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by pdkl95 6y ago
Source routing also gives malicious hosts the ability to influence packet routing. IPv4 already tried this with the LSRR/SSRR[1] options. The LSRR option was useful to malicious hosts for many purposes, such as[2]: o Bypass firew
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A Whistleblower Prayer(gist.github.com)
1 points by pdkl95 6y ago|0 comments
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B61_5sRoBI
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by pdkl95 6y ago
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on useless performance metrics[1][2]: >> In IBM there's a religion in software that says you have to count K-LOCs, and a K-LOC is a thousand line of code. How big a project is it? Oh, it's
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by pdkl95 6y ago
"Alexa, have you got a 27B/6?"
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Minecraft moderators can now perma-ban players “who do not follow” the rules(gamesradar.com)
2 points by pdkl95 6y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 6y ago
> quality will deteriorate over time Jonathan Blow's talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization"[1] makes a good argument that software quality has already suffered significant deterioration. We've just gotten us
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by pdkl95 6y ago
Asking if it is possible to opt-out of the increasingly digital, interconnected, and interdependent aspects of society isn't particularly important. We need to try anyway to preserve the possibility. Dan Geer on this topic[1]: > T
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by pdkl95 6y ago
The people currently trying to track everything you do online would really love a future where they can also track all your offline physical activity and map "inside of buildings and homes and all the objects inside of them". Ra
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by pdkl95 6y ago
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1925#page-2 RFC 1925 "Fundamental Truths of Networking", section 2: (6) It is easier to move a problem around (for example, by moving the problem to a different part
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by pdkl95 6y ago
> The new Raspberry Pi 400 Learning about the Raspberry Pi is nice, but that doesn't help preserve the institutional knowledge needed to build system/low-level features in a modern OS. I'm not talking about teaching kids t
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by pdkl95 6y ago
> I worry for Gen Z because they're tiny-mobile-device native. And the only usable tiny mobile devices are walled gardens. Without the ability to grow up playing with system level software, combined with the software industry&#x27
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by pdkl95 6y ago
> Something different for every person I absolutely refuse to give a numerical answer unless they first give me an objective calibration for the numbers. I recently got into a minor argument with a nurse before a minor surgery. "If
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by pdkl95 6y ago
> screenshot (in use): https://clbin.com/OEh1h $ HEAD https://clbin.com/OEh1h | grep Content-Type Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 The webserver is sending the image with the wrong
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by pdkl95 6y ago
reCAPTCHA won't even try to work if your UserAgent isn't on Google's short list[1] of supported browsers. If they don't like your browser, the reCAPTCHA widget simply gives up with a fatal error[2]. Any new browser, brow
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by pdkl95 6y ago
> To date, the strongest magnetic fields produced in the laboratory have been in the kilotesla (kT) range. These kT fields are probably made by the family of devices with what might be the coolest name I've ever heard: the explosiv
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by pdkl95 6y ago
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/grou... > There are three degrees of membership within the Proud Boys, and to become a first degree in the “pro-West fraternal organization” a prospective
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The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)(boingboing.net)
405 points by pdkl95 6y ago|210 comments
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> (what ever that means) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly > How can a natural monopoly (what ever that means) ever be a good thing? Regulating the local phone company responsible for "last mile
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by pdkl95 6y ago
> google.com.evilwebsite.example?=google.com This was solved a decade ago by rendering the 2nd+1st level domains (and sometimes other parts of the URL) in a different style. > There's also arguments that URLs are too complex for
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by pdkl95 6y ago
While we are (unfortunately) lacking general relativity simulators, a few special* relativity simulators exist: "A Slower Speed of Light" http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/ "Vel
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by pdkl95 6y ago
Parabolas are just a special case of ellipses where one focus is infinitely far away. Vi Hart has a nice explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pyuaThp-c
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by pdkl95 6y ago
Given the widespread use of "A/B testing" and targeted/algorithmic ads/UX/content, I don't understand why anyone would expect consistent behavior from any software. Unless you have matching SHA-256 hashes
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by pdkl95 6y ago
> What is true or false isn't always clear While the veracity of a statement is important, the problem is not really about "misinformation". Technologists and intellectuals are used to viewing speech as an form of informat
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by pdkl95 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyFH-a-XoQ > It's incredibly Kafka-eqsue that you get banned for a supposed violation that you're supposed to appeal "You must understand, all problems are [user]'s ow
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by pdkl95 6y ago
Raph Koster (MMO designer and expert at Massively Multiuser stuff) a rough vision for what this type of tech is probably intended for. He discusses it briefly towards the end of his (VERY strongly recommended!) talk "Still Logged In: W
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How to build the scary future today (2014)(raphkoster.com)
1 points by pdkl95 6y ago|0 comments
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Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow [video](youtube.com)
29 points by pdkl95 6y ago|4 comments
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by pdkl95 6y ago
You don't need to send anything to 35k feet; you only need a camera with a decent telephoto lens and a long lake on clear day with calm winds. From one shore of the long lake, view objects at the far shore from normal standing height u
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by pdkl95 6y ago
I strongly recommend watching this[1] video about flat-earth belief. It starts with a very impressive direct observation of the curvature, but that's not really the point since flat earth is not a belief based on facts and logic

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