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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 3mo ago
“Grow a pair” presumes the state isn’t actively achieving its goals through these actions. It’s a big club, and we ain’t in it.
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 8mo ago
Professionally, my company builds one of the largest EHR-integrated web apps in the US Ask me how many medical practices connect every day via IE on Windows 8.
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 10mo ago
I am reminded of the troubles my parents experienced with their phone service when I was a kid. We lived out in the country, and every time it rained the lines would pick up horrific static. It was too much to have a voice conversation, le
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 11mo ago
> Do the chicken go back in to sleep before dusk? Yes - they are remarkably consistent in following the sun. Most automated doors wait until well past dusk, after which all the birds are up. > Do the predators never attack during the
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 2y ago
> I see little reason that buying, for example, a video game online needs my billing information more than walking into a store and buying it there, possibly with the same card. In your latter example, a nexus clearly exists between the
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 4y ago
Counterpoint: mulch your account every so often. It fights the development of cliques and forces people to focus on the message, not the messenger. And it sharpens your own need to make a good point, rather than posting as $KNOWN_USER and
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 4y ago
The good news is that I think no one human is at risk of such an attack. The way I’d frame it: if you assume the NSA can break AES-256 in reasonable timeframes, or the CIA runs every single Tor node, that knowledge gets compartmentalized to
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 4y ago
Without Thomas taking an action - speaking - the bug would remain undiscovered. I think that counts.
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 4y ago
Popehat notes that this kind of reporting often oversells the likely sentence: https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc... So it’s very possible this could end with a far less significant
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 4y ago
> Several weeks ago, an EFF supporter brought her car to a mechanic, and found a mysterious device wired into her car under her driver's seat If I saw this device under my seat I'd assume it was part of some electronic system a
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
Humans notoriously overestimate their competence and underestimate dangers they face. Combine that with a federal investigation that's going to be slow because 1) it's complex and 2) the feds will happily investigate you for yea
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
OFAC has broadened enforcement to the point that pretty much any financial transaction across the world has a US nexus. Moving that much stolen crypto without the feds noticing? No chance.
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
I saw this play out first hand: a local digital agency run by a friend essentially ended up "captured" by a major player in the aerospace industry, to the point that 65-75% of their business came from $BIGCO. They grew by 100%+,
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> When his gig is up he has nothing to show and is stuck were he was when taking that job. The right answer is "start finding a second job, now." Make $180k for 8 hours and 10 minutes of your life! Or alternatively, keep on k
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
I was wrong – it was $3.99, so $4 :) I picked up Thundernews when there was an "unlimited for $4" sale going on, and have used it ever since. Keep an eye out for their sales, because they don't seem to expire them. They res
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
I bought a one-time Plex pass, so there's no ongoing cost. I've yet to see any significant reason to change away from it yet. Is Jellyfin better beyond the price?
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
I'm not sure who downvoted you, but I cannot agree more. For giggles, I just went ahead and priced this out: One-time costs: * Plex Pass: $80 * NZB indexer access: $10 (for 2 or 3) Ongoing monthly costs: * File server (three-year depre
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
"The blockchain says you own this? Tough titties, we don't care , we're selling it anyway. You're going to stop us? You and what army?"
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
Backups are worthless unless you try to recover; support is worthless unless you put a ticket in and see what you get. Before I migrated my domain and old emails to Fastmail I contacted their support twice to see what I got. Once I simulat
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> the company is bound by legal concerns to not reveal why the person was fired I think this is a fairly common misconception. While you might sign an anti disparagement agreement when you were hired, those tend to be one-way and design
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
Sure, the NSA could backdoor an opt-in system around a political third rail that is hardly if at all used in the United States. Or, it could attack the radio processor that runs a parallel operating system on our phones that we can't
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
Analogies are terribly leaky abstractions: a camera set up to watch cars on a busy highway can absolutely draw conclusions, doubly so if there are multiple networked cameras, and if the camera can see a license plate it's game over. A
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> EDIT: Just to add a little bit to this reply. Using your example, counting the number of cars on a highway is clearly surveilling the group of highway goers. This could perhaps allow you to note that one demographic travels more on Sun
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
At a previous job I held a decade ago the network team purchased several TV tuner cards & a DirecTV subscription. They then set up IP multicast, gave the Helpdesk the DirecTV remotes, and set up a Wiki page with instructions on how to
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
You'll find this often – lots of SoHo routers comply with GPL2 by tossing a tarball of the software they run on a crusty FTP site somewhere. Download it and pop it open and you'll often find README.txt and a .tar.bz2 of Linux 2.6
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> If you can get by with just text, pass it down as part of your family's oral tradition Oral storytelling is probably the only thing I'd be willing to bet on over half a century. The real trick will be making your website in
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
I listened to a legal symposium once that was held by lawyers who specialize in self defense/use of force. Think "I have a concealed weapon and I killed someone in self defense - now what?" They all agreed that their clients
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
Similar approach, but PLEX + Usenet plumbing (Sonarr/Radarr/NZBGet/friends). I pay for ESPN+ because it is a convenient way to get some live sports content I like, and the quality of the service is really strong. Other netwo
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
> But two years from now CloudFlare could be doing the exact same stuff Amazon is doing now, and customers are locked in again, because no source code. I hear this argument often but it always rings hollow. A friend had a first gen iPod
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by 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y ago
Since I didn't really talk through this before, a bit of an effort post. OFAC sanctioned Suex, a crypto exchange based in the Czech Republic, less than a month ago[1]. As far as I can tell it is gone from the face of the earth. Her

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