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by __jf__ 3mo ago
Gay Talese starts "The Kidnapping of Joe Bonanno" (Esquire, August 1971) with this: Knowing that it is possible to see too much, most doormen in New York have developed an extraordinary sense of selective vision: they know what to
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by __jf__ 7mo ago
Paul Strassmann wrote a book in 1990 called "Business Value of Computers" that showed that it matters where money on computers is spent. Only firms that spent it on their core business processes showed increased revenues whereas t
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by __jf__ 8mo ago
For vector generation I started using Meta-LLama-3-8B in april 2024 with Python and Transformers for each text chunk on an RTX-A6000. Wow that thing was fast but noisy and also burns 500W. So a year ago I switched to an M1 Ultra and only ha
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by __jf__ 3y ago
Tom Uren and grugq did a podcast on this recently in Risky Business News [0] I think the main point was that these attacks are physical, don't scale very well, and are untargeted because they depend on luck, so an adversary probably wo
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by __jf__ 3y ago
From the pinned YT comment: Artist Ostap Gordon just released a Russian yard in the winter in Unreal Engine 5.1 with high-quality assets created with Megascans and Blender, fully dynamic lighting with Lumen and Nanite for all objects. Check
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by __jf__ 4y ago
I ordered directly on Abbott's FreeStyle website.
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by __jf__ 4y ago
I was primarily struck by the awesomeness of this whole autonomous glucose regulation thing. My last meal is usually around 18:30 in the evening and during the night glucose would fluctuate around 4.5 mmol/l between 4.0 and 5.0 in 1 ho
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by __jf__ 4y ago
Yep the FreeStyle Libre 2 is great. I bought one a few weeks ago to satisfy my curiosity. I'm a non-diabetic. It was around EUR 70 including shipping and lasted exactly 2 weeks. Sensor insertion was easy, quick and painless. 1-minute r
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by __jf__ 4y ago
1968 interview: https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/books/truman-capote-playboy-in... Playboy: How do you react to those critics who deride the form of documentary crime writing employed in In Cold Blood as inferior to the n
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by __jf__ 4y ago
Are there any perfectionists around here that have experience with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)? It sounds like perfectionism-induced procrastination: it's better to give up than to play because playing may mean losing, and
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by __jf__ 4y ago
Near the end of “Understanding Michael Porter”, there is a Q&A with him that touches on this subject: Q: “How do you do a five forces analysis if you’re an entrepreneur starting a new business in a completely new market space? Is strate
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by __jf__ 5y ago
The archive of Virus Bulletin is also a fantastic resource on cybersecurity prehistory. The first issue in july 1989 starts with this editorial https://www.virusbulletin.com/uploads/pdf/magazine/1989/1989
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by __jf__ 5y ago
You can look at: - A collection of public threat intel reports [0]. Lots of reading though. I did some Splunking on it last year and at least 50% uses phishing for initial access. You could call that a structural vulnerability. - Exploiting
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by __jf__ 5y ago
> They responded by asserting the contract couldn't be exploitative b/c top lawyers in the industry wrote it and b/c other devs have signed it. The fact that they still easily sign devs on this is a poor reflection on th
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by __jf__ 5y ago
Link to the interesting “60 secs or she dies” roleplay: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_NWElrHgbGo
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Fixing the Introductory Statistics Curriculum(minireference.com)
3 points by __jf__ 5y ago|0 comments
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by __jf__ 5y ago
The most surprising thing I discovered was that it took me 3 months to lose a jittery “I.SHOULD.DO.SOMETHING.NOW” feeling. Only after 3 months did I feel truly relaxed to pursue whatever interest-driven nerding project and at the same time
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by __jf__ 5y ago
Covid lockdowns and WFH had a surprisingly large influence on self-service threat modeling facilitation I did for a client. Pre-covid we would facilitate workshops interactively around a whiteboard. It turns out that starting with an empty
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by __jf__ 5y ago
There was also an interesting virtual round table discussion about this subject in january. Recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOFcJ0-nG10
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by __jf__ 5y ago
We all know what "have a show in Chelsea" looks like today. The distribution model changed radically, but the personal drivers didn't. Surprisingly, the rise of new platforms only temporarily affected the old way's econo
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by __jf__ 6y ago
Who’s sending these questionnaires, when and why? I’m asking because I work in infosec and have never seen one.
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by __jf__ 6y ago
As mr. Money Mustache would say: work gets better when you don’t need the money.
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by __jf__ 6y ago
Most of the compliance paperwork I’ve seen does leave room for custom risk assessments, threat modeling or other wordings that invite a business team to do more. However in their rush to go live or otherwise get it over with this security w
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by __jf__ 6y ago
I’ve been using a “First Principles (tm)” branded keyboard for years. It has 3 USB plugs to satisfy its power req’s and delivers shocks when found out visiting Stackoverflow.
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by __jf__ 6y ago
Are we witnessing a veiled announcement of Apple Search where it would be a key driver for Apple One adoption?
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The Glasshouse Center Open Call: Cyber Espionage Targeting Security Researchers(glasshouse.center)
1 points by __jf__ 6y ago|0 comments
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by __jf__ 6y ago
“Find your fellow knuckleballer” He also did a SXSW talk about it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m8v3jf8RVBk
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by __jf__ 6y ago
In 2017 I got a second hand Cisco ASA just to play with the shadowbrokers tools. EXTRABACON was the codename for the SNMP exploit using a buffer overflow. This was an interesting excercise because there were NO logs of this happening on the
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by __jf__ 6y ago
This very difficult time in your life you appear to have in common with your collegues if I’m reading you right. Can you elaborate a little bit on your work and maybe other novel coping strategies you and your collegues evaluated?
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by __jf__ 6y ago
Rsyslog could a Logstash replacement if you squint your eyes.

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