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by m3047 2y ago
Yes! +1 And it's possible to disable Read Receipts and a lot of people do. A lot of people mangle beacon pixels too.
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by m3047 2y ago
> and then spammed me to boot There is a misunderstanding about how this works and how email works: * Rejecting an email during the SMTP exchange results in the /sending/ server returning a response to the sender. This is NOT s
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> people doing bad things to them inform these innocent third parties Let me also clarify and re-iterate: the people doing bad things to the innocent third parties aren't the bad people, it's the soi disant defenders who are sh
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> The bad actors are never going to tell you they are Let's stop talking about bad actors. The people doing the sniping think they're defenders. The PaaS is staffed by mostly well-intentioned people but they're poorly mana
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I had more in mind that the PaaS goes bad (corruption, incompetence, many causes) and allows bad players in and then yes bad things happen to existing tenants (or new tenants unaware of what's going on). I guess that's part one, b
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Ask HN: Need a better analogy than sniping at goatherders
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> issues of govt or corporate corruption There is a public sector version of the "broken windows" trope: pervasive incompetence and misfeasance serves as an enticement and breeding ground for actual grift and malfeasance.
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Actually it's a rabbit hole to wander around in. But only if you know. IYKYK.
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Web3 / popular crypto is not my bailiwick (although I like math and so unpopular crypto). Your video is three hours long, I'm not going to watch the whole thing, and leave it at that. That's not a slight, but three hours for
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by m3047 2y ago
I'm a fan of KNIME ( https://www.knime.com/ ) for those "Sunday Driver" pipelines that I use heavily for a few days or a week and then shelve for months at a time. It uses Python / Pandas as its code layer
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by m3047 2y ago
Apparently copper thieves are stealing EV charging cables up in Seattle: https://apnews.com/article/electric-vehicles-charging-cables...
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In the United States a ship which consecutively enters two US ports to load and unload a cargo needs to be a US documented vessel. This is not that farfetched, and I have friends in France and worry about their gas supply when New England h
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Wiener functions. I love 'em. An analog application too, top secret in WW II. Now also used in handset to eNodeB comms.
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CI pipelines are worse than that. When a CI pipeline flags a vuln in a dependency it typically goes to the dev couched as a "defect" they need to remedy as part of their unrelated PR. Left entirely out of the consciousness horizon
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by m3047 2y ago
This is funnily ironic. My broadband service <<as a pipe>> is very good. I saw a comment above from someone in Redmond regarding Comcast. I'm kind of "at two" with a lot of the cloud religion; I'm intimately
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> it's about time the world stop running on a kernel written in 1991 In the spirit of debate only, I observe that the Theseus legend concerns the farmer's axe: replaced the handle three times and the head twice, still a damned
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> should you start from scratch Not in somebody else's cloud. :-p But ok. So there is the issue of compilers carrying binary-only payloads, which are only passed on when compiling the compiler. Really paranoid people worry about thi
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> Other drugs that act along the NMDA pathway and apparently Gou Teng, used in traditional chinese medicine and for blood pressure control ("and" because TCM wasn't developed with blood pressure cuffs at hand).
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1) Their idealized attacker "can observe every packet of all communications at any hop in any network path between an initiator and a recipient" 2) Therefore: "Protocols that do not encrypt their payload make the entire conte
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I'm old enough to remember fishing poles hanging out of windows in Alphabet so you could buy drugs.
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Lame delegations are a scourge, like untreated venereal disease; often accompanied by a similar refusal to acknowledge externalities... or that there's any problem at all: works for me! But the DNS community, or bright people trying to
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I recommend running bot motels and seeding with canary links / tokens. When you find out what they're interested in, tailor the poison to the insect.
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Whenever I see wetlands + people hiking around + satellite measurement I am reminded of Mandelbrot and fractals. It was one of Mandelbrot's classic examples. There's a sort of inverse relationship between distance (O(r^1)) of a co
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The only other comment here at this point is "Not worth a read.": is reading itself worth it? Is being human worth it? It's long, it's philosophical. It's not something I'd normally read specifically with the o
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In Mac vs Windows I'm Mac for $reasons. That said my personal daily driver is desktop (not laptop) Linux. I've used primarily Macs at work for several decades; that said, my work focuses on systems running primarily Linux these da
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by m3047 2y ago
In spite of my typo in the parent, I really did send to hn@. I just checked the bounce to be sure.
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@nonramdonstring: The email address hr@... in your profile is broken. You're welcome to try the one in my profile.
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Bear in mind, it is stated in the article that "It is a well-studied phenomenon that humans react with empathy towards artificial systems that display certain human or animal-like characteristics." Cars, boats, airplanes don'
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Was expecting something about a hypothesis or finding that psychopaths are more likely to empathize with AI or feel that it empathizes with them. Didn't find it. (Before Tim Leary became the Acid Guru he did groundbreaking work in grou
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"Security" is not the same thing itself, it cleaves meaning: 1) Hypervigilance; which is unsustainable. 2) Carefree ease; which is what the champion Red Bull athlete achieves from constant practice and repetition. I thank Kelly Sh

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