mike_d

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by mike_d 3y ago
Snowflake uses domain fronting[1] for rendezvous. It is the digital equivalent of a spy having their secret meetings inside an unsuspecting friends house, and it always eventually it goes bad for that friend. The technique is heavily used b
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by mike_d 3y ago
> > However, to connect a USB 2.0/1.1 device to a USB-C host, use of Rd[57] on the CC pins is required, as the source (host) will not supply VBUS until a connection is detected through the CC pins. Yup. You are referring to the U
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by mike_d 3y ago
This was an extremely well written and thoughtful postmortem, but I hope to never see one from you again. :)
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by mike_d 3y ago
> doing that sort of thing is almost certainly a waste of time. A waste of time for both parties, because the author is wrong. As Wikipedia helpfully points out: "The designation C refers only to the connector's physical config
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by mike_d 3y ago
That was specifically my point. You can't quantify any value gain of good journalism. Hiring a 10% better writer doesn't earn you 10% more money. I quoted the revenue per employee numbers because they highlight the fact that hirin
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by mike_d 3y ago
> There are tons of private collectors, but lots of LE agencies are doing it too. A good 90% of hits are from one of two sources: fixed traffic installations and parking garages. Maybe 10 years ago repo companies would put them on trucks
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by mike_d 3y ago
> Administrative Boundaries: A global open dataset of national and regional administrative boundaries, this boundary data includes regional names which have been translated into over 40 different languages to support international use. O
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by mike_d 3y ago
Average citizens are not the ones operating bulk collection systems. They are simply writing down a plate number of the car parked next to them when they find a giant door scratch in a parking lot.
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by mike_d 3y ago
It is being downvoted because it is a silly idea. These systems are ran in cooperation with the state, who in turn would just un-OTP your plate at the time of scan. That means average citizens are the only ones who would end up with less da
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by mike_d 3y ago
Even better, they lease the camera systems to police departments to put on traffic lights at major intersections and along highways. When doing a search very few of the hits I've seen have been from vehicle mounted cameras.
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by mike_d 3y ago
Keys like this should never be used by a team. They should never touch a developer or devops workstation. They exist in prod only inside of an HSM. High performance HSMs capable of handling 10k+ transactions/second are well within th
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by mike_d 3y ago
> While you were correct at one time based on trends in the industry, "OMG YOU'LL NEVER GUESS HOW THIS CHILD CELEB TURNED OUT" content never cemented itself. It had a high-water mark and that kind of thing hasn't made
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by mike_d 3y ago
> As a journalist I think it misses the mark somewhat by failing to account for the value of reporting. At a revenue level how do you quantify that value? Unless you are a brand (TIME, Washington Post, etc) the only metrics are page view
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by mike_d 3y ago
> I'll be damned if you can't have a throat to choke in less than 10 minutes whenever something like this happens That is a hell of generous description for a person who sits in your Slack instance and responds with "I hav
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by mike_d 3y ago
Not at all. You can have a single prompt with a single accept button if you are only using functional cookies on a site.
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by mike_d 3y ago
Is there a torrent link this time?
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by mike_d 3y ago
You're just being overly pedantic. They hold their breath, fully submerge, control their buoyancy, and propel themselves through water. Also known as swimming.
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by mike_d 3y ago
DNSSEC failures result in denial of service. Turning it on in no way makes the experience safer for an end user.
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by mike_d 3y ago
> I can only assume they gather data about your home network and sell it to third parties, and don't want to lose that revenue stream Nah. You are just paying for the privilege of breaking their unified management platform. As an IS
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by mike_d 3y ago
Self-reply since I can't edit my comment anymore. It looks like they are fixing this: https://github.com/superfly/tokenizer/pull/9
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by mike_d 3y ago
This is really cool, but I think it ends up just being a complicated decryption oracle? If I compromise your rails app, and (hypothetically) Stripe allows me to specify the message as it appears on a users credit card statement, could I not
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by mike_d 3y ago
Paper has an autoignition (spontaneous combustion) temperature of 842 °F (450 °C) and a flash point (set alight by static) at 662 °F (350 °C). Either way, both temperatures are much higher than 451 °F (233 °C)—books don’t catch fire at this
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by mike_d 3y ago
During a fire even a "fire safe" will reach extremely high temperatures. The goal of the box is to keep the internal temperature below 800 degrees (the autoignition point of paper). I can't imagine the internals of the NAS ac
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by mike_d 3y ago
If the cure is powerful enough to self replicate and resource starve the cavity causing bacteria, there is literally no business model. You could in theory swab a treated persons mouth and grow your own cultures.
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by mike_d 3y ago
> There are suspicions that fouride isn't good for us, and I mean beyond our precious bodily essences too, but in terms of teeth, it's been miraculous. Fluoride is weird. Everyone just assumes some is good so more must be bette
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by mike_d 3y ago
Dangerzone is an implementation of a concept known as CDR (Content Disarm & Reconstruction), where you convert anything to an image inside a sandbox, and then convert the raw pixel data back into an image inside a different sandbox. It
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by mike_d 3y ago
> Intel just slapped a chip in a generic case. The "NUC" was actually an Intel developed form factor, smaller than Micro ATX. They had to engineer motherboards, power supplies, and cooling for the extremely small footprint. The
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by mike_d 3y ago
> So, you can embed, well insert, "other files" in a Word document. The point of the article is that it wasn't running Office, but a less featured clone.
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by mike_d 3y ago
99% of their target audience does not live in Silicon Valley. Go to LA for example and you'll find creative professionals that need "pro" level gear but appreciate the white-glove Apple service of showing them around and answ
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by mike_d 3y ago
Only at a relatively small number of dealerships/brands and you're getting a base model car from the service loaner fleet. It is really more intended for people who have been in accidents and their insurance is paying for the rent

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