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by phlo 6y ago
The title should probably be changed to the title from the article, 'Windows 10 warns [users] to use a "Microsoft-verified" app [when attempting to install Firefox]'.
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by phlo 6y ago
The threat actors are SOC employees or visitors who might (maliciously or unwittingly) use their smartphones to record sensitive data. The risk is data exfiltration. A selfie in front of the SOCs giant screen wall; a compromised phone that
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by phlo 6y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23538826 (which was posted a few minutes earlier).
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by phlo 6y ago
So there's two numbers at play here: balance sheets and market cap. A company's market cap is its share price multiplied by the number of outstanding shares. Using parent's Netflix example, there are approximately 450m Netfli
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by phlo 7y ago
PSA: This is the live streaming URL. An archived version will be available a few hours after the talk with the rest of the archived talks, on media.ccc.de [0] All talks at 36C3 are live-translated between English and German, and into one ad
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Human Rights at a Global Crossroads – Robert Tibbo and Edward Snowden [video](media.ccc.de)
68 points by phlo 7y ago|4 comments
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by phlo 7y ago
It's available, but a bit hidden on media.ccc.de. There's a cog wheel icon on the lower right corner of the video player. Hover over it, and a list of languages ("deu" is German, "eng" is English, "fra&quo
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by phlo 7y ago
PSA: All talks will be live-translated between English and German, and into one additional language (primarily into French or Spanish; on occasion there were translations into Russian and Mandarin) [0]. If you find any talks on the schedule
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by phlo 7y ago
Yes and no. A heat pumpt doesn't generate heat, it /pumps/ it from one location to another. It can only achieve above-100% efficiency if you don't include the source of the heat in your calculation. For a more practical
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by phlo 7y ago
Wrong. The relevant law (art. 3 WZG[0]) requires persons to accept all banknotes (and up to 100 coins per transaction) as payment, but this only applies after a contract has been formed. It's perfectly legal for any store to indicate t
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by phlo 7y ago
It depends on the implementation of the DNS rebinding protection. I have just checked, and my pfSense firewall (which claims to block DNS rebinding) blocks local addresses from resolving through xip.io (tested with loopback and several RFC1
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by phlo 7y ago
Interestingly, the Swiss railway system publishes real-world figures on its Co2 efficiency per passenger-kilometer. [ https://www.mobitool.ch/de/tools/vergleichsrechner-15.html , german-only, un nfortunately] They r
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by phlo 8y ago
I'm not aware of any countries where no fees at all would be levied, but to provide two examples from Europe: - In the EU, interchange rates are limited to 0.3% [1] for credit card transactions at physical terminals ("card present
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by phlo 8y ago
In practice, FIDO U2F (Universal 2nd Factor) provides the same benefits and side-steps the major pains associated with mutually authenticated TLS (convoluted user experience, complex trust relationship management). Google reportedly managed
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by phlo 8y ago
This makes you appreciate the attention to detail, and the countless painfully learnt lessons, that goes into user interface design for airplanes. Compare a Cessna 400's cockpit [1] to a switch cluster in a recent Mini [2]. The car sti
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by phlo 8y ago
No, 127.0.0.1 should never appear on any network, and no network device should ever route it. The earliest documentation I was able to find is in RFC 1122 [1] from 1989, but according to RFC 6890 [2], the principle dates back to 1981. [1]
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by phlo 8y ago
In this specific instance, the Times article might be overblown. They specifically mention that they were able to use BlackBerry Hub with a reporter's account to query Facebook data. The article never states whether BB Hub connects to
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by phlo 8y ago
USD per lb of green beans in bulk. According to one finva I visited at some point. On some quick research, apparently on the extreme high end, lots can go for as high as $600 per lb. https://dailycoffeenews.com/2017/07&
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by phlo 8y ago
Conventional. For comparison, fair trade ranges from $1.40 to $1.90 (organic on the higher end). Direct trade starts at $2 or so at the low end, averages around $3.50 or so and can approach double digits for top-end specialty coffee. Afaik
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by phlo 8y ago
For those too lazy to fetch everything to local (like me), the same shortcuts are available in the web interface as well. Pressing '?' pops up a full list of options.
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by phlo 8y ago
One of my favourite benefits about bundling services is that it can more closely align the platform operator's incentives with my interests. For ad-driven sites, it becomes crucial to keep viewers engaged as often and as long as possib
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by phlo 8y ago
> Not sure how you could do that efficiently... You could probably do that quite efficiently with Passive DNS data. There are a bunch of providers (e.g. FarSight, RiskIQ, many others) that collect and aggregate DNS request data and make
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by phlo 9y ago
> willful contempt for safety To play Kalanick's adversary, he might be arguing for more real-world data collection. Tesla famously equipped most of their cars with more sensors than were required at the time of delivery, using the
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by phlo 9y ago
There's a project called SCION [1] that (among other things) does roughly this. In essence, participants announce their presence over a multicast-type protocol, and in order to send packets to anyone, you must have received a recent an
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by phlo 9y ago
In Switzerland, the current target interest rate (set by the Swiss National Bank) is -1.25 to -0.25 percent, with current rates around -0.75%. This means banks need to pay the SNB on their funds deposited there. Many of them pass that on to
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by phlo 9y ago
Not OP, but I do the same thing using wildcard addresses on a domain I own. I might use hn@my.domain for Hacker News, amzn@my.domain for Amazon and so on. Foregoing the custom domain, some email providers also let you add tags to your addre
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by phlo 9y ago
In Switzerland, some cities have started to break this up, and it's wonderful: Responsibility is split between the local utility and telcos. The utilities are responsible for the last mile (just as they are for power and water), and p
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by phlo 9y ago
TBH I mostly just lurk there and use it as a feed of interesting things when my need for procrastination exceeds what even HN has to offer. It's surfaced some nice stories though, that I didn't see on HN. From what limited view I&
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by phlo 9y ago
If you (or anyone else on here) would like an account, feel free to post a comment with your email address or shoot me a message (address in profile). Edit: Invites sent for any requests up to 14:50 UTC. I'll check the thread later on
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by phlo 9y ago
> But a government agency that has all the info about all my accounts... I'm quite happy with the approach that Switzerland has taken. Firstly, there are no credit scores or credit reports. Instead, there is a well-defined and regul

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