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by jnwatson 9mo ago
It is already part of the most common Linux distribution, Android.
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by jnwatson 9mo ago
The attack is simple: the attacker downgrades the phone to a version of firmware that has a vulnerability. The attacker then uses the vulnerability to get at your data. Your data is PIN-protected? The attacker uses the vulnerability to d
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by jnwatson 9mo ago
So much ignorance in this thread. There's nothing new here. All manufacturers worth their salt have this feature. This is ultimately about making the device resistant to downgrade attacks. This is what discourages thieves from stealin
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by jnwatson 9mo ago
The whole point of this is so that when someone steals your phone, they can't install an older vulnerable version of the firmware than can be used to set it back to factory settings which makes it far more valuable for resale.
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by jnwatson 9mo ago
Participation of the victim makes prosecution easier. That's all pressing charges means, even if it isn't what many people understand it to be.
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by jnwatson 9mo ago
My working hypothesis is that some jobs are inherently isolating and that gradually leads to mental deviance. CEOs and cartoonists are similar in this way. He didn't have peers to challenge him on anything, and after a couple decades
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by jnwatson 9mo ago
Huh? Mao didn't even found the CCP. Arguably, Chiang Kai-shek had more to do with "throwing off imperialism" than Mao.
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by jnwatson 9mo ago
The current solution is obfuscation. They make the mapping from physical state to actual key complicated enough that you have to reverse engineer a lot of the logic.
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by jnwatson 10mo ago
The best toy my sister and I got is a now long-discontinued product called Omagles. They were brightly colored tubes and panels you connected with plastic clips. They were strong enough to stand and climb on. They even had wheels we coul
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by jnwatson 10mo ago
UVA triggers the release of nitric oxide from the skin into the bloodstream. This causes blood vessels to dilate, lowering blood pressure and improving circulation.
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by jnwatson 10mo ago
If you disassemble a modern GPU, that's what you'll find. 95% by weight of a GPU card is cooling related.
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by jnwatson 10mo ago
The subtle bit of humor was the reposting of the algodrill LeetCode practice site. It is depressing that I'll be almost 60 years old and still drilling Aho-Corasick.
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by jnwatson 10mo ago
I committed the project I maintain to GitHub Actions when Actions first came out, and I'm really starting to regret it. The main problem, which this article touches, is that GHA adds a whole new dimension of dependency treadmill. You n
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by jnwatson 11mo ago
I caught it on the airplane a few days ago. I would have loved a little more technical depth, but I guess that's pretty much standard for a puff piece. It is interesting that Hassabis has had the same goal for almost 20 years now. He
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by jnwatson 11mo ago
Exactly. I shorted Sears in 2005 when Lampert took over. I knew he was going to drive that company into the ground. Sears went bankrupt in 2018. It took a long time for the market to catch on.
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by jnwatson 11mo ago
If you're going to go through the effort of learning a new language, it makes sense to consider another language altogether, one without 30 years of accumulated cruft.
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by jnwatson 11mo ago
Like the Linux kernel? Macros are simply a fact of life in any decent-sized C codebase. The Linux kernel has some good guidance to try to keep it from getting out of hand but it is just something you have to learn to deal with.
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by jnwatson 11mo ago
There's a big gap of knowledge between infosec researchers and ML security researchers. Anthropic has a bunch of column B but not enough column A. This was discussed in some detail in the recently published Attacker Moves Second paper*
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by jnwatson 11mo ago
While I didn't disagree with his general politics, he is absolutely right that the US has largely pulled up the ladder behind them. The average age of a first time home buyer is now 40. The American dream of having a home and a family
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by jnwatson 1y ago
Beer is typically only 2-3 percent ethanol. Its freezing point is only slightly below 0 C.
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by jnwatson 1y ago
Smart kids can be a distraction as well. It certainly would have benefitted me to enter G&T at Kindergarten instead of 3rd grade. Much of my first grade was spent separate from the other kids doing 5th grade workbooks.
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by jnwatson 1y ago
While I think this is Rust's biggest flaw, this doesn't stem from any particular hatred of C/C++. This is related to memory safety, as it is very difficult to reason about memory lifetimes of object graphs with cycles.
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by jnwatson 1y ago
I've started to use agents on some very low-level code, and have middling results. For pure algorithmic stuff, it works great. But I asked it to write me some arm64 assembly and it failed miserably. It couldn't keep track of whic
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by jnwatson 1y ago
Em dashes are widely used. The diaeresis is only used in The New Yorker and those that copied their style.
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by jnwatson 1y ago
> "SE is a low class low power field" This is the difference with FAANGs. Software engineering is king. The inmates are running the asylum. Google is at least 4x as efficient as other large companies I've worked for. Nea
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by jnwatson 1y ago
As the article mentions, why not just delegate it to a library dedicated to the solution? c-ares is a solid, well-maintained library.
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by jnwatson 1y ago
ASN.1 implements message versioning in an extremely precise way. Implementing a linter would be trivial.
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by jnwatson 1y ago
Enterprise Chrome is just regular Chrome with remote policy enforcement. It isn't a different browser.
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by jnwatson 1y ago
It is amazing that big endian is almost dead. It will be relegated to the computing dustbin like non-8-bit bytes and EBCDIC. Main-core computing is vastly more homogenous than when I was born almost 50 years ago. I guess that's a natur
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by jnwatson 1y ago
Older people that grew up with "desktop publishing" and "The Mac is not a Typewriter" grew up with the em dash.

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