oxygen_crisis

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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
A lot of them let you look up the info they already have on you. I don't see the harm in pasting in the info I can see they already have, in a request to remove it.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
I can't think of any other space mission that devoted one of the control room screens to projecting the head of state's face throughout the landing...
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
> If I use a keylogger to grab your passwords and impersonate you in emails, forums, and so on then your identity is stolen This is actually a great example. If you impersonate me in an e-mail and talk someone into sending a thousand dol
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
If it's open to interpretation, you're choosing the worst interpretation. How this is interpreted is the primary problem that needs to be solved in order to legislate the issue, and from the interpretations you're supporting,
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
> the victims are also individuals because banks passed the reputational risk of fraud to the customers In that case I am not a victim of the fraudster, I am a victim of the bank. The banks do not have sufficient incentive to improve the
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
> identity, noun, The condition of being a certain person or thing. Someone who steals my passwords can impersonate me, they can not become me. Someone who tricks people into thinking they are me is still not me. An account is not an ide
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
> someone steals that identity This is exactly the fantasy that we need to dispel, not rationalize. Nobody steals your identity. You always have your identity, and nobody else ever does. Your identity is not the few pieces of trivia a cr
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
Obligatory rant against the "Identity Theft" deception promoted by banks. The victims of fraud in these cases are the banks, not you. You still have your identity. The banks/creditors gave their money (not yours) to a crimina
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
There's nothing convenient about about:profiles. It's designed like their goal was to make the few buttons you want to use most the hardest to find. I'm not going to the profiles page to restart Firefox, show my profile direc
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
> [Austria's] Telekom Control Commission found a violation of Article 3 Paragraph 3 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2120, because the IP access block poses the risk of ‘overblocking’ any website content. Since the blocking was illegal
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
Even in lower-stakes communication it's a good practice, I figured this out early in my career when I was doing tech support. In e-mails, I noticed a lot of customers didn't register much beyond the first couple sentences. Or they
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
> There's a lot of interesting things in the spectrum What I want is something to steadily sweep its whole spectrum and give me a "heat map" of all the signals it picks up. I've got dozens of PDFs and saved pages of i
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
He helped build the Workers platform after they hired him.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
Same principle as concave bottoms on wine bottles (though the concern there is more about jostling and impact during transport than pressurized contents).
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
Favoring optimistic predictions isn't a reasonable response to large margins on complex probabilistic models. "Under-promise and over-deliver." Choosing the side of the margin that favors your marketing at the risk of strandi
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
A worm fence sounds like it should be a couple inches tall and several feet deep, to block the worms.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
The cynic in me says this will incentivize execs to avoid starting the clock: SRE: It looks like someone might be exfiltrating data from our network. CISO: I doubt that. Look into it on Monday. SRE: Today is Tuesday... CISO: Look into it on
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
I'm surprised not to see more love for Librewolf here on HN. It's just the latest Firefox release, recompiled without all the Mozilla telemetry, and with all the settings flipped to more secure/private defaults so all the tra
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
I wish I wrote down the un-freeze PIN codes or stored them in Bitwarden when I did this six years ago. I'm dreading trying to recall the PINs I used when the time comes to un-freeze them. Still glad I did it, though. However burdensome
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
Looks like the project averaged about one new Mersenne Prime per year for 1996-2009, and then only 4 hits for 2010-2018 with none since 2018. Obviously the tflops::hit difficulty ratio is ramping up as the numbers get larger, but I can&#x27
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
I got a call from my mom and pop dial-up ISP in 1999 when I hit one of their BO2k honeypots. Back Orifice 2000 was a widespread script kiddie Trojan that gave clients a menu of mischievous features like changing people's desktop wallpa
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
I'd say it depends on whether they were doing it only when connections were near 100% utilization or if it's something they did arbitrarily. Seems like if you're advertising unlimited service the least you could do is deliver
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
Acme Stoner Toys? Steamer Tycoons? Ace Monster Toys? Comatose Sentry? Amnesty Scooter? Economy Tasters? Ceremony Toasts? A Torn Ecosystem? Necessary Motto?
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
Bash lets you suppress local expansions by using <<'EOF' instead of <<EOF. But if you need a mix of local and remote expansion, you're back to doing a lot of escaping.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
> seemingly private identifiers are SSH pubkeys (I always delete the comment trailer), which are sent to every server you SSH to and also published to places like GitHub I use this in my .ssh/config file: Host * IdentitiesOn
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
There will be only one that is neither preceded by indentation nor followed by an exit code, so that it could match ^exit$, unless you contrive some hypothetical nonsense purely for the sake of contrarianism. Any reasonable person will inde
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
You've already got a marker to denote the end of the shell script baked in there, it's ^exit$
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
The standard ping utility already has audible ping with "-a", it emits a terminal bell sound for every reply.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
The charting display mode is a CLI/terminal feature, though, not a GUI one.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
A friend of a co-worker works for a contracting agency with services including incident response for data ransoms. He says their go-to tactic is to haggle with the ransomers to bring the ransom down to some fraction of what the customer pai

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