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> father would lose the responsibility for his child This HN discussion of systemic abuse in US Catholic orphanages last century also discusses vast, documented ongoing abuse in both religious and state run care/foster systems aroun
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Deterrent can be an effective form of rehab. A former coworker of mine walks funny because he had polio as a child, and his father worked for the railway union after WWII. He told me one day in high school, one of his friends came to schoo
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I've considered hard-coding some addresses into firmware as a fallback for a DNS outtage (which is more likely than not just misconfigured local DNS.) Events like this help justify this approach to the unconcerned.
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> And what if I tell Claude to write the program Why should this be any different than when telling/paying a human to write the program? You're free to enter an agreement assigning all rights to the employer or the worker, to l
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"Three 8s of availability"
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> smart TVs usually don't have cameras/microphones Friends in industry who are analyzing consumer smart TV sensor data at scale tell me otherwise.
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> But it's not a component of my security You may not see it as “security“, but any entity that is actively monitoring their logs benefits when the false positives decrease. If I am dealing with 800 failed login attempts per minute
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What about the ability to require signed commits so the source history can be cryptographically verified?
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The cable link was full duplex. I had friends whose service used dialup for the upstream but never heard good things about it - the latency made it frustrating and it seemed like a lot of apps weren't tuned to work well.
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> So what's the real story behind your piddlly little town getting bleeding edge cable internet service? (Or was it somewhere like Los Gatos?) It was a commercial service - Bresnanlink, in a midwest university town. As I recall, th
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> I wouldn't even recommend being in their presence. Great! Now do people with smart TVs and people with smart phones
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> The only data that cannot be stolen or leaked is data that doesn't exist. Hard lesson for both users and companies. Except no company is learning this lesson. The enterprise threat model includes "our own users", and the
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We used dialup until 1996, when we got a 10mbps cable internet connection, newly available in our 20k population town. We have never had a slower service plan than that since.
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I was distracted by the poor typesetting in parts of the page. The meaning of the text is overwhelmed by the distracting spacing used to justify the text: > . I n o t h e r w o r d s , s i l i c o n - o r g a t e - l evel
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I'll second Ubiquiti. I have 15 year old hardware from them that still gets security updates. Pricier than cheap chinese junk, but well architected (on-camera compression and motion analysis.) Their video system is rock solid and no
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I would love to see the US rekindle the domestic manufacture of affordable consumer/prosumer network hardware. The US can already manufacture SoCs, PWBs, and chassis hardware, we just need a business case for putting it all together.
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> Even the Raspberry Pi 5 [...] is still getting trickles of mainline support. I thought raspberry pi could basically run a mainline kernel these days -- are there unsupported peripherals besides Broadcom's GPU?
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Two questions: under what conditions would you only have 10 seconds to respond? And how would you develop yourself to be effective under this kind of pressure?
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When making purchases online I relax my uMatrix policies (so the payment will go through) but I'm blown away by what's trying to load; I see CDNs for pinterest, tiktok, twitter, linkedin, etc, all wanting to run javascript on my c
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Yes, give me weird orbits! I want a shot which is just outside the target area to get sucked in by the gravity of the planet, but potentially letting me slingshot around an intermediate planet towards a more distant one. The tap command s
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I'm also using 11ty on a couple projects, but I abhore the npm ecosystem. I'm considering letting an LLM generate a flat python script to replace what 11ty does for me. Once removed from the fracas, it should be stable for decade
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> notification reliability is always a top support complaint I know octogenarians who use signal daily. "You called me and it didn't ring" or "messaged and it didn't beep" are definitely the top support com
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This week I was wondering how long it would take a pilot light to deplete a tank of LP fuel (the kind people use for grilling.) Several months? A year? For no particular reason, I wondered what the limitations would be on shrinking the p
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Consider mathematics. If you already know enough math to derive the quadratic equation, you might make a small change, like adding X^3 or X^4. See where your own techniques take you before looking up the answer. With just a few pen strok
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Looking forward to a PQ yubikey rev. I would buy a box of them today so I could start experimenting! Another challenge of the transition is how much silicon we have yet to even implement. Smart cards? Mobile acceleration/offloading?
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We need to extend the ADA to protect people who are not technologically-abled.
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eBay's buyer protections are eroding as well. I bought a phone on eBay last month. The seller insured it with USPS. When the phone arrived with a cracked screen (the listing had photos of a not-cracked screen) I photographed the dama
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Are there any US vendors with wifi/BLE-integrated MCUs -- a single package that does it all?
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Except if you penetrate the market with modules that cost 5% of similar US made solutions, you start to win mindshare. At least some of those hobbyists start making a product, and sometimes the determination of whether a product is "s
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I pulled out a WRT54G the other day and set it to a 56K limit. A netbook running ubuntu(ish) took several days to complete an apt-get update. But when I connected my laptop with 50 browser tabs, the tabs themselves consumed 100% of the ba

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