felixhammerl

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by felixhammerl 9mo ago
I was like "wow, I haven't seen a considered harmful article in a while, the quiet must be ancient", the I saw the author and it made sense. When he says something, it's usually worth a listen.
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by felixhammerl 9mo ago
Reminds me of Doggerland: https://youtube.com/shorts/Afwxk4peYys
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by felixhammerl 11mo ago
Thanks for the info!
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by felixhammerl 11mo ago
The first problem was to get the original file from somewhere in a usable format, then strip DRM in a later stage. Seems like step 1 was already made significantly harder now.
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by felixhammerl 11mo ago
If your app has to display stuff, you have no code kits available that can help you out. No vibe coding needed. If your app has to do something useful, your app just exploded in complexity and corner cases that you will have to account for
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by felixhammerl 11mo ago
For those with an old Kindle, couldn't you download it onto the Kindle and then pull it off of there via USB?
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by felixhammerl 1y ago
In the news we seem to have reached Schrödinger's AI: Too dumb to do anything properly, but coming for everyone's jobs due to being too powerful.
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by felixhammerl 1y ago
Did anyone figure out how to handle two fundamental problems of MSRs yet? 1) Molten salt is corrosive as hell and will chew through your pipes. 2) It can't be serviced. If it ever shuts down and solidifies, it cannot restart.
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by felixhammerl 2y ago
Even the most massive hacks or breaches or cyber attacks barely put a dent into any reasonable business. One or two news cycles and a management rotation, that's it. Okta? Target? Equifax? Capital One? Uber? Even Solarwinds for crying
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by felixhammerl 2y ago
"thousands of dollars every day" does not a negative reinforcement make. That us not even a rounding error for even mid sized companies.
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by felixhammerl 3y ago
There are so many half baked takes, but this is my favorite: > There will always be a market for stable-over-latest software, especially for businesses. That market is called the nvd.nist.gov at best and 0 day brokers at worst. Why do pe
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by felixhammerl 3y ago
Apple Silicon truly is phenomenal for dev stuff. But gaming ... oh well. And you obviously can't heat your room with them, so your feet may feel cold. ;)
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by felixhammerl 3y ago
Wife uses a mid-2013 Macbook Air as a daily driver still after >10 years, works in academia. What happened is simply that CPU stopped being the thing that made stuff slow, so a mid-2010s upper midrange can still hold its own today, ssd w
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by felixhammerl 3y ago
let me blow your mind with "the lazarus heist" podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xtvg9/episodes/downloads
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by felixhammerl 4y ago
Spiekermann said it best: Don't work for assholes. Don't work with assholes. https://www.creativeboom.com/uploads/articles/a3/a3e652c7fa0...
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by felixhammerl 4y ago
BuT YoU ArE UsInG cat AnD dd wRoNg! So?
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by felixhammerl 4y ago
This comment was brought to you by someone who never produced/maintained software that had to withstand a 24/7 onslaught of automated exploit kits and port scanners over an extended period of time.
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by felixhammerl 5y ago
VCs offer bad advice, because most of them are successful not because of the ruthless elimination process that is a startup, but despite. Meaning that they have no idea why they are successful. Take this example: Let's take 10 identica
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by felixhammerl 5y ago
Especially with the UK out of the picture.
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by felixhammerl 5y ago
That is a good example of a misdirection play, a polarizing discussion point that political opponents get hung up on, which you never ever intended to actually pass, and you'll happily drop it later, but it helped relieve political pre
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by felixhammerl 5y ago
Google knew that what they might be able to claim had a very shaky legal foundation, not even taking the public backlash into account. But there is a big difference between taking a picture and taking billions of pictures, analyzing the
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by felixhammerl 5y ago
I find it strange that folks in the US and UK, given that these are championing modern dragnet surveillance, would recoil at the idea of government issued ID, thus forcing everyone to come up with error-prone workarounds enabling identity f
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by felixhammerl 5y ago
Please stop using GPG for SSH with your yubikey. Everything you need is baked into openssh 8.2. Check the "Using resident keys" section: https://www.yubico.com/blog/github-now-supports-ssh-security...
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by felixhammerl 5y ago
Unrelated to the Linux kernel, there is a good example of how Mario Heiderich (probably the most knowledgeable person for XSS on the globe) purposefully introduced an XSS vuln into AngularJS through a patch after (!!!) checking it with the
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by felixhammerl 7y ago
this kind of stuff belongs into #iam14andthisisdeep
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PayPal doesn't care enough to verify your identity claims(twitter.com)
1 points by felixhammerl 9y ago|0 comments
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by felixhammerl 10y ago
exactly. the passphrase for the private key isn't touched. the >24 chars passphrase is used for the symmetrically encrypted pgp message.
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JavaScript All the Email Stuff(github.com)
2 points by felixhammerl 10y ago|0 comments
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Secure OpenPGP Key Pair Synchronization via IMAP(github.com)
46 points by felixhammerl 10y ago|6 comments
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Pixelated joins Rails Girls Summer of Code. Go hack a usable privacy solution(pixelated-project.org)
1 points by felixhammerl 11y ago|0 comments

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