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by mike_d 1y ago
> I suspect a strong link between mass surveillance [...] and the very recent targeting of the senior Iranian nuclear scientist and military officers at their homes in Iran. We all like to imagine this super cool clandestine hacking oper
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by mike_d 1y ago
It can be true for you if your correct your thinking on the problem. CVEs are basically just bugs that are not triggered by normal operation. If you race to "fix" them all, you are going to drown (as you are discovering). Focus on
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by mike_d 1y ago
> I've seen most auditors mandate 30 days for Critical, but you clearly want to move a lot quicker than that. You seem to fundamentally not understand security. A proper security program should never be driven by an auditors expecta
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by mike_d 1y ago
> It is important. This is unfortunate rhetoric that is harming the safety of the internet. DNSSEC was built for exactly one use case: we have to put root/TLD authoritative servers in non-Western countries. It is simply a method for
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by mike_d 1y ago
If you are intending to harass or stalk someone, yes. Simply conducting normal flight operations (like drones making deliveries) is completely outside the realm of local laws. This is one of the many reasons most delivery companies have gon
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by mike_d 1y ago
Correct. Part 91 applies to aircraft (which includes drones). However part 107 more specifically regulates UAS and their operational altitudes.
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by mike_d 1y ago
The FAA has "field preemption" from Congress. Meaning any state or local law that conflicts with the FAA's stated purpose is automatically rendered moot and unenforceable. The FAAs mandate is the efficient operation of aircra
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by mike_d 1y ago
Again this is specific to the US, but there is no law that specifies a minimum altitude for drones as long as it is not touching the ground.
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by mike_d 1y ago
> United States v. Causby (1946) sets the precedent that property owners own the airspace above their property to (at least) 83 feet. Probably one of the most misunderstood cases ever. Causby's complaint was that his chickens were d
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by mike_d 1y ago
This article is from Ireland, but at least here in the US local governments cannot create laws governing anything that is airborne.
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by mike_d 1y ago
> even if it were you'd still find low-altitude flights often illegal Low altitude flights are illegal for a number of reasons, but part of it is separation from drones. Generally the ground to 400 ft is drones, 500-1000 is helicopt
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by mike_d 1y ago
> I’d be really frustrated if my device was compromised by an esoteric audio format that I had no intention of ever listening to. Users get even more frustrated when they want to play something and it does not work. Security is always a
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by mike_d 1y ago
Because we can't trust people to not be shitheads.
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by mike_d 1y ago
> Yeah I used to think that until I had a family. It is amazing how blatantly people will just admit "I agree with politics that benefit me even if they exclude others." > Taxes are more punishing because you're spendin
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by mike_d 1y ago
No, it is discrimination based on marital/family status. If they were willing to sell me 5 flight coupons for a discount, that would be acceptable. There is nothing I can do as an individual to take advantage of the discount.
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by mike_d 1y ago
> For example, Stack Auth is pretty closely aligned to the Next.js ecosystem Please for the love of god don't get sucked into the trap of building front end code for frameworks. Make it work with a 5 line static HTML file and a <
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by mike_d 1y ago
I will word this carefully since I previously worked on crypto de-anonymization attacks, but nothing in this "analysis" seems to be grounded in more than the blockchain developers echo chamber of self congratulation. Amusingly, as
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by mike_d 1y ago
For anyone considering participating, know that A16Z is actively supporting fascism. Their recent "American Dynamism" conference featured a whos-who of the Trump administration including a keynote from JD Vance. They deserve the M
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by mike_d 1y ago
How do you handle data retention? For example say that you suck in the information of a California resident and the company is obligated by law to delete it on request. How do you ensure no derivative data exists within your model?
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by mike_d 1y ago
Most websites only explicitly deny scraping by bad bots (robots.txt). Things like Cloudflare are a completely different matter, and I have a whole batch of opinions about how they are destroying the web. I'd love to compete directly wi
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by mike_d 1y ago
> Google has two interlocked monopolies, one is the search index The index is the farthest thing from a monopoly Google has - anyone can recreate it. Heck, you can even just download Commoncrawl to get a massive head start.
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by mike_d 1y ago
No the solution isn't to pay more. We shouldn't be trying to figure out ways to get more people into shitty hazardous jobs. You don't "pay more" to get more young people and women to apply to moving spent nuclear fu
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by mike_d 1y ago
I challenge anyone who seriously proposes this to first spend a month in a wheelchair. You quickly discover that your sense of scale and freedom of movement is largely a function of your physical capability and financial comfort.
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by mike_d 2y ago
> It essentially causes neurodegenerative diseases, especially if you inhale it. Good thing they do mandatory evacuations before using it and don't let people back in until clean up has happened.
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by mike_d 2y ago
The most common preservatives in food are salt, sorbic acid (occurs naturally in fruit), and sodium nitrate (mined directly out of the ground). If you constantly experience a bitter taste when eating foods you should speak to your doctor. I
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by mike_d 2y ago
You can't have an AI that fills in things automatically and then expect a signature on that document to be legally binding. As soon as you modify the content or suggest what someone fills in, you are no longer a disinterested third par
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by mike_d 2y ago
I don't hold that view point, but if even the critics can see this as something evil, that should tell you something. You can not like your neighbors partying and playing music until 3 AM, but also have the moral compass to know that s
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by mike_d 2y ago
Propaganda is a message. Soft power is a means. For example, Voice of America publishes "Learning English" radio/tv broadcasts, podcasts, and news articles. They are produced with a limited vocabulary (I think a few thousand
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by mike_d 2y ago
> It's amazing how people having visibly never dealt with high loads I've built multiple systems at 1M+ r/s and Tb+ scale. > The case where ports are quickly exhausted is with long connections, typically WebSocket Yes,
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by mike_d 2y ago
> (using no pipelining or multiplexing), "Doctor it hurts when I hit myself" > the number of simultaenous outgoing http connections to backend systems is at least the number of simulatenous open incoming http connections No

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