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China captures powerful US NSA cyberspy tool(globaltimes.cn)
4 points by madars 5y ago|2 comments
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by madars 5y ago
Won't there be a Pluton-based anti-cheating solution? Seems like a natural opportunity for Microsoft. Edit: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/01/pluto... says > Microsoft already use
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by madars 5y ago
Archive: https://archive.ph/O8VXn Press release: https://usa.visa.com/about-visa/newsroom/press-releases.rele... Mastercard too: https://www.mastercard.com/news/press/202
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by madars 5y ago
Source: https://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/27/02/2022/621a7f4f9... and quoted here: https://lenta.ru/news/2022/02/27/intelamd/ I submitted it as https:&#x2
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U.S. Treasury Announces Unprecedented and Expansive Sanctions Against Russia(home.treasury.gov)
59 points by madars 5y ago|38 comments
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by madars 5y ago
Regulation itself: https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2022-04300.pdf Note the appendix: "Countries listed in this supplement No. 3 have committed to implementing substantially similar export controls on Russ
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U.S. Department of Commerce and BIS Russia Rule Fact Sheet(commerce.gov)
2 points by madars 5y ago|1 comments
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Punishing Putin: How Biden could cut Russia off from world tech(finance.yahoo.com)
7 points by madars 5y ago|4 comments
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by madars 5y ago
The worst part about Discord is that it is against their ToS to use third-party clients (and there are reports of people's accounts being banned for them making the black hole effect worse). In particular, you can't have a client
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by madars 5y ago
Yep. But there is also potential for civil disobedience / mischief there.
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by madars 5y ago
Might be useful: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuarg , a third-party Android app, can force an AirTag to make a sound even if Apple hasn't determined that tag has been following you (the BLE characteristic is un
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by madars 5y ago
There is: rejection sampling means that you don't ruin uniformity but your key space necessarily shrinks. As a thought experiment, imagine if you fixed all but the last hex digit of the public key to be your favorite string -- there ar
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by madars 5y ago
What about network level privacy? i.e. they'd also want to minimize the linkage between broadcast patterns and characteristics of those 100k addresses
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by madars 5y ago
Taylordle: https://www.taylordle.com/ -- words from Taylor Swift lyrics
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by madars 5y ago
The gold standard for academic watermark removal used to be (and maybe still is?) https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia . Not sure if it edits Elsevier's metadata though.
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by madars 5y ago
100% agree. I also miss IrfanView. I ended up replacing foobar2000 with mpd+ncmpcpp for the lightweight experience but it is nowhere near the same. I have not seen any replacements for Total Commander and it doesn't work well enough un
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by madars 5y ago
You might enjoy Stripe's "APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning" -- https://stripe.com/blog/api-versioning Original HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by madars 5y ago
For those who might not know the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
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Inside the Secret World of Russia's Cold War Mapmakers (2015)(wired.com)
3 points by madars 5y ago|0 comments
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by madars 5y ago
Yep! Wikipedia has a very useful visual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication#/media/F...
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by madars 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27
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by madars 5y ago
I think for v2 onions (removed from Tor since this past Fall) HSDir operators could enumerate them, but v3 onions (ones in use now) should be resistant to that. I'm not sure how strongly resistant though.
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by madars 5y ago
Source document: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1462481/downl...
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by madars 5y ago
But that doesn't get you to millions (plural, post-tax) in 4 years...
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by madars 5y ago
Yeah this sounds highly problematic. Maybe in the meantime you can text links to your own portal instead. I.e. "New SMS received from +123... . Read it at: https://your-internal-infrastructure.com/sms/[GUID] "
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by madars 5y ago
I like the idea. I wonder what requirements should placed on its use: 911 has features that could lead to denial-of-service https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29495078 (e.g. if a flashmob decided to 822 at the same time).
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by madars 5y ago
It is worth pointing out that while Google will not push an emergency hotfix for this for a whole month (promised time: January 4 update), they did push a contract tracing malware for everyone in Massachusetts https://news.ycom
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by madars 5y ago
Clearly need to correct for selection bias: we don't watch YouTube videos of non-eventful Tesla turns.
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by madars 5y ago
For those who might not have seen this reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbVMdPDS1ak . Oh, VBScript, those were the times!
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by madars 5y ago
On Linux, use network namespaces https://www.wireguard.com/netns/ . Create a separate VPN namespace and have wgN be the only non-loopback interface there, then run your application in that namespace. This also solves W

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