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by na85 5y ago
Text of TFA uses the term "infiltrating" in lieu of "cracking". Not that I necessarily expect Reuters to keep their infosec terminology straight but I wonder if this was a novel hack or if was a simple matter of a judic
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by na85 5y ago
Reddit has been gamed by guerilla advertisers for years, everyone knows it, and the admins there don't seem to care/are unable to do anything about it. r/HailCorporate used to be about calling out stealth marketing/adver
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by na85 5y ago
Best meetings I've been in lately have been audio-only MS Teams calls, optionally with a PowerPoint slide deck.
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by na85 5y ago
Just because people say it's "taking up their bandwidth" doesn't mean that's what's actually happening. It might be causing some other kind of issues but a microphone can't really "take up someone&#
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by na85 5y ago
Perhaps they were mistaken.
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by na85 5y ago
Me? I don't think I did.
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by na85 5y ago
I lost at least a week when I figured out you could change the WinXP start menu text with a hex editor and went down the rabbit hole from there. Having a start menu that read "na85" in lieu of "Start" made teenage me fee
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by na85 5y ago
It can't be that bad, since I haven't seen a flashy website for this vuln, complete with a logo, making the rounds on social media.
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by na85 5y ago
It's definitely come a long way. I have a pretty awesome setup for writing c# in emacs with "intellisense" and all that jazz. If I'm starting a new project from scratch I'm much more likely to reach for C# than Jav
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by na85 5y ago
As much as I think RMS himself is an utter embarrassment of a human being, stories like this are why I also believe the GPL is one of the most important contributions to computing, ever. MIT/BSD-style licenses are practically begging l
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by na85 5y ago
That's fucking infuriating.
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by na85 5y ago
"Made in China == cheap and unreliable" is very much a meme (in the original sense of the word) in North America at least. It's not jingoism so much as pattern matching.
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by na85 5y ago
>If you care about it, consider GNU/Linux phones, Librem 5 and Pinephone, which run FLOSS and have hardware kill switches for microphone and other things. Last time I checked in with the Librem project, the phone was completely unus
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by na85 5y ago
I think the point, though, is that irrespective of the exact price in the Rust Belt, prices are a fraction of those in desirable places like SF or NYC. You can't create demand by government fiat. People aren't living in rural Japa
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by na85 5y ago
I'd be interested in a site like that, as I have a similar appreciation for high-quality stuff that's built to last. What kind of dishwasher/fridge/laundry appliances did you end up getting?
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by na85 5y ago
Concur. Nice to see my own conclusions validated, I really like mine.
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by na85 5y ago
>I've never been downvoted for making a controversial point on HN. And, I have ONLY been downvoted for making glib, lazy, or intellectually weak arguments. This is exactly how it should be. That's probably because you don'
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by na85 5y ago
> That's like saying, if you believe someone's defamatory statements, that's on you, but the speaker is innocent. Not really. Being mistaken is not the same thing as being defamatory. If someone is honestly just incorrec
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by na85 5y ago
Isn't that on you, for trusting some random on HN and failing to fact-check? Modern life demands critical thinking skills.
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by na85 5y ago
>Isnt it the quality of ideas, willingness to participate, and other 'cyber' qualities that make a site like that what it is? Maybe, but different demographics produce ideas and conversation of different character.
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by na85 5y ago
Curious about the demographics of the WELL userbase. My impression from language cues in the copy, and from the age of the platform, that the WELL is populated predominantly by graybeards rather than the under-40 crowd. Can anyone confirm&#
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by na85 5y ago
Weechat-android might not drop because it's a relay client. But try running a non-relay client and see how it goes. Anyways it's like you're intentionally missing the point. I'm not here for tech support with my setup. I
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by na85 5y ago
>Pretty much all mobile irc clients have that though? Sure but the connection drops a lot if you roam, if you close the app you don't stay connected, etc. Discord does not have this problem. >And if you are running weechat anywa
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by na85 5y ago
>SSL/TLS is broken and you need help over IRC? No problem. Your main PC broke and all you have is a 486/Amiga/Atari or even some PDA connected to the router with a gateway? No issues again. >You just have a installed ba
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by na85 5y ago
I'm only 35 and I remember this. It was quite common before YouTube.
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by na85 5y ago
I like IRC a lot but I don't see this as an advantage of IRC. To a first approximation, zero people are connecting to IRC via netcat.
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by na85 5y ago
Maybe it's time to admit defeat and relinquish control of Freenode. I don't see how you can possibly salvage this.
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by na85 5y ago
"Second Climax" is a well-established literary term for the climax of the second act of a play: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-act_structure
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by na85 5y ago
Linux wasn't invented at Google.
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by na85 5y ago
From TFReadme: >At the moment, all you can do is type some text, and you can use C-x i to insert and existing file. Some basic Emacs commands also work, like C-f, C-b, C-p, C-n, M-<, M->, and C-x C-c. The visible window does not au

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