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by throwaway7767 10y ago
> 1) Git doesn't rely on SHA-1 for security. It relies on HTTPS, and a web of trust. Some security-focused developers sign git tags and/or commits, specifically to have things verifiable end-to-end and not having to trust HTTPS
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Good work. We'll never use resources sustainably if we can't properly account their usage. > Plus, unregulated fishing boats often use incredibly dangerous equipment to fish, like trawlers. Dolphins, turtles, and seals get caug
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
It's the foreign section of mbl (morgunblaðið). Morgunblaðið is a highly partisan newspaper in Iceland owned by the fisheries industries. It's run at a loss but noone cares because their primary purpose is propaganda for their own
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
> I don't know for certain, but I'd guess WOW does the same thing Norwegian does: hiring staff on short-term contracts from places where labor is cheap (IIRC Norwegian hires its flight-deck crews from Estonia and cabin attendan
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
> Also, you can't buy good sausages in this country. They're all pork, no one makes an honest aussie beef snag on the whole island. How can you make good hotdogs without good snags? :( I haven't tried australian hot dogs,
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
> Please refrain from eating shark, puffin or whales. The only reason why we are still killing endangered species is solely tourism. The local population does not eat them. Please try lamb soup instead. Or one of the amazing Iceland hotd
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Yes, the court system exists precisely to determine fuzzy things like this. I'm still curious, what kind of evidence or testimony might be considered believable in this case. Whether someone remembers a particular sequence of words and
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
If that's your image of working, you should consider working for different companies. This would not describe my workplace, or most of the ones I've worked for.
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
> Exactly. I rather trust well proven math more than people or infrastructure. One famous example nowadays is Bitcoin ... nobody was able to break the fundamental math behind it. Well, there was the integer overflow bug years ago where s
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Those scripts should probably be using something like the following, if they really are python2-only: #!/usr/bin/env python2 I get your frustration though, it's a change that breaks a whole lot of existing scripts.
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
I think you're being much too paranoid about this. Most multimeters I've seen, cheapo or not, are rated to at least 1000V (sometimes 2-5kV). Now, as with all cheapo chinese electronics, you have to assume there is no safety margin
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
I had one of those. The shop I bought it from refused to replace it from their inventory, all they would do is take the motherboard, send it back and then give me the replacement some weeks later when the RMA process was completed. Since I
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
The list of file formats that can trigger the viewer to fetch a resource over the internet is so large that it's impossible to cover them all. Unless you're working with plain text or something you know is safe, don't open
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
As a sysadmin, I'd find it incredibly distracting to be on a livestream while trying to fix a critical issue. For your employees sake I hope you don't do this again. Have a single point of contact that provides information about t
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
It sounds like a terrible working environment for the sysadmins. When shit is broke, you focus on fixing it. Being on camera is distracting, and setting up the livestream probably takes a bit of time that could be spent on actually fixing t
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
If you'd read the article you could have answered the question yourself: no, it is not. But why let facts get in the way of some easy karma-whoring?
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
It wasn't, did you read the article? No stable release ever included this. It was caught while in the testing repository, which is for, you know, testing stuff and finding issues.
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
This link is returning a 404 right now, unfortunately.
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
If your goal is to collect everything like the western intelligence services, infiltrating hackerspaces and the CCC seems like a very efficient use of resources. Especially if they're focusing on Tor and related projects, which they se
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
I have an xbox controller and a steam controller. In my experience, if the game has out of the box controls for an xbox controller, using it is always superior. I don't regret my steam controller purchase though because it fulfills a u
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Not all controllers run on batteries. You can get wired Xbox controllers for example.
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
> Non-QEMU implementation: Google does not use QEMU, the user-space virtual machine monitor and hardware emulation. Instead, we wrote our own user-space virtual machine monitor that has the following security advantages over QEMU: [...]
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Someone they regularly talk to 1-on-1 (with "Bryan" often initiating the interaction) is not "someone they don't even know".
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
When you upgrade from consumer-grade equipment into dedicated APs, they start looking more like something you can put into the center of your living room without being ashamed of it. The Unifi APs for example look like oversized smoke detec
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
"secure delete" (actually "secure erase") is a term from the ATA standard, it's supported by practically all ATA and later SATA devices for a very long time. The idea was you'd tell the disk to erase everything
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
The reason for marking it as erased is so the firmware can physically erase the flash sector. It could happen immediately, a minute later or next week. But a well-written SSD firmware will try to erase blocks any time it's not busy doi
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
DNSCrypt is not the same thing as DNSSEC.
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
I expect to see these same companies try ever more fragile and bad methods to bypass these restrictions. If chrome refuses to load extensions from disk, they'll inject themselves into the process address space somewhere, which as a bon
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
How to buy bitcoin anywhere in the world, as long as it's in one of the 31 countries on the list.
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Yes, the story here is that new Intel platforms expose such debugging functionality over regular USB ports. This is not what most people expect, so it's newsworthy.

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