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by waihtis 3y ago
Starting your speech on a self-congratulatory snickering about tech bros throws all credibility out of the window
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by waihtis 3y ago
No, actually I want more accountability as ultimately the money politicians launder into their own pockets directly or indirectly comes from a power vested by citizens. Useful idiots who point fingers at one edge of the political spectrum a
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by waihtis 3y ago
Religion was born based on primitive humans observing aliens, which were interpreted as "angels" and "demons". It's as good of an explanation as any. Either way, we will need to make great technological leaps to dev
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by waihtis 3y ago
As a non-American, let me ask you if you really think all the other high level American politicians are clean? If not, would you be better positioned to scrutinize the current political system as inherently flawed instead of barking at curr
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by waihtis 3y ago
it is an impressive feat, sorry if it came across as negative! hopefully they treat you to dinners at least
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by waihtis 3y ago
I'm not nearly talented enough to build something open source someone else would want to commercialize
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by waihtis 3y ago
I think there's still a difference of using small libraries which contribute to a single or couple functions here and there, versus taking an entire open source product and wrapping a commercial structure on top of it. Could be hypocri
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by waihtis 3y ago
Asking this in a friendly manner, but don't you feel bad that something you created was taken essentially for free by a corporation and monetized? Money isn't everything, but I would think it fair for the creator to receive their
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by waihtis 3y ago
A bunch of bureaucrats somehow outsmarting one of the most well resourced and talented machineries out there is the thing I am skeptical about. The two systems are not equal by a long shot.
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by waihtis 3y ago
I think it's useful in beginner-intermediate meditation as a lot of people don't necessarily have the wiring innately to follow up on the actions required. For example, doing a full body scan if you're a newcomer is probably
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by waihtis 3y ago
A good tool for rejuvenating yourself for the second half of the day, equivalent to a short nap, is what is called "NSDR" or non-sleep deep rest. Huberman has a guided session for this on youtube: https://youtu.be&#x2
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by waihtis 3y ago
> misguided, policies from people who aren't qualified to to make the decisions they are making, and aren't listening to experts. Ask yourself what kind of game regulators are really playing? See how many former banking regula
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by waihtis 3y ago
not only that but 80% of conversations on reddit is idiotic jokes and puns
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by waihtis 3y ago
stated vs revealed preferences
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by waihtis 3y ago
I disagree, I think it would fit perfectly over the zeitgeist where national pride of any kind is reviled
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by waihtis 3y ago
you obviously haven't been to London then. The city has two gigantic Westfield malls which are completely packed day in, day out.
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by waihtis 3y ago
Recall the recent Chinese Volt Typhoon campaign against US infrastructure in which the threat actor used US residential computers as "proxies" to mask their traffic as coming from legitimate, inside the US IP addresses. I imagine
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by waihtis 3y ago
Surveillance tech is usually a derivative of other technological advancements which would still result in a net benefit. The middle ground between infinite optimism and doomerism seems to be regulation which more often than not results in v
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by waihtis 3y ago
Kaczynski's entire opposition to technology seems to focus purely on amplifying the negative aspects of technological advancement. But after reading David Deutsch, I cannot but think all and any technological advancement is desirable a
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by waihtis 3y ago
Tails OS is still a thing
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by waihtis 3y ago
The good old Ford Pinto playbook
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by waihtis 3y ago
the cynic in me thinks the bad linux activity is there, but the targets do not have any kind of linux monitoring in place to spot activity
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by waihtis 3y ago
For the Linux variant of LOLBINs, see GTFOBINS https://gtfobins.github.io/
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by waihtis 3y ago
They might and some definitely do, but at large enough scale maintaining a good anomaly detection signal to noise ratio becomes very difficult. A single ubuntu terminal spawn will generate something like 20 system calls. Now multiply that w
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by waihtis 3y ago
it's a needle in the haystack issue. plus most EDR products do not actually alert on benign looking syscalls as it'll quickly cause an false positive overload
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by waihtis 3y ago
Somewhat related - if you like the soundscape of "old VHS" you should check out the artist VHS Head, he samples music from old videotape cassettes. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiPGoIicGrAU32LR987iD9g
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by waihtis 3y ago
hard not to think this isn't intentional misleading on Apple's behalf
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by waihtis 3y ago
Apple, Google partner on an industry specification to address unwanted BLUETOOTH tracking
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by waihtis 4y ago
They're just computers like anything else and have to try to establish security best practices, both on hardware and software level. It would be interesting to find out how effective patching methods are in place with satellites consid
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by waihtis 4y ago
Hilarious. Are you advocating the Soviet Union was a progressive nation?

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