ls612

27 ms·

421.
by ls612 11mo ago
In this case quite literally suicidal empathy.
422.
by ls612 11mo ago
I’m gonna wait for Scott Manley to discuss it before I form much of an opinion.
423.
by ls612 1y ago
It isn’t who was president it is who supported keeping schools closed.
424.
by ls612 1y ago
I mean I suspect most people on HN have used torrent sites at least a little bit so we are already there.
425.
by ls612 1y ago
No it was Covid. But one party’s dogma was to close schools and force all socialization to be online for almost two years and rather than admit it was wrong and harmful they blame phones instead.
426.
by ls612 1y ago
I think the story is that this was one of the first ever prosecutions under the CFAA and they quickly realized that the fact it had taken down so many systems was an accident (there was a bug in the replication code). The prosecution was ma
427.
by ls612 1y ago
I think the biggest deal with phone security is extracting E2E messages & data or local files on the phone, since most other things the government can subpoena from the service providers if they can't hack the phone. Does doing tha
428.
by ls612 1y ago
TPB? No. But 1337 and rutracker definitely do basic quality control. Nothing like a private tracker but they take down things like .mkv.lnk and similar.
429.
by ls612 1y ago
Yeah but most public trackers will give lots of side eye to torrents that contain an mkv that isn’t in one of those two formats.
430.
by ls612 1y ago
I think that the x264 and hevc codecs are much more battle tested and a 0day for them would be worth enough that nobody would bother using it on random torrenters.
431.
by ls612 1y ago
It isn't even like this is without precedent, the FORCEDENTRY NSO kit used the shitty old JBIG2 parser that Apple was shipping as its entry point despite the fact that approximately nobody was legitimately using JBIG2 in iMessage.
432.
by ls612 1y ago
My mental model of this is “Apple releases new iOS with security patches -> time passes before cellebrite develops an AFU exploit -> Eventually Apple patches the exploit -> go to step 1”. By adding auto reboot Apple ensured that si
433.
by ls612 1y ago
Neither have had any known BFU on the latest iOS for years. AFU is occasionally possible but most of the leaks had latest software and hardware as still protected. Powering off the phone is always still a good idea though if you can.
434.
by ls612 1y ago
iOS was hackable in 2024 for certain hardware (in particular the checkm8 era phones) or for iOS versions which had known vulns at that point. Modern hardware with updates was still listed as “in research” which means “we can’t”.
435.
by ls612 1y ago
Well then why hasn’t the government “discovered” CSAM on apple executives’ computers? We know that at least last year iOS users who had reasonably modern hardware and kept up with software updates were very difficult to hack on par with Gra
436.
by ls612 1y ago
iOS already does both of this afaik. At least the automatic reboot part, I think the USB data functionality is disabled in some cases while locked too.
437.
by ls612 1y ago
I’m not in this market I have a plex server so idk.
438.
by ls612 1y ago
I mean even among android tv sticks alone there are plenty of no name chinese options out there, these things are dirt cheap to make and are basically commodities.
439.
by ls612 1y ago
Imagine this being voted down on hacker news.
440.
by ls612 1y ago
He spends 100k today not in 1970.
441.
by ls612 1y ago
Good god reading is hard. He was in poverty or close to it as a teenager after his dad died, not today.
442.
by ls612 1y ago
My dad’s dad died when he was 13, and this dropped his family from upper middle class to basically in poverty except for owning a fully paid off house. It radically colored his outlook on life and left him risk averse and frugal, even to th
443.
by ls612 1y ago
Water is a pretty good radiation shield so probably not too much. Certainly not good for your health but probably not seriously threatening.
444.
by ls612 1y ago
Does the Seattle police department report uniform crime statistics to the FBI?
445.
by ls612 1y ago
In china the party just declares people it wants to imprison guilty. In the US we have “compliance”. Both serve the same purpose against the people.
446.
by ls612 1y ago
What about the registers?
447.
by ls612 1y ago
SpaceX exists because of commercial resupply but that was still a good deal for the government since it was cheaper than the shuttles or buying extra Soyuz cargo launches.
448.
by ls612 1y ago
It's Mars but with training wheels, since if there are problems stuff can be sent to/from the earth at any time as opposed to waiting for a transit window to open. With water ice in Shackleton Crater at the South Pole a permanent
449.
by ls612 1y ago
There have been several proposed but given the current state of Congress I have my doubts any of them are going anywhere soon.
450.
by ls612 1y ago
Europe may be too far gone but hopefully the US will be OK. If there is one silver lining it is that if any of the site blocking bills get serious consideration this is basically a parade of horribles on a plate for the opponents.

More ›