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by egwynn 8y ago
The terminal is the wrong tool for this job. I believe the author realizes this in their exploration of the topic, but I think it still bears saying explicitly. This task is difficult not because of some big design mess-up, but because this
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by egwynn 8y ago
You might be able to catch that by looking for lines with unusually high entropy. Something like this: https://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/909
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by egwynn 8y ago
Most of the time people use the word “caucasian” because it seems somehow more “technical” or “scientific” than saying “white people”. It’s an unfortunate word, for sure.
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by egwynn 8y ago
This headline slightly overgeneralizes. From ArsTechnica’s coverage[0]: To replicate this finding and expand its scope, the researchers performed a similar survey in the US, Germany, and France. The results in the US were the same, and the
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by egwynn 8y ago
Looks like this is an artifact of the built-in (old) bash on osx. I see that it works in the newer versions of bash on my freebsd and linux hosts. The mac bash man page says: Only backslash (\) and single quotes can quote the history
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by egwynn 8y ago
Yeah my eyebrow went up at that one too…
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by egwynn 8y ago
That is incorrect. From the man page: If enabled, history expansion will be performed unless an ! appearing in double quotes is escaped using a backslash.
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by egwynn 8y ago
The very first example (echo "Hello $NAME!") won’t work if `histexpand` is set, which I believe is the default.
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by egwynn 8y ago
But the point of the “cover up your camera” intervention is that it’s “out of band” from your system software. Even if there’s a root/administrator-level compromise, light just won’t get past the piece of paper/cardboard onto the
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by egwynn 8y ago
People always go on about covering up your camera, but what should I do about my hardwired microphone? I'm vastly more likely to say sensitive data out loud than I am to mime it out or write it down and hold it up on a sign.
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by egwynn 8y ago
You mean like almost every other popular art supply?
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by egwynn 8y ago
Have we really gotten to the point where Walt Mossberg is considered "some dude" on a technology news website?
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by egwynn 8y ago
Because platforms are businesses and it’s sometimes cheaper to just ban the groups that are bad for business.
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by egwynn 8y ago
Yeah, though it’s a stretch all the same. I’m not sure what the intention here is. The name is either a joke, just plain bad, or etymologically overoptimistic.
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by egwynn 8y ago
When it first entered English from Latin, the word meant ‘glass’ ( https://www.etymonline.com/word/vitriol#etymonline_v_7846 ). But that’s not a sense any modern English speaker could be expected to recognize.
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by egwynn 8y ago
This is probably off-topic, but AFAIK “the uncanny valley” refers specifically to artificial representations of humans looking “too much but not quite enough” like real humans. I’m not sure how UI elements (which don’t typically depict huma
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by egwynn 8y ago
Non-amp link: https://9to5google.com/2018/12/05/google-allo-shutting-down/ Also, s/it’s/its/
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by egwynn 8y ago
Nice. I just started / played / tied an impromptu game of tic-tac-toe with someone!
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by egwynn 8y ago
Thanks — I hadn’t scrolled back far enough. Here’s the link for those interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407482
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by egwynn 8y ago
Currently flagged as dupe — could someone link us to the previous discussion?
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by egwynn 8y ago
To me it’s not a question about whether it’s good or bad that people consume marijuana. It’s about whether taxpayers are currently getting anything near what they pay for from the practice of enforcing prohibition. If 2x the people start us
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by egwynn 8y ago
I’d describe the acronym as ‘catchy’ more than I’d describe it as ‘useful’.
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by egwynn 8y ago
Yeah, I think this is where the meat is. csydas’s points have merit. Namely: 1. torturers will keep torturing until they get what they want, and 2. victims will eventually tell the torturer whatever the torturer wants to hear in order to st
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by egwynn 8y ago
My intuition makes me agree that it does address the rubber-hose scenario. Could you elaborate on why you think it doesn’t?
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by egwynn 8y ago
Yup, all you gotta do is get your fakes to pass SPF and DMARC/DKIM!
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by egwynn 8y ago
I’ve had others use their browser-based encryption form to send me sensitive data before — that’s pretty handy.
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by egwynn 8y ago
It’s been flagged so I can’t read it. EDIT: Context for newcomers: I was responding to the parent comment's about how the downvotes on the GP meant that people were reading it.
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by egwynn 8y ago
Not 100% sure, but it may be because so much SOHO equipment uses 192.168/16 by default.
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by egwynn 8y ago
Correct, thanks for making that explicit.
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by egwynn 8y ago
Found this link in one of the responses on that page: https://superuser.com/questions/784978/why-did-the-ietf-spec... Similarly, I expect Postel picked 192.168 because, at the time he made the choice, it

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