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by seethishat 1y ago
I'm old. I've been doing security for a very long time. Started back in the 1990s. Here's what I have learned over the last 30 years... Half (or more) of security alerts/warnings are false positives. Whether it's th
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by seethishat 1y ago
The squat (aka primal or Asian squat) would be better than sitting or standing to poo. There is a lot of research on this... If you do sit, it helps to bring your knees up closer to your chest. You can buy devices to help do this... The Squ
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by seethishat 1y ago
I would change this: "Do what works, not what your database professor said you ought to do." To this: "Unless you work for Google or FaceBook, just do what works, not what your database professor said you ought to do."
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by seethishat 1y ago
Most corporate meetings are this way too. It's not about discussing how best to get things done. It's about performing in front of others. Human nature I guess.
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by seethishat 1y ago
"On the ground" = WoW sensors. WoW sensors have been around a long time (see link). And, humans probably should not have any say about that. If humans could override WoW, then the landing gear could be deployed or retracted when i
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by seethishat 1y ago
Ignorant confidence is the best kind of confidence ;)
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by seethishat 1y ago
Dayz has a lot of mods and modded maps on PC.
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by seethishat 1y ago
They are private. Many people store env secrets (db conn strings, etc.) in .bashrc. It's meant to be a private place in your home folder for private things.
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by seethishat 1y ago
Security is like football. If you repeatedly practice the boring basics (blocking, tackling, running, etc.) you will win. Patch, backup, use keys for remote access (rather than passwords) and you will win the security game. It's pretty
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by seethishat 1y ago
Right, the difference is those daemons are written by other teams/people who have various experience/knowledge/security requirements for their software. The daemons in OpenBSD base are all written and maintained by the same t
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by seethishat 1y ago
People who actually do things make mistakes. It's the ones who never screw-up you should scrutinize.
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by seethishat 1y ago
It's like Ga Tech (Georgia Tech). The domain names are different (gatech.edu versus vt.edu) as are the program rankings... VT should be honored to be pronounced in a similar way as they are ranked way lower than Ga Tech ;) I have degre
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by seethishat 1y ago
Or just call, email or txt. Signal is only as secure as the device it runs on. Cell Phones are not secure. They are blackboxes and probably track you and may have built-in backdoors (only to be used to catch 'real' criminals), etc
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by seethishat 1y ago
If I told you 50 years ago, "Hey, we're going to build a worldwide surveillance network and make the people we are tracking pay for it", you would not have believed me. But that is what happened. Cell phones.
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by seethishat 1y ago
When the 20 something 'senior' engineers and 'consultants' don't know how to test network connectivity by using openssl, telnet and ping, you don't won't to work there. It's more like a day care than
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by seethishat 1y ago
Be kind to people and help others if you can. Spend time with them. I did pay my grand mother back for course books and things she paid for (the Pell Grant only went so far), but I also tried to visit her when I could. I think the visits me
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by seethishat 1y ago
Yes, There are only so many re-runs of Walker Texas Ranger. I've seen them all dozens of times on OTA TV ;) I agree with you about gaming, Twitch and YouTube as being replacements for mindless/relaxing viewing.
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by seethishat 1y ago
Ham radio guys and gals have been doing this for decades with APRS. It's fun and easy to do. https://aprs.fi/#!lat=37.25320&lng=-80.43470 https://www.aprs.org/ So that 1979 Ford F150 can be tracked
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by seethishat 1y ago
Interesting. People claim that 'Bigfoot' hits trees with rocks too. So maybe Bigfoot is just a North American ape of some kind... if it really exists.
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by seethishat 1y ago
Some US universities do this remotely via proctoring software. They require pencil and paper to be used with a laptop that has a camera. Some do mirror scans, room scans, hand scans, etc. The Georgia Tech OMS CS program used to do this for
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by seethishat 1y ago
Write blog posts that clearly show the real-world problems that your software solves. People who Google for those problems, may find your blog post. And, if your software is actually worthwhile, then people will post a link to it here and o
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by seethishat 1y ago
More disposable income/debt in the US (in general).
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by seethishat 1y ago
tmux is in OpenBSD base since 4.6 IIRC and is/has been audited. It's a good alternative for those who want something a bit more secure.
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by seethishat 1y ago
Nice write-up. Thanks for sharing. Some may not remember BitKeeper being used to maintain the Linux kernel source code and how a discrepancy was found (22 years ago) between that repo and the CVS repo. This kind of led to git and signed com
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by seethishat 1y ago
I worry about this too. Diversity is a good thing. And when we do email, DNS, Web, calendars, chat, meetings, storage, etc. all on the same platform, how will we operate/communicate when it fails? Heterogeneous computing environments p
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by seethishat 1y ago
It's probably watching for connections to files listed in robots.txt that should not be crawled, etc. Once a client tries to do that thing (which it was told not to do), then it gets tagged malicious and fed the zip file.
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by seethishat 1y ago
In my experience, the intentional lies make AI pretty useless. When I ask various models questions about steels and to select/compare steels to make a recommendation for a specific use case, almost all of them start off OK, but quickly
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by seethishat 1y ago
If I have not seen evidence for or against something, then I would not offer an opinion either. Sometimes, people speak confidently when they are ignorant of the context and the facts. That's not the right thing to do. It's better
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by seethishat 1y ago
This is also true WRT knife steels. Old, simple carbon based steels are much stronger than most stainless steels. They tend to bend rather than chip or break (when abused). They do rust and do have less edge retention than some stainless st
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by seethishat 1y ago
Thank you, that answers my question.

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