nimbius

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by nimbius 5y ago
>Btrfs has had no real work done on it since then changelog seems to refute this point entirely. https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Changelog >anyone that is actually serious about data storage has moved to
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by nimbius 5y ago
"The shim is signed with the aforementioned Microsoft key, that is built into all PCs/laptops." this is a non-starter for me. the sheer number of microsoft products and programs dedicated to or endorsing a backdoor for third
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by nimbius 5y ago
what exactly are the alternatives? seriously? every major victim so far in the supply chain has paid because its not only relatively affordable ransom, but because they clearly lack the organizational technical competence to prevent or cou
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by nimbius 5y ago
America is being held accountable. this is the result of a 50 year policy of teaching blind consumerism of technology in schools, and rote obedience to the law of DMCA. its 50 years of policy that mercilessly sent hackers to prison for cur
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Boris Johnson issues UK food shortage warning ahead of Christmas(thenorthernecho.co.uk)
22 points by nimbius 5y ago|18 comments
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U.S. Covid fatalities surpass 1918 flu estimates(cnbc.com)
6 points by nimbius 5y ago|3 comments
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Wall St Tumbles over 2%(reuters.com)
59 points by nimbius 5y ago|41 comments
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by nimbius 5y ago
Don't forget: biometrics are NOT protected by the 5th amendment.
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by nimbius 5y ago
Good, perhaps this will drive another nail into the middlebox coffin. A middlebox is just a computer networking device that transforms, inspects, filters, and manipulates traffic for purposes other than packet forwarding. middleboxes are c
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by nimbius 5y ago
because markets have been effectively decoupled and insulated from reality for a while now. We never left quantitative easing from 2008 (the only attempt to do so tanked the market 800 points) and the fed's buyback --despite being sig
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Worker killed in 'material handling accident' at Three Mile Island(local21news.com)
1 points by nimbius 5y ago|0 comments
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by nimbius 5y ago
emphatically: no. the solution to things that are broken and hard is not to abandon them like a petulent child out of frustration. defeatist bullshit from the article: >Every long term secret will eventually leak. is not a valid excuse
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by nimbius 5y ago
nitpicking but as someone with a scientific mind, i found the whole 'i dont know how a transformer works but lets screw with it anyway' mentality to be infuriating. Electroboom would too.
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by nimbius 5y ago
fun fact: if youve ever wondered why performance benchmarks dont really seem to exist between things like mysql or postgres and Oracle, its because this is expressly forbidden in your license.
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by nimbius 5y ago
the one thing containers addressed was their use as a countermeasure to rising costs from greedy VPS providers, and as an agile framework to quickly evacuate from a toxic provider (cost, politics, performance, etc...) providers in turn resp
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by nimbius 5y ago
as of April 2021 Solarwinds still shows up in Gartner reports read by managers and 'thought leaders.' until they start losing prestige in the trade rags you can expect them to endure as a corporate standard, best practice, indust
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by nimbius 5y ago
What i was trying to get at I think was the supreme irony of the apex of the cold war...that a nation so bent on the destruction of class through marxist leninism forged in turn the perfect sword to obliterate it, and that its capitalist en
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by nimbius 5y ago
After reading the book, its pretty clear why most world leaders abandoned the idea of thermonuclear war as anything but a culpable strategy. Nuclear weapons with a twenty (or more) mile radius of fallout have the immediate ability to bridge
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by nimbius 5y ago
somewhat offtopic but for those looking to get a 'dumb' fridge (or any other kitchen/laundry appliance) your city probably has a small appliances shop that will sell you most of a kitchen for a bargain. these are used ranges,
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LAPD officers told to collect social media data(veritas.com)
3 points by nimbius 5y ago|1 comments
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by nimbius 5y ago
>all of the questions that matter are TV questions. I wish ben would do a little more research. Netflix imo very much is a tech company. they released an entire x.509 certificate orchestration framework. HBO and Disney to my knowledge
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FDA Approves First Twice-Yearly Antipsychotic for Schizophrenia(medscape.com)
2 points by nimbius 5y ago|0 comments
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by nimbius 5y ago
tough opinion: As a blue-collar worker, im glad they cant get into college. Im sick of seeing talented kids that can solve difficult problems and work hard, submit themselves to a meatgrinder that promises them wealth and success and inste
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Oil firms slash U.S. Gulf of Mexico output by 91% ahead of Hurricane Ida(cnbc.com)
30 points by nimbius 5y ago|34 comments
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Starbucks workers in New York are organizing to form first US union(theguardian.com)
61 points by nimbius 5y ago|22 comments
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by nimbius 5y ago
American here. I generally stick to a vegan/vegetarian diet to try and work on my "numbers" from our company healthcare bio-screening. My woke moment was when I was told exactly how much sugar is in a teaspoon. 4 grams. Aft
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by nimbius 5y ago
Nowhere in the article does it say doomed. Its 2021, can we stop flogging the commies yet? The Tupolev was an absolute engineering masterpiece given the constraints it operated under. This thing had to transport regular people and land at
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by nimbius 5y ago
Patiently awaiting the obligatory HN 'iPhone considered harmful' thread at this point with complementary link to a medium article. Seriously though after the San Bernardino shooter fiasco and the ongoing us government regulation d
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by nimbius 5y ago
I've a hard time slamming poor people demanding a ransom for a rich mans holiday home left largely unoccupied throughout the year in a country with fifteen percent unemployment
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by nimbius 5y ago
I work sometimes in a metal shop where Tungsten alloys abound. This might be the stupidest hn post I've ever read. You bought a piece of metal at vastly inflated prices for a very narrow range of performance over a specific set of con

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