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by gnl 8y ago
The Cyrillic script (used in many Slavic languages, including Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Serbian) was developed by a medieval Bulgarian scholar (Clement of Ohrid) as a simplification of the older Glagolitic script and was/is bas
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by gnl 8y ago
Probably shouldn't be upvoting this as it doesn't have much to do with the topic, but I will anyway cause you're fighting for a lost art worth saving.
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by gnl 8y ago
There are companies who buy vulnerabilities/exploits and sell them to the highest, supposedly non-criminal - to whatever extent that can be applied to governments, law enforcement and intelligence agencies - bidder. That's mostly
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by gnl 8y ago
Clearly. As pointed out/clarified in another comment I was mostly thinking of the grey area companies who buy 0-days and sell them to governments, law enforcement and god knows who.
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by gnl 8y ago
I understand. I did in fact believe that this applies to any highest reward RCE vulnerability, thanks for pointing out that this may not be the case. As for the black market price - I don't consider my security background sufficient fo
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by gnl 8y ago
I have not and I haven't been looking for one either. I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. If you're trying to point out that I haven't done my homework on this and that I don't have a sufficiently s
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by gnl 8y ago
Are you sure that's accurate? According to this [1] it's about 10 000 USD per capita. [1] https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/uruguay/annual-househo...
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by gnl 8y ago
I was referring to companies like Zerodium.
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by gnl 8y ago
I was in fact thinking of exploit brokers as well, so my wording was unclear. Let's call it the grey/black market. In the scenario you described, without any other contacts and/or experience with transactions like this, I wou
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by gnl 8y ago
I'm not familiar with South America at all really, just assumed that in a country with a GDP per capita a third of the US, the incentive to not do this the official way will likely be higher. It's certainly possible that I may hav
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by gnl 8y ago
I'd just like to point out, in case OP hasn't already considered it, that TinTin++ is one of the most popular MUD clients (not that MUDs are particularly popular these days).
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by gnl 8y ago
Those skills at 18, the integrity to not sell something like this on the black market (assuming here that an 18 year old in Uruguay isn't exactly swimming in money), and a bounty from Google under his belt - he won't have trouble
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by gnl 8y ago
While the terms may have been originally coined during the Cold War, the meaning and common usage has clearly changed. If you use 'third world countries' in a conversation hardly anyone will assume that you're including Switz
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by gnl 8y ago
Well, first of all let me emphasise again that it's not an either/or proposition, they work together perfectly fine. Personally I use paredit extensively and yes, going back to a language/environment without it feels like hav
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by gnl 8y ago
For anyone who'd be interested in trying a Lisp (with Clojure probably being the most mainstream one at the moment) and who's been put off by the parens, paredit and/or Emacs: - Parinfer [ https://shaunlebron.github
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by gnl 9y ago
Absolutely. In terms of effective, controlled movement, it's better in pretty much every single way, except that it costs more energy, which is why it's generally not a particularly natural, intuitive thing to do all the time. Lik
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by gnl 9y ago
Just because walking a certain way makes sense under some conditions does not mean it's the one true way under all conditions. When walking on uneven terrain or moving surfaces, in bad visibility, when trying to walk quietly, when figh
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by gnl 9y ago
Same thing here, running both Linux and Windows at different times. The old ThinkPads used to be absolutely great machines in every way. These days I'm strictly on macOS and would recommend a MacBook/Pro to almost anyone, but cont
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by gnl 9y ago
That's a refreshingly nuanced comment in a debate where people tend to be very quick to pick a side and stick with it no matter what. You also make a very good point regarding languages for teams vs hackers - this is overlooked very of
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by gnl 9y ago
Daily mobility work (even just 5 minutes in the evening makes a difference when done daily) combined with a hip hinge exercise a couple of times a week does indeed work wonders (it did for me). As an alternative to the deadlift, I'd li
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by gnl 9y ago
P.S. The rant wasn't directed at you/delias_, I was just randomly shouting into the ether. Kind of like an old crazy man in the subway. P.P.S. General note on working standing - occasionally, that is every few minutes or whenever
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by gnl 9y ago
Adjustable desk owner here as well - while it's great and I wouldn't want to miss it [1], I also have a bar stool with a backrest, so I can easily transition between standing and sitting in a second. I also often find sitting cond
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by gnl 9y ago
Something just occurred to me, which isn't directly related to the original article, but is I believe relevant to the debate that ensued around it. Apart from any ethical, social and economical considerations, one of the easiest argume
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by gnl 9y ago
The amount of emotionally charged black and white thinking that permeates this debate is mind-boggling, as is the ability of the outraged side to create a straw man out of thin air through cherry-picking and blatant misinterpretation. Truly
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High quality doctored audio/video making recordings untrustworthy as evidence(cracked.com)
2 points by gnl 10y ago|0 comments
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by gnl 10y ago
Opinions and arseholes, eh. To build on the point made by the author - while it can be a useful label to describe what appeals to a majority of people within a certain group, there is ultimately no such thing as good art and consequently no
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by gnl 10y ago
"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it." Many identities, lifes, careers, organizations have been built around the assumption that objective and absolute knowledge is possible, truth can be define
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by gnl 11y ago
Live coding with ClojureScript/Reagent/Re-frame/Figwheel/REPL is a holy-grail-kind of dev experience for me (and React really does feel like it was ported to JS from a better place), but one has to admit the potential ma
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by gnl 12y ago
Well said. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg [1:41 "It's not about the nail"] The video is about women, because as men we like to take pride in the idea that we're "fixers", but if we&