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by yborg 9y ago
https://github.com/meh/smart-referer Configurable referer behavior, including whitelist.
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by yborg 9y ago
I'm fairly sure the opioids are highly effective when taken as directed. It guarantees repeat business.
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by yborg 9y ago
While this analysis was done for 7zip, I would imagine that pretty much every packaged implementation on any platform would have these issues, since most people do exactly the same thing - reuse the reference implementation. Just checked ke
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by yborg 9y ago
During the dotcom bubble I knew that VCs were kicking themselves every time some 'secretary becomes a millionaire' story came out because this meant they left money in other people's pockets. Over the last 20 years investors
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by yborg 9y ago
Run through the Linus drama filter, the only thing I get from this is "Linus doesn't like the Meltdown/Spectre patches'; Linus having issues with a patch is, well, not particularly newsworthy. Is there something more sig
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by yborg 9y ago
I think it was general light intensity, not specifically the UV component. Prolonged UV exposure causes cataracts.
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by yborg 9y ago
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=Linux I wouldn't say that the security of the "modern OS" is a solved problem. The Meltdown/Spectre issues happen to be broad-based and heavily publi
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by yborg 9y ago
This may explain why there are so many sociopaths in tech and VC. I wonder what Travis Kalanick did for laughs when he was in school.
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by yborg 9y ago
Google Project Zero-discovered flaw allows remote execution by malicious site if remote access in enabled in the client with no password set. This is not uncommon since people assume restricting to localhost will prevent access outside the
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by yborg 9y ago
So Waterworld got something right.
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by yborg 9y ago
I think he's just pointing out the irony of someone purporting to aid the security-conscious having an expired cert on his own site. Unless this is really some meta-level social commentary on how people will trust a complete stranger&#
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by yborg 9y ago
Because death is an acceptable trade-off for avoiding irritation - as long as it's not your death, of course.
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by yborg 9y ago
Excellent point, this is merely a megafactory. (A billion square ft factory, according to Wolfram Alpha, would occupy ~35 square miles or 92 sq. km.)
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by yborg 9y ago
I was kind of amazed at the poor soldering across the board on this module, I wonder what the failure rate was on these things in actual use. I suppose the high heat load kept the joints flexible at least.
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by yborg 9y ago
Ignorant question for those who have had to transit the US border (it has been many years for me) - are these device searches now routine? I.e. do they automatically request access to any locked smartphone, etc?
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by yborg 9y ago
I think he's saying that unpatched, a co-resident VM can compromise the host even if you are locally patched. If the host is patched this doesn't matter (for VM escapes); however, for those on public clouds that will apply the hos
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by yborg 9y ago
"Significant network traffic" tells me almost nothing, that's a totally subjective description and you don't describe your workload at all. A back-end MMO game infrastructure server I have some understanding of in terms
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by yborg 9y ago
The old NoScript. The new WebExtension compatible version just blocks, it has no way to disable js.
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by yborg 9y ago
With Apple's tax, a developer needs to sell that much a year to break even on the membership fee.
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by yborg 9y ago
I'm old enough to remember when the fad was taking supplemental Vitamin A and E as 'antioxidants' to reduce cancer risk. Then long term studies in Sweden on Vitamin A showed it actually increased risk, at least for lung cance
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by yborg 9y ago
This specific issue is very relevant to cloud providers, who are the guys that buy thousands of CPUs, and doesn't affect AMD's current generation. I don't know what Intel's profit breakdown is, but I suspect it is heavil
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by yborg 9y ago
Because ordering a redundant set of tests generates revenue. Just consulting another doctor wastes both of their time better spent ordering up redundant tests and quickly moving on to the next victim that can have tests ordered.
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by yborg 9y ago
Agree, we're talking about a few hundred people a year if you're focusing on the marquee schools, the issue is lifting up millions of kids. Improving existing public schooling and colleges/universities would do far more to pr
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by yborg 9y ago
>70,000+ officers within a 50 mile radius Sounds like a prison.
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by yborg 9y ago
It was a step back from iOS 10 on older hardware. I upgraded an iPad Air and iPad Pro first gen and the UI stuttering/stalls makes both machines feel slower. I decided beforehand not to even try on the 5S, which was a good decision exc
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by yborg 9y ago
The crowd's wisdom extends to the indexer. Another issue with these index-linked funds is that they create a single point of failure, i.e. the few people at Russell that curate the index. It would be very very easy for someone to, um,
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by yborg 9y ago
Yeah, this seemed more like a bunch of guys at Akamai padding out their resumes. Their use cases seemed pretty weak, and with all the other information browsers leak, being able to get platform type "with increased confidence" see
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by yborg 9y ago
There's no incentive for manufacturers to do anything. This actually just increases sales, as dead devices are replaced (probably by the same device/firmware). Insecurity converts the equipment to a consumable that generates an an
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by yborg 9y ago
Amazon is very aware of this, that is why they are pushing Prime like mad, selling items under their own brand, and now even buying Whole Foods to give them a physical presence (which is hilarious - for years the mantra has been brick and m
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by yborg 9y ago
Looks like someone at Amazon at least reads HN, it's dead now.

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