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by controversial97 4y ago
Believed to not be exploitable. Roughly four months from the bug being created to a fix being released.
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by controversial97 4y ago
No mention that 64bit ntp time will roll over in the year 2036, 32bit unix time will overflow in 2038 and the next GPS week rollover is in 2038. The year 2038 is fifteen years from now.
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by controversial97 4y ago
Backblaze has stated in a blog post that they purchase drives in large quantities direct from manufacturers and negotiate for good prices. Backblaze says that a model of drive which is significantly cheaper and somewhat less reliable can be
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by controversial97 4y ago
In my opinion, the value of assets in the USA going up is driven by the US government creating astronomical amounts of new money and that is very unlikely to stop in the next couple of years.
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by controversial97 4y ago
https://archive.ph/jmTzT
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by controversial97 4y ago
You met my mother?
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by controversial97 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI-Apple_encryption_dispute Part of it is the time that the FBI wanted Apple to create custom firmware to allow unlimited attempts to enter a PIN number.
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by controversial97 4y ago
According to news reports, in April 2022, they had a smartphone app called e-enemy, which was used by any random person to report sightings and locations of Russian forces.
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by controversial97 4y ago
Here is the Tom Scott video about this elevator system from five years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdTsbFS4xmI
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by controversial97 4y ago
In the UK children do some GCSE subject around age 14 to 16. They get some choice of subjects such as choosing geography or history. At 16, they have options. They can stay at school and do some A-level subjects of their choice. They can le
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by controversial97 4y ago
The media may not lie often, but they continuously deceive.
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by controversial97 4y ago
A dozen year old PC with ECC ram and a low-performance video card. It would make sense to replace it with something that uses less electricity, but the requirement for ECC ram limits the options.
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by controversial97 4y ago
There are reasons that e-commerce websites are behind cloudflare and put ip blocks in place: "The website is being ddosed, a criminal in China has sent us an email demanding a bitcoin payment to stop." "Ugh, fine put it behin
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by controversial97 4y ago
There is also the issue that the average temperature on Mars is -60 celsius. Keeping humans alive on Mars would require nuclear power sources much larger then any that have been flung into space so far. If you are thinking of solar power th
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by controversial97 4y ago
I'v never used spotify but I imagine part of the problem was that when they launched in 2006 there were lots of people using windows 98 and windows ME on single-core 233MHz cpus and dialup internet.
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by controversial97 4y ago
In Europe and the UK, there is still 2G service, with the exception of Switzerland. 3G is going away long before 2G.
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by controversial97 4y ago
Also, until around the year 2012, if you wanted https to work for the people using random outdated browsers, you needed a unique ip address for each domain name. Cheap web hosting companies usually charged a monthly fee for each ip address.
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by controversial97 4y ago
This was all going to go to Microsoft, then Amazon somehow got that cancelled by suing.
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by controversial97 4y ago
UHF CB in Australia and New Zealand is similar to GMRS radio in the USA and Canada.
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by controversial97 4y ago
Not me, I'v had much less contact with groups of random people. Months ago I went to an event in a poorly ventilated pub basement, several days later I developed symptoms and had a positive covid test a couple of days after that. In pa
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by controversial97 4y ago
Twitter used to allow account names that are one character long or longer. They now have a 5 character minimum length so I presume a load of unused short account names will be deleted and won't be available to re-register.
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by controversial97 4y ago
related https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/security-alarm...
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by controversial97 4y ago
Can you give some more detail of what you want to achieve? Are you looking for a software developer? What specific skills or knowledge do you think a "Raspberry Pi Magician" has?
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by controversial97 4y ago
A related thing to watch out for is that a new Dell laptop may have the harddrive encrypted with bitlocker, it you don't attach it to a microsoft account then you may later find you have no way of retrieving the bitlocker key so if it
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by controversial97 4y ago
You can read twitter without being logged in and without any nagging by using nitter, just choose one of the many nitter instances https://xnaas.github.io/nitter-instances/
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by controversial97 4y ago
Posted two days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33569719
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by controversial97 4y ago
I have a Plustek Opticbook 3600 which is an old model that can be found on ebay. I used it on a windows 7 machine. It is tolerable for a small number of books. Scanning a thousand pages is an ordeal that you will not be keen to repeat. I sp
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by controversial97 4y ago
I like to have thousands of browser tabs open and use virtual machines so the time for 32GB of RAM was about six years ago when I could get fairly-cheap used RAM from ebay.
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by controversial97 4y ago
Musk has sold lots of "full self drive" packages for $6000 to $15000 and I think it is likely that either a court or the California Department of Motor Vehicles will order Tesla to give full refunds. A class action lawsuit was fil
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by controversial97 4y ago
Also there is gotenna who are burning a pile of venture capital money doing some sort of radio mesh thing.

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