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by pwg 5y ago
#2 is less secure, not because of entropy per se., but because it will already be present in existing password test files and/or is trivial to create and test (i.e., JohnTheRipper's ability to generate test candidates based upon p
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by pwg 5y ago
> A really good author could probably make this up True, but what /really/ makes the humor in this article, when one has the domain knowledge to understand the technical details, is that every single technical humor bit is true
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by pwg 5y ago
> I think you just need to have driven a car from that era to understand this post and believe it Yes, indeed. My first car when I turned 16 was a well beaten 1971 Cadillac that had it's share of rust and the like. The author&#x27
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by pwg 5y ago
Are these just bookmarklets?: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/
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by pwg 5y ago
Another suggestion: Computer Organization By V. Carl Hamacher, Zvonko G. Vranesic and Safwat G. Zaky Published by McGraw-Hill I typed that in from the cover of the Second Edition, but that edition has a copyright date of 1984, so there are
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by pwg 5y ago
> A while ago, my wife got a call from a collections agency on my phone. I occasionally get calls on my number from a caller asking for my brother. My standard response has always, from the first time one came in, been: "there is no
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by pwg 5y ago
Which is also why it is simply an "initiator settable field". When "the phone company" brought out the service (for a monthly fee) there was only one "phone company" and so they could be assured that they them
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by pwg 5y ago
Because the design of the original caller-id system allows the initiator of the call to attach any set of numbers they like as the caller-id value that is shown on your phone.
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by pwg 5y ago
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
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by pwg 5y ago
http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/
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by pwg 5y ago
> Exactly same as with paper ones, but with fewer steps. Actually with more steps. Paper statements: Bank generates paper statement on appointed day (work/time input by bank) Bank packages paper statement in envelope and mails it (w
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by pwg 5y ago
Consult with an attorney who is knowledgeable about US copyright laws.
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by pwg 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/1138/
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by pwg 5y ago
Search for the article on https://archive.today/
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by pwg 5y ago
This will be website style sheet dependent. If the website's style sheets impose a maximum width, the width will be constrained. If not, they will likely flow to the edges. But, do note that it is possible to run your browser with a w
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by pwg 5y ago
Berkeley DB and variants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB
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by pwg 5y ago
This came up from a quick search: https://diybookscanner.org/
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by pwg 5y ago
It (the post) received only 38 up-votes in the three hours it has been up. Since story ranking for the front page appears to be in part based upon number of up-votes per unit time, it is very possible that only 38 votes over a three hour pe
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by pwg 5y ago
See @ska's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30195348
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by pwg 5y ago
Diesel engines have no throttle plate that controls the airflow into the engine. The closed throttle plate in a gasoline engine is what creates a gasoline engine's brake effect, by pulling a vacuum in the intake below the closed thrott
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by pwg 5y ago
I do use additional addresses the reasons are: 1) if company X becomes "spammy" (as in starts sending me too many advertisements, even though they are technically not "spam"), and their "unsubscribe" link does
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by pwg 5y ago
Advertising. It is much harder to inject custom, "targeted", ads when a user simply downloads the video (the ad's would have to be injected into the video, during the download, to allow for targeted ads). Meanwhile, playing
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by pwg 5y ago
It was captured by weather satellites. Someone put together at least one video of the explosion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoMRwyNhqJ4
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by pwg 5y ago
More than likely, because switching to Linux also drops all the "paid pre-installed windows software" (companies paying Dell to pre-install their software) then this jump in price would give a hint as to how much Dell receives in
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by pwg 5y ago
> These emails are so bad and there is almost no chance of them finding their way through a spam filter, why are people still sending them? Most likely because the cost to send per email is so low as to be essentially free. As well, ther
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by pwg 5y ago
UblockOrigin, with default deny all JavaScript mode turned on, prevented any 'half way through popup' from appearing for me.
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by pwg 5y ago
Try the "Thread Reader app" (note, not really an 'app', it is a website) https://threadreaderapp.com/ I am not affiliated in any way, other than using it sometimes to skim a twitter link.
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by pwg 5y ago
The reply buttons likely disappeared because it was also made "dead". Looking it up in your profile it shows "[flagged] [dead]". As to why it was made dead, I do not know.
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by pwg 5y ago
3m old accounts can't flag (a certain karma level is needed to be able to flag). An unrelated threatening comment would have gotten the unrelated comment killed, but not the main posting. If the main posting was flagged, that is becaus
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by pwg 5y ago
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