tptacek

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by tptacek 3mo ago
Right, I mean, I see the problem for browsers! Just not for SSH servers. (Capturing sessions like this used to be a contest at Usenix Security).
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Seems about as common as it ever was? (I'm very bullish on Waymos here).
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Bugtraq had ceased being relevant at least a decade before it was shut down; it's kind of hard to see what place it could hold now. When it started, vulnerability research was a tiny niche, and disclosure was still a live debate; the n
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by tptacek 3mo ago
These are endpoint malware attacks, not attacks on Passkeys per se. This is already a game-over position for an attacker to be in.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
The 8-hour workday movement in the US predates Marxism, let alone communism.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
There is no such thing as "average IQ by country". It's baffling to me that so many people believe there would be, because so few of us have ever been asked to take a proctored IQ test in any setting, let alone as part of a
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Several (not many relative to the total industry, but several) large household-name companies publicly do general cognitive testing for white collar roles, and the companies that administer these tests have logo crawls just like any SAAS co
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by tptacek 3mo ago
It's a really widespread myth, hard to fault anybody for believing it. There's even a kernel of truth to it (Griggs).
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I don't understand the impulse behind these things --- this is a bootstrap mechanism for a global PKI for SSH. But cold introductions to SSH hosts (that is, first connections to hosts you have no business or technical relationship with
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I'm a broken record about this, but no, it's not illegal to administer IQ tests in white-collar employment, and it doesn't take a battery of compliance paperwork to do so. This is an Internet myth.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
SSH does in fact have a PKI, just not a global one. Large-fleet SSH installs all tend to use certificate authorities, for this reason (and to simplify SSO).
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I mean it's certainly convenient! But that's a weak epistemic claim. Obviously, the cultural loading of g and of IQ tests is a complicated subject; I certainly wouldn't summarize it as "universal without cultural biases&
583.
by tptacek 3mo ago
Other things also correlate well with many practical measures of cognitive ability, but you wouldn't be so quick to say that they're privileged the way IQ is, so there must be more to the explanation.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
As a person who built and uses this feature several times a week, no, it never does this. It just plays a lot of Tom Petty.
585.
by tptacek 3mo ago
It's always been the rule, so you might want to start a different site!
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by tptacek 3mo ago
This is not a real thing, but people on the Internet badly want it to be.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
You didn't overstep, the preceding comment did. Anything that's interesting is on-topic here; even if the recipe isn't a "hack", if it's interesting it's a legit submission.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Oh, you two!
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Parens and em-dashes do different things. A simple parenthetical is an secondary aside (it's a half step towards a footnote). An interrupting phrase is intended to (abruptly) command attention. I mean, make the case em-dashes are overu
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by tptacek 3mo ago
They are weird. But stuff like this solves one of my great challenges in life, which is that I've got many tens of thousands of songs in my library but only manage to hear tiny repetitive epicycles of them. I don't want a tight ro
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Dude's an artist. He should do what his artistic intuition tells him to. I'm a software developer. I'll follow my own experience. It'll all work out.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
What's pretentious about them? They express a distinctive rhythm in written English. What's the the punctuation you would use instead?
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I'm a terrible woodworker (that's what makes it fun) and if I had a musician in our basement shop there is a very high likelihood I would kill them, or at least seriously fuck up their instrument, when I manage to shoot a wooden s
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by tptacek 3mo ago
My running joke for the past couple years has been "there's nothing a software developer hates more than computer science". But I guess there was one too many words in that sentence!
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by tptacek 3mo ago
2 of those acts are in my woodworking rotation.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Most of the apps I've built take the form of "something I was doing with a long-running note in Notes.app that is now much simpler to deal with because there's a purpose-built program for it". That's what computer p
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I can't recommend enough that you go build your own tracker that graphs your fiber intake, shows trends, and alerts if you're under threshold. It's not hard! I do that for protein, and it's been very valuable.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I am wildly, drastically healthier today than I was when I started this in April. This is something I should have been tracking and measuring a long time ago.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Presumably it would Just Work if I wrote "1/2 bag cool ranch doritos", which is one of the virtues of this input/processing system.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
This is going to be a funny thread to show my doctor. I think something that isn't getting through to people is: I'm not taking The Internet's advice on this stuff; I hired a person to handle these questions for me. Highly re

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