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by jdefr89 5y ago
This.. This is exactly what I was thinking. Well put. The complexity it would add the Linux kernel code base would probably, inadvertently, create more security issues. The more code, the larger the attack scope. In general, as a security r
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by jdefr89 5y ago
I am confused. He is basically saying Linux isn't powering all the hardware simply because firmware is running on other more complex peripherals/SoCs on a device. That will always become the case as hardware gets more complicated
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by jdefr89 5y ago
Cool site. Personally, when I am coding, I can't really have noise of any kind else I will be distracted and/or irritated. I know some people who always need light music in the background while they are coding. Just never really w
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by jdefr89 6y ago
Yea, unfortunately they isn't really the case right now as cash is still king and crypto is another gamble. Not to mention, who do you think could buy better hardware? Us or them? There isn't really such thing as decentralized. It
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by jdefr89 6y ago
Love when "No code" solutions come up every so many years just to simply die off.. I remember teaching myself VB6 in sixth grade and after realizing the reason "No Code" solutions are misleading are 1. There isn't r
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by jdefr89 6y ago
Security is also something to be mindful of. A lot of my work as a professional vulnerability researcher is just using my low-level knowledge to circumvent higher level abstractions people usually ignore. The abstractions aren't seemin
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by jdefr89 6y ago
They will need a warrant usually even with stingray. I worked at said company on said technologies and left because I was comfortable with controls in place that prevent law enforcement from abusing it.
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by jdefr89 6y ago
Hey, I used to briefly work on the device in question. It’s capabilities go far beyond just downgrading cellular service. I obviously can’t say much more about it but I am a huge proponent of creating strong laws regarding who can use such
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by jdefr89 6y ago
Hey. Someone who briefly worked on the Stingray team here. I left the company that develops the stingray (who’s name is mentioned in the article but I shall not say it) because I didn’t feel comfortable with the ethics of how it could poten
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by jdefr89 7y ago
I can do similar attacks on ANYTHING in the form of grabbing code and running it on my machine.. If you aren't doing 'curl | bash' recklessly it isn't a problem.
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by jdefr89 7y ago
Did you not read the article? He addresses those points for the most part. The primary idea is that when you run ANY SOFTWARE in reality you have no clue what it might do, you didn't look through every single line of code. There is not
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by jdefr89 7y ago
If I know anything about human behavior than these incidents were a final excuse to get rid of Stallman. I personally don’t care for him, but he has done so much for FOSS. Also I am surprised more people trying to condemn him are not seeing
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by jdefr89 7y ago
I also can’t believe no one mentioned one of the things Go does best... Concurrency. When it comes to its concurrency and parallelism model. Go is just awesome.
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by jdefr89 7y ago
That is definitely what I took from the article. Nothing but a shock-title. Data stores were created because previous solutions were not working as well..
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by jdefr89 7y ago
Well. They may not of intended to do so. But they convinced me more than I already was, that data stores like Redis are needed. This article sounds like they already decided they had a problem with key value stores and tried to rationalize
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by jdefr89 7y ago
I wouldn’t say it is the same kind of bubble. Not all bubbles are created equal. The bubble North Koreans live in vs the one we do are not equivalent.
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by jdefr89 7y ago
There is obviously a balance. If you get a lot of joy from gaming and still lead a productive life you should keep gaming. The "work all day everyday do nothing else!" mindset is destroying our society and causing depression/
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by jdefr89 7y ago
As someonbe who obsessively did/does the same. It might be that most who do such things have a detrimental quality that makes them need to live up to social pressures. While obviously blending in is good. It can become unhealthy quickl
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by jdefr89 7y ago
Lets not forget that most of the people labeled as gifted, are in fact probably not. Identifying a person as "gifted intellectually" at such a young age is bound to be inaccurate. The development of the mind is super complex. And
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by jdefr89 7y ago
This "we need to make kids do more" mindset is cancer in our society. Contributing to burn-out and depression rates that are sky-rocketing. If you have a child please do not put more pressure on him/her than society already s
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by jdefr89 7y ago
I think "being smart" like anything else, has diminishing return. It should be we teach children that you can be very smart, but without work ethic/motivation/passion to go alone, you may not go half as far as you would
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by jdefr89 7y ago
You blatantly ignore the others who did in fact die from radiation exposure.. The case study you were referring to is not grounds for "radiation isn't all that bad.." It poses a significant risk, and since it can mutate/
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by jdefr89 7y ago
I believe the name for what you're trying to describe is called "clinicians error" or something like that? I see your point. But I think the article speaks to the idea that most people equate being gifted with 100% success. W
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by jdefr89 7y ago
Very similar situation. But we are kind of the exception. I just happened to start loving programming/hacking around 6th grade. I spent all my time doing that, mostly sometimes in secret to avoid being viewed as a 'nerd'. Alt
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by jdefr89 7y ago
I am not sure there is one sure fire way to teach kids. Each one is an individual. What works on one child may fail horribly in another. I think that is what we ultimately try to ignore. We want to simplify everything and say we need x or y
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by jdefr89 7y ago
Whenever people hear about these issues (and now pretty much any issue sadly) they always jump to the worst conclusions and stop considering balance, which is ultimately what we need to preserve. This is a complex issue, oversimplifying it
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by jdefr89 7y ago
There is a paywall? Why is this even on front page? I am on phone, maybe I’m missing something.
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by jdefr89 7y ago
This is always the case with any new software. Things may get a bit worse before they get better. Honestly Systemd addresses the complexities of a modern system in the simplest fashion but no simpler, and that is the key. It is in the same
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by jdefr89 8y ago
All these years of arguing over OS and you nailed it right on the head. Just use what you like, multiple OS exist so a choice exists, it’s not about one OS dominating another to a point where the dominee is irrelevant.
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by jdefr89 8y ago
You are a very well trained neural net... The concept is based off of actual Neurons in our brain. Can't tell if you're serious or trolling though lol.

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