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by loydb 8y ago
Randy and Craig (Taran King and Knight Lightning) did an amazing job with Phrack. It was an honor to write for them, and I almost never see them mentioned when people talk about the zine. The zine, and the St. Louis Summercons, were hugely
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by loydb 8y ago
:)
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by loydb 8y ago
reddit.com/r/childfree
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by loydb 8y ago
And you know there are a bunch of intelligence agencies around the world that are either cussing this guy out, or furiously downloading example code (or both).
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by loydb 8y ago
This potentially impacts a ton of infrastructure machines that will be very difficult to patch.
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“God Mode” exploit found in old x86 chips(tomshardware.com)
40 points by loydb 8y ago|16 comments
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by loydb 8y ago
I'm firmly in the 'raise the issue with your boss immediately, and let him own the fire alarm decision' camp.
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by loydb 9y ago
I hate to say it, but the best way to learn to estimate dev time is to do a ton of dev work and learn by bitter experience.
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by loydb 9y ago
(Also, if I'm being pedantic, Sundevil had nothing to do with the the raid either. Sundevil was run by an idiot in Arizona. All of the Legion of Doom-related raids were run by an idiot in Chicago.)
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by loydb 9y ago
Thanks! I was mostly happy with how it came out -- having to rewrite about a third of it because of seized backups was traumatic at the time.
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by loydb 9y ago
Cyberpunk didn't kick off the raid -- that happened because of the BBS I ran, the Phoenix Project. The book was merely a casualty of the war.
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by loydb 9y ago
Based on everything I know from my Apple employee friends, no -- this is what happens when you break the wall of silence. I feel bad for him, it sucks to lose a job, but he should have known better.
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by loydb 9y ago
My campaign started in 1978. We're still playing. Over 60 players have come and gone, but the current crew has a half-dozen of the original players from the 70s and early 80s still going. We've outlasted at least 6 marriages, lots
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by loydb 10y ago
My early 20s were heavily Microprose. Silent Service, Red Storm Rising, various flight sims, and Railroad Tycoon consumed huge blocks of time. This article was a great look back.
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by loydb 10y ago
I love that Nomos was featured heavily. I don't own one yet, but they are for sure my favorite manufacturer.
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by loydb 10y ago
For a really deep dive (albeit an overly-scholastic one) into this topic, check out _Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America_ by Jennifer Sherman. It's a fascinating book (and makes me happy
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by loydb 10y ago
We're heading to Italy in the Spring (from the US). I'll buy a cheap chromebook the week we leave, never use anything but incognito mode, and we'll rent phones in Italy once we're there.
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by loydb 10y ago
No problem, they'll just unload .45 rounds into the vehicle until they hit something that makes it stop.
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by loydb 10y ago
This video is an amazing time lapse of the creation of a Eurorack synth module. It shows you what you'll spend a lot of time doing in a smaller org (smaller, as in, you do everything...). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by loydb 10y ago
^This. I broke into my first mainframe in 1977 because I had to if I wanted to play Colossal Cave Adventure. :) I learned to blue box because I had to if I wanted to talk to my friends around the world and couldn't afford the phone
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by loydb 10y ago
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is definitely my favorite. I don't think Fear no Evil was that bad -- I think it was the last decent book he wrote. I remember reading the serialization of the first few chapters of Number of the Beast in O
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by loydb 10y ago
That one's a little more recent. Agony was our Everquest (and later WoW) guild. We raided together for over a decade. The core of the membership was silicon valley based, and since I travel there a lot, I ended up making many IRL frien
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by loydb 10y ago
You would not believe how many emails I got right after the movie came out from teenage boys wanting me to put them in touch with Jolie...
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by loydb 10y ago
We found out that the SS was filming through hotel mirrors in a couple of rooms during Summercon 88. Poor Knight Lightning had to watch hours and hours of nothing but drunken shenanigans (because nobody trusted the dude who showed up out of
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by loydb 10y ago
It is "board". If someone changed it to "bored", they were wrong.
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by loydb 10y ago
Sup :) #agony4life
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by loydb 10y ago
I was about to jump on an airplane, and didn't really have time for a nuanced response. The OP comment is, likely, from someone who has no idea what hacker culture was like in the 1970s and early 1980s, so I can see how he doesn't
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by loydb 10y ago
Pleased, because I think I'm the answer to the trivia question "What was the first email address to ever appear in a major movie credit roll". Sad, because, damn, is that a bad movie.
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by loydb 10y ago
Story of my life.
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by loydb 10y ago
To be fair, I was pretty damn angsty at the time :) Always exciting to see this pop up someplace new. It's being translated into Polish for a textbook this year as well.

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