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by gnfargbl 5y ago
The actual patent is at https://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=... .
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
While we're on the good-value dedicated server providers, Contabo are also worth a look: https://contabo.com/en/dedicated-servers/amd-epyc-32-cores
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
I know it isn't for everyone, but if you're seriously trying to save cash and you can handle the trade-off of managing your own infrastructure, Hetzner has AX101s back in stock: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-ro
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
Dissenting voice: I worked for a full decade for an employer which exclusively provided Aeron chairs. They gave me terrible back and neck problems, even after spending substantial effort selecting the correct size and setting the lumbar sup
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
> Not sure how AWS squares that circle unless they outsource their data centers in China to a third party that can then expose the keys for China to use. If you check something like the Public Suffix List [1], you will notice that Amazon
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
There's nothing really wrong with what you're doing. Apps were deployed like that for decades before docker came along. To my mind the main benefit of containerization would be that the > binary, config files and static assets
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
We already have a huge gravitationally confined fusion reactor on tap. We need to get much better at using the energy it provides us, and quickly.
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
> Those routers don't have particularly bad default passwords iirc I just checked, and the default credentials for the HHG2500 model mentioned in the article were admin / vodafone1234. It isn't clear to me whether the rout
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
> Criminal organizations could even offer a SAAS solution - a kind of "crime as a service", where they rent you the infrastructure of ephemeral compromised machines to use. There is already an entire industry offering "res
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
Prior to the re-imposition of US sanctions, Iran was producing around 1400 million barrels of oil per year and exporting around 800 [1]. The article says that Iranian Bitcoin mining is currently consuming the equivalent of around 10 million
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
The logical next step is for the developers of Signal, etc, to begin bundling instrumentation code that checks and monitors app execution. I wonder if Google will allow that level of runtime profiling, or if it will become against the Play
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
The point of BQ is to allow you to perform queries which are ad-hoc and/or touch a significant fraction of the data. If you have a problem of that shape, then full column scans are not merely tolerable, they are optimal.
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
I love postgres and my business relies on it. However, at the scale the author is talking about (~100m rows), throwing all the data into BigQuery is very likely to be a better option for many people. If rows are around 1kB, then full-datase
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
Licence is here: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/master/tre... Unusually it requires you to distribute modifications to the released source code as a set of patches.
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
The developers of a not-insignificant portion of IoT firmware absolutely are bringing user input in from web forms and chucking it into shell scripts. And unfortunately, it's that same class of developers that are disproportionately li
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
Did you get as far as finding out the level of bribe that the sales guy was offering? I'm curious about the going rate for corporate graft.
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
I'm not sure that most people would see taking a copy of their phone contacts as a serious invasion of privacy. Maybe your mind (and the mind of many HN readers) quickly skips to the various social engineering and metadata attacks that
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
In the linked Twitter thread, Dr Rasmussen says that a consequence of the Ad5 vector becoming replication competent is that the E1 gene might have replaced the spike protein, rendering the vaccine ineffective. Are there any other conseque
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
That is not the scenario I'm outlining. I am outlining a hypothetical scenario where the authorities choose to look through my phone for ${UNRELATED_REASON}, and the presence of Signal's hypothetical exploit files would cause thei
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
If this isn't merely a joke, and these proposed files are intended to contain Cellebrite exploits of some kind, then please, Moxie, let us have an opt out? As it stands, if law enforcement for some bizarre reason decide to examine my p
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
I have linked to this before but I like it so much I will link to it again: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... The TL;DR is that for people 20-29, in the case where there is a low leve
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
> UK where politicians wrapped the vaccine in union jack and hitched it to Brexit bandwagon for jignoistic reasons Something I have learnt from the whole AZ business is how much media bias affects your thought process, even on topics whi
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
It seems that Greg K-H has now released a patch of "the easy reverts" of umn.edu commits... all 190 of them. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210421130105.1226686-1-gregkh... The final commit in the reverted li
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
Yep. To take a physical-world analogy: Would it be okay to try and prove the vulnerability of a country's water supply by intentionally introducing a "harmless" chemical into the treatment works, without the consent of the wo
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
From https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/CADVatmNgU7t-Co84tSS6VW=3N... , > A lot of these have already reached the stable trees. If the researchers were trying to prove that it is possible to get malicious patches in
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
The paper claims that stricter rate limits are a possible solution to this issue, and that with stricter limits in place "crawling entire countries would only be feasible for very powerful attackers". I don't think I agree. T
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
As a small caveat, the 5.6 weeks (28 days) is allowed to include the eight statutory bank holidays, and almost always does (i.e. the worker can't insist that they not be paid for the bank holiday, and take the holiday day some other ti
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
I believe that option was more to do with transparently converting between DOS and Unix line terminators. I definitely recall several ruined 2400bps modem downloads in the mid-nineties, because I'd failed to issue a TYPE I command.
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
Thank you. At the risk of getting involved in the discussion in the way I said above I did not want to, I feel I have to point out that " Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel " is usually explic
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by gnfargbl 6y ago
The reason I find the topic fascinating is that the semantics seem to obliterate the discussion before it can really begin. I'm assuming that from PHK's point of view, he casually used "the Jews" as a identity for "

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