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by controversial97 3y ago
Lots of people and small companies just buy a windows laptop and are unaware that the harddrive/ssd is encrypted with bitlocker. People who avoid making a Microsoft account to log on to a windows computer, or who don't have access
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by controversial97 3y ago
Another write up from 2021 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/how-to-go-from-stole... One aspect of this is that some laptop manufacturers provide a setting to erase the TPM if the laptop is opened. You
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by controversial97 3y ago
Perhaps you are thinking of https://alterslash.org/
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by controversial97 3y ago
"KC" being King's Council, which in the UK legal system is a person who is a very expensive highly qualified lawyer who act in cases in the higher courts. They were called Queen's council until the Queen died.
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by controversial97 3y ago
If you have a local hackerspace you can turn up for open evening or post on their mailing list/forum.
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by controversial97 3y ago
This number is from a statistical study.
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by controversial97 3y ago
Facebook was given six months to stop sending Europeans personal data to the USA under a recent ruling. I saw this headline and expected "meltdown day" to be around the 14th of October 2023 when the six months runs out, unless eff
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by controversial97 3y ago
"This subreddit was banned due to being unmoderated." This just means that whoever had control of the subreddit has deleted their account or not logged in for 90 days. It happens automatically to prevent abandoned subreddits from
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by controversial97 3y ago
Also, Risk. If you are an employee and you unintentionally screw something up then you may get fired. As a contractor, if you type a command in the wrong ssh session and take down the production system you may get sued, at which point it re
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by controversial97 3y ago
Related: Don't run strings on untrusted binaries https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/10/psa-dont-run-strings-on...
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by controversial97 3y ago
Update: nitter has stopped working
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by controversial97 3y ago
Update: nitter has stopped working
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by controversial97 3y ago
Yes, use a nitter instance. https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances Searching for twitter usernames isn't working, use the tweet search tab or type a twitter username on the end of the url. If it says "This
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by controversial97 3y ago
Nitter is still working, although searching for users seems to have stopped working you can still use the tweet search tab or manually type a twitter username on the end of the URL. List of nitter instances: https://github.com&#x
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by controversial97 3y ago
One of my daydreams is for some entity to decide to spend a few billion dollars and five years making a new operating system that runs useful windows software about as well as windows 10 and uses existing windows drivers. I would not mind i
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by controversial97 3y ago
This reminds of edonkey, a filesharing program launched in the year 2000. A deficiency in the protocol results in clients on a ip with a zero last octet being unable to receive incoming connections, which means clients can exchange data wit
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by controversial97 3y ago
To me "managed hosting" means that the people you pay deal with things like applying operating system updates, security updates and providing functional databases. If you are willing to be a sysadmin and keeping up with promptly u
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by controversial97 3y ago
I'm really sceptical about how well this could work. The 2.4GHz band is very busy. Every town has thousands of wifi access points transmitting beacon frames nine times a second. Every town has microwave ovens that leak a couple of watt
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by controversial97 3y ago
There is a bit more information in mission statement. https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=dlattach;... A ground station at 10000 feet altitude on the mountain on the island of Maui, surrounded by ocean may ha
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by controversial97 3y ago
https://archive.is/u3ZxC
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by controversial97 3y ago
It is expected to be at an altitude of between 465 km and 500 km. That means that from where you happen to be on the earths surface it will be above the horizon and in radio range once or twice a day for 30 seconds to a couple of minutes de
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by controversial97 3y ago
https://archive.is/61a0o
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by controversial97 3y ago
Here is an article that does a better job of explaining how this will increase the amount of federal taxes paid by businesses in California: https://www.ocregister.com/2023/03/27/california-had-a-97-5-... It
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by controversial97 3y ago
https://archive.is/3OJsw
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by controversial97 3y ago
At six months from graduation your best option is to push through the hard parts and get the degree. It does not matter if you do a thesis on one thing then end up working doing something else, that happens to lots of people. Finding a job
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by controversial97 4y ago
In September 2020, most of the source code for windows XP and server 2003 was on a torrent. That leak did not include winlogin and some drivers. A couple of people compiled it. Here is a video of compiling the windows 2003 source code on an
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by controversial97 4y ago
So ... it is a fork of Mozilla Firefox with privacy-friendly settings by default, some script blocking, and dns lookups done via Mullvads encrypted dns service Sounds ok to me, I have a longish and probably out of date list of settings that
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by controversial97 4y ago
The linked website is ipv6 only. If it does not load you are probably using an ipv4 only ISP. Also, it's an April 1st joke.
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by controversial97 4y ago
https://archive.is/pe8MY
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by controversial97 4y ago
The torrent is 224GB total, a load of 13 to 16GB .pth files

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