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by ufmace 4y ago
It seems more neutral to me. Yes there's a lot of spam and other types of malicious behavior, but I don't think it's good overall to try to eliminate web automation entirely to stop it.
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by ufmace 4y ago
Beats me, I dunno if it does. But if it actually has no ad network tracking, that's more than any other platform, and could easily be worth the extra cost if you actually care about that. Lots and lots of people say they don't wan
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by ufmace 4y ago
Well if you really want a phone that's secure and private, prove it by paying for it. Mass production and the ability to sell your data to advertisers means the stuff that does that will always be cheaper.
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by ufmace 4y ago
Pretty much yeah, and no combination I could come up with brought up the article on the first few pages, mostly just infosec blogspam. Of course it might actually show up in searches now, since it's been on the HN front page in the las
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by ufmace 4y ago
I remembered it as an article where a guy semi-jokingly claimed to have hacked most of the web through a supply-chain exploit and listed off a ton of clever things he did to evade all of the immediately obvious ways to notice that such a th
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by ufmace 4y ago
The problem that a lot of people don't get is that corporations can't just donate money to things like that to be nice. They have accounting and legal obligations, they can't just throw money around for funsies. If you phra
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by ufmace 4y ago
Oooh thanks, I had been looking to find that article again for a while and couldn't track it down for anything. In a completely unrelated matter, Google search results quality has really declined in the last few years...
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by ufmace 4y ago
Seems like a pretty wacky thing to do IMO. Maybe the CIA does have some operatives in the Russian aerospace industry. But why would any such operatives risk exposing themselves by sabotaging hardware going to the ISS? Just for a rather cont
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by ufmace 4y ago
Could be the time thing. Some of our apps at work have big-ish gem sets, but our ruby version upgrade cadence is much closer to update the version when the current one is about to go out of support for security updates than grab the new hot
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by ufmace 4y ago
> This comes up _constantly_ during ruby version updates and when updating central libraries that many others depend on (like activesupport). I understand this was pretty common in the early days of Ruby, around 1.8.7, 1.9.3, 2.0, etc, a
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by ufmace 4y ago
Funny thing about this, by the time my phone gets to 2-3 years old, I tend to want to replace it anyways. Not so much because I'm craving the new thing, but because the battery now lasts for like 2 hours and is impractical to replace,
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by ufmace 4y ago
Yup, that's what I thought was the most interesting part of this, how many memory errors this guy has already admitted to releasing into production in this one project despite all his precautions. If you wanna write your hobby programs
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by ufmace 4y ago
I always thought it'd be nice to have a "slow" discussion forum. Something a lot like current forums, but where it's normal to take a day or two to respond to somebody. I think I make calmer and higher-quality responses
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by ufmace 4y ago
I wonder if they haven't updated that in a while, it sounds low. You can get 22TB 3.5" hard drives these days. If I take that storage and figure full racks with rackmount NASes I get 30 feet long for 1 row of full-size racks. 45 f
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by ufmace 4y ago
I don't think there's any perfect universal answer for this. I only have a few things I've done that work. Rails for Ruby comes with some pretty nice setups for testing the database code. There's a test DB by default wit
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by ufmace 4y ago
He's been caught constantly lying about everything over and over again, but we should definitely take his word that he's donated just as much to Republicans but there's no proof of it at all.
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by ufmace 4y ago
But that would involve actual planning. When do you do that? Do it for 17 weeks before the out of support deadline? The users start screaming, we still have 17 weeks left before the deadline, how dare you disable us early! And they get enab
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by ufmace 4y ago
Every now and then, I've tried to do some basic video editing. Nothing super fancy, just clipping out part of a long video, maybe cropping and re-encoding to lower resolution or adjusting the volume. I've never been able to find a
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by ufmace 4y ago
I have no idea if this particular person did something like that. But as long as the practical tech support for this sort of thing is high-profile social media posts, something like this is going to happen eventually, if it hasn't alre
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by ufmace 4y ago
Thinking about how the problem would "elegantly solve itself" seems to illustrate the issue. Someone using it in an actual courtroom would make a boneheadedly dumb argument or refer to a nonexistent precedent or something. Then ma
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by ufmace 4y ago
I'm 90% on Ruby on Rails dockerized. Meaning I would almost certainly choose that absent a very good reason to use some other backend stack. Rails because it's highly battle tested and flexible and good enough for almost anything.
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by ufmace 4y ago
The consumer OS lockdown side does have a lot of interesting points. One I also thought of - I'd bet that, even if we reject web browsers, basically every user's "30 most used apps" has at least one that has a plugin sys
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by ufmace 4y ago
They did write about the military angle in the article. It seems they saw it and either weren't paying attention or didn't bother to do anything. I guess it would be kind of a pain in the ass for a military primary radar to attemp
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by ufmace 4y ago
I wonder how well we all think this article has aged? "Penetrate and Patch" is supposedly dumb. But what do we practically do with that? We've seen in the last decade or so a lot of long-lived software everyone thought was se
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by ufmace 4y ago
Well that's just it - it's probably supposed to do that. But bugs happen, and a phone could die or break for any number of reasons outside of your control. People on the internet trying to explain why some particular failure that
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by ufmace 4y ago
It's a nice speech... maybe a little too nice... What if the AI analyzed our psyche and predicted that this was the argument that we were most likely to be sympathetic to? How convenient that the AI really wants to form a society almos
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by ufmace 4y ago
Personally, I don't, since I've never wanted to log into my Google account on a device I encountered while out of the house. I'm not really sure why you'd ever do that IMO.
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by ufmace 4y ago
This is basically the idea. Exact techniques vary, but the point is to keep gently re-focusing on something minor and physical. It doesn't really matter what it is, scan direction vs breath flow vs something else, none of it matters, j
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by ufmace 4y ago
So I sympathize with the idea of this in a sense. But it feels like we're so very far removed from that point that there's hardly any point in talking about it. Also, maybe the US President and other super high level individuals a
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by ufmace 4y ago
I have no idea how the Secret Service in particular is doing, but I would kind of expect that any actual anti-aircraft missiles would be owned and operated by some unit of the Army or National Guard or something. They own all of the actual

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