unclekev

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by unclekev 5y ago
I couldn’t care any less about watching rich people launch them selves to the edge of space. I would much rather spend my time watching rich people launch things into space that will end up benefiting everyone like SpaceX using a Tesla as t
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by unclekev 5y ago
> while conveniently ignoring the failings of basically any other country. This is not true. Wikileaks leaked material regardless of the materials country of origin. He never "singled out" the US, they just got the most upset o
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by unclekev 5y ago
From their LinkedIn > We offer expertise in all phases of patent monetization. Our team has helped inventors and companies alike establish licensing revenue streams from IP. We specialize in uncovering hidden value in IP assets, and mone
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by unclekev 5y ago
> How do people manage to figure out such elaborate ways to manipulate Amazon results without getting banned? Getting banned has minimal cost? Poor detection? Inside information? They don't actually ban the accounts doing this. They
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by unclekev 5y ago
It uses an OAuth flow so you're actually entering your credentials on https://authorize.music.apple.com/ which gives this developer a token to access your data (usually a limited subset of your data. I know on the Spot
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by unclekev 5y ago
> programmers where programmer is the king and each and every decision is made by programmers Programmers at Google make no decisions. The only people 'making decisions' are the product owners and project managers. > Even I
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by unclekev 5y ago
Just right clicked a URL in chrome and saw the "Always show full URLs" option. Mind blown! Never noticed that there. Amazing! Thanks for the tip. I would have guessed the situation would be the opposite, easy to set in FireFox, ob
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by unclekev 5y ago
BitClout is a scam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsERRF39YiM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBZ4v2-XynU Its sad how many articles get made on how Bitcoin is a scam where it has potential to transform the
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by unclekev 5y ago
> This experiment didn't move relevant security metrics, so we're not going to launch it. :( Interesting, I wonder what exact 'security metric' they were measuring this against to determine if this feature would make
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by unclekev 5y ago
> Would you give alpha version to people you love? Absolutely I would. What's the alternative? Waiting 3 years for data whilst the virus continues to kill indiscriminately and desperately hoping that you or your loved ones don'
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by unclekev 5y ago
No > The bridge itself is not going to drop into the open-source Matrix code any time soon. Hodgson explained: "This is an entirely new bridge that we've built as Element exclusively for Element Matrix Services, which is the Sa
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by unclekev 6y ago
> after my G4 died in less than 18 months The whole G4 bootloop fiasco is why i'll never buy a LG phone again. Went through 4 G4's in 12 months because of it.
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by unclekev 6y ago
> Now if someone could enable full CUDA on RTX 3060/3070/3080, that would be noice! I thought there were no CUDA limits on the RTX 3070/3080/3090 cards? I've got a 3080 from launch and have not noticed any artifi
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by unclekev 6y ago
> Wonder who buys them next Cisco or Salesforce
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by unclekev 6y ago
> p/s if you're Aussie, Vyvanse is now on PBS so you no longer need to pay $100+ a month - rather it's now $6 to $40 depending on your cirumstances. As a Aussie who is currently prescribed Dextroamphetamine, this makes me
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by unclekev 6y ago
Article is behind a pay wall > Not every story on Medium is free, like this one. Become a member to get unlimited access and support the voices you want to hear more from.
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by unclekev 6y ago
> These aren't the kind of roles you can work your way into. You have to be in the right place at the right time and be there for a long time Sorry for grammar. On mobile but wanted to quickly contribute. I was incredibly lucky in m
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by unclekev 6y ago
I didn't know about WireGuard before the initial post on HN, since then it's replaced my OpenVPN solution to access things on my home network stuck behind a 5G mobile CGNAT (no wired service available) I haven't had any issue
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by unclekev 6y ago
Shows how out of touch I am with what people want!
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by unclekev 6y ago
Of course they don't. They "deeply regret" getting caught.
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by unclekev 6y ago
I can't help but feel this a silly gimmick and waste of engineering time. The practicality of this whole thing feels non existent, creating a product for a market that does not exist (people who wanted chicken warmers in their PC) - th
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by unclekev 6y ago
I remember paying for a membership for their "Premium Security Portal" back in 1999/2000. Got in a lot of trouble at school because of the things I learnt on that site. Good times :)
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by unclekev 6y ago
> Secrets in a public github repository is a leak, in the cloud. Someone uploading their secrets to GitHub has nothing to do with the cloud and everything to do with the incompetence of the people using it. "This is the clouds fault
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by unclekev 6y ago
> Even the SolarWinds breach was likely made possible due to a cloud leak What? Their internal build system was comprised and the password for the FTP that hosted their software updates was "solarwinds123" This had nothing to d
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by unclekev 6y ago
> Remediation and recovery for most threats involves OS/app reinstallation Except for all those SolarWinds admins arguing that doing a simple scan and infected binary removal is enough and then moving on and anything more is "o
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by unclekev 6y ago
Because they'll come after me for slander / defamation. Australian law provides almost no protection for speaking out against this kind of thing. Does not matter if it's true or not, it's still considered slander/de
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by unclekev 6y ago
I worked for a company that had all their Customer data stolen and then sold on a darknet market place. They completely swept it under the rug, told the infosec guys that if they talked about the incident with anyone they would have their e
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by unclekev 6y ago
> everyone (including him) gets a nice payday and can move on to some other area? This is what bugs me the most about the corporate landscape. You can be incompetent & cause huge damage to a business, but if your a c-level, your usua
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by unclekev 6y ago
> base your entire life out of the Gartner trade rag magic quadrants Seems to work pretty well for a lot of the CIO/CTO level people who I have worked with. Unfortunately.
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by unclekev 6y ago
> product out in front of competition that they knew was coming so they could claim they were "first" Who was coming? What competition? They weren't in a race with anyone to release the iPhone. Nobody was even close to wha

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