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by nieve 5y ago
There's still the issue of what kinds of trigger circumstances you can commit to code.
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by nieve 5y ago
Generally when you're talking about cryptography you don't want to make assumptions that rely on reality working out in the way that's most convenient for you. Presuming that quantum computing can't be any kind of threat
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Man Pleads Guilty to Plotting to Bomb Amazon Data Center(nytimes.com)
5 points by nieve 5y ago|0 comments
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by nieve 5y ago
"During my time at Facebook, I heard reports of autolikers using compromised accounts to seize ownership of prominent pages" sounds exactly like a compromised account being abused.
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by nieve 5y ago
It just means that the BSDs have both their kernel and their full userland maintained by the same team whereas Linux to a certain extent splits responsibilities between the kernel devs and a bunch of other projects.
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by nieve 5y ago
I believe audit is already optional at compile time. As the article points out audit being enabled is a requirement for some certifications, so what actually gets shipped by some distros is going to have it on regardless. If say RHEL and Ub
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by nieve 5y ago
Even assuming they'd do such a thing it doesn't make any sense to do a deliberate release on their own citizens. Chinese intelligence is good enough to do a secret release on someone else's territory and even if scientists qu
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by nieve 5y ago
Some set of developers wrote code to extract the location metadata and feed it to their tracking system for advertising purposes. How can that be just some emergent property? Actual human beings held meetings about it and worked long hours
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by nieve 5y ago
If I understand the article correctly they didn't even have evidence his credentials were used. All they had was a shared IP address. Given that his teachers testified in his favor I have to wonder if there was some specific grudge aga
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by nieve 5y ago
> The bushes grow to small trees that can, over time, completely cover a landscape since the send up sprouts from their shallow roots. That makes me worry about it acting as an invasive.
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by nieve 5y ago
Several programs including Firefox Nightly have been reported to blow up, so no it's not limited to a "specific program".
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by nieve 5y ago
A couple of sources say it's pippali in Hindi, but I can't confirm that.
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Trump Justice Dept. Tried to Use Grand Jury to Identify Nunes Critic on Twitter(nytimes.com)
3 points by nieve 5y ago|0 comments
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by nieve 5y ago
That was pretty clearly a deliberate choice to show solidarity with two parts of the country who lack the same rights and government support for historical reasons.
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by nieve 5y ago
At least in America there's a significant special case of malicious networks: ISPs that track their customer's browsing, inject ads, or both. Being a paying customer doesn't protect against this and ESNI/ECH are neither
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by nieve 5y ago
Firefox somewhat famously doesn't use the same Chromium engine.
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by nieve 5y ago
I'm not sure a single-process fork is necessary, I'm at 2.2GB with 5273 tabs on Firefox 88.0.1. I run NoScript in default deny mode as well and use uBlock Origin & uMatrix, but I don't use any suspender addons.
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by nieve 5y ago
BBVA was also one of the initial venture funders for Simple.
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by nieve 5y ago
Nor is there any reason to supposed that the increased accidents are pure flukes that can't possibly happen again this year. If there's increased _systemic_ risk due to risky sailing, bad cargo management, etc. it'd be unders
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by nieve 5y ago
For predictable irony points that's coming from a component provided by SourcePoint who claim to be a "privacy compliance platform for digital marketing, with the tools to protect consumer privacy, manage compliance, and optimize
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by nieve 5y ago
Landslides & avalanches would be the other big worry and not just from them coming down on you from above. It's not unusual for trails some places to cross a couple hundred feet up scree slopes that are right at the angle of repose
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Women Are Battling China’s Angry Trolls. The Trolls Are Winning(nytimes.com)
3 points by nieve 5y ago|0 comments
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by nieve 6y ago
Practically? As long as they can delay it.
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by nieve 6y ago
> More recent research from 2009, which imo has a far superior methodology and a larger sample size, says that "over 87 percent of officers reported never having engaged in physical domestic violence in their lifetime" Which me
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by nieve 6y ago
Unfortunately due to the abuse of civil forfeiture the "permanently only after a trial" part isn't true these days.
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by nieve 6y ago
"Upvoters have a duty to explain how they calculated their proposed minimum possible livable wage wage: i.e. what calculations you ran to show this proposal is profit-maximizing at exactly 15$ or whatever, not 16$ or 50$."
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by nieve 6y ago
I've seen that stated nowhere, but there's zero chance Amazon will compensate the NLRB for the disruption of its other work even if they asserted they'd be willing to for the core stuff.
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by nieve 6y ago
Arm Confidential Compute Architecture/Realms seem like both a potentially significant security tool and a good way to keep a device owner from daring to look at their own data or what their device is doing.
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by nieve 6y ago
Diplomatic immunity extending to the point of sealing the case and suppressing reporting?
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by nieve 6y ago
Having had an SUV drive literally drive up over the curb yelling because I was bicycling on the sidewalk I'm not willing to assume they don't ever intend to hit me. I've also had people swerve at me when I was on the gravel b

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