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by wepple 3y ago
Lugubrious: adjective looking or sounding sad and dismal. "his face looked even more lugubrious than usual"
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by wepple 3y ago
Cal does actually address this in his book “Deep Work”; unfortunately in this blog post he takes a fairly myopic view, perhaps just to reiterate the value of deep work, for those for whom it makes sense. In the book, he has a section “what
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by wepple 3y ago
It is indeed a very famous quote: Cal Newport (OP link) also quotes it in his book “Deep Work”
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by wepple 3y ago
Perhaps that’s me, the fat? If I were let go tomorrow there wouldn’t be any negative consequences for probably at least a year. I do security things, and it seems those folks are all gone from Twitter. But my hypothesis is that the negative
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by wepple 3y ago
> Can you explain how some of the greatest technical research projects of our time like the internet, Linux, etc happened without a big office then? Stating that it’s possible is very different to stating which model might be more effect
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by wepple 3y ago
Plumbers have a 100% location-dependent job role by its very nature. Inventing the transistor* or the next leap in LLMs are both knowledge work, so could both be performed remotely *of course, there was a ton of actual science experimentati
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by wepple 3y ago
> Could AI advancements have accelerated Can you point to the data that shows AI engineers work remotely or from an office? > live in a crumbling city spending 25% of their work hours commuting and preparing to commute You’re clearly
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by wepple 3y ago
You mention that your team is profitable and your client retention is high: this suggests a very particular type of business. Could it be that the nature of your work is well suited to remote work? Perhaps you’re delivering fairly well-know
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by wepple 3y ago
> I say this as somebody who manages a wholly remote team from across the world, 5 countries and timezones. Doesn’t this partly imply you wouldn’t have good data to compare performance of remote vs local?
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by wepple 3y ago
I disagree. Life is about finding meaning, and for many entertainment is meaningless; distracting yourself until you die.
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by wepple 3y ago
Sure, I maybe should’ve noted that. But my key point is that the article tells you that you should use an RNG (without reason) rather than a PRNG, but then ends up listing something that is an (RNG-initialized) PRNG in the RNG section. TL;D
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by wepple 3y ago
This article fails to explain why someone should explicitly reach for an RNG over PRNG. It also suggests os.urandom as a Python RNG which (as the name suggests) uses /dev/urandom or the getrandom() syscall, both of which are PRNGs
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by wepple 3y ago
Timeline here: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-710/ ZDI have been doing disclosure since forever. I doubt Mikrotiks claim that they were never notified.
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by wepple 3y ago
I saw the CVE mention RADVD, which took me here: https://github.com/radvd-project/radvd/commit/f67335b5335b6e... So not Linux kernel but possibly RADVD. No announcement from RADVD itself
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by wepple 3y ago
Possibly this: https://github.com/radvd-project/radvd/commit/f67335b5335b6e...
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by wepple 3y ago
This is a bit buried but important: > And electricity only accounts for 18% of the UK's total power needs. There are many demands for energy which electricity is not meeting, such as heating our homes, manufacturing and transport. C
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by wepple 3y ago
I don’t necessarily think OP believes this point of view, but even HN folks seem to think passkey is some wild biometric stealing mega Corp conspiracy. See a lot of the comments in this thread as an example: https://news.ycombina
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by wepple 3y ago
> gadget that can be luxurised (made more expensive without adding substantial new functionality) with the sole purpose of helping homo sapiens groups stratify according to status / wealth I’m not sure if you just came up with that
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by wepple 3y ago
I’d like to believe very few are on HN This seems like something you’d buy if you’re later on in your finance/property/legal/medical career and have “made it” and are buying token toys that look nice and are lots of fun to us
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by wepple 3y ago
Citation (other than Business Insider) needed
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by wepple 3y ago
What is the device based authentication the PH page mentions? I’m a little scared to search for it whilst in a public space
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by wepple 3y ago
+1 everyone should read that - 60% of comments on this thread are explained away by reading this.
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by wepple 3y ago
That’s not my understanding of how it works. Your face geometry is used to allow access to a secure processor (trustzone/Secure Enclave/etc) which then signs the web token. Which is why the phone is the “something you have” piece
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by wepple 3y ago
How does my use of faceID on my iPhone promote de-anonymization if it doesn’t leave my phone? Everything you’ve described can be done whether or not I use biometric to sign into a device, or even own a device?
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by wepple 3y ago
Passkeys sign a web origin. If you try to phish one, the token you get won’t be valid for the origin you’re trying to authenticate to. Eg you’ll get: Token{domain:hax0r.net username:bob}
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by wepple 3y ago
> The only use-case for biometrics is deanonymization, sold to you under the auspices of security, primarily used for corporate surveillance. Please provide evidence that biometric data has ever been extracted from a major platform (IE A
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by wepple 3y ago
Password + password manager can be trivially phished. PIN can’t, because even if you somehow phished a user you can’t use it. I don’t know what “proper 2FA” means but the gold standard today is U2F, and it has failed to be mass adopted due
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by wepple 3y ago
Gas is rare and expensive in NZ, I knew very few people who had it. In NYC every house does. My clothes dryer runs off gas. It’s dirt cheap.
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by wepple 3y ago
I am Edit: to elaborate, I think it’s great that they published audits, that should be a minimum baseline but in fact it’s a fairly rare thing at this point. Also Cure53 are no joke, they have some great people who generally do good work. T
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by wepple 3y ago
> IP packets should not be sent or received behind our backs I like this idea in principle, but I have bad news for you if you ever want to own literally any modern device - phone, laptop, tablet, car, TV, rice cooker etc The only soluti

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