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by darkhelmet 4y ago
The tech behind SMR is intriguing to me, but I really don't want it anywhere near data that I consider important. A lot of folks don't realize that SMR drives have a lot more in common with SSD firmware with its emulated virtual b
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by darkhelmet 4y ago
Ever noticed that Epic does a ``good deed'' right about when they get a bad PR hit? Call me cynical, but I'm sure that Epic would really like for everybody to talk about something else than the quarter of a billion dollar pen
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by darkhelmet 4y ago
Likewise. I've always insisted on building from in-house copies of external dependencies for precisely this kind of scenario. It astonishes me the number of people who didn't get why. Having things like docker rate-limiting&#x2
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by darkhelmet 4y ago
Think about it from the point of view of a manufacturer/distributor. Speculating a little: Suppose you decided to carry them and they cost more, both from a material perspective and a reduced repeat customer perspective. Cheap competi
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by darkhelmet 4y ago
Don't underestimate the value of checking all the security compliance check boxes. It solves what really matters - protecting executives from prosecution and/or being dragged in front of Congress to testify. <sarcasm off>
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by darkhelmet 4y ago
Tip: You can bulk export your google authenticator app secrets for a disaster recovery like this. I had not seen this functionality before but I'm glad it existed when setting up a new phone yesterday. I remember the old high fricti
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by darkhelmet 4y ago
It seems to be increasingly widespread and is not just the Music/iTunes ecosystem. For example, the Home app and HomeKit situation is also unreliable. People's devices suddenly disappear from their Home app on bigger installation
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by darkhelmet 4y ago
Unfortunately, this issue lowers the bar for exploiting a months-old vulnerability. The older ongoing problem is that any person can create a new Experian account with a new email address, and answer a few credit-related quiz to take over
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by darkhelmet 4y ago
I remember trying to download an archive of my email a few years ago. Hah, that was fun. I had a number of tries but each time the archive it gave me had between 20% to 50% of the total email messages. It's been unreliable for years.
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by darkhelmet 4y ago
How? The same as you would if the farmer providing retail-ready carrots didn't exist. In California's case the grid generation capacity was made up of nuclear (fixed base load), natural gas for dynamic load, and solar/other
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by darkhelmet 4y ago
To extend the metaphor a little, the farmer would be bringing in carrots in a ready-to-sell condition and putting them directly in the Safeway stores on the retail shelves. That's a little different than forcing Safeway to pick them up
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by darkhelmet 4y ago
First, there was X10. There was appetite for something better. There were several candidate replacements, including: * UPB - Universal Powerline Bus (powerline) * Insteon (powerline + wireless) * Z-Wave (wireless) * Zigbee (wireless) Of t
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by darkhelmet 4y ago
Yes, this is one of the concerns. In theory a browser addon should take a while for the bad guys to update and publish, but are the existing addons downloading and using server-provided JS? One would hope not, but that's hardly a saf
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by darkhelmet 4y ago
I miss Insteon. I know it's kinda-sorta-maybe-alive again but we'll see. Insteon was simple and mostly just worked. Even my wife saw the benefit of the thing.
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by darkhelmet 4y ago
Companies like Google rely heavily on AI and automation and keep humans out of the loop to the extent possible. Once the models detect these sort of photos, they won't be stopping. If they don't add a permanent exception then the
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by darkhelmet 4y ago
Perhaps her account credentials were compromised? Somebody could have used the web API to run a spam/abuse campaign.
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by darkhelmet 5y ago
There's also https://fraidyc.at/ which provides a browser extension. It's an easy way to do exactly what the OP was doing and for more than just twitter.
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by darkhelmet 5y ago
I've been using ZFS since circa 2008, but it's a tradeoff. If I want no-worries and I don't want to be surprised by data loss, I use ZFS. If I want speed with data I can afford to lose, I use something else (ufs, ext4, xfs, t
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by darkhelmet 5y ago
At Yahoo, there was a tool that did in-place OS upgrades for FreeBSD, but you're right - in most cases, people installed whatever was current of the day and then relied on yinst to make it work. ybsdupgrade did work and was mostly a n
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by darkhelmet 5y ago
You are correct. This is widely copy/pasted bad advice and does the exact opposite of what the comment says. It is not an idle timeout logout at all. Instead, it causes sshd to periodically send probes to the client. This has a coup
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by darkhelmet 5y ago
It amazes me how much time has passed since then. I would have to go and look up the history and events to remember what order things happened. However, with my FreeBSD hat on, it should be pointed out that we had this wonderful fellow cal
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by darkhelmet 5y ago
Precisely this. And I realize it's not the same around the world, but recurring payments get really bad in large parts of the world. If you, the customer, want to cancel a recurring payment and you're using ApplePay, it's on
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by darkhelmet 5y ago
It is easily blocked with ublock origin. Custom rule: ! 8/7/2020 https://medium.com medium.com###credential_picker_container
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by darkhelmet 6y ago
A slightly less drastic option than quitting is to go into a passive, readonly mode and keep a safe distance. I use https://fraidyc.at/ Seriously, it's a thing. You can still follow public social media streams that y
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by darkhelmet 6y ago
It's not even the first IPv8. There was an IPv8 doing the rounds in the late 1990's for a while. I had some trouble finding references, but I think this is the sanitized version: https://tools.ietf.org/html/d
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by darkhelmet 6y ago
Technically, you can on an iPhone too, just not for free and not anywhere near as conveniently. There were various tools in circulation while there were no decent Jailbreaks. One that springs to mind was iReSign - according to its github p
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by darkhelmet 6y ago
That's the one. In traditional BSD kernels, there is a portable layer and a machine dependent layer. The cpu MD layer for context switching was called cpu_switch(), usually written in assembler. It saved the current state and switch
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by darkhelmet 6y ago
I added panic("I'm a teapot!"); to the FreeBSD kernel, many many years ago (sys/kern/kern_thread.c). It was for an impossible, cannot-happen scenario. Much to my astonishment/amusement, it did.
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by darkhelmet 6y ago
I have memories of this sort of thing going on back in the early 2000s with DirecTV access cards. One of the methods was to glitch the access card processor during bootup by pulsing and otherwise messing with the power. IIRC, it could be
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by darkhelmet 7y ago
We had a situation like this at work. My username was very common and got locked on our ssh proxies like clockwork with just the routine background internet scanning. I couldn't get any traction with getting this fixed. We had har

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