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That'd be GNU/Turd to you!
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Your comment reminded me of rachaelbythebay.com. While her site seems to be down at the moment, she has shared some useful war stories from debugging similar scenarios. I understand systems better after having read her work.
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> those fingerprints were used A detective in a ~150K pop. municipality told me that while they might dust for prints, they rarely use them in court because computer matches are very noisy and actually entering prints as evidence in cour
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Facebook groups are good if you can get access. Be careful when cold calling on facebook, you can get permanently banned, but if you can sustain your access, you can also find other cost sensitive people in local "buy nothing" gro
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> treason While outrageous, these actions are almost certainly not treason.
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> cops put in jail Right. The real justice comes from treating this incident like you would if there were no municipal coffers at play, and simply punish criminals for criminal action.
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Sam's Club Cafe sells $1 hot dogs and $2.50 pizza slices with a drink, and it doesn't not require a membership to visit. Larger families (4+ kids) shop at Warehouse clubs because they need items in bulk, but they are also often co
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> splitting hunks a pain Sublime Merge for the win; a fantastic visual interface with context and reversible inputs. Don't leave home without it!
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Long policy documents are also a problem for human agents. Without special training no one will retain 180 pages HR employee handbook, fire codes, OSHA safety rules, FCC regulations, the US legal code. If the stakes are high, e.g, proceedi
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> I don't understand why we humor this stuff Social contract is a difficult subject, and people don't think about it enough. But thanks to this clickbait headline, thousands of readers may come upon an articulation of why curre
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> Leidenfrost effect Okay for a steak, not great for eggs!
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> After having used NixOS for the last two years in my homelab, I wanted to go back to what I know. This was exactly my impression of nixos: that after years of using it, it still wouldn't be something I "know".
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At a Denny's once, I received a kid's menu with a blurb purporting to reveal the trendy new slang words kids were using. I read with interest, but found only contrived nonces like "sloovy." As a kid I could tell that thi
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Does anyone know what they're using for telemetry? Over the launch pad you have a UHF link, but that offers infrequent availability after launch. If I were launching my first orbital vehicle and I didn't have a hyper developed sp
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> New Era But no PQC?
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John Stossel explained in _Give Me A Break_ that the US once had a variety of pharmaceutical labs researching different cures and conducting trials. But US courts allowed a frenzy of frivolous lawsuits to extract astronomical payouts on beh
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Thanks for a well written article! When spec'ing a signle database host, I've been told to select the highest L1/L2 cache possible (allowing O(n^2) loads to complete with the least IO delay) with IOPs and RAM also being desir
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I typically use paypal for paying contractors, but try to "load balance" across a couple competitors because you never know when one of them will flag your account, nor for how long it will be flagged. Consolidation in this indust
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My dream configuration in the past was Vault, protected by step-ca's ACME implementation, with an IdP like KanIDM for SSO. But it seems like there is so much feature creep: OpenBao now has its own ACME server. And KanIDM is considerin
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This year, an octogenarian friend got locked out of his android phone permanently. He had never had a PIN on his Samsung phone. It started when he signed up at a new bank, giving them his phone number. Somehow the bank enrolled his in the
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Older systems were imperfect and were understood to be. I've meet veterans who joined the Navy at 14 or 16. I've met many College students who can pass as old enough to buy alcohol, especially with a fake id. Dead people are so
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This article deliberates about the venue of patent litigation. But even if you settle upon and ideal venue, there are deeper structural problems with patents. US patent law is unenforceable against the world’s largest manufacturer, China,
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My homelab consists of several baremetal hosts, Vagrant lets me instantiate a full testing environment from a text file and kick off provisioning scripts.
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> What are businesses supposed to actually do with this? A responsible business should increase an attacker's cost above the likely benefit. If your current threat model accepts the risk of a particular attack because "it woul
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Triggernometry A couple of immigrants to Britain discuss politics, culture, and world events. Some topics are pertinent to life in the US, others are just interesting discussions. The hosts' previous work as comedians can make their
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Any good debian-ish distros that integrate TTS and STT in a usable shell?
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Yes -- and even a spectacular punishment does not establish the guilt of the recipient. Some may be innocent (framed) or only partially guilty (scapegoat.) Other may have been known to be guilty all along and has only recently fallen out o
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Yes, self contained python utilities. Claude runs on an isolated machine with no access to production data, its role is to generate tools that we can use to analyze production data.
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I think this is spot-on for the business of shipping podcast players. But big-company-style support is only inevitable if your company must scale. Many markets can sustain players with higher margins and a premium product+support.
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Flipper Zero's marketing helps it to be able to pass as a toy to people who don't know about furries or security.

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