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by mikem170 5y ago
I browsed some other articles on the site you linked. Wow. So many mitigations, yet still so many potential vulnerabilities. What a hassle to worry about all this! I'm reminded of a favorite movie quote that be appropos: "The only
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by mikem170 5y ago
Openbsd is very competitive with Linux performance wise for a thinkpad user. Runs plenty fast enough on my vps, also. I haven't run any benchmarks but I've never waited on anything. I believe you that linux is faster, but it'
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by mikem170 5y ago
Thanks for that link. I'll have to dig into a few of those things more, ROP is something I have not bumped into before. Comparisons to Windows/Mac/Chrome/Android security are kind of a moot point for me, given that they
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by mikem170 5y ago
I started off with a shell script full of comments with quick step-by-step notes to myself on how I setup my laptop. Here's a sample: #!/bin/sh # TODO: install openbsd, from prepared usb or ethernet # full dis
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by mikem170 5y ago
> What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Unixy goodness. Secure. Consistent. Excellent documentation. Makes a great firewall, vpn, and/or router. Makes a great desktop as long as you can live within the open bsd package&#x
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by mikem170 5y ago
I know what you mean, sometimes it seems that little kids always have a runny nose. I've assumed it would be a long-term bad thing if we don't allow for this. Perhaps it is better for kids to encounter all these rhinoviruses and c
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by mikem170 5y ago
Hospitals and related services are optimized for efficiency, not flexibility. They don't like having empty beds that aren't being used, or idle workforces. So when something out of the ordinary happens they can't deal with it
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It is true that kids are always spreading respiratory ailments. We've always had to live with this risk. It seems to matter how dangerous the situation is, how helpful closing the schools actually is, and how much harm we are doing to
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The wikipedia page on the vault 7 mentioned a number of specific vendors that patched their software, cisco for example [0]: > Cisco quickly reassigned staff from other projects to turn their focus solely on analyzing the attack and to f
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> The main problems that the Institute of Virology has is that the outbreak occurred in close proximity to that Institute. The first outbreak occurred in Wuhan, but there's no proof that the first cases were in Wuhan. In fact there&
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Maybe they should upload the video in question to vimeo and/or peertube, and not just youtube?
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Originally corporations were given permission by the government to exist individually based on them serving some public good. That's why the owners were given limited liability. "In summary, all corporations are state-chartered; g
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Care should probably be taken when externalizing the costs. For example, the noise of drones (something new) versus the noise of roads (something that already exists). The people who didn't order the coffee have to listen to the noise.
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You brought up a log of topics, some more fringe than others. I think there's been a lot of changes in the world the past few decades that have left a lot of people feeling culturally adrift. Lack of trust in various institutions. Perh
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Looking at population numbers is different than looking at individual tragedies.
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> If people want to live in their own version of reality I don’t care. But when their version of reality is ruining it for the rest of us, it is a problem Are you sure that is a true statement? What exact ruination are you referring to?
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There's tons on science talking about the immune system response from a covid infection. From what I've seen the protection conferred from the immune system response to the virus is at least as good as vaccine immunity and perhaps
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by mikem170 5y ago
Perhaps immunity wasn't the right word. Protection may have been a better term. People's second cases aren't as bad as their first, in general, because their body's immune system is better able to respond after a first i
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The same number of people have died in Sweden and Norway over the last four years [0]. For some reason more people died in Norway than in Sweden in the couple years before the pandemic, then Sweden caught up during the pandemic. They are ti
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by mikem170 5y ago
Some of the vaccines, like the Johnson & Johnson, are single dose. It's possible that the mRNA vaccines at a single dose are better.
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Yes you can. Most of those refusing the vaccine will eventually catch this and have natural immunity.
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Natural immunity? But then again, I seem to remember that the 97% number was not a fair enough random sampling.
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>Especially since SARS-CoV-2 mutates faster than the flu virus. This doesn't jive with what I have heard, that SARS-CoV-2 mutates rather slowly, like other coronaviruses. And that the flu is completely different, having the ability
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> Complex societies depend on assuming good faith. Maybe stuff like this exposes the fact that the media are not as reliable as we think. If they are propagating this fake news, what other fake news are they propagating?
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That's not going to convince anyone that thinks differently than you, especially the koolaid part. Even honest people who agree on a set of numbers, like the current U.S. death count of 1 in 493 people, may interpret those numbers quit
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by mikem170 5y ago
(not the person you are replying to...) One might look at Switzerland. A big difference between there and the U.S. seems to be that the people can petition for a vote on adding or removing any law or amendment they don't like, at any o
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Maybe not a good enough job was done explaining and educating people on the reasons, risks, and odds. Both then and now. It seems like it would be better to convince people than to try to force them. Many don't take kindly to being for
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We had some success making it easy for engineers. User documentation was inline with the code (think perldoc/pydoc). Developer documentation (as comments) was also co-located with the relevant code. This automatically gave us man pages
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No, there were not animal reserves for smallpox. And that makes a huge difference. There are a lot of mammals that can host coronaviruses. We'd have to eliminate it from those animals, also. Things like bats, civits, minks, etc. This i
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> Same with climate issues, tobacco industry, opioid crisis... A small, vocal, well organized minority can have it their way and the rest of us stand by and suffer. > I would love to hear of a better way Democracy! People should have

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