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by zelon88 7y ago
I remember listening to some of their commentary tracks where the employees talk about how their desks had wheels, there's no managers, and there's no deadlines and no stress. They also at one time had higher profit per employee t
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by zelon88 7y ago
Lets say you and your brother share a PC, but you're the admin. You both play Steam. His account has no password. I steal the laptop. I log in as him. I pop a SYSTEM shell using Steam. I reset your admin password. " Damn , you wat
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by zelon88 7y ago
Acknowledgement is one thing. Disclosure is another. If Steam had no problem acknowledging that this functionality exists, they should have had no problem with it being disclosed. There lies the problem. In the bathroom with the needle in t
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by zelon88 7y ago
If your mistake is large enough that the penalty puts you out of business it was probably a pretty serious mistake. Or your business wasn't healthy enough to survive in the first place.
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by zelon88 7y ago
I'd beg to differ, especially if your console or PC is networked wirelessly. 802.11n can only do 600mbps in the best conditions. Residential gig pipes are not uncommon anymore. I've seen some ridiculous download speeds from Steam,
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by zelon88 7y ago
In that thread the OP decides that the needs of a few outweigh the needs of the many. He went from trying to achieve "consistency across environments," which is very convenient and efficient to purposely making his workflow less e
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by zelon88 7y ago
But the disparity in quality is truly a problem they struggle with. Their stated goal isn't their core competency. Volume is their competency, not quality. For example, they can't even use a lot of their own materials in aerospace
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by zelon88 7y ago
I work in manufacturing and we're impacted as well. The largest impact is reduction in Chinese end-user business. The products we make are used in Chinese factories to assemble smartphones. Believe it or not (I do) but the Chinese do n
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Windows Accessibility Tools, for Hackers Too? (2018)(honestrepair.net)
2 points by zelon88 7y ago|0 comments
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by zelon88 7y ago
> Well, if they don't, then I don't care about their freedoms either. I was making the comparison because you were comparing the internet to the world. You can't (read: shouldn't) really do that. The internet is an Am
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by zelon88 7y ago
I did some poking after reading this and there's a KB app located at http://kb.supremainc.com/home/doku.php that is vulnerable to CVE-2017-18123 as well. Rated 9.3 severity.
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by zelon88 7y ago
And some if it is plain hateful. Distasteful, and inflammatory. [1] Not all words need to be respected. Sometimes people need help, and sometimes they ask for it in subliminal ways. And of course it's a provincial US issue. The entire
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by zelon88 7y ago
So how do you feel about blog platforms or other service providers that allow posting user-supplied comments on their platform? Should companies and non-profits all be required be to expend resources to keep your hateful comments available
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by zelon88 7y ago
I've still got it and I believe it's still got Wheezy on it. Last time I tried she fired up. I've gone through abut 7 Pi's since, but this one will never be re-purposed. This is it's destiny. The coolest part about
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by zelon88 7y ago
Man this has come a long way. I remember my first Pi I wanted to do this SOO badly. I wound up doing it with a 48w/hr battery and a 7" non-touch automotive backup camera screen. [1] This was just after the launch of RPi1 and well
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by zelon88 7y ago
99% is good enough? If 1% of all secure public data transmissions were compromised there would practically be no point in trying to secure anything. And who is Barr to decide what's worth encrypting on a societal level? I'll put m
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Show HN: HTA-UI, GUI Apps in Minutes with Just HTML, an IDE and Any Language(github.com)
1 points by zelon88 7y ago|0 comments
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by zelon88 7y ago
> For example; If Google finds a bug in your product YOU get 90 days before they put you on blast in front of 8 billion people. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xqdxe/google-project-zer... https:/
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by zelon88 7y ago
The righteousness of your post reminds me of the climax of a Disney movie. Google does this all the time, on purpose, like clockwork. They aren't the only ones out there looking for zero days in their supply chain, but they're the
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by zelon88 7y ago
> ...even the dead ends. I agree. I find it harder to follow a highly technical blog post that goes on and on from one productive thing to the next like a machine. I want to follow the process, not just duplicate the results. If I can ju
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by zelon88 7y ago
I'm not sure. Currently the compression variables are somewhat inefficient. I've compressed similar files down to about 17mb using hardcoded variables but I've yet to stumble across one that will reliably compress a variety o
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by zelon88 7y ago
I'll have to give this a go. I'll probably fail miserably but it sounds like fun. Related: [1] Here is my (sophomoric) attempt at a compression algorithm, and [2] here is the blog post I wrote about it. [1] https://gith
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by zelon88 7y ago
This is a huge component of my work, and in my industry truly underappreciated. I'm the only programmer in a manufacturing environment and as our business grows so does our exposure, attack surface, and potential bounty. Some days I fe
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by zelon88 7y ago
And my point is that, statistically, if you want the lowest risk of injury in the real world you'll buy the one star box truck because you'll have triple the mass of 90% of the vehicles that could possibly hit you. Everybody buys
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by zelon88 7y ago
No, you just don't understand the star system. Stars are how well the car contains the passengers during an accident in a variety of situations. 5 stars does not mean "low risk of injury" at all. Infact, a 1 star Sterling box
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by zelon88 7y ago
I can appreciate where this post is coming from. I started my own open source [1] end-user based Cloud platform [2] for myself and whoever else wants to join because I believe that eventually, WWIII will begin in cyberspace and major US Clo
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by zelon88 7y ago
When I was a kid I had a family member who would perform these "swappy swaps" that you were the victim of. He would go out and buy a new card, gently open the wrapper so that it could be melted back on with a heat gun, remove the
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by zelon88 7y ago
American foreign policy isn't designed to promote "democracy around the world." It's designed to promote democracy in the free world that the people who control the world live in.
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by zelon88 7y ago
> And github & Co will then invest money to not blanket-ban, but make exceptions for this individual? I have some doubts. I don't see why not. It's probably a simple boolean value in their database somewhere. If they can bl
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by zelon88 7y ago
If an individual feels wrongly and disproportionately impacted by US sanctions they can apply to the SEC for a waiver. A small, lonely dev will probably be ok. But the issue isn't with one dev who gets caught in the crossfire. You want

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