mrsteveman1

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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
Replying to myself after doing some additional testing. I've now seen multiple examples of Pinterest hosting images with the "original link" being a Google Images search result page, complete with the huge URL query string in
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
They seem to have gone to a lot of trouble to insert themselves between the site users visited intentionally to find what they were looking for (Google), and the site that actually provided what they were looking for. They've essential
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
> the built-in wireless on the 3 and Zero W was game changing Definitely, the Pi Zero W is now my go-to controller for almost anything that needs one. The fact that Microcenter frequently sells them for $5 seals it. I pair them with a $1
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
> It's not considered faulty, more like degraded over time. > I rather have shorter battery life with same performance so it's more noticeable that I need to replace the battery. I agree, but something is odd about this whol
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
Rebooted one of my AMT machines so I could take a video of what you see on the physical screen during boot while the remote console is active: https://youtu.be/GDD8os3ZeCI
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
I suspect they'll be patching this one, but I don't know if they have updated the ME firmware in the past. However, Intel's own platform tools (MEInfo and MEManuf running in a UEFI shell) can't even communicate with the
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
> my Java plugins in Safari have stopped working. Now those are required for VPN connection. Is it common for VPN access to be handled this way? What's the advantage over issuing a certificate or just using a username+password?
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
Every time a new kernel version is released, I really look forward to reading these posts on Kees's blog. They're short and easy to read. Thanks for writing them Kees :)
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
> my main sorrow with the clearly misleading wifi-switch is to fall prey to those nasty mac-adress tracker in shops. Aren't they randomized now?
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
> nice! can you talk more about Rust's tooling? How do you debug? What IDE or text editor do you feel comfy with? Do you have/use/need autocomplete? For writing code, I've been using IntelliJ with the Rust plugin for
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
Very nice tool, I hadn't seen that before thanks! There should be a service similar to Mozilla's TLS configuration generator[1], but for SSH. Mozilla does have a wiki page with modern and intermediate SSH configurations[2], but I&
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
Keybase is just another Git remote you can push to, one that transparently encrypts whatever is pushed to that remote. The Git repo itself is completely normal in every other respect, so if you push to Github, everyone can still see the ent
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
They support PGP keys , but I don't think anything in the keybase UI or proofs will reflect key certifications made in PGP's web of trust. You can "track" people, but that's not the same thing. It should be possibl
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
Hey, already love Fork after just a few minutes. Rebase support, stashes, sub-modules, tabs... this is fantastic :) You may actually get me to delete SourceTree, which is a high bar to clear. Despite all the major issues with SourceTree,
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
> What if I cut a piece of my body and eat it, is that cannibalism? I think at that point, you're likely to be involuntarily committed anyway :)
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
Well, that depends on whether CI is a logical AND, or a logical OR. No accepted medical use AND high potential for abuse? Or can it be "any of the above"? 21 U.S.C § 812[0] doesn't say anything at all except to give the list
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
> A valid descriptor would be "Encrypted". Someone should conduct a poll with a mockup of a URL bar that says "Encrypted" instead, asking a wide variety of users to describe what it means. When users look at that part
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
> language that is as similar to Python as possible without requiring a global lock Something like Pony[0] or Nim[1]? I'm not very familiar with either one, but Nim says it is inspired by Python, and on the surface Pony appears to
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
> Is there any elaboration on what "effectively controls access" means Apple Inc. v. Psystar Corp.[1] involved circumvention of a system that "effectively controls access" to Mac OS X, preventing it from being install
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
> The domain in question is a part of a copyrigth protection scheme. Blocking access to it is a circumvention of copyright protection scheme and it is illegal under DMCA. You're asserting things to be true that are very much in ques
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
If you rounded up every person even suspected of having committed voter fraud in the past few elections, you might have enough staff to run a McDonalds in a small town. But even if it were an actual issue rather than a manufactured one, J
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
It feels like a step backward to be designating specific sets of files as being unworthy of encryption despite using a FDE setup. It's also annoying to have more than one system partition to deal with when all of the pieces of software
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
The primary cause of that sort of thing appears to be the significant leaps forward[0] they've made with their ARM hardware every year. At some point it will plateau the way PC hardware has, and new major OS versions won't be as m
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
To date, all of the discussion over what GRsec has done is about distribution rights, but it appears the GRsec agreement[0] also contains this: > If the User has received pricing for the stable patches on a specific product, use of the p
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
They've turned core infrastructure enhancements into what might as well be one of Microsoft's "reference source" deals, or a EULA.
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
I suspect this will just shift focus to the Kernel Self Protection Project[1]. It may end up being the best thing that could have happened for kernel security in the end. [1] https://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kern
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by mrsteveman1 9y ago
That's not the same thing at all. The 'P' taint flag exists because upstream kernel maintainers aren't interested in dealing with bug reports where the bug may have been caused by proprietary code loaded by end users, wh
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by mrsteveman1 10y ago
Could be, it may be more like the ext3/4 -> BTRFS conversion process[1], where metadata for the new filesystem is written in the free space, but with pointers to the original data which isn't moved or re-written. [1] https:&#x
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by mrsteveman1 10y ago
> This is no different from Apple having a whitelist for TRIM support of SSDs in earlier versions of macOS. People were under the impression that there was some good technical reason for this. I used to force-enable TRIM on my non-Apple
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by mrsteveman1 10y ago
It looks like you're right, Apple says you can't bundle dylibs outside of a Framework on iOS :\ What would be the difference though, why make the distinction? > Dynamic libraries outside of a framework bundle, which typically h

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