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by neilv 5mo ago
Nice and helpful article. Cloudflare is a kinda funny choice to pick to trust, and maybe they'll re-evaluate that soon. GitLab is overall nice, and I recommended their on-prem product a few years ago, at an AI hardware tech startup wit
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by neilv 5mo ago
Are you making a joke, like I did about 32767, when I hit 31337? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760058
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by neilv 5mo ago
I tried asking, years ago, with the rationale of I'm not wasting people's time, since they could get more money if they knew about bootloader unlocking . Then I decided everyone who knows about bootloader unlocking would've
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by neilv 5mo ago
I answered this in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076522 Basically, buy a Pixel 6 or later (I suggest Pixel 7 or later, since Pixel 6 will be minimal support soon) that you are sure has an unlockabl
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by neilv 5mo ago
Carrier-sold Pixels generally don't have "OEM-unlockable" bootloaders. Your best bet for now is to buy a new Pixel direct from Google, or a used one from eBay that the seller advertises as already having GrapheneOS on it (or
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by neilv 5mo ago
I had more the thought like being skeptical of anyone who would take a job at company Foo or stay there, when they tell you. To me that seems preferable to trying to -- what risks devolving into -- a witch hunt of fall guys (persons), and
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by neilv 5mo ago
After all the surveillance capitalism abuses over the last 2-3 decades of Web, it's a little late to be pushing back, but... should we start shunning individuals from companies who implement this? Whether it's from companies tha
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by neilv 5mo ago
I'd expect a group that cared about privacy and security... not to need a cookie consent dialog like that.
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by neilv 5mo ago
> Perfect for spammers, scammers and domain squatters, who can now automate their activities even more. Buy why do this, unless you're in the business of arming both sides of a conflict? (With a side bonus of designing a defense p
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by neilv 6mo ago
Two questions prompted by this disclosure: 1. I didn't see mention of a bug bounty program giving limited authorization. How do independent researchers do this with legal safety? Especially when DoD is involved? 2. If a researcher di
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by neilv 6mo ago
If you care about the information and communication, and you think you can do a good job of the slide deck if you think through it for this venue and audience -- and maybe even have new insights by going through the process -- then it can b
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by neilv 6mo ago
I haven't seen much of business owners being ornery like the article describes, but there's other challenges: Business owners (thinking SMBs) tend to have a holistic view of their entire business, to know what everything costs, ho
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by neilv 6mo ago
Now that you mention it, I infrequently see behavior like that. I wonder whether I see it less often because my bookmarked search queries are careful to avoid things in the URL that look like they might be IDs for cached queries/result
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by neilv 6mo ago
I worked on a somewhat similar system in a fringe language (Scheme, and later, Racket) that got huge, but that remained manageable and high-velocity over a long period by a small team. We didn't create many bugs, and usually functional
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by neilv 6mo ago
I might vaguely recall Mozilla being in an easter egg or alternate throbber in a Netscape browser, and my impression was that it had been an internal codename at Netscape which was then adopted for the open source project.
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by neilv 6mo ago
Thanks, I forgot about Phoenix.
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by neilv 6mo ago
> Google claims that their browser is called Chrome because of an association with fast cars FWIW, before Google Chrome, Firefox was originally Firebird (changed for name collision reasons), and Mozilla had broken off the rest of the N
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by neilv 6mo ago
What search modifiers? I regularly use minus, double-quotes, and parentheses, and they all work well for me. The main thing I dislike about eBay search is all the sponsored placements violating the sorting order. For example, if you sort
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by neilv 6mo ago
Whatever you do, don't break eBay. I love eBay, for both buying and selling used items that are viable to ship. We let CraigsList get broken, with seemingly much fewer sellers and buyers than it used to have. I tried Facebook Marketpla
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by neilv 6mo ago
Good luck to the billionaires in a real collapse scenario, when their security and support staff can decide that the billionaires are counterproductive, and vote them out of the survival bunkers.
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by neilv 6mo ago
We also need to get rid of the unnecessary helicopter noise.
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by neilv 6mo ago
Looks like noise pollution. Wouldn't the city be better when the wealthy have to deal with the same services and quality of life as everyone else -- not (literally, in this case) elevating themselves above others, while making everyone
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by neilv 6mo ago
A guy I worked for owned a Seattle Computer Gazelle that he said "might be the one that DOS was written on". (Maybe he meant the model, rather than the exact serial number? But he was in the PNW, and I understand had been very in
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by neilv 6mo ago
And if you are a dishonest cryptographer, you only need to find one attack to pull this off.
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by neilv 6mo ago
As the philosopher Depeche Mode put it, "people are people".
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by neilv 6mo ago
If you get in the habit of doing this when thinking, it can bomb interviews with interviewers who don't know that's something that some people do. In-person interview: the majority of people want you to be making frequent eye cont
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by neilv 6mo ago
Mainly routine software supply chain attacks to unexamined dependencies pulled in by a mess of vibe-coding. (Though it would also give some protection against growth hacking or kludge expedience that goes a little too naughty. We're a
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by neilv 6mo ago
A long time ago, I wrote a compiler from a curly-brace encoding of Statecharts, to Java. More recently, I avoided some early SwiftUI bugs by modeling some of the iOS app interaction using Statecharts, in an ASCII art comment in the code, an
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by neilv 6mo ago
I bet you're right. This is one kind of thing you need a meticulous programmer to do. But instead, I'd guess most AI-dogfooding engineering organizations in the near future will be taking a vibe-code-it-and-AI-red-team-it approa
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by neilv 6mo ago
If it was silly, a lot of altruistic people nevertheless fell for it. For example, my impression at the time was that people thought that Google would be a responsible steward of Usenet archives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

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