sennight

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by sennight 5y ago
Probably people like me: willing to put their money where their mouths are when it comes to security and actual hardware ownership. Obviously that is a vanishingly small market - as demonstrated by the fact that a third of the comments here
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lol, read only jumper on the fpga object code eprom... boy that was a close one - we just narrowly avoided the horror of user controlled hardware.
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> ...I'm pretty sure that as an end user I would not feel comfortable... The fact that you have access to all the information you need to do the job should alleviate any concern. It is a night and day difference from blindly hacking
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> That's literally no different to how Unix evolved. Uh, that is exactly my point. You know that you were just arguing that they were unique operating systems, right? You don't see how the comparison totally undermines that pos
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> Every item I've listed offers something unique. You then go on to characterize components grafted in from another OS as "unique". That is a laughably low bar, making every potential permutation of existing operating syst
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Odd, you purportedly know the difference between an OS and a distro - but that doesn't stop you from generating the above nonsense list. Just look at the last 5 items... seriously - all these Illumos derivatives are distinct operating
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> In fact in this instance I think it's a little disingenuous to quote Linux and say it could happen again. Seems apropos to me, given the fact that a Linux ABI compatible hobby project is under discussion - and that everyone here i
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by sennight 5y ago
lol, California fire code makes no exemptions for python projects... this whole story has a "virgins talking about sex" vibe.
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by sennight 5y ago
That isn't access control, that is a an intern project. Those readers aren't wired to devices that could trap you in a burning building, they simply provide a rube goldberg solution to the traditional sign-in sheet.
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This isn't how badge readers work. Every controlled door is wired to a relay panel. That panel connects to a access control db - but it always maintains a cache that is very slow to expire... because the manufacturers weren't clue
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by sennight 5y ago
Yeah I'm just making it up, all those years managing analytics for tens of millions of highly engaged subscribers and dealing with scumbag databrokers pales in comparison to "advertising doesn't work on me".
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by sennight 5y ago
The single most valuable datapoint for advertisers is depression - they figured out a long time ago that depressed people are more easily marketed to. You can be sure they've already perfected the state of the art as far as is economic
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by sennight 5y ago
A concept is simply a pattern used to generalize the underlying data, such patterns are regularly represented by symbols. For example: [x..x+y] is a range pattern, it generalizes any set of numbers that fall within the pattern's bounds
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by sennight 5y ago
Sewage sampling has been used to survey disease for a long time, but we are at a point now where it is technically feasible to automate the collection and analysis of DNA. If that isn't disconcerting enough, we'll be operating on
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by sennight 5y ago
> ...conceptual reasoning... > ...a symbol is just an object that represents another object. Those are the exact same thing. I mourn the defeat of the linguists more than most, but the brute force method undeniably beats out the purpo
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by sennight 5y ago
The truly security conscious will be forced to implement something terrible, something not unlike a bitcoin tumbler... obviously they'll be branded as crazy conspiracy theorists and told that only criminal defecators have anything to h
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by sennight 5y ago
> What the hell happened in the last 20 years? This is a well known target for data collection, going back well beyond 20 years. It has been proposed before that municipal sewage systems be monitored for byproducts of explosive and chemi
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> ...it's technically true but it's orthogonal to it's intended purpose. Well that is the more verbose and less helpful way of saying the same thing: can't do long stare for the same reason this recognizable thing cou
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by sennight 5y ago
That is an interesting choice for a counter example, because when I think of Hubble I think of failed gyroscopes. Hubble has required 5 servicing missions and always seems to be at risk of moving from a state of crippled-but-still-useful to
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by sennight 5y ago
> You don't need to be there yourself. lol, dunno if you are aware or not - but the Arecibo telescope catastrophically collapsed on itself. Serviceability is the concern. The maintenance logs are long for scientific instruments, the
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by sennight 5y ago
> > > ...can’t do a long exposure of anything... > > They could aim the telescope not by moving the dish, but by moving the focal point/receiver. > As the Moon is tidally locked - that long stare limitation remains. S
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If you want to take a radar measurement for something once every 28 days, its great - except for the whole needing to be on the Moon part. Even if you were to build a network of radio telescopes on the dark side of the Moon, you'd stil
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by sennight 5y ago
Arecibo was distance limited by the Earth's rotation speed, since radar returns had to make it back before the target shifted out of the telescopes steerability window. As the Moon is tidally locked - that long stare limitation remains
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by sennight 5y ago
Is it a good goal to create anything greater than oneself? Usually. The utility will be plainly evident long before AGI - software agents will fundamentally change the game for a lot of markets. I love math as much as the next guy, but the
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Because it has practical utility beyond "potentially wipe us out". You could substitute "AI" with a long list of things: industrialization, gene therapy, atomic energy, etc.
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> The company being registered in Florida also supports it, even if it’s not definitive. Supports which baseless claim, that the orange Florida man paid kickbacks with ipv4 space? With a Florida registered foreign LLC pointing back to De
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Which has nothing to do with the methods of kingdom building addressed above. There is a massive difference between deceitfully contriving information asymmetry between departments and dispassionately directing a company's strategic ob
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Psychopathy has entered the chat
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by sennight 5y ago
Anyone can call their stuff "space grade", but it is only marketing copy if it isn't flight qualified. I don't track new stuff because my interest is in hardware developed in the 80s and 90s, but for that time frame ther
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by sennight 5y ago
> Again, you're focusing on data consistency... All that talk of "homelab use-case", "mirrored storage", "RAID", "rsync"... obviously what is under discussion is how ZFS is a poor fit for the

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