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by jammygit 7y ago
I’m imagining a wave of fake accounts using people’s names and faces happening, maybe even fraudulent blog posts come next election with legal indemnity. They own the name and face after all, no? Same as putting you in a billboard
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by jammygit 7y ago
Jaron Lanier made an observation in one of his books about how technology concepts tend to get locked in, and predicted that MIDI has shaped digital music so much that in 1000 years we might still be stuck with its conceptual foundations. (
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by jammygit 7y ago
Halt and Catch Fire is fantastic, I highly recommend it to everyone.
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by jammygit 7y ago
Also curious! I've looked in the past and had a lot of trouble finding one. A book recommendation would also be very helpful!
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by jammygit 7y ago
Apparently most of the SHA1 hashes of haveibeenpwned passwords were cracked about a year ago: https://blog.cynosureprime.com/2017/08/320-million-hashes-ex... I wonder if segments of the list are around to create a
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by jammygit 7y ago
The government seems like the party most likely to, and most able to, abuse being in control of a trusted security resource. Would you trust the API if it was operated by the USA (NSA), Russia, China, Australia, or the UK?
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by jammygit 7y ago
After just reading that recent article about working conditions at Tesla and the struggles there to produce at high enough quality levels, it is surprising that he is working on this as well. One can't help but to take it seriously con
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by jammygit 7y ago
> In an interview Monday with Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson, Mr. Thiel suggested Chinese intelligence agents are likely to have infiltrated Google as it works on an artificial-intelligence project in the country. Mr. Thiel, in the in
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by jammygit 7y ago
I can’t imagine a more suitable use case for a static site than for documentation. Why on earth?
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by jammygit 7y ago
My wife ordered pizza today and less than a minute later I got an unusual ad for panago pizza in YouTube. I’ve never seen a pizza ad before. I use a VPN and she doesn’t, but it still figures out we live together and connected the dots
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by jammygit 7y ago
I get a lot more seo spam than I used to, but the results are still quite good. I think we should give google some credit for that at least. Like, a lot more seo spam though.
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by jammygit 7y ago
I personally find it hard to trust vs code due to Microsoft. For example, they snuck telemetry in their last windows 7 “security” update. I realize the community could fork it if they did so, but it’s still a bit weird. Maybe it’s just me
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by jammygit 7y ago
Why do people use medium? Does it help with seo or discoverability?
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by jammygit 7y ago
"In such an environment using getrandom() synchronously means we'd block the entire system boot-up until the pool is initialized, i.e. very long." How long is very long? 100ms, or 10s?
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by jammygit 7y ago
The spider glue traps in my basement are harder to feel good about now
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by jammygit 7y ago
What do you do to test the backups?
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by jammygit 7y ago
Right after that $5B fine too
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by jammygit 7y ago
Speaking of backups, what do you all do for yours? I’m embarrassed to admit I only do a weekly backup to a portable drive for my personal data, and mostly use automated snapshots on aws for database contents.
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by jammygit 7y ago
Can you do that fp16 trick and use an 8gb card? Edit: > GPU Memory >= 10G (for fp16)
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by jammygit 7y ago
Apparently the search queries are sent to bing, including ip addresses and the like. If it was more anonymized I would use it in a heartbeat
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by jammygit 7y ago
What should he do if he finds out about a vulnerability then? Does he need a new phone?
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by jammygit 7y ago
Any tips for freelancers who are recent engineering grads? I have some portfolio items, but I still can’t claim more than 1 year experience
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by jammygit 7y ago
> Their rules state that you must have the Upwork Desktop App on you computer which installs some sort of video malware onto your laptop AND have your webcam visible and on at all times so that the customer success agent can audit that y
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by jammygit 7y ago
WRT setting up a desktop as a remote workstation, where can a person go to learn more about how it works? Is it just about setting up port forwarding on your router, then using a proxy to deal with the non-static IP?
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by jammygit 7y ago
Question: my brother just got a used pixel 1 phone. Will it stop getting security updates soon/already?
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by jammygit 7y ago
Club soda works for some people
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by jammygit 7y ago
A security patch that includes spyware. That’s pretty awkward
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by jammygit 7y ago
Just tried the mobile twitch app to check this out. Apparently you can’t watch without logging in now. Amazon much want to know what we’re watching and saying as a requirement of service
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by jammygit 7y ago
Maybe it will stream eventually
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by jammygit 7y ago
I had no idea there were so many Starcraft players on hn. This thread reminds me of team liquid :)

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