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by p-e-w 3y ago
Meanwhile, male suicides still outnumber female suicides by 3:1 for every age group. What a fantastic demonstration of the fact that a statement doesn't have to be false in order to be highly misleading. "Fake" (i.e. blatantl
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I was referring to the practice of downloading executables from such forums in general, not to your post specifically. I have no reason to suspect that this particular post contains any malware. But in most parts of the software world, Open
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by p-e-w 3y ago
It's not about whether this particular announcement, with these particular executables, is trustworthy or not. It's about the whole process of regularly downloading and running executables uploaded by individuals to a BBS-type for
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Just like contract templates shouldn't be used by people without legal expertise trying to skip the "law part" without having a legal professional on their team. And yet...
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Something like this doesn't require 100 MB of source code. I'd expect a few thousand LoC at most. And I absolutely do at least a quick visual "sanity check" of the code before compiling and running newly announced softwa
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Unless they are statically linked. Or the binary uses executable compression. Or obfuscated dynamic loading. Or about a million other techniques that can thwart dependency analysis, and which have been well-known for decades.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Yeah, I too was using the web in the late 90s. I remember countless programming and "hacking" forums where .exes were shared, and I downloaded and ran anything and everything that had a download link. It was a fun time, and I do h
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by p-e-w 3y ago
So people just download .exe files that they see in those forum posts and run them on their machines? New world indeed...
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Also, what does the High Availability in the name of the codec refer to? I've searched the web and found not a single mention of "high availability" in the context of audio codecs. In fact, the top-ranked result was this ve
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by p-e-w 3y ago
For what looks at first glance to be a potentially impactful development, this post and the "encode.su" one linked from it are extremely sparse on details. Where is the source code? A detailed description of what the codec actuall
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> If you are using these to start a SaaS then you are asking for trouble later on. Problems that (may) arise later on can be tackled later on. The idea that it's desirable, or even possible, to do things "the right way" fr
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by p-e-w 3y ago
There's no such thing as a "head transplant". The person receiving the transplant is the one whose head it is. The transplant they receive is the rest of the body. Therefore, "full body transplant" is a more accurat
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Another reason why today's corporations love teams and flat hierarchies is because they turn "responsibility" into a post-modern concept that fluidly adapts to mean everything or nothing. One day the boss is the boss, the nex
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Really surprised to see that according to this data, Sectigo issues more than twice as many certificates as DigiCert. I have the habit of checking the CA for every website I visit, and my impression from that personal survey is that DigiCer
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Also "perks" like having your life put under the microscope at regular intervals, going to prison if you talk about what you do, etc. And I strongly doubt that agencies that are known to routinely violate the law, the constitution
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> The clearest evidence that it was not an NSA attack is that it was not very good. I suspect you are being sarcastic, but in case you aren't, you may want to reexamine your assumptions. The colossal incompetence that is synonymous
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Key quote: > your ultimate goal is to establish the credibility of your side so strongly that others' trust in you is not affected by whether what you say is actually true. Establishing credibility is the ultimate Dark Art.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> This is no ordinary vulnerability. Due to the closed nature of the iOS ecosystem, the discovery process was both challenging and time-consuming Which, ironically, is evidence that "security through obscurity" does work, e
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> [...] absorbed the kinetic energy caused by an impact almost 30 times better than liners currently used in US military helmets. That's not quite the same thing as claimed in the headline. Of course there's a correlation betwe
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I don't understand this. If two or more computers fail in the same way simultaneously, isn't it much more likely that there is a systemic design problem/bug rather than some random error? But if there is a design problem, how
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> The worst way to store and manipulate text is to use an array. Claim made from theoretical considerations, without any actual reference to real-world editors. The popular Micro[1] text editor uses a simple line array[2], and performs f
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Where in the world can you get a computer science degree without hearing about consensus algorithms?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
There's a difference between noticing latency and considering it a problem. My car doesn't go at the speed of sound. That doesn't mean I think "man, this car is slow" each time I drive it. But if the same car sudden
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Totally false, CO2 emissions coming from the US have fallen as the population has risen. That doesn't change the fact that all else being equal, half as many people emit half the amount of CO2.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Yes. That's because as you move away from the foreground object, the ratio of distances to foreground and background decreases. In the limit, this ratio approaches one, and you get an orthographic projection, where the projected size o
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Marginalia, which I'm a big fan of, is not "written from scratch" (it would be stupid to do so). Check the project on GitHub, it has lots of third-party dependencies.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
During the past century, it has been demonstrated again and again that the "ultimate truth" either doesn't exist or cannot be attained (Incompleteness Theorem, Uncertainty Principle, Observable Universe, not to mention a mill
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Umm... promoting family planning instead of stigmatizing it? It's not exactly rocket science.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Birth control is not "volunteering the lives of others". What utter nonsense.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The elephant in the room that any discussion about social issues will bend over backwards to avoid mentioning. Climate change, ecocide, many if not most international conflicts, the housing crisis, fossil fuel consumption, and countless oth

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