mr_mitm

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by mr_mitm 1y ago
Why did that almighty watchmaker create anti matter in the first place that anihilates the normal matter? They could have just created the normal matter and zero anti matter. Why carefully fine tune these number? All of these situations are
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
Just for the record, CC is about the cost of a Netflix subscription, and it responds faster than any human can.
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
Your assessment is spot on, but for whatever reason it's extremely popular with amateur physicists. The HN crowd likes it a lot, too. Almost every thread about dark matter has at least one comment that goes like "I'm not a ph
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
Me too, I even set up mutt such that it shows that header in pink in the default view, and a hotkey that opens that link in firefox container.
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I work in security and have even performed phishing simulations. Want to know how to get me to click on your link? Send me a newsletter mail with an unsubscribe link. I will click 100% of the time no matter how weird the domain looks. (I wo
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
And then what? The end goal of phishing is either that the victim enters credentials or downloads a malicious file. Neither of which would be prevented by your scheme (even anti virus products are imperfect). Phishing with the goal of explo
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
When they owe you money, they refuse to pay up if it's less than 4€: https://preview.redd.it/danke-db-es-geht-mir-nicht-um-die-3-... However, if I try to explain to them I cannot purchase tickets costing less than 4€
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
The other day, I needed Claude Code to write some code for me. It involved messing with the TPM of a virtual machine. For that, it was supposed to create a directory called `tpm_dir`. It constantly got it wrong and wrote `tmp_dir` instead a
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
A meticulous coder probably wouldn't have typed out 40 URLs just because they want to move them from one file to another. They would copy-past them and run some sed-like commands. You could instruct an LLM agent to do something similar
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
All your 2FA apps, token, security keys, certificates and what not only protect the authentication (and in the case of online banking, a few other actions like transferring money). After that, a single bearer token authenticates each reques
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
I don't think we should be calling the users idiots when we failed to make our systems secure by design. If a simple act like plugging in a thumb drive by a well-meaning user undermines the security of an entire operation, then why do
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
Your question applies to me. I can only speak for myself, but I wanted to be able to call myself a proper researcher at least once, and I got the PhD because I was curious about the subject. At the same time it disillusioned me about the fi
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
I'm currently trying to set one up. What do I have to put in there so the OOBE is skipped, or at least skip the online account part? My goal is to install a Windows 11 in a VM with zero user interaction. Edit: Actually, currently the w
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
GP claimed they can inject ads. How does that work with HTTPS?
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The GP claimed they can inject ads though
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I VPN into my home network for added privacy in public wifis, and to access private services.
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How does that work with HTTPS being practically ubiquitous?
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I can't, but the equation itself doesn't to that. The assumptions are up to the reader to make. That's why I think that the equation isn't particularly useful.
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Thanks, I read that part before I shared it. It's pretty clear to me, these are pretty well defined quantities, just hard to measure. What is unclear is perhaps the definition of life. But at no point does it assume a planet must be in
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
That's just your interpretation. Take the equation at its face value and it does allow for life originating around some deep sea vents, like JamesLeonis speculated.
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
The Goldilocks zone doesn't enter the Drake equation at all. As a reminder, this is the equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation#Equation It makes very few assumptions.
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In the llm project, plugins can modify the command line arguments, so it's not that simple.
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And what's stopping the government from forcing proton to hand over private keys or else?
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PGP will never ever see mass adoption. It's too complicated and nothing will fix that. If chat control succeeds, a handful of nerds might be able to protect their comms, but mass encryption as we have it today will be dead. I like how
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But how do we then protect our messages to less tech savvy people? Encryption must be effortless and usable by the masses, or it will be almost pointless.
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It definitely used to be bizarre then: https://superuser.com/questions/333378/where-does-okular-sto...
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You could embed it as a base64 blob, embed PDF.js (which is included by browsers anyway, I think) and use that to render it in the HTML. But I realize you probably meant a static HTML without JavaScript.
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I know, even though that depends on the editor. Okular for example places them in an extra file, last I checked. That's not unique to PDFs. HTML files are modifiable. There is nothing preventing an editor to put annotations in it as we
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You could, though. What you are describing are features of an editor, not a file format. I can imagine a browser addon performing the same tasks.
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I've reproduced documents with Typst, mostly pixel perfect. I've done the same in LaTeX before, and it was orders of magnitudes easier with Typst. However, I didn't care if a couple of paragraphs with hundreds of words in the

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