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by msm_ 4y ago
Off topic, but I always struggle between "half is below average" vs "half is below median". One is technically incorrect, understood by everyone but attacts nitpickers, and the other one is technically (more) correct (an
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I hate when people use the word "algorithms" like that. Which algorithms? Dijkstra? I know this is the way non-technical people refer to the spooky AI action at a distance happening in social media to maximise engagement, but in m
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That's a bit extreme position. I use them sometimes, when I want to do some niche task and don't want to waste time installing software. I just assume that every three letter agency in the world will see the files as soon as I upl
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by msm_ 4y ago
Do we know what it's doing exactly? It can be just doing some AI enhancement during post-processing. In this case the moon is not literally hardcoded, but a part of some opaque machine learning model.
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Commuting (I usually bike) and meeting with my teammates in person does wonders to my morale indeed.
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It's just nicer I guess. In my country if there's a bank holiday (or two) during a week many people take one or two days of vacation to bridge it to the weekend, or even take the whole week off. There's more "bang for bu
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by msm_ 4y ago
Roads, mail service, electricity and water pipes are valuable for me and improve my life. I want to use them, and I do. Social networks are not valuable for me, and they would not improve my life. I don't want to use them, and I don&#x
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by msm_ 4y ago
How is it obvious? I (and most of my friends) don't use social networks at all. They're not "absolutely required" for absolutely anything (unless your country is significantly different from mine). You'll only &quot
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by msm_ 4y ago
It's always cheaper, but it breaks theirs terms of service, and they may block you at any time. Not something any business will take lightly.
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by msm_ 4y ago
> everybody speaks English to some degree That's not even true in my European country, I'm pretty sure at most 50% of Iranians speak English (not even taking into account that to write comfortably you need B2 or better English
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by msm_ 4y ago
And there is no voting, so the only possible gratification for posting is receiving a reply.
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> It won't stop you seeing threads about how Lennart Poettering and SystemD are part of a Zionist conspiracy to undermine Linux or similar ideas. But these are the funniest threads!
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by msm_ 4y ago
I think you're confused about how 4chan works (except maybe /b/). And fortunately I live in a country where I can't legally be fired because my boss has personal grievances about particular websites
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by msm_ 4y ago
> Is that something attackers can install/activate remotely through some kind of RCE, or does it need me to run an executable manually? This piece of malware is not related to distribution, and must be executed manually (or, more li
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by msm_ 4y ago
> The terms "Earth time" and "Moon time" seem weird to me in themselves, in my view it's "Human time". - It's also weird the time on the moon would have to account for variations in earth rotatoin
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by msm_ 4y ago
How is stopping the clock for 40 minutes human friendly? I'm a night owl and there are many things in my life that happen between 00:00 and 00:40, can't imagine pretending they all somehow happen in the same moment.
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by msm_ 4y ago
Since they wrote literally "think of the children" I think it's pretty safe to assume they're sarcastic.
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by msm_ 4y ago
> Uber's surge pricing algorithm caused prices to skyrocket in the middle of emergencies like shootings. [1] Not trying to defend corporations benefitting from tragedies, but isn't this just how a market works usually? There ar
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by msm_ 4y ago
> Because caring and beauty are feminine. Is this something you (or people you're familiar with) believe? Never encountered this norm before.
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by msm_ 4y ago
> Nearly all my personal photos were encrypted by the helprecover@foxmail.com ("HELP") variant of Phobos. I can't assist you with recovery, and without a lot of logs and forensics data (or a significant performance impro
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by msm_ 4y ago
Yes, that's the "almost" part of the blog post (and what makes it interesting, IMO). Not really something a regular person can do. Since CERT is not profit-driven, that kind of help was offered for governmental institutions f
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by msm_ 4y ago
Thanks! I wonder if the Python number is correct, I remember Python being prohibitively slow in comparison. But assuming it is: There are 256 sha256 iterations on average, so the number is a bit better - but there's probably still a lo
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A tale of Phobos – How we almost cracked a ransomware using CUDA(cert.pl)
230 points by msm_ 4y ago|62 comments
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> The author deserves the highest tier of bug bounty reward for bringing this to light. What's that? It wasn't submitted through the proper channels to be eligible? Right. Almost entire point of bug bounty programs is to encour
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by msm_ 4y ago
You sound like soviet-era politicians in my eastern European country, when they painted entrepreneurs (and private profit) as the root of all evil, and centrally planned everything. It didn't go well. Don't get me wrong, I think r
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by msm_ 4y ago
I'm not sure the logic applies. People may be addicted to caffeine, and willing to pay through the nose to get it in a form they like. If they suddenly become poor, they would probably drink instant coffee at home. But they're not
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by msm_ 4y ago
> Plenty of people run their etcd on their control plane. If you are indeed a startup you might even consider not having dedicated control plane nodes. The idea of side-cars taking up another 100% more resources is perposterous, absurd.
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by msm_ 4y ago
Well, it's both. Kubernetes lets you "just build and deploy" your containers without worrying about micromanaging your servers. Is it complicated? Sure. Are there simpler solutions to that problem? Yeah, for example docker sw
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This is technically correct, but I think this misses the point. Unhabitable future Earth with molten icebergs and polluted gray sky may, technically, be a "natural change" and a consequence of "natural" human actions. Bu
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by msm_ 4y ago
Not OP, but I'm under 30 years old and I agree with OP 100%.

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