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by altharaz 3mo ago
I built an Automated Pigeon Deterrent Water Turret. Everything has been built with Claude, even the bill of materials for the hardware. The project is open source and now protects my raspberries. You can see a demo here: https://
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by altharaz 2y ago
There is a very high quality video about how Solar Gravitational Lens could be used to map exoplanets, and full explanations about the images reconstruction and engineering challenges: https://youtu.be/NQFqDKRAROI
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Show HN: Generate Mitre ATT&CK from a List of CVE(galeax.github.io)
2 points by altharaz 2y ago|0 comments
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by altharaz 4y ago
Very great article. At the moment IMHO the major issue comes from that people use only the Basic Score of the CVSS 3.1, issued by the NVD. Indeed, if you also take the Temporal Score (with CTI feeds for example), and if you add the Environm
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by altharaz 4y ago
The hardcoded password seems to be: Gitlab::Password.test_default(21) => "123qweQWE!@#000000000"
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Gitlab – Static passwords set during OmniAuth-based registration (CVE-2022-1162)(about.gitlab.com)
66 points by altharaz 4y ago|22 comments
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by altharaz 4y ago
https://sievedata.com seems very promising, a search engine for videos, with specific tags, sounds like a very good idea. I'd like the same for all my photos and videos: that would be so much easier to find specific picture
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by altharaz 5y ago
TL;DR: Some Windows configuration have bad permissions on their SAM database. If a standard user has access to shadow copies (VSS), this can lead to privilege escalation. Microsoft recommends to [1]: 1) Restrict access to the contents of %w
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by altharaz 6y ago
Unity has also a lot of potential in the Cybersecurity industry, for people that wants to train themselves on Industrial Systems. The only thing that makes industrial Cybersecurity really hard for students is the industrial systems laborato
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by altharaz 6y ago
Great app, I just bought it and I will try it on the next WebEx conference calls :). Some remarks: - the "Highlight cursor at app launch" has a "Start sdf sdfsdf" tooltip - I can not change the keyboard shortcuts (when I
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by altharaz 7y ago
From my understanding, it's a dataviz of Facebook ads linked to politics. For instance, if we select "Browse per country" and then "France", you can see political ads, with their political party, their content, thei
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by altharaz 7y ago
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius => A lot of wisdom on how to lead and live On The Shortness of Life, Seneca => An essay about how to handle life and how to see what is really important On War, Clausewitz => An important essay about st
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Show HN: Richelieu, list of the most common French passwords(github.com)
1 points by altharaz 7y ago|0 comments
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by altharaz 7y ago
From my experience, the password manager is just another issue to solve for this kind of people: it’s another software to use and these users do not like to use software. As a result, paper is sort of natural for them, and the only way I fo
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by altharaz 7y ago
My recipe is AdBlocks + automated updates enabled + firewall enabled + desktop shortcut for web browser + regular antimalware check. Regarding phishing, I set them up with a GMail account and their filter is quite good against this. So far,
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by altharaz 7y ago
Is it also opensource? Or just free?
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by altharaz 7y ago
Blind-querying is a common technique and is even tested by tools such as SQLMap ( https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap/wiki/Usage#sql-injec... ). You have full details on what these requests look like here:
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by altharaz 8y ago
In France, this kind of work is proposed by a lot of real estate agencies. Real estate agencies can even collect the rent for you and “guarantee” you the amount you will get each month. This point is very important as it is a nightmare to e
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by altharaz 8y ago
I would have said “the day Pokémon Go had been released”. I remember people from different generations walking in the streets, talking and laughing together without knowing each other. Something very rare for Paris :).
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by altharaz 8y ago
From my experience, it seems that the daily digest is not enough :). And they still seem to blacklist WebEx invitations, which is really weird as it is definitely a "standard" in web-conferences.
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by altharaz 8y ago
> I haven't used WebEx, but what is the problem exactly? Are you concerned you won't see the invite or that the sender will get an annoying automatic response? Basically, WebEx sends invites from their own email address. If you
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by altharaz 8y ago
In France we have a software vendor called MailInBlack. Their solution is exactly the one proposed in this article, where the sender has to solve a “challenge” to get in your mailbox. If I think this approach is really effective, it also cr
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by altharaz 8y ago
I didn’t know about Hummingbird. This is really cool. I think I prefer Hummingbird’s approach to OP’s because it makes deciphering the notes way easier with its symbol mnemonic, and I think deciphering the notes is the hardest part.
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Brakeman Static Analysis Security Scanner Is Now Under Creative Commons License(github.com)
2 points by altharaz 8y ago|0 comments
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by altharaz 8y ago
There is an excellent book about that: "Bienvenue dans le nouveau monde : comment j'ai survécu à la coolitude des startups" from Mathilde Ramadier. It's an analysis of the startups world, with its downside. This book is
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by altharaz 8y ago
Actually we have two common cases which make it harder to work with contractor. 1. If your contractor has just you as a client for a long time, if you stop the mission he can sue you for « economical dependance » 2. The real estate market d
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by altharaz 8y ago
The "glass ceiling" statement is true in big corporations (you'll never get to the top if you have not graduated from the top Engineering Schools, even if you have the skills). However, in Small & Medium Businesses, the s
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by altharaz 8y ago
To those who talk about the administrative & HR issues in France: these are definitely true. However, the government is running two programs that will try to improve these elements[1][2]. For instance: - the French Public Investment Ban
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by altharaz 9y ago
I started a first company with some friend. I was in charge of the IT, he was in charge on Sales. However, things were catastrophic as I was selling more than him. A huge conflict occurred and I closed the company. => I lost some money i
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by altharaz 9y ago
I use Quiver every day. I really like the way I can organize my notes and projects. However the main issue I have with this software is the absence of synchronisation between devices: I can’t browse on my iPhone what I wrote on my Mac.

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