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by notherhack 1y ago
Is that really how cat theft works- thief gets a couple hundred and it’s smuggled offshore and broken up for raw materials to make new cats? Why can’t the thief sell to a local shop for $1000, to repair maybe the very car it was stolen from
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by notherhack 1y ago
Long ago at a startup, In-System Design, I was on a team that made one of the first USB-to-ATA mass storage adapter chips. Small company, having fun, one of us put in an easter egg so that when the drive was plugged in and before the OS enu
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by notherhack 1y ago
OSO? Maybe it was a Spanish flashlight warning of a bear nearby? ;)
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by notherhack 1y ago
People correlate to usage of services, not buildings. An empty apartment building is no more likely to catch fire than an empty house. Taxing land and taxing people, via local sales and/or income taxes, makes more sense to me.
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by notherhack 1y ago
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by notherhack 1y ago
Firefox 140 ESR was released this month. I expect Debian will publish an update to it soon.
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by notherhack 1y ago
On my system I see that libxslt is a dependency for glib, gtk+, samba, systemd, pam, and a bunch of others. That's pretty foundational. What could possibly go wrong?
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by notherhack 1y ago
A government stake gives confidence in the company’s survival that a one-time cash dump for the CHIPS act couldn’t. It’s not a lot different than what car and financial companies got in 2009. They were about to go under because no one thoug
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by notherhack 1y ago
Any cost-plus defense or aerospace contract.
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by notherhack 1y ago
Nit: Marvel makes comics. Marvell Technologies (two l's) makes chips with ARM CPUs in them, mostly for datacenter gear.
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by notherhack 1y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44924254
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by notherhack 1y ago
"The Debian development team put it like this: So, given the wafer thin vectors of attack here, the extreme age of the images in question, and the fact that even at the time that they were fresh, they were images that shouldn'
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by notherhack 1y ago
Harness, or train? When a junior uses AI the junior learns. When a senior uses an AI the AI learns. Maybe the AI owners are harnessing experienced devs to train their replacements.
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by notherhack 1y ago
"The Gobi Wall was not just a barrier—it was a dynamic mechanism for governing movement, trade, and territorial control in a challenging environment."
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by notherhack 1y ago
I feel like acme.sh is the kind of client she's ranting about. 8000 lines of shell code in acme.sh and more in dozens of user-contributed hook scripts, and over 1000 open issues on github? Personally I like https://github.co
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by notherhack 2y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43556521 wherein a hosting company sees AI bot scans that appear to be coming from millions of unique addresses, thousands of ASNs, many residential and often with a single connectio
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by notherhack 2y ago
The Borg site says Windows support is "experimental, no binaries yet". Is that still true?
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by notherhack 2y ago
Restic 0.17.1 was released last month. The home page says "During initial development (versions prior to 1.0.0), maintainers and developers will do their utmost to keep backwards compatibility and stability, although there might be bre
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by notherhack 2y ago
Page 3 says FreeBSD is 2X faster (200% bogo ops) than Linux on the semaphore benchmark, 3X on function calls, 7X on poll, and 15X (!) on context switching. Of course it shines with lots of cores. It's strange that Linux comes up 3-5X f
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by notherhack 2y ago
https://archive.is/wip/gWX1U
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by notherhack 2y ago
"Improved" fire suppression systems contain hydrofluorocarbon gases which when burned decompose into HF gas. What could possibly go wrong? Do NOT stay in the server room (or armored personnel carrier) when the fire suppression sys
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by notherhack 3y ago
Imazing Profile Editor works well to generate VPN profiles, and a lot of other profiles I don't use. Runs on Mac or Windows and it's free. No personal stake, just a satisfied user. https://imazing.com/profile-ed
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by notherhack 3y ago
Netgate is providing a pfsense patch that disables ETM MACs but leaves chacha20 enabled. The vuln announcement is arguably vague because of the way is uses "and" and "or" but from the vuln scanner source chacha20 is clea
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by notherhack 4y ago
The US army had portable reactors 60 years ago. They were deployed in Greenland, Alaska, Antarctica. https://web.archive.org/web/20220404082426/https://www.usace... At least some of them were produced