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Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for 'Full Control' Cheating (2023)(wired.com)
3 points by lurkshark 1y ago|1 comments
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Army says it's mitigated 'critical' cybersecurity deficiencies in NGC2 prototype(breakingdefense.com)
2 points by lurkshark 1y ago|1 comments
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by lurkshark 1y ago
I wonder if there was an aspect to it where the scam was so audacious that they figured it wasn’t a scam. Like a “there’s no way they would generate millions of fake users which would obviously get caught post-acquisition, we must be missin
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Inside North Korea's effort to infiltrate U.S. companies(cnn.com)
7 points by lurkshark 1y ago|2 comments
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Reindexing Adult NSFW Content(itch.io)
25 points by lurkshark 1y ago|5 comments
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by lurkshark 1y ago
It doesn’t have to be the case that everyone who supports age verification has the same reasons. In the US however, this campaign came from the same think tanks and strategists associated with Project 2025 (taking cues from folks like Enoug
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by lurkshark 1y ago
> Why was it possible for him to enter? This is probably the main one. I could completely understand wanting the assistance of a loved one for mundane things like standing up. Although to your “not prepped for MRI” point, it is kind of w
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by lurkshark 1y ago
Let’s say summer break is basically 3 months. I as a parent need to figure out childcare for that 3 month period at the beginning of summer. This is a much more time consuming endeavor than most would expect (or at least more than I expecte
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by lurkshark 1y ago
If I’m remembering correctly, Conficker was the first major use of this technique. They used a relatively small domain pool (250) so the registries were able to lock them up preemptively. I remember a couple legitimate sites getting slammed
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by lurkshark 1y ago
The congressional decision was to scrap the continued development of the DMSP satellites, not to decommission the existing ones or stop the data sharing arrangement. The DoD confirmed the DMSP is still operating and will continue to do so b
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by lurkshark 1y ago
> Signal really should support bots. I feel the same way. If Signal supported bots/an API and “Communities” (in the WhatsApp sense) I’d finally be able to cutover all my use-cases from Discord. I get that the E2EE is a bit tricky fo
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by lurkshark 1y ago
I wouldn’t really expect a Trump administration spokesperson to put out a statement critical of the Trump administration’s decision.
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by lurkshark 1y ago
If you pirate a book on software engineering and then use that knowledge to start a career, do you owe the author the royalties they would be paid had you bought the book? If the career you start isn't software engineering directly but
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by lurkshark 1y ago
I have a pet theory that the world would be slightly better place if the United States Postal Service had launched a convenient and free (taxpayer-funded) email service before Google: 1. I think folks would be naturally more skeptical of th
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by lurkshark 1y ago
This was exactly my experience as well. It’s kind of funny now with the internet having endless information on illusions to think folks were so miffed by his show. But also — and this might just be my personal bias as someone who always lov
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by lurkshark 1y ago
I agree with you to some extent, but what I’ll add is that “big tech” is well positioned to weather these changes. The part that concerns me is that this will probably push small companies to take on VC money they otherwise wouldn’t need to
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by lurkshark 1y ago
This is also one of the most undersold benefits to hiring interns and entry-level developers.
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by lurkshark 1y ago
I’m actually worried we’ve gotten a kickstart on that process already. Anecdotally it seems like entry level developer jobs are harder to come by today than a decade ago. Without the free-money growth we were seeing for a long time it seems
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by lurkshark 1y ago
Unfortunately Craigslist pushed a precedent that puts scraping into risky territory. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_Inc._v._3Taps_Inc . Obviously this was a much different circumstance than a not-for-profit
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by lurkshark 1y ago
This system actually existed for awhile, it was called Coinhive. Each visitor would be treated like a node in a mining pool with “credit” for the resources going to the site owner. Somewhat predictably it became primarily used by hackers wh
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by lurkshark 1y ago
The on-again-off-again of the tariffs throws another wrench in there. It would be a big gamble to start building a domestic factory right now because you don’t know if the tariffs are going to stick around long enough to make it worth it. P
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by lurkshark 1y ago
Even with no children of your own, you still reap benefits from living in a society where children are fed.
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by lurkshark 1y ago
I think the rebuttal to the majority of these arguments is “So you want children to go hungry to prove a point?”
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by lurkshark 1y ago
In another reply Wyze said they too paused most of their shipments but decided to eat the cost of this one because it was for a commitment to a retailer.
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by lurkshark 1y ago
During the last Trump trade war with China, there was about $28B paid out to American farmers as “Market Facilitation Payments”. So basically the taxes collected from our own tariffs went to subsidizing the impact of retaliatory tariffs. Th
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by lurkshark 1y ago
I have the same concerns on this language but I’m wondering if there might be a slight language barrier issue if English isn’t their first language. They may have meant to use a word like “certify” which I could see translating to “guarante
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by lurkshark 1y ago
This seems ineffective on a couple levels. One is that Proton users are a population that’s much more likely to be using a VPN anyway (they even offer a VPN service themselves). Another is that unless non-blocked providers reject email from
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by lurkshark 2y ago
Whenever I read about pair programming as a standard technique (like XP) it sounds so great in theory but in practice I find it extremely draining whenever I’ve dabbled.
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by lurkshark 2y ago
I took a look at your bio but after a glance (forgive me if I’m missing something obvious) it looks like you do consulting but I don’t see FOSS for sale. I’m curious what your project is if it’s something else, but if it’s consulting that m
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by lurkshark 2y ago
This comes up occasionally and while it’s 100% true FOSS doesn’t mean you can’t get paid, any sufficiently big project is going to get folks repackaging it without the payment component. A good example is for-sale Wordpress plugins. There a

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