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by rixrax 8y ago
>> Just get rid of comments, which are mostly useless crap anyway. Exactly this. And same for FB. Forced moderation. I had a video in Youtube that somehow managed to get >100k views. The comments were absolutely worthless junk. I c
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Assembling 4.9mm F3.5 Hyperfisheye Prototype(lensrentals.com)
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2.7M Swedish 1177 calls found unecrypted on a server (national health service)(mobile.twitter.com)
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I’m old enough to have used gopher on vt100 terminals as an undergrad in college to try and do some ‘work’. And when http/www arrived, it didn’t take long to switch to a better mousetrap. And this wasn’t just because you could now rend
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If you haven’t seen Lives of Others[0], you probably should. Talks pretty directly to what parent is proposing. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others
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I’m increasingly thinking that targeted ads are eerily similar to Isaac Asimov psychohistory[0]. E.g. you cannot reliably predict individual behavior, but with right|enough data you can reliably predict how a large enough population will ac
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by rixrax 8y ago
Telecoms equipment from Huawei and others are no different to desktop OSs and consumer IoTs in that they do require software and firmware updates from time to time. And given that these updates come in a form of binary blobs, in some risk
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This was a nice blast from the past! :) Another great resource on 6502 in my opinion have been David Wheelers write-ups on 6502[0]. [0] https://dwheeler.com/6502/ Like I recall he says, I think 6502 was one of the last
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by rixrax 8y ago
Is AviSynth still a thing? It seems like there hasn't been much active development for several years. But it doesn't look like there are any alternatives either for things like this is either.
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And while doing that, cut the bureaucracy and stigma of having to continuously apply for welfare, food stamps etc. Not that this would offsets the cost of basic income. If we picture a dystopian future where due to the rise of automation, i
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And I’m not surprised they don’t have a services status page either that many modern companies do offer[0][1][2]. [0] https://api.twitterstat.us [1] https://help.netflix.com/en/is-netflix-down [2] https:&#
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Even if you use Rust (or other memory safe(r) languages), you still have a variety of failure modes that they don’t protect against, with which fuzzing may be helpful: poor resource handling (e.g. massive memory allocations), logic problems
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Until another regime shows up that decides to neuter or eradicate people with a specific trait.
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Fuzzing para-virtualized devices in Hyper-V(blogs.technet.microsoft.com)
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What kind of closed source / commercial software can be fuzzed on your platform? E.g. how would you fuzz something like Adobe Lightroom or Autodesk AutoCAD there? What kind of reports would you provide?
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Most of the action on desktop takes place in a browser though. So I think you could go a long way by getting to the point where you can run Firefox or Chrome (or some other webkit etc. based browser). Isn't this sort of what ChromeOS d
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So is using crack cocaine and meth. And somehow we chose to ban their use. And probably should tell our friends be highly suspicious of using them. This is age old conversation about how much government should protect people from themselves
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Lawmakers should probably ban and break up FB as harmful, just like we do with some controlled substances and other things. But the scary thought is that in this unlikely scenario (or in bankruptcy), what would happen to all the data they h
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No. I’m suggesting we fix our healthcare system so that fewer people die, and no one is driven into financial ruin because they need to see a doctor, and that it’s available to every citizen of these United States regardless of their financ
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I’d like to throw something out here as maybe a starting point for a discussion: we should immediately make it illegal to have medical insurance in the US. Everything should be out of pocket. Period. After initial chaos, misery and death, w
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Find how your favorite apps do - link to Wine application support db: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio... I'd like to really Thank Wine developers! Because of your efforts pretty much only t
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In case this would have been drone flight falling under 14CFR part 107, at least these come to mind. - 107.41: over Tererboro airport and did not appear to have contacted ATC (air traffic control) and/or obtained waiver to operate in c
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Ten threats to global health in 2019(who.int)
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All the ethical and taste concerns aside, is that $5 chicken worse, better or about the same for feeding a hungry person? I am thinking of calories intake, potential medium/long term health advantages/disadvantages? edit: was poin
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by rixrax 8y ago
Thanks for this! I wasn't aware of either.
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I wish they got domain like ddg.io|ai|... [that appear to be available too]. It would be so much easier to quickly type that in when DDG doesn't happen to be a default search engine somewhere. Instead of typoing it in a hurry to demo i
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Came here to say the same. I may wait it out a bit to see/hear how it will work in real life, but assuming it will, I think I'll get one for using on-line. My second thought was that I hope sites won't stop accepting Master C
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Researchers report breakthrough in ice-repelling materials(phys.org)
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M.Rubio introduces privacy bill to create federal regulations on data collection(thehill.com)
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+1! Redox Os (micro kernel Os written in Rust) feels like a gust of fresh air! Godspeed! I am rooting for you! I don’t know what this says about me but I haven’t been this excited about new OS since I first installed OpenBSD 2.5. :)

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