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by nimbius 3y ago
"Our team is led by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX." the same Elon Musk who dropped 44bn on Twitter and fought like a child to weasel out of the sale for almost six months? You mean that same sink-dragging guy who fired every
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by nimbius 3y ago
Malware isnt even the worst part about windows by far these days. Windows is essentially a downloadable telemetry engine; a spyware go-kart with a login screen. When its not cosplaying a mall kiosk barker, flogging various wares and usele
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by nimbius 3y ago
hard not to see "threads" as a desperate last gasp by Facebook/Meta. any opportunism you'd get by trying to eat Twitters lunch should have happened a year ago while Musk was busy dragging a sink through the lobby he eve
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by nimbius 3y ago
Meta has no incentive to add Mastodon/ActivityPub integration ever. Things like mastodon represent a Jailbreaking of the captive user. If the goal is to monetize the consumer as the product, you could do no worse than to free that c
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by nimbius 3y ago
I can hang with a little coffee time on a Friday and just commit locals for now. Github by comparison has had more than 30 outages this year alone. https://www.githubstatus.com/
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by nimbius 3y ago
reminder that fdroid offers apps that will monopolize the microphone so it cannot be used by other programs (pilfershush for example.) electrical tape on your camera should take care of the rest, and developer mode lets you feed the system
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by nimbius 3y ago
So to temper expectations, the article only cites Republican Marco Rubio has having any real inquisitive drive to unearth clandestine UFO knowledge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy Chances are excellent
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by nimbius 3y ago
Realistically redhat only serves two customers: 0. Government or affiliated that require scap/stig or other compliance frameworks like fips140 or hipaa and actually use stuff like fapolicyd or aide. 1. Large companies that build "
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Ask HN: Disk Partitioning in 2023
7 points by nimbius 3y ago|6 comments
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by nimbius 3y ago
One has to wonder if or how this ever paid off. Once the sr71 showed up the USSR not only met the challenge with the Mig 25 foxbat a few years later, but outproduced the sr 71 to create strong coverage over most of Russia's airspace.
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Show HN: The Science of Flatness(youtube.com)
2 points by nimbius 3y ago|0 comments
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by nimbius 3y ago
from an infosec perspective, im surprised no ones brought up how stupid dangerous this is. crypto mixers and ransomware groups frequently have ties to organized crime, so the list of people you are "ripping off" could include form
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by nimbius 3y ago
it depends on your threat profile and what youre protecting against (and who ya trust) - Secure Boot: Only secure so long as microsoft and friends dont leak their keys https://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-accidentally
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by nimbius 3y ago
General Mechanical Technician is another name for mechanical maintenance. in my experience, if "alarm response" is a big part of the gig then run for the hills because this company intends to run their equipment until its literal
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by nimbius 3y ago
Slotin was an arrogant ass. per wikipedia: "Under Slotin's own unapproved protocol, the shims were not used and the only thing preventing the closure was the blade of a standard flat-tipped screwdriver manipulated in Slotin'
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by nimbius 3y ago
I think the takeaway consideration is to select products services and solutions that aren't predicated on an assignment of blame or responsibility, but based on your own accountable understanding of risk as it applies to business and p
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by nimbius 3y ago
Opensnitch is a great tool, and fits well particularly as part of a defense in depth strategy to secure your machines from telemetry and ads by including other tools like adblock, no script, and hblock. I predict in the coming years the sor
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by nimbius 3y ago
Say what you will about Carly fiorinas leadership strategy but she certainly set a record for how fast you can pedal an american institution into the ground. If it weren't for government contracts and Gartner quadrant payola I don&#x27
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by nimbius 3y ago
Fascinating, I didn't know this. My "old" oneplus 7 doesn't support QZSS or BeiDou :/
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by nimbius 3y ago
Not to rain on the parade but GPS and glonass already offer superior coverage, and chinas beidou constellation blows both of these out of the water as well. Are we looking to add QZSS to phones? Do a lot of phones already support it?
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by nimbius 3y ago
call a spade a spade: this is a last-ditch effort coming about six months too late. In the seven months since Musk bought the company he singlehandedly fired nearly every employee, accidentally locked the remainder out of the headquarters,
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by nimbius 3y ago
The deeper legal debate in the case centered on what's known as the dormant commerce clause, which generally bars states from passing laws that burden interstate commerce. If Congress has not passed a law affecting interstate commerce,
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by nimbius 3y ago
good news is most older versions of photoshop are at parity with the latest versions of Gimp. Bad news is this type of communication can be perceived as strong-arming, and only serves to load more coal into the boilers for projects like Gim
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by nimbius 3y ago
Not really surprising. The m2 is just the same concept as the amd apu, but with sleeker branding and marketing. Amd has been doing apu since 2011, ages longer than apple The whole m2 hootenany on hn reminded me of when retina came out. I
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by nimbius 3y ago
Its also worth pointing out that google, the company making the big passkey push, has a track record of just disabling accounts they don't like for any arbitrary algorithmic reason. Lose your (google) passkeys account for whatever reas
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by nimbius 3y ago
I got sick of this malarkey years ago with HTC. Oneplus phones just unlock when told 'OEM unlock' over the adb. No big brother home to phone, no bullshit begging for the rights to my device. If I decide to unlock it the worst I
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by nimbius 3y ago
this is actually a really great comment. Mercedes is pivoting to the crossplane kinda for this reason (the american market.) it makes a V6 sound like a V8, keeps their engine design euro spec compliant, and helps deliver torque which thei
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by nimbius 3y ago
hi, im a professional diesel engine mechanic and can easily explain what youre hearing. Most italian/european sports cars (with the exception of Mercedes in the past 3 years because American customers) have machined their crankshafts a
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Unix Koans(prirai.github.io)
203 points by nimbius 3y ago|42 comments
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by nimbius 3y ago
I feel like if its 2023 and you're still gullible enough to fall for "free forever" bait and switch offerings from cloud providers then we need to have a frank discussion on neofeudalist late stage capitalism where a mainstay

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