nyxxie

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by nyxxie 6y ago
I built my initial programming/security skills by making PC game cheats, and now that I'm actually working in the software industry on other stuff I decided at the beginning of quarantine to see if I could still do it. Specificall
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by nyxxie 7y ago
Terraform is really good at describing how infrastructure should be provisioned (VMs, load balancers, dns entries, networking, etc). Provisioning software on a VM and keeping it in a consistent state, however, is not something it's ver
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by nyxxie 7y ago
Github issues and milestones for me. Generally I put all features, ideas, bugs, etc into small granular issues that I can ideally complete in a day or two. I’ll group them into milestones representing high level goals (“implement video edit
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by nyxxie 7y ago
That knowledge is becoming increasingly low level though as we build further abstractions over it. If you're working on a network you probably aught to know how TCP works, or at least know how to use Wireshark and a reference. If you&#
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by nyxxie 7y ago
> If you need to constantly look up informations, it means you have no long term knowledge of anything. I don’t think this is a very charitable interpretation of what GP was trying to say. Of course you can’t get by being a blind condu
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by nyxxie 7y ago
Idiotic policy. Side projects are one of the best way to learn new skills (they're the entire basis for my current skillset in this industry!). I often find that I import lessons and technologies learned in my freetime to my day job as
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by nyxxie 7y ago
Definitely this for me as well. When I was younger I was at an interesting crossroads with my freetime where I'd either program or play video games obsessively. I decided to try putting that video game energy into improving my progra
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by nyxxie 7y ago
History is filled with constant examples of longstanding traditional arts and practices being invalidated and surpassed by technological advances. It seems that Go is one of year 2016's losses to technology. If history tells us anyth
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by nyxxie 7y ago
I couldn't care less about this rich person's beach nor the people who want to surf on it, but I do care about the property rights issue at play here and how it intermingles with popular perception and treatment of "rich peop
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by nyxxie 7y ago
Academia is almost entirely based on trust and reputation, which we're seeming to discover is not a useful heuristic if your end goal is a net gain in uncovering the truth of the phenomena around us. If you ask me, credibility should
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by nyxxie 7y ago
These systems are useless. Of the many flaws: 1.) Simple alteration (change a pixel in MS paint) or encryption of content bypasses the filter 2.) Patching out the filtering routine bypasses the filter 3.) Blocking the phone-home address (p
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by nyxxie 7y ago
Does anyone find Kickstarter’s conflating of corporate ethics and adherence to far left political positions disturbing? Diversity hiring, “salary equity”, and other such policies are extremely hot issues; nearly every time they are discuss
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by nyxxie 7y ago
> The new Apple‑designed U1 chip uses Ultra Wideband technology for spatial awareness — allowing iPhone 11 to precisely locate other U1‑equipped Apple devices Interesting. Will this thing be always on and broadcasting my phone's pr
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The Tao of Programming(mit.edu)
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by nyxxie 7y ago
> the clear argument is that, because drawing a line is hard, we shouldn't call for any action against those who have stepped over it. I think you're putting words in his mouth. He doesn't want to see no consequences what
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by nyxxie 7y ago
All this to get an app to make "do any of my contacts also use signal" requests? You could probably just figure out what endpoint the mobile client calls and imitate them yourself to avoid all the overhead of setting up the mobil
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by nyxxie 7y ago
Wow I actually thought of building a tool similar to this for CTFs, specifically this feature: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/wiki/Automatic-detection-o... This is REALLY cool. Basically given an unknown
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by nyxxie 7y ago
I've used protobufs in the past and I REALLY want to use them now, but the human readable aspect of json has always kept me coming back. If I want to perform some rough tests of an endpoint during development, all I need to do is compo
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by nyxxie 7y ago
No, but they currently index ftp links.
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by nyxxie 7y ago
A lot of Google hate in this thread. Normally I'm on board, but I think you guys are making a big deal out of nothing. When I click magnet:// links, my bittorrent client opens. When I click slack:// links, my slac
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by nyxxie 7y ago
> You can blame the players for not helping other players Assume we did, what is the correct amount of help that the successful players should help the unsuccessful ones? Unless it's codified into the game itself (being made to pay
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by nyxxie 7y ago
> the situation makes your point about "they have to conceal it to be treated as human" ring totally false They can smell it sure, but their reaction is proportional to some product of distance between their socioeconomic posit
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by nyxxie 7y ago
> Labor and trade are not zero sum. The decision of where the generated dollars go is zero sum. Certainly, my point was that possessing a greater share of wealth is not the same as the completely unearned disparity in distribution of com
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by nyxxie 7y ago
>Pretending you're poor when you're very rich, while perhaps not unprecedented, is at least not the norm. So I think an explanation is called for, and hers is at the very least quite plausible Here's mine: social media and
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by nyxxie 7y ago
I think the author is ascribing too much intent to a simple economy of shame that’s omnipresent in all classes; if people find out you have more than they do, they hate you. The author herself appears to be biased by this. She believes tha
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by nyxxie 7y ago
How is “leave the platform if you don’t like it” not the solution here? Facebook’s creepy stalking of its users is well known, and it’s practically their only method of funding themselves. The calls to regulate Facebook just sound like ent
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by nyxxie 7y ago
Raidforums and similar have them. You occasionally find them on reddit and small security blogs. I collect data breaches, and usually by the time you hear about one on HIBP it’s making the rounds on a variety of forums. Only on a few occ
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by nyxxie 7y ago
You know, I hear shit like this all the time but I’ve never experienced it in the 500 hours I’ve played pubg. The most extreme form of cheating I’ve seen is a few people using no-recoil scripts, and I’ve never had a problem with the behavio
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by nyxxie 7y ago
> Manga is nowhere near obsolete I agree. The obsolete label applies to print manga, not the medium itself.
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by nyxxie 7y ago
Another day another story of an old style of business facing obsolescence due to shifting market conditions. The narrative for stories like this one is usually “businesses stuck in their ways refuse to adapt and die out”, painting the busin

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