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by ev1 5y ago
> I really don't know what nafarious thing people imagine is really occuring. Unregulated anticheat software retaining user clipboard contents, sending/uploading arbitrary files, all window titles, all processes and computer an
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by ev1 5y ago
being forced to do an extra semester costing like 50k+ results in some very interesting incentives, or lawsuits, when profit is involved..
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by ev1 5y ago
This is for the equivalent of Facebook Messenger or playing a F2P game, not fintech - bank requires even more, and linking a "real name ID" IRL bank account anyway.
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by ev1 5y ago
The chinese app wechat already does this in private homes for the purpose of enforcing KYC and "misinformation tracking" - you are required to repeat after it, repeat every phoneme/syllable to form a voiceprint (and coinciden
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by ev1 5y ago
Have any launch discount?
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by ev1 5y ago
Haha, I remember uploading an archive and then uploading a PHP file containing exec("tar zxf phpbb.tar.gz"); and then visiting it in a browser ;)
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by ev1 5y ago
I'm kind of curious though - what can you do as a non-technical user to prevent this? Let's say you're on shared hosting - you don't know what object storage is, and you upload your PHP themes via FTP (or at best, FTP+im
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by ev1 5y ago
This is a pokemon fansite that's old enough to drink that was just running on xenforo and wordpress. There probably is no "production vs staging" or immutability or ZFS snapshots, or large amounts of engineering going on.
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by ev1 5y ago
I'm curious, why did all the "old guard" absolutely refuse online? Blockbuster, KB, Toysrus - these were all before my time, but did they just think oh no, we don't ever have to bother with this, people will always come
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by ev1 5y ago
Getting banned has a minimal cost if you are a throwaway goods reseller running off a newly registered business in a region where you can effectively ignore all foreign laws, falsify documentation, or whatever else. Getting banned has a hig
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by ev1 5y ago
> but for most people outside of tech, upstream is only stressed when uploading photos Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, all of these make this untrue. Even GDrive/Dropbox of projects, videos is extremely common these days. It is important
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by ev1 5y ago
The average user will not be visiting speedtest.net, they will be visiting "whatever internal site their ISP tells them to"
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by ev1 5y ago
Aren't there additional issues with that like if you pay for a flight or hotel or restaurant, you're effectively "supporting the regime" with your dollars, and therefore it's illegal under sanctions too?
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by ev1 5y ago
Chia mining-before-transactions-are-released -> Chia transactions released -> Chia price at a high price -> Chia price halves shortly after, turns out virtually impossible for US users to get on any of the exchanges handling XCH
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by ev1 5y ago
Doing this if you are intentionally trying to protect or hide your origin is effectively guaranteed killing on the origin. For example, if Cloudflare unproxied one of my subdomains I'd leave them immediately, and likely have to change
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by ev1 5y ago
The sellers are literally demanding these items be destroyed. Not Amazon?
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by ev1 5y ago
More profit to charge a higher fee on larger transactions.
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by ev1 5y ago
The `com.` NSs are overriding its 'correct' authoritative nameservers, it seems. WHOIS of the domain says: Name Server: ns1.presstv.ir Name Server: ns2.presstv.ir Attempting to resolve it returns: presstv.com.
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by ev1 5y ago
haha, holy shit, he is referring to himself as "freenode digital autonomous zone"
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by ev1 5y ago
I wish I could find a power bank for USB devices that will just pass through power when the battery is full.
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by ev1 5y ago
What's keeping a plugged in unremovable battery charging on power 24/7 like
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by ev1 5y ago
It's entirely dependent. This is also partially why "do you have a good manager" is included. I've had a few that absolutely will be in the line of fire first, and not make their team do anything they wouldn't do th
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by ev1 5y ago
EC2 is absolutely not meant for this, though. Use an abstraction layer like Heroku if you're going to not understand what you're getting into. The amount of times I've had to 'advise' small businesses that are someh
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by ev1 5y ago
You are using https://spec.smarthealth.cards/ I believe. It's not camera-scan URL QR. The FAQ on the same page: If you are at a venue that can read SMART Health Cards, present your copy of your digital vaccine record f
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by ev1 5y ago
Netflix doesn't deliver video via AWS.
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by ev1 5y ago
The email contains card last digits, card type, merchant name, and transaction amount.
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by ev1 5y ago
Using Tor would be an insane choice for 99% of Apple users. "Oh, let me turn on undercover... why is my bank online account suspended and my PayPal banned?"
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by ev1 5y ago
That kind of number is more or less mandatory to survive in SF. Something like 150k is considered as "low income / needs assistance" by Housing and Development.
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by ev1 5y ago
What'd they do previously, find anyone with a libera laptop sticker and throwing them + the contents of their flat out the window?
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by ev1 5y ago
Or that the "BNC" service they are launching is also by definition a MITM

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