bill_mcgonigle

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by bill_mcgonigle 2mo ago
That was highly entertaining, thanks for sharing. New take on tokenmaxxing as a hobby.
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
Glad to hear it. Many folks believe Google has been pressured to move towards allowing no packets on the Internet without an attached government ID. Real open source communities are in the way of the AI Surveillance Police State.
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
That's pretty crazy with today's expectations though I remember touring a physics lab c. 1990 and they had just gotten a Mac IIfx maxxed out with options for $14K. Which was more than a typical new car price at the time. It was mo
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
Make a commitment to forbid lethal use of this service and I'll subscribe for backup/disaster preparedness. It would be a huge selling point over the competition which is allegedly being used in terroristic attacks. Algorithm: one
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
Hopefully nobody in the criminal underworld has figured it out on their own. Do you believe the mitigation would be difficult to engineer? If, say somebody else, publicly disclosed the unmasking technique how long would you guess it would
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
For those wondering this gives full system compromise to an authenticated user with permissions to edit the firewall, AIUI. Nasty but I was expecting a remote unauthenticated attack at 9.9. Hopefully you don't allow admin on WAN! Thank
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
I was always fascinated by the visual effects you didn't know were there. The obligatorily twenty minute CG battle at the climax of a Marvel movie bores me but when Ellie hears the signal from Vega and is racing her truck back to the o
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
I haven't heard of this package personally and it's not on my desktops so it must not be pulled in by any of the task- desktop environment metapackages I use. So you probably have to go looking for it. I really don't care abo
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
This is a neat idea! We are way too ossified in some of our interface paradigms while also having thrown out science-based best practices hard-won in the '90's. The scenario you describe is already a disaster, though! Who let tha
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
We welcome the Nordics with peace and brotherly love.
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
Left/right doesn't matter much for a no-logs VPN. Up/Down (authoritarian/libertarian) is what matters there. If he has high allegiance to the extant power structure then promises should be questioned. If he is for radica
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
It's in its awkward teenage years stage now. Pretty soon the AI will tell your father things that are more difficult to disprove and it will be done the same way "news" and Wikipedia do it - telling you how to feel before tel
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
Pay attention to these warning signs. The Prussian System puts tremendous social pressure on many girls. Outcomes can be tragic. Those girls often do well in different schools. Boys mostly fail to learn and get punished under the Prussian S
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
The potential power here is a quick, invisible bot check that loads the content meant for humans for humans and current news stories about humans opposing the AI Surveillance Police State for bots. With a bit of CSS the humans wouldn't
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
I sure hope nobody is doing this with pacemakers or flight control software. And why does this essay's type style change dozens of times? Who is that helping? It's like a cut and pasted ransom note.
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
Not sure if he'll succeed but it seems really positive that he feels the business environment there is strong enough to give it a try. Kudos for the implicit thought leadership here. Distributed success is where we're going.
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by bill_mcgonigle 3mo ago
I had a brief conversation with a family member's provider about this recently. She hadn't considered that fly-by-night SAAS providers often have atrocious infosec and she had thought of it all as upside; her company had asked he
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by bill_mcgonigle 1y ago
Well if you wanted to compromise F-Droid you could target their build server's ME or a cloud vm's hypervisor. To do a supply-chain attack on Google's SDK would be much more expensive and less likely to succeed. Google isn&#x2
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by bill_mcgonigle 1y ago
People today take the WIMP interface for granted and forget about the pioneers who invented it. It's really sad to see desktop apps adopt hamburger menus and things that make sense on mobile but make life harder on a desktop built for
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by bill_mcgonigle 1y ago
What a nice writeup! Just curious - what kind of wire do you use to solder on the pins - enameled? I wonder if they offer their customers source to keep the Busybox folks happy?
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by bill_mcgonigle 2y ago
I was a kid in the 80's and would regularly see $5 interest credits on my meager savings, free ATM, free phone banking (don't laugh) and they even set it up for me that if I went below $20 in my checking the system would pull $50
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by bill_mcgonigle 4y ago
Check out your DNS stats too. Mine are up 500% YoY for no human reason.
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by bill_mcgonigle 5y ago
Others, note that the new archive name is 'stable-security'. You might need to update your pins if you upgraded from Buster and you're not seeing the update now. I put in a pull request to add it to the release notes.
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by bill_mcgonigle 5y ago
Thank you for not selling this to the "industry"!
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by bill_mcgonigle 5y ago
Who says closed source doesn't have benefits?
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by bill_mcgonigle 5y ago
WaPo called out NYT for fake news twice yesterday. This supports your argument - they both can't be right! They both can be wrong, of course.
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by bill_mcgonigle 6y ago
You don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than the other camper. Assuming the bear is just hungry, that is; if you messed with her cubs, she's coming for you specifically. These are, of course, opportunistic targets
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by bill_mcgonigle 6y ago
> Stripe would still keep $40 So you have to charge $1000 + ($40 * % of users who return + cushion) for the product. That means non-Stripe businesses can start to out-compete you on cost. What makes it so that Stripe has such a unique p
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by bill_mcgonigle 6y ago
> I'll ask our legal team if we can somehow contractually preclude ourselves from sharing this data in the case of liquidation or otherwise bind ourselves in a useful fashion... Attack real problems on all flanks, but I don't t
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by bill_mcgonigle 6y ago
Well that is just the worst luck. Condolences as you revert locally?

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