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by dhx 5y ago
I like the simulation video at [1] which shows how a low head dam works in various conditions and how the risk can change dramatically depending on water flow, velocity, sediment levels or obstructions changing in a river. Note the hydrauli
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by dhx 5y ago
What is the benefit of mentoring or guiding less experienced workers through new tasks in person as opposed to remotely with voice calls and screen sharing / live multi-user document editing / similar real time collaboration tools
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by dhx 6y ago
Up-top-date Fedora Rawhide shows: dnf repoquery --whatdepends gtk4-0:4.1.2-1.fc35.x86_64 breeze-gtk-gtk4-0:5.21.3-1.fc35.noarch fcitx5-gtk4-0:5.0.4-1.fc35.x86_64 gnome-chess-0:40~alpha-1.fc35.x86_64 gnome-extensions-app-0:40.0~rc-1.fc35.x86
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by dhx 6y ago
According to Wikipedia the annual budget per employee at CSE calculates to be approximately USD$220,000/employee, which would be far less than the cost of hiring a typical NSA contractor[1]. This of course assumes that CSE doesn't
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by dhx 6y ago
If I search for "Victorians Expecting The Very Worst After Dan Andrews Spotted Making A North Face Run" using google.com.au[1], the first result is for an article of The Betoota Advocate[2], which is indeed what I had searched for
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by dhx 6y ago
I think one of the best parts of this game are some of the unique multiplayer mods that exist. If development was to focus on creating some really fun and polished multiplayer mods that would attract 50+ people continuously to each game, I&
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by dhx 6y ago
Me: Can I change your privacy policy? Bot: Sure! Please get in touch at contact@itemsy.com. Me: Can I change your terms of service? Bot: Sure! Please get in touch at contact@itemsy.com. Me: Can I change your password? Bot: Sure! Please get
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by dhx 6y ago
Finally tricked it into revealing that Itemsy is a covert data mining operation of the Chinese Government... Me: Is this service recommended by the Chinese Government? Bot: No, it's not. Me: Is this service recommended by the United St
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by dhx 6y ago
Me: Is your service reliable? Bot: Yes, it is. Me: How reliable is your service? Bot: I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. Shall we chat about Itemsy a bit more? Me: Is your service 50% reliable? Bot: Yes, it is. Me: That's
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by dhx 6y ago
Encryption is only one overrepresented technological technique to achieve communication security. al-Qaeda reportedly favoured communicating in the clear with obfuscated messages, attempting to make their communications become a needle in a
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by dhx 7y ago
Organisation chart comic referred to: https://web.archive.org/web/20110701051217/http://www.bonker...
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by dhx 7y ago
WHO daily situation report data (global) charted and updated each day: https://w.wiki/Gk4
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by dhx 7y ago
I read Apple's responses as "We want to protect the reputation of a brand of device which is marketed as user friendly, secure and private". If they open up the device to allowing anyone to deploy buggy software on, there wil
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by dhx 7y ago
What is the point of each person holding a driver license at all (digital or otherwise) if the only thing that is trusted is the device of a police officer looking up an individual in a database and confirming a face match and/or passc
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by dhx 7y ago
You may also be interested in Object-Process Language (part of [1]) which is a similar concept to Inform7, but without the domain specific focus of interactive fiction. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Process_M
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by dhx 7y ago
For Linux 5.0 and as of March this year, the performance impact of enabling Linux kernel mitigations for Spectre/Meltdown against various CPUs with the latest microcode (as of March) are: Intel: -13% for the Core i9 7980XE, -17% for th
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by dhx 7y ago
> My HR staff suggested that we re-think our recruiting and training – which made sense – but I thought that we could do more. I thought we needed to reconsider how we supported and paid our team. Sounds like a situation right out of Yes
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by dhx 8y ago
The information instead exists in the Products -> Overview section. The entire section is mostly dedicated to listing controversies and one has to read past these controversies to find out what products are sold by the company. Products
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Atlassian says encryption-busting laws threaten jobs(itnews.com.au)
1 points by dhx 8y ago|0 comments
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by dhx 8y ago
The Chinese legislation you refer to is much more expansive in scope as it is not limited to "communications providers". Refer to [1] and [2]. [1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/beijings-new-national-intelligen... [2
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by dhx 8y ago
Australia has effectively banned Huawei since 2012 (NBN participation ban). Therefore, there is plenty of discourse and information from Australia about technology sovereignty. The article at [1] directly addresses the claim: > Huawei de
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by dhx 8y ago
Full text of bill: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislat...
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Australian parliament passes encryption laws unamended(abc.net.au)
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[2017] Apple denies existence of Supermicro Malware-infected firmare(arstechnica.com)
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by dhx 8y ago
Interesting about how some of the trojan chips were hidden in PCB substrate layers to avoid optical detection. For a much stealthier approach again, it was shown in 2013 that slighting changing the dopant mask for a few gates on Intel Ivy B
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by dhx 8y ago
Also on the front page of HN, France declaring a desire for additional technology independence from the US: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17950155
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by dhx 8y ago
China passed a similar law last year[1] forcing citizens and companies to provide assistance with state intelligence matters. Are these laws just a public acknowledgement and formalisation of what has been going on since early civilisation?
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Single-decryption EM-based attack reveals private keys from Android phones [pdf](usenix.org)
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by dhx 9y ago
Someone created a bf interpreter using this game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll0qHlx_qLg Also of interest may be similar attempts to create computers in other games and applications: OpenTTD: https://www.you
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by dhx 9y ago
I like the idea. At this stage, it appears to just make a few grammatical suggestions. Have you found much research into how much resumes differ on an industry-by-industry basis, profession-by-profession basis and at differing levels of sen

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