PappaPatat

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by PappaPatat 6y ago
Thank you so much for the possibility. I grew up with scanners and am truly reminiscing while listening on these intercepts. Here in Europe there is close to no police still using analog and listening to air traffic control or couriers just
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
TIL the expression "the Volkswagen strategy" and I love it. Thanks, I'll be using that.
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
The Old Reader works like a champ. I went the same route as you did, and have the same attitude towards sites that do not provide a RSS feed: they drop of my radar.
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
> Using Chrome Galvanizer, you can protect yourself from attacks like this by specifying specific sites that one or all of your extensions can no longer access. For the MEGA case, if users had created a policy restricting access for the
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
> But they always seem to take a shortcut and put a modern engine/driveline in it. YMMV. For me that is not a shortcut (although it is a lot less valuable) but a prerequisite. I will like modern technology and I like old style.
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
What about: nothing, just accumulate more, stach it and one day a need or opportunity will arise. Might not be a popular opinion since we all are expected to optimize everything but 50 years in and this non strategy has made my financial li
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
I would like to say thank you to him, since it opened a huge budget and mandate for my security team at the time. No more draining discussion if AV needed to be installed on particular systems, the right to wipe any employees desk or laptop
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
I was born in one, lived long in a second and now am home in a third country. In all three languages I feel confident, can tell jokes, understand and have tested level C2 ( https://www.efset.org/cefr/ ). Still, every onc
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
> A house around 30 years old is worthless Living in a city which city center was (re-) build between the 16th and 17th century, the 30 years till worthless puzzles me. Even the house I live in is over 100 years old and in excellent cond
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
THE thing I wished more developers knew about databases: they are badass when it comes to data manipulation. Stop sucking all data and manipulate it in your language of choice. Tell you DBA what you want done and let her do it for you. Real
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
I was under the impression you actually can via exactly one browser: Microsoft Edge.
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
It is really interesting since this is one of these parameters one can check easily and cheap (OXI meters are around 100 euro). And they're still available ATM.
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
Ah Adrian! Yes his SCION is quite impressive and has plenty of cool features, but if it will ever outgrow the “future internet” technology phase remains to be seen. I (other account) once submitted their work to HN to see what real smart pe
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
This submission is a better honeypot than the software link it points to. It has not been updated (latest blog entry 19/02/2018, latest code release Jul 30 2018). Honeypots are high maintenance, or easy detectable. Better example
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
I say (from experience) during hard times is the best time to start. You will not be lured into massive fixed costs and start with the absolute minimum and required, which you can scale up when your business start flying. As long as you sta
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
> I was sort of tempted to pursue this. For me the exact opposite. 15 years ago I removed any and all reverence to my history of COBOL because I was suddenly actively being contacted for COBOL coding jobs. Although I had a great time, as
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
> Bug bounty programs are not supposed to replace you other security activities, but it's a way for you to have additional source of vulnerabilities. Exactly the way we position our own Bug Bounty Program. Where the pentesters can b
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
This. There are many possible scenarios how to end the shutdown, not one is back to normal on Monday.
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
Some dude ranting about "how the system works" where "you are all slaves" and "they get free money" does not help anyone but the youtuber who's collecting views.
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
Never seen such crap on this site.
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
> are you in Switzerland Yes. And as said: this is preparation. When the infection doubling rates do not go down (nicely displayed here: https://interaktiv.tagesanzeiger.ch/2020/covid-19-ausbruch-i... ) from about 2.
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by PappaPatat 6y ago
Where factually correct, the numbers are... smallish: "Two hospitals in Basel and one in Jura, in northwestern Switzerland, said they would each take two French patients after the Alsace authorities sent out a distress call for help. T
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by PappaPatat 7y ago
> She said that "social distancing" is a medical technical term that doesn't translate super well to the public. Which is 100% the opposite of what I in my daily life observe: everyone, young & old, private & work,
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by PappaPatat 7y ago
cough legal reasons cough
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by PappaPatat 7y ago
It is in the linked article. "So, the reason for the abrupt ban of all my public repos turned out to be just a random comment I’ve left on GitHub jokingly calling a guy a prick." "Only that I’m more used to GitHub so I’ve pos
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by PappaPatat 7y ago
Very anecdotal, but here is my take: For the place I worked at (large international company) it was a G*d send opportunity. All the slack that had been build up in the past by "cost reducing" management suddenly had a billable cos
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by PappaPatat 7y ago
And let people who are not Deceased People but Cured People be counted as Healthy People again. Or can one never be counted as Healthy People once one has been Sick People?
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by PappaPatat 7y ago
18 years ago I ran it for months in the off hours on all the companies servers in one datacenter (about 500 which was quite a lot at that time). Fun times. Impressive that they survived for so long!
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by PappaPatat 7y ago
Can you give some pointers as to what data / sources / criteria would make for a more fair representation?
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by PappaPatat 7y ago
My first sale of my selfwritten software (about 35 years ago) was for a car driving instructor. The initial sales conversations where difficult. I thought they did not see the advantages of having their planning & bookkeeping in a compu

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