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by gnfargbl 1y ago
It's pretty standard for the infosec world, it attracts somewhat unusual personalities. This is why it's so important for larger companies to have clearly signposted responsible disclosure channels: if the channels are there, then
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
HMG can compel Google not to offer AMPed 4chan in the UK, and can compel ISPs to block mirrors in DNS and by IP. URL shorteners are just a client-side indirection and won't circumvent a block. There's really nothing that they can
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
It's a contrived example which I have never really experienced in my own code (and at this point, I've written a lot of it) or any of my team's code. Go had some poor design features, many of which have now been fixed, some
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
> Author here. No, I didn't misunderstand it. Interface variables have two types of nil. Untyped, which does compare to nil, and typed, which does not. There aren't two types of nil. Would you call an empty bucket and an empt
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
As a long-time Go programmer I didn't understand the comment about two types of nil because I have never experienced that issue, so I dug into it. It turns out to be nothing but a misunderstanding of what the fmt.Println() statement is
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Here's an example of the "moderate drinking is healthy" risk curves that the article refers to: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmsc... This newer work seems basically t
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
> Axel Springer’s argument is that when Adblock Plus blocks or manipulates its website code (‘computer program’) present in the user’s browser, that amounts to a violation of its exclusive right of modification available under § 69c (2)
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
A dishonourable mention for the original A1 version of the British SA80, which required high levels of lubrication to operate properly, and as a result often jammed in sandy environments... like Kuwait and Iraq [1]. [1] https://e
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Most public bodies in the UK, including Ofcom, are subject to judicial reviews. https://www.judiciary.uk/how-the-law-works/judicial-review/ However Ofcom eventually reaches its final decisions, it will need to do
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
The OSA has several different parts. This ruling is not concerned with those parts of the OSA which deal with child protection; age verification isn't meaningfully mentioned anywhere in the judgment. Additionally, encyclopedias in the
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
> The problem is that a regulatory body is determining all this instead of the independent judiciary. What we have is the regulatory body (which, as a non-ministerial government department is effectively part of the government) making
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
This is a loss, but only really a technical loss. What happened is that Wikimedia have been told that they haven't been told that they are Category 1 at this point and, given that they've already made a submission to Ofcom which m
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
The category thresholds are very clearly spelled out in a Statutory Instrument [1]. This is surely the "actual rules" by any definition. The thresholds are exactly as I stated. If some smaller sites have made the individual decisi
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
The OSA is already written such that only very large sites are potentially caught by the most onerous rules (at least 7 million MAU for Category 1; at least 3 million MAU for Category 2B). Smaller sites are automatically exempted. This isn&
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
To me, that judgment reads like a fairly strong warning to Ofcom. The outcome section makes it clear that although the request for judicial review has been refused at present, that refusal is predicated on the fact that Ofcom has currently
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
And in the USA, also: > plural plateaus also plateaux -- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plateau The variant plateaus would be more common in both forks, I think.
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
This video shows the bridge in context with the landscape, in a fairly unique way: https://youtu.be/PRJ2o27gGTM
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Is that level of complexity actually necessary? The way that the UK system appears to work (as a user) is that the IR sensor detects a vehicle approaching the intersection from the minor road and, if there are no vehicles approaching on t
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
They're part of AS749, which is US Department of Defense IP space that appears to be unused and which, based on public statements made by the Pentagon, might just be safely parked or might be part of a network scanning observatory [1].
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Governments don't do get source code for the same reason as every other customer doesn't get source code: software vendors are incentivized to refuse the request. Why are the vendors so incentivized? Well, coming back to Fujitsu a
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
I'm surprised not to see a mention of formal methods in the article. I know these are kind of the "nuclear fusion" of Computer Science, but so were neural nets until relatively recently. I would have guessed that AI ought t
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Calling this a "Higgs-Bugson" doesn't make a lot of sense. There's nothing uncertain or difficult to reproduce about the Higgs. The reason that it took so long to find was that the cross-section of production is very low
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
I can't help but make the comparison with cryptographic network protocols, where the industry started with a kitchen-sink approach (e.g. pluggable cipher suites in TLS) and ended up moving towards fixed primitives (e.g. Wireguard mostl
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
> It's exactly what's happening: what used to be leaders in ICE cars are now the laughing stocks of the EV world. This is really nonsense. VAG, BMW and Mercedes have been making good EVs for many years and are now progressing t
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Memory Leak in Oracle Transparent Network Substrate (TNS)(driftnet.io)
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
I thought so too at first, but after a little bit of research, those really do appear to be the correct numbers. For instance, a detailed report [1] into one of Seagate's 1.92TB SSDs suggests that it consumed >200kg CO2 per TB. Eye-
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Where in that video do you see the injection of resin mentioned? I didn't immediately see that step from skipping through, and it's not mentioned in the abstract of the paper.
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
If you follow the link from the article [1], then there's an abstract that describes the process. It sounds like they boil the wood with sodium hydroxide and sodium sulphite, then heat and compress the wood, which somehow leads to bett
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
> You seem to expect the professor to give you a reasonable accommodation for an affliction you didn’t even realize you had. No. How could he? Instead, I'm pointing out the value of empathy, tolerance and flexibility.
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
I have a medical condition (autoimmune hypothyroid, extreme edition) which I wasn't aware of, but was suffering from severely, during my University years. Waking up was extremely difficult for me and as a result I was often late. At th

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