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by jandrese 1y ago
I think the days of Boeing being able to make the plane with a small focused team is probably in the past. Way too much engineering talent has been outsourced and the R&D just isn't there. It requires a level of vertical integrat
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by jandrese 1y ago
Don't you only have to do that once per machine? After that the kernel should use the key you installed for every module that needs it. It is a pain in the ass for sure, but if you make it part of the deployment process it's man
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by jandrese 1y ago
With every new version C++ takes one step closer to Rust.
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by jandrese 1y ago
You can go back a little further for even more direct analogs.
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by jandrese 1y ago
There are diagnoseable mental illnesses that cause people to believe they are being targeted by sinister forces. They can't believe because their brain is malfunctioning.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Yeah, the majority of the people in the posts were also highly skeptical of the USSS press release. Some of the media outlets did skip over some of the more outlandish points from that press release, but none of them were willing to call t
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by jandrese 1y ago
They found 50g of cocaine, which is more than a personal (not Scarface) use amount of cocaine, but more on the scale of a single dealer. Like the guy running the sim farm was also selling coke on the side.
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by jandrese 1y ago
The thing that caught my eye is the power plug needed an adapter to use the US socket. This suggests the hardware was shipped in from overseas.
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by jandrese 1y ago
The cards are the easy part. It's setting up 100,000 accounts where you run into trouble. There was some traceable payment methods in use here, which might be how they got busted by the Secret Service. The whole thing could have bee
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by jandrese 1y ago
Inside the US? Unlikely. This is physical hardware being shipped to the US, that sort of thing really lacks plausible deniability unlike rolling up phone records in foreign countries that happen to contain American tourist phone calls. If
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by jandrese 1y ago
Probably depends how hard the phone companies are looking at the data. If the cards are mostly idle then they probably don't impact the service at the tower and if there is no service impact then the operators probably don't care
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by jandrese 1y ago
Which makes me wonder how much these guys spent per phone number. If you figure you can use a phone number maybe 2 or 3 times per service before it gets blocked they could create literally millions of accounts with this operation across va
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by jandrese 1y ago
Criminals and intel services using a criminal network? News at 11. The Secret Service is really trying to make hay out of these things being close to UN, but so are millions of other things in the New York City Metro Area . Either they h
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by jandrese 1y ago
Probably because it's way easier to pull a SIM out of the package and stuff it into the reader than it is to go through the QR code/web site/phone app you need to get the eSIM up and running for your provider. What I'm r
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by jandrese 1y ago
The problem is that it's all encrypted.
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by jandrese 1y ago
It's the wrong hardware for the job. The hardware for eavesdropping masquerades as a tower, not as 64 cell phones. A big sim bank like this is useless for that purpose.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Sure, but when you say "triangulation" people know what you're talking about.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Yeah, this makes the guy sound like a mid-high end career criminal. Sells coke to Wall Street guys in the morning. Gets shipments of weird hardware during the day that he drives over to buildings and sets up according to their directions.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Back around 1997 or so I saw the first Map Tile example hosted on an Origin 200. Basically just Google Earth minus the landmarks or directions, but at the time it was mind blowing to start way out in orbit and be able to zoom in on any spo
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by jandrese 1y ago
I’m sure the inspectors general will keep an eye out for this. It would be very bad for the reputation of the administration to have blatant corruption at the top levels.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Also, it may be to avoid overheating the phone. Otherwise you might expect to see a GAN charger where the body is a heat sink.
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by jandrese 1y ago
So many problems with real estate come down to "got mine, fuck you" ordinances.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Yeah, but the government would have to prove it in court, which is hard and takes a long time. As long as there are a bunch of other people doing it chances are you will die of old age before law enforcement does anything about it. Lots
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by jandrese 1y ago
Assuming the DoJ is functional and paying attention.
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by jandrese 1y ago
It would be amusing to see nVidia cores integrated into the chipset instead of the Intel GPU cores. I doubt that is in the cards unless Intel is looking to slash the workforce by firing all of their graphics guys.
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by jandrese 1y ago
You also don't do "rustc build". Cargo is a build system too. The whole point of pkg-config is to tell the compiler where those packages are. I mean yeah, that's the point of having a tool like that. It's fine tha
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by jandrese 1y ago
In Linuxland you at least have pkg-config to help with package management. It's not perfect but neither is any other package management solution. If I'm writing a small utility or something the Makefile typically looks something
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by jandrese 1y ago
Probably to recover the frequency for a newer satellite. The spectrum they transmit on is quite scarce.
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by jandrese 1y ago
> IIRC that sort of thing _wouldn't_ be allowed; the Culture was pretty big on individual rights. You wouldn't go to jail, but you would get a drone that would stop you from doing it. In one of the stories we spend quite a bit
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by jandrese 1y ago
It depends. In a neighboring county they have effectively saturated the grid and had to put a hold on datacenter permits. AI has been undoing a bunch of the efficiency savings we worked hard for in the past 20-30 years.

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