidian and the "second brain" concept Not like chatgpt, which is a random garbage spewing agent leaving it to chance
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by computersuck 3y ago
"Vivid" is the javascript definition of touching shit when it works and breaking it
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by computersuck 3y ago
Is it google summer of code or some similar event right now? Looks like the most recent issues and PRs are just junk typo / grammar fixes
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by computersuck 3y ago
I don't. My productivity is just fine with bash To empower thinking in this information overload era, turn off your computer and start writing on paper