kobalsky

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by kobalsky 3y ago
Microsoft is beyond evil. The stuff they do in third world countries is like cold war CIA lite. In Argentina, Microsoft bribed their way into having power of police. If you are a company here, any day you can get a email from Microsoft comp
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by kobalsky 3y ago
note to self: synchronous replication may be a problem
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by kobalsky 3y ago
it's important to inform customers about the resiliency of their systems and let them pick how far they are going to invest for it. then you get to eat popcorn when stuff explodes. * single server event. $ * multi server event.
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by kobalsky 3y ago
until you mentioned it though
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by kobalsky 3y ago
that comic is an ugly pimple on computer security's ass that keeps coming back. there's a massive difference between giving away your keys and being compromised without your knowledge. not to mention that are ways to secure data i
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by kobalsky 3y ago
I guess the cost of cutting them off cold turkey would be the backlash from the community.
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by kobalsky 3y ago
> Applo said they would sell for 10M since this keeps being passed down as fact. while it's clear that the apollo guy is a bit awkward, he did clarify in the recorded conversation, that this was intended as a joke. [0] I read it as
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by kobalsky 3y ago
> it was clear reddit was fine with manipulation talking about manipulation, reddit's current ceo edited users comments back when the bad guys were on business side of it. https://www.theverge.com/2016/11&#x2F
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by kobalsky 3y ago
a quote in the articl says: “We trained the system–‘Hey don’t kill the operator–that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that’. So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to commun
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by kobalsky 3y ago
Gotta factor in that the IRS is gonna swipe 35-40% of that before it lands. Unless these awards are not taxed.
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by kobalsky 3y ago
> Sad that I had hoped some exec at Nintendo would veto this approach as "Not Nintendo" I'm guessing it happened to a point. King with their Candy Crush saga had higher revenue and profits than Blizzard [1] for a while now
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by kobalsky 3y ago
I recall reading that their colleagues were saying these guys would fry themselves long before it happened.
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by kobalsky 3y ago
do you want foreign code executing in your browser instead of a cat video? if the answer is no, then you need encryption. EDIT: going beyond security, people have forgotten that this crap happened https://arstechnica.com/tec
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by kobalsky 3y ago
the custom probably comes from the era when people had to pay for SSL certificates, but it's still good security hygiene. it's easy to revoke a certificate that you know was compromised, but what if you don't know it was? a t
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by kobalsky 3y ago
NYC is weird. Been there a few times and it always gave me the impression it's one of those fake cities in Disney. A sea of people on the streets but some buildings seem like 90% empty. Some shops are highly suspect too. My wife wanted
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by kobalsky 3y ago
incentivize development and don't let companies and people hoard residential properties through taxes tailored for that. so, you if want to rent, build first.
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by kobalsky 3y ago
I'm from Argentina. Buying dollars outside the pittance allowed by the government is illegal, so that's not what we are using to buy bread either. The people selling bread don't know what crypto is so yeah, you will use fiat
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by kobalsky 3y ago
if they are ever in financial distress, the US would never let this company get sold to questionable third party or any foreign power. probably some contract that will give them stability will appear from somewhere, at least until the ISS i
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by kobalsky 3y ago
google is exploiting their elasticity to avoid providing a concrete number and making any kind of fair competition impossible with companies that need to be profitable to remain in business. this typical modus operandi of giving away stuff
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by kobalsky 3y ago
> should have read the fine print from what I have read FTX was the only major exchange that didn't claim ownership over your uninvested funds in the fine print, which is the crux of the situation. people using them as a wallet were
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by kobalsky 3y ago
no evidence of recording or exfiltration is not a mitigating factor. they could process the audio stream on the device and then send back information via steganography, mixed in and undetectable within normal traffic. they should not be pee
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by kobalsky 3y ago
>I figured out how to make my dynamic IP still serve requests accounting for IP changes using a background script. If someone has a better solution I’d appreciate that. cloudflare costs $0, scales up to your gigabit connection without bl
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by kobalsky 3y ago
humblebrag
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by kobalsky 3y ago
Maybe this is related to the fact that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was leaked before launch and emulators are already being worked on to make it run properly.
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by kobalsky 3y ago
looks like the devices firmware can still be updated. there's no official definition for "bricking" but it used to mean that the device was irrecoverable, at least by end users, thus as useful as a brick.
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by kobalsky 4y ago
I save the qrcodes in an encrypted folder than I can quickly import into a yubikey with: for i in *.png; do uri=`zbarimg -q --raw "$i"` && ykman oath accounts uri --touch --password "MYYUBIPASS" "$uri&
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by kobalsky 4y ago
It's ironic that the best quality available on youtube for this video is 240p.
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by kobalsky 4y ago
if it's hard to understand maybe there's a rage bait component at play, maybe the people who got sick aren't new-age health nuts but that were kids playing around that zone.
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by kobalsky 4y ago
if it runs linux already using containers has no overhead with a lot of pros. Security just being one. When you ask, why containers?, reask, why sandboxes? if security is important at all, then you have your answer. Containers are so conven
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by kobalsky 4y ago
podman rootless and startup speed was what lured me in, sadly after a couple of years I've switched back to docker, bit happily in rootless mode now too. podman works fine until it doesn't. My hypothesis is that it has some fundam

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