DethNinja

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by DethNinja 3y ago
Sorry, it was meant to be USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).
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by DethNinja 3y ago
- Hired a journalist on some mid-size news company to tarnish the company’s reputation. I never imagined they would bother to do this, but I was wrong. - Used an APT for hire but I don’t believe they did succeed , still it is quite insane.
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by DethNinja 3y ago
On the other hand, my first self-funded startup got destroyed by a VC funded venture. They had a worse product but far better marketing and they used every dirty trick in book to tarnish my company’s reputation. There is no way I’ll start a
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MSI Pro Z690-A WiFi DDR5 Support Upstreamed to Coreboot(phoronix.com)
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by DethNinja 3y ago
So was the company the best in their field? I sometimes see small / badly managed companies pull such interview processes and it is ridiculous. You would expect they would hire 100x engineers with these tasks but I wonder what they are
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by DethNinja 3y ago
Do a16z invest in small scale AI companies? Or are they only doing series B+ investments?
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by DethNinja 3y ago
C++ - Botan C - Redis
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by DethNinja 3y ago
It is just a precaution measure, some of the malware like DDOS Bots might persist more than 6 months. Honestly, an immutable OS would be more ideal but it isn’t very realistic. If you are adventurous, it would also be possible to setup a sy
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by DethNinja 3y ago
This is a pretty good guide. I also recommend manually reading/checking the the BIOS EEPROM and re-installing the OS from scratch at least every 6 months. This should mostly eliminate most of the advanced threats. You can setup an ansi
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by DethNinja 3y ago
You should absolutely never release a commercial binary to public with debug symbols. There are ways to convert symbol names on the crash report server, so the claim that you can get better crash report with debug symbols is not correct. Wh
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by DethNinja 3y ago
How did they target the group though, did they just scan the internet traffic and said, oh wow there is a group of people who only talk through Signal, or were there another precedence?
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by DethNinja 3y ago
YouTube is horrendous, I keep reporting couple of animal abuse videos but platform just keeps them. Some of these videos especially with small animals like hamsters have millions of views, so I guess there is a monetary incentive for them t
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by DethNinja 3y ago
Flatpak isn’t ideal and it has lots of room for improvement but what is the better alternative? I would say that at least Flatpak is on the right direction.
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by DethNinja 3y ago
What is the use case? I’m guessing just to store secrets but then why not just use a HSM or even yubikey.
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by DethNinja 3y ago
Are shadows really that annoying, I’m willing to bet that most of the gamers would just glance over these defects.
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by DethNinja 3y ago
Allow your software to display ads, and other people purchase them directly. It might be hard to implement it in a week but a hastily put AWS & stripe solution might work. If you do ever implement it, do mention it on HN, I would defini
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by DethNinja 3y ago
Animals definitely do dream, any cat or dog owner can tell that but even smaller animals like rats do also dream. We are vastly overestimating the cognitive capacities of humans, we should in fact have higher respect for other intelligent s
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by DethNinja 3y ago
Is it possible to build a system where nobody owns private property but is happy? Very unlikely but theoretically possible. Main problem is that current ruling class is mostly comprised of psychopaths and what they actually mean is that “We
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by DethNinja 3y ago
But you can just issue an identical certificate to an existing website's certificate via the private key, it doesn't even need to enter to CT logs, it will have 100% identical fingerprint to original certificate, no? You can then
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by DethNinja 3y ago
In my opinion, most of the governments must have obtained access to numerous Certificate Authority private keys by now. As a result, they would not only be logging DNS records but also the entire unencrypted data transfer. I think lesson to
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by DethNinja 3y ago
I’m new to Linux kernel programming & eBPF (just started last week) and I’m having major troubles with eBPF verifier. I honestly feel like it would be easier for me to write a kernel module than eBPF code. I do wonder if this is the cas
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by DethNinja 3y ago
If MSI ever updates the BIOS of your motherboard with new / assumed to be unleaked Intel keys, then you will need to reflash it with the new BIOS. So, you need to do a manual BIOS update to fix it.
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by DethNinja 3y ago
I guess lesson learned here is: Always self-sign the secure boot keys, do not use any third-party keys. Unfortunately, this complicates the kernel & boot loader upgrade process as one shouldn’t keep private keys in the same machine.
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by DethNinja 3y ago
It is so funny to me that every time BTC price rises, FUD articles come out of the woods. I wonder if somebody built an automated process for this, or there is still a human element to it.
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by DethNinja 3y ago
If OpenAI has no moat, how come nobody has built a better alternative to GPT-4 yet?
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by DethNinja 3y ago
AI can definitely help remediate the bugs but it is all about incentives. One would hope browser and OS vendors would use AI to remediate vulnerabilities but vast majority of software vendors won't ever use it. Also, automated vulnerab
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by DethNinja 3y ago
How do you propose we fight government/corporate astroturfing? At least LLMs will democratize the astroturfing.
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by DethNinja 3y ago
Why is PIN insufficient? Assuming encryption algorithms are sane, a 20 character long PIN should be able to achieve adequate entropy to keep the data safe.
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by DethNinja 3y ago
It is just common sense. Traffic correlation: All the large state actors are well capable of recording every single IP transaction between devices. You can create detailed correlation maps from these transactions. Considering that this woul
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by DethNinja 3y ago
Anyone on HN working on CBDCs? Would you be willing to give us some insider info about it’s inner workings and how similar it’s architecture is to existing cryptocurrencies?

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