danielvf

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by danielvf 1mo ago
The em dashs are a callback to the silent film title cards days –– they represent a pause in speech.
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by danielvf 2mo ago
For local NFL games in a bigger stadium that, most people attending do drive, but do not park at the stadium, rather nearby, then walk the rest of the way. This spreads out the traffic over a much larger set of roads.
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by danielvf 2mo ago
Sprites are a beautiful place to make an abstraction. But I have never used a buggier infrastructure product in 30 years of development than when I tried sprites. Data loss left and right, sprites going into unconnectable zombie mode. Could
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by danielvf 3mo ago
1. Wolves were basically exterminated in the continental US for most of the 20th century 2. There were still deaths from wolf attacks in North America during that time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_
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by danielvf 7mo ago
The report to the government about a more than 50% fraud rate was from six years ago. The Minnesota government was not serious about dealing with problem. Most businesses would not last that long with a 50% customer fraud rate. Yes, there w
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by danielvf 7mo ago
Here's a rap video, the entirety of which bragging about fraud against the government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ck7hTsug8 "I just been swipin' for EDD Go to the bank, get a stack at least This ** her
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by danielvf 11mo ago
Similarly, it drives me up the wall with people posting black and white "historical photographs" of history happenings, that are AI slop, and from the wrong era. Just yesterday someone posted a "photo" of a 1921 where a
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by danielvf 1y ago
Yes. As someone who spent years on the receiving end of these, I'd change my original post to be about "real" vulnerabilities, not the results of automated scans.
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by danielvf 1y ago
In the software development / security world, someone reporting a vulnerability to you is one of the greatest things one human can do for another. I've been burned in the long past when trying to be helpful to an activist. The acc
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by danielvf 1y ago
Yes, it's a very logical part of a tariff regime, and tariffs penalize domestic manufacturers without it. But wow, are tariffs (and other micro taxes) disruptive on getting things done efficiently.
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by danielvf 1y ago
So the important bit here is that the guns failed drop testing. And that's bad. The rest of the article seems to misunderstand FMEA style "write down every conceivable bad scenario in the universe, how bad it is, and then what you
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by danielvf 1y ago
As others have pointed out, this is primarily due to the American Civil War when the Medal of Honors was given out much more freely than today. Here's the breakdown on more recent conflicts: WWII, 625 total recipients, 13 Irish, 2.1%.
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by danielvf 1y ago
I carefully drew a lion fish. Turns out only 37% odds of being a fish. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionfish ) Fun idea, fun site!
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by danielvf 1y ago
Don't be fooled by the headline - that's neither the authors words, nor his opinion, but an editor trying to bait viewers. The article itself is good, and worth a read. You can read the full article on the author's own substa
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by danielvf 1y ago
For camping in humid summers, it's amazing how much difference a power bank and little fan can make. A little electricity goes a long way.
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by danielvf 1y ago
My guess is that the people who are paying $13 each way for a 30-minute commute are paying orders of magnitudes more than that in taxes already. Also, given that this is not a huge number of people, relative to public transportation in NYC,
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by danielvf 1y ago
As almost every other commenter here has said, this is just a bad article in practically every way. It's quite possible that the problem isn't smart phones, but this article completely fails to show this. Even the suicide data tha
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by danielvf 1y ago
Market cap doesn't equal what people have purchased. See this classic from 2015: https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/press-release-basecamp-val...
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by danielvf 1y ago
I handle reports for a one million dollar bug bounty program. AI spam is bad. We've also never had a valid report from an by an LLM (that we could tell). People using them will take any being told why a bug report is not valid, questio
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by danielvf 1y ago
> And how sure are you these weren't random hackers or trolls, but actual NK agents? "Agents" is way too big of a word. Just cogs in a corporate theft machine. There's a lot of reasons I'm sure, but the biggest i
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by danielvf 1y ago
I am saying they are both a credible threat and many are amateurs. Those are not mutually exclusive. You are talking about North Korea attackers from a theoretical point of view. For many people dealing with them is just a normal part of wo
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by danielvf 1y ago
These aren't spies first. They are often children of well to do, high loyalty group North Koreans. It's just a privileged job. The skill and IQ level varies widely, from super smart to super unskilled. And these roughly get sorted
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by danielvf 1y ago
It used to be only against specific industries, but now it's evolving. Now they have groups just going after remote IT jobs regardless of industry.
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by danielvf 1y ago
North Korea's efforts have been evolving. In the past, they just tried to break into bank computers, then into crypto company's computers. For the last two years, they've been working on getting people into crypto companies.
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by danielvf 1y ago
I see a lot of comments here and in the other thread talking about Amazon's high profits on retail sales, so I looked up the last earnings report. For the year of 2024, Amazon made a 5.5% operating profit on non-AWS revenue. This is be
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by danielvf 1y ago
It's buried deep in the article, but what made PC Connection amazing was the shipping. You could phone call a human in the wee hours of the morning, and have it show up later that same day. Or pay only a little and have it into two day
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by danielvf 1y ago
Don't worry, he also had a ""POST-EXPLOITATION" plan. Which included, among other things, " KEEP the configs Burn the evidence, including the histfile Book flight to: Pack Bags"
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by danielvf 1y ago
There is a US indictment which lays out the basics of the which laws Medjedovic is accused of breaking. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/canadian-national-charg...
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by danielvf 1y ago
In this case the only person espousing the idea of "code is law" is the hacker. Neither the blockchain's builders, nor the hacked protocol, nor the users are saying that. "code is law" is a meme that primarily lives
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by danielvf 1y ago
There's a very relevant XKCD on this, where someone discovers a clever "bug" in an insurance contract, and is then disappointed. https://xkcd.com/1494/

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