mike_d

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by mike_d 7mo ago
No they should not. They should donate that money to non-profit public utility operators instead.
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by mike_d 7mo ago
You seem to be missing the point that they should be public utilities. Tech companies are exceedingly good at giving things away for free to get all the "market share" and then monetizing.
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by mike_d 7mo ago
Well I can tell there are at least 2 other people crawling every number incrementally... Numberwang!
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by mike_d 7mo ago
Sometimes when doing offensive security work you end up in the strangest environments with limited tools, odd quirks, broken shells, and god knows what else. But you know what is almost always available and just works? PHP.
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by mike_d 7mo ago
TLDR: A weight loss diet centered around a big breakfast yields weight loss results. That breakfast loaded with protein made you feel fuller and suppressed your appetite (which helps you follow a diet), where a fiber loaded diet produced mo
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by mike_d 7mo ago
Pharmaceutical companies don't just fund research without having a model of the expected costs to bring something to market, the expected market size, and the viability and cost effectiveness of other potential treatments. They have en
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by mike_d 7mo ago
That is exactly how clinical research works. My mother worked running clinical trials for two decades. When she was diagnosed with leukemia she was able to get into a research study herself that gave us 10 more years together. One of the ho
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by mike_d 7mo ago
ADSBX used to be volunteer ran until JETNET paid the guy who controlled the domain name $20 million dollars to "sell" it to them and steal everyone else's source code and data. They now do selective filtering to appease thei
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by mike_d 8mo ago
> Everyone predicted twitter would crash and burn within months of the layoffs. It did, just not obviously. Twitter used to be the store brand social network, vanilla and reliable but not overly obnoxious. It made good money from brand a
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by mike_d 8mo ago
I have no doubt that that rank and file engineers were not aware of the underlying functionality that allowed for plain text content to be read. Nobody would ever create a SendPlainTextToZuck() function that had to be called on every messag
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by mike_d 8mo ago
This is a tired trope. Depending exclusively on obfuscation (security by obscurity) is not safe. Maintaining confidentiality of things that could aid in attacks is absolutely a defensive layer and improves your overall security stance. I lo
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by mike_d 8mo ago
Looking over the code it does not appear to actually do anything. If you want something like this check out https://pterodactyl.io/ It has pre-built support for like 100 games: https://github.com/pterodactyl
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by mike_d 9mo ago
Shameless self promotion: preview.ninja is a site I built that does this and supports 300+ file formats. I'm currently weekend coding version 2.0 which will support 500+ formats and allow direct data extraction in addition to safe view
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by mike_d 9mo ago
I'm gonna let you in on a secret... 99% of Mac users don't know what the Dock is called.
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by mike_d 9mo ago
That only addresses half the problem and is just a suggestion vs something clients can't ignore.
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by mike_d 9mo ago
I have always been a bit puzzled by this. By issuing fixed length certificates you practically guarantee oscillation. If you have a massive traffic spike from, say, a CDN mass reissuing after a data breach - you are guaranteed to have the s
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by mike_d 9mo ago
You mean the same Germany that uses its domestic access to the bargain basement cloud providers like Hetzner and Contabo to de-anonymize Tor users for international law enforcement? Or the Germany that bought Crypto AG along with the CIA to
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by mike_d 9mo ago
I would love to see a US specific version of this as well. Something similar to GovCloud with the same security controls and employee vetting but accessible to commercial customers.
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by mike_d 9mo ago
It is using the ?s= parameter which causes WordPress to initiate a search for a random string. This can result in high CPU usage, which I believe is one of the DoS vectors that works on hosted WordPress.
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by mike_d 9mo ago
> Some Venezulean sources claim US troops on a helicopter initially tried to capture a beach to turn it into a beachhead With a myoptic view of the battlefield it is easy to convince yourself that the distractions launched to keep the mi
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by mike_d 9mo ago
> Why not create a "builder" repo, where people could generate their own local datasets by a bounding box? If you read the bottom of the page they plan to sell it. Not sure how that works when all the software/data is open
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by mike_d 9mo ago
Microsoft managed to make every other release of Windows good. 95 good, NT 4 bad, 98 good, 98 SE bad, 2000 good, Me bad, XP good, Vista bad, 7 good... The plan with Windows 10 was to light their desktop market share on fire in the hopes the
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by mike_d 9mo ago
> such a yawning chasm of gaps in knowledge ... in a forum whose users are generally known to be more technically savvy There is a heck of a Dunning–Kruger joke to be made here.
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by mike_d 10mo ago
I am glad you brought this up, that is another big issue with IPv6. A lot of the problems it was trying to solve literally don't exist anymore. Header processing and alignment were an issue in the 90s when routers repurposed generic co
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by mike_d 10mo ago
This is a lot of basically sharpshooting, but I will address your last point: > There was no way to move from 32-bits to >32-bits without every network stack of every device element (host, gateway, firewall, application, etc) getting
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by mike_d 10mo ago
IPv4 isn't perfect, but it was designed to solve a specific set of problems. IPv6 was designed by political process. Go around the room to each engineer and solve for their pet peeve to in turn rally enough support to move the proposal
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by mike_d 10mo ago
Have a look at cdb. The more you read about its simplistic design the more you realize it is damn near the perfect solution for static and semi-static datasets. Fetches are either 1 or 2 disk reads depending on if the key exists. https:&#x
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by mike_d 10mo ago
Simon and GGP combined do own an overwhelming percentage of all retail square footage in the US, but lets at least consider the rest of the argument here. Apple's "shelf space" is not free. There are constant R&D expenses
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by mike_d 10mo ago
There’s a Best Buy a few miles from my house. Why aren't I allowed to put my own products on their shelves, or set up a little folding table next to the phone accessories to sell my own cases? It is not fair to me as a merchant that ev
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by mike_d 10mo ago
I can see how it can be confusing. If you know demand will go up because Microsoft announced that each new Xbox will have 2TB of RAM, that is perfectly fine. Or if OpenAI issues a press release that they intend to buy half the worlds RAM. I

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