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by herpderperator 8y ago
> Musk and Tesla will each pay a separate $20 million penalty. The $40 million in penalties will be distributed to harmed investors under a court-approved process. Well, the stock has done somersaults in all directions since then (benefi
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by herpderperator 8y ago
Excerpts from the press call transcript [1] by Guy Rosen explaining what lead to this breach being possible: > The first bug was that, when using the View As function to look at your profile as another person would, the video uploader sh
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Tilray IPO has 10x share price increase in 2 months(marketwatch.com)
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by herpderperator 8y ago
While I am glad this happened, I am surprised. I truly would not have expected Linus to ever write something like this. I am curious how this can happen so suddenly. Have people not tried to convince him that he can be critical without bein
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XE.com launches new site in React(xe.com)
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CVE-2018-5390: Vulnerability in Linux Kernel Allows for DoS Attacks(sensorstechforum.com)
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Microsoft reverts decision to discontinue Skype 7 (Skype Classic) after backlash(answers.microsoft.com)
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Atlassian exits business communciations space, surrenders to Slack(cnbc.com)
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by herpderperator 8y ago
What this article fails to mention is that having an initramfs is not required. It's only necessary if additional tools are needed to mount a particular filesystem, otherwise the kernel can run init directly from the root.
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by herpderperator 8y ago
Don't forget progressive JPGs, which loads the entire height of the image over and over with gradually increasing detail.
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by herpderperator 9y ago
I was also curious, but as I kept reading it seems they may have answered that. > After initially shocking results indicating the brains were partially conscious – which later turned out to be mistaken – the scientists concluded they wer
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by herpderperator 9y ago
If your bank flags and blocks your credit card for suspicious activity which you didn't initiate, are you going to "yeah no" them too, and refuse to call them up? There is nothing wrong with having to call up a financial inst
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by herpderperator 9y ago
I have been paying for YouTube Red since 2015. I really like the YouTube Music app and how I can save songs for offline use, and how it's kept up-to-date with songs I like on YouTube (as well as recommended suggestions) whenever my pho
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by herpderperator 9y ago
Microcode is updated by OSes as well as BIOSes. I explained this in a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16075376
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by herpderperator 9y ago
Yes, they will. Microcode is hot-loaded. There is no way to permanently update a CPU's microcode; it is uploaded to the CPU on each OS boot. They come packaged in the appropriate Windows update or macOS update, or for example on Ubuntu
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by herpderperator 9y ago
That's why I say "you have conflicts" and have them resolve the conflict before I do the review. GitHub, at least, correctly diffs against master after the conflicts are resolved so you don't see any of the merged code (
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by herpderperator 9y ago
Don't bother with repeaters. Get normal access points, and install several of them if you need to disperse the range around a large area/building/complex. If the SSID and security passphrases match, clients will roam seamless
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by herpderperator 9y ago
DSL transfers data over specific frequencies. Certain frequencies will resonate better than others over certain lines. Here is an image of a line test conducted for a VDSL2 customer: http://wut.nz/images/spm/102729
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by herpderperator 9y ago
At my job, before I joined, I was told we were torn between using Go and Rails and ended up with both. Now we have a Rails frontend (for web requests / authentication) and a Go backend (for business logic), which communicate over Thrif
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XSS via SSL Certificates(binaryfigments.com)
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by herpderperator 9y ago
I did something like this (shared kernel and chroot) on an old Nexus S back in 2012 with Gentoo. You can use a precompiled stage3 tarball which contains the fundamental filesystem layout and utilities (for the target architecture), and then
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by herpderperator 9y ago
If anyone on Windows wishes to update their CPU microcode without waiting for Microsoft to push it out via Windows Update, you can use this tool from VMware https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vmware-cpu-microcode-update-d..
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by herpderperator 9y ago
Don't feel bad. She finds it funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv4KrY9GhQQ
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by herpderperator 10y ago
I use the Yubikey Neo with my phone via NFC to unlock my master password database which I use KeePass for. I wear my Yubikey on my necklace, tucked under my shirt and never remove it (it's waterproof, I shower with it.) I type my maste
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by herpderperator 10y ago
Awesome! I am a heavy user of KeePass, and I also use all three main operating systems regularly, so this has always been an annoying issue to have. I usually get around it by using KeePass2Android on my phone and typing out passwords by ha