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by dzdt 10d ago
This article seems to be completely based on the X post by the reverse engineer DiscoStarSlayer : https://x.com/DiscoStarslayer/status/2099132300390744320 . That post reads "After 4 years of effort, I'm h
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by dzdt 12d ago
Matt Pharr (author of the SIMD programming language ISPC) nailed it with the insight "Auto-vectorization is not a programming model." As Matt writes ([1]) : " The problem with an auto-vectorizer is that as long as vectorizati
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by dzdt 1mo ago
Was daydreaming the other day about how this could be used by adversaries to hack even air-gapped computers. Any peripheral which contains a microchip and some ram is a vector. Does the compartmentalized facility ever bring in a new monitor
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by dzdt 1mo ago
There are a lot of cars out there where the head unit has connection to the CAN bus. Which means this malware vector could be used to directly cause crashes. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19751872
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by dzdt 1mo ago
What is an "OG image"?
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by dzdt 1mo ago
So on an affected system, ring 0 root has access to pretty much everything that was hidden in negative ring territory. The page is pretty quiet about what other processor families might be similar beyond this specific AMD16h (an older AMD l
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by dzdt 2mo ago
If you are healthy and kid free, you can just not go to the doctor.
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by dzdt 2mo ago
Better article with good pictures : https://thursd.com/articles/helio-da-silva-sao-paulo-tiquati...
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Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking(wired.com)
499 points by dzdt 2mo ago|278 comments
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by dzdt 2mo ago
Make it a tinfoil hat :-)
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by dzdt 2mo ago
I suppose it will fall to AI as well to compose the mathematical equivalent of The Ballad of John Henry. Who will be the human champion, the last great hero who can deliver proofs "from the book" that a machine cannot outperform?
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by dzdt 3mo ago
Aee they trying to create snow crash for real??? [1] https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/184341/in-the-nove...
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by dzdt 3mo ago
I think you are right on the big picture : what has changed is Big Tech has recognized that comprehensive data on individuals is valuable. I think the biggest value category however is in the area of highly-targeted opinion manipulation. B
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Guardian 100 best novels (stats and errors)(mpaldridge.github.io)
3 points by dzdt 4mo ago|0 comments
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by dzdt 4mo ago
It seems like Barron only ever managed to flash 14 beanbags that one time in 2017 and neither he nor anyone else has repeated or exceeded that since.
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by dzdt 5mo ago
Yes trying to read that article my brain refused to parse "EviCore" as anything but "EvilCorp". Every time.
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by dzdt 5mo ago
This is small potatoes compared to the rain gauge tampering farmers were doing in Colorado. There was a recent conviction for $6.5 million dollars of fraud against the federal crop insurance program! https://www.justice.gov/
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by dzdt 6mo ago
I think the new model with music is they don't make a very serious attempt to keep a monopoly on the content. They only really care about a monopoly on convenience. If anyone would set up some convenient way to stream these concert rec
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by dzdt 6mo ago
At least in the early 2000s, Bloomberg had strict requirements about this. Their financial terminal has a ton of math calculations. The requirement was that they always had live servers running with two different hardware platforms with dif
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by dzdt 7mo ago
Guessing not knowledge but I expect it was called that from the accidental occurence of color on broadcast TV wben the image includes something with black-and-white stripes at the right spacing. So the name predates the intentional usage by
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by dzdt 7mo ago
I think in this alternate universe the Apple-II analog would be the first cheap computer that could run a spreadsheet. That really takes a 40 column display. So I think it would have waited for the 2mhz 6502 to handle the doubled line frequ
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by dzdt 7mo ago
I do think there is a strong possibility the people in charge in the US government believe an Iran state sponsored terrorism attack would be a political benefit to them. Such things boost support for the sitting President, and could also gi
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by dzdt 7mo ago
Is this something European style privacy laws would protect against? Though given the US political situation we are far from being able to enact any kind of anti-authoritarian protections...
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by dzdt 7mo ago
I think it could be solved still pseudononymously: introduce a "vouch" button that allows a user to vouch that another user is human. This is consequential both for the vouched-for and vouching accounts. Run a page-rank style algo
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by dzdt 7mo ago
For purely historical reasons the C/C++ stack is "small" with exactly how small being outside of programmer control. So you have to avoid using the stack even if it would be the better solution. Otherwise you risk your progra
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by dzdt 7mo ago
A related thing that bugs me is how many scam search results come up and are prioritised if you search for "uk eta" or similar. On google for me the real site is sandwiched in positon 4 after 3 and before 2 additional paid sponso
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by dzdt 7mo ago
What percent of the kind of development that standardized tests measure do you think occurs within the context of the school building?
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by dzdt 7mo ago
In New York the biggest driver behind technology is the state testing regime. Make the case to your administration that the chromebooks are insufficient for the state testing program and they will come up with the funds for upgrades.
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by dzdt 7mo ago
I had aasumed the plan was killed for cynical political motivations, the same as apparantly caused the hangup and Hochul's near killing of NYC congestion pricing. Its really hard to gather evidence about what is the motivation for thin
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by dzdt 7mo ago
This continues the trend that the C++ language spec is too large for any person to understand, full of opaquely named things for obscure use cases. Maybe when most code is written by LLMs this kind of extension will be appreciated? Because

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