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by quesera 8mo ago
I had to look up "crash blossoms"! But that's just an idiom, which is always tricky in translation. It might also be slang. Idioms and slang are borderline dictionary material, different editors make different choices, and th
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by quesera 8mo ago
Why do you think this would be anything other than a time-consuming and slightly costly exercise? Do you think there's a contract created by your robots.txt comment?
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by quesera 8mo ago
> This completely misses the purpose of the downvoting feature "Downvote for disagree" has been canonicalized on HN since (nearly) the beginning, by pg himself, back when he used his real-name account to comment. :) I agree t
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by quesera 8mo ago
> Whether something sounds like a human, a book, or a language model doesn’t really affect whether the behavior it describes exists. It matters. > the hardest thing to scale is not software. It is trust. For example: Is this your
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by quesera 8mo ago
Very yikes. Also wrong: > By eschewing the lath lattices, buildings now have way more room in wall cavities for improved insulation and conduits The cavities are exactly the same size, plaster+lath, or drywall. Most residential constru
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by quesera 8mo ago
Please describe the alternative stance, and how it scales to societies and casual acquaintences.
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by quesera 8mo ago
> I am left having to assume that, in the absence of some clear indicator to the contrary, whoever I am writing to will actually have rather strict expectations This is self-defeating. You have the option (and I recommend it) to intent
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by quesera 8mo ago
The age of consent is 16 in many US states, FWIW.
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by quesera 8mo ago
I've used FUSE for something similar. There are sample "drivers" in easily-modified python that are fast enough for casual use.
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by quesera 8mo ago
Underestimation is a mistake with at least equal consequences as anthropomorphization. I recommend neither.
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by quesera 8mo ago
It remains the US law, and you are wrong about everything in your short sentence.
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by quesera 8mo ago
This is a great read, but note that it's specific to Windows and Dell/Lenovo/Microsoft. Apple does it different(ly), and I'd argue more securely. Being able to specify the full chain of hardware, firmware, and software a
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by quesera 8mo ago
My understanding is that there is current consensus that active iOS 0days are not likely to be available at the LE level.
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by quesera 8mo ago
Choosing a belief that is more desirable than the most likely case, is by definition irrational, and can be called optimistic. Choosing a belief that is less desirable than the most likely, is equally irrational, clearly pessimistic, and of
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by quesera 8mo ago
> Cultivating optimism is the first step I agree with this, and I recognize it as the good intentions behind faith communities. People are (statistically) terrible at creating optimism on a blank canvas. They need narratives and common
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by quesera 8mo ago
They can refuse, and they have refused. See San Bernardino and the concept of "compelled work".
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by quesera 8mo ago
> 1. iOS has well-known poorly documented zero-click exploits PoC || GTFO, to use the vernacular. If you're talking about historical bugs, don't forget the update adoption curves.
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by quesera 8mo ago
> faulty fingerprint sensor The fingerprint sensor does not make access control decisions, so the fault would have to be somewhere else (e.g. the software code branch structure that decides what to do with the response from the secure
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by quesera 8mo ago
> Greedy, ruthless and well-connected? Sure, but that's not enough. > These people are hardly genuises. You're quite wrong about this. I know it's tempting to look at a damaged person and assume that they possess no
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by quesera 8mo ago
> It might be possible to scam the Pentagon with some talk about AI and killer satellites that take down ICBMs. Honestly that story sounds right up Pete Hegseth's alley.
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by quesera 8mo ago
Where I come from, Scarry rhymes with Harry, but Harry does not rhyme with scary. Harry does not rhyme with hairy Scarry does not rhyme with scary Marry does not rhyme with Mary. Nor with merry! You can probably triangulate my ch
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by quesera 8mo ago
We still have another chance for eradication in humans with Polio.
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by quesera 8mo ago
We don't vaccinate against smallpox, but keep in mind that at least two countries maintain live smallpox virus in government labs. The bad actors are predictable. And I suspect at least two others are lying.
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by quesera 8mo ago
Smallpox is not measles! But, point taken.
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by quesera 8mo ago
I've lost track of our points of disagreement here. Sure, it's work, but it's all doable. Obfuscated code is more difficult to unravel in its orginal form than the decompiled form. Decompiled code is a mess with no guideposts
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by quesera 8mo ago
I'm curious why you think it's handwavy. I've done this work on other mobile apps (not WhatsApp), and the work is not out of the ordinary. It's difficult to hide subtleties in decompiled code. And anything that looks hai
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by quesera 8mo ago
More than plausible, for 8am on a January morning! I used to ride a motorcycle every day from the Haight (home) to the Financial District (work), and the temperature grade changes were palpable. Your point is also completely correct, of cou
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by quesera 8mo ago
At some level, the machine code is the source code -- but decompiling AArch64 mobile apps into something like Java is common practice. As GP alludes, you would be looking for a secondary pathway for message transmission. This would be diffi
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by quesera 8mo ago
Reverse engineering is easy when the source code is available. :) The difference between source code in a high-level language, and AArch64 machine language, is surmountable. The effort is made easier if you can focus on calls to the crypto
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by quesera 8mo ago
There are many small tasks to be performed on a lobstering boat, especially back in 1929. An 8 yo could absolutely perform many of them. But sure, it's highly likely that she headed out with a parent or older sibling initially. This do

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