hyper_reality

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Spelunking in Comments and Documentation for Security Footguns(blog.includesecurity.com)
4 points by hyper_reality 2y ago|0 comments
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Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia?(freakonomics.com)
2 points by hyper_reality 3y ago|0 comments
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by hyper_reality 3y ago
There are definitely a lot of reckless cyclists, but it's worth keeping things in perspective. According to the Department for Transport's report, there were 41 pedestrians and 7 cyclists killed in traffic collisions in Greater Lo
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by hyper_reality 3y ago
This map looks cool but it doesn't tell us a lot about the safe and unsafe places to cycle in London. Because it's based on collision data by location, but we don't know how many people cycle on each road per year, so can&#x2
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by hyper_reality 3y ago
Are you sure you're thinking of the right author? Filippo used to work at Cloudflare so I can't imagine he got the technical details about it too wrong.
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by hyper_reality 3y ago
HackTheBox ( https://www.hackthebox.com/ ) is the largest and most active hacker challenge website. Focussed mainly around black box pentesting of vulnerable Windows and Linux machines, but they have lots of other types of co
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by hyper_reality 3y ago
Thanks for mentioning CryptoHack! Yes while some challenges overlap, we also explore more deeply the mathematics of cryptography, as well as its practical use in protocols like TLS. We recently added challenges on lattice-based post-quantum
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Games for Learning Linux and the Command Line(devopschops.com)
2 points by hyper_reality 3y ago|0 comments
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by hyper_reality 4y ago
> - higher lifeforms are more valuable than lower ones (cat vs lobsters) Choosing between preserving the life of one cat vs one lobster seems straightforward enough. But the trolley problem was asking whether one cat was more valuable th
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by hyper_reality 4y ago
To pick an extreme but well-known thought experiment. You are walking past a pond, and see a child drowning in it. You glance around and there is nobody else nearby. You could easily jump in and save the child. It will certainly die if you
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
> I'm curious, why do you think that these requirements won't spread to the rest of the internet I didn't say that, I only said that we currently have two Internets, but that there has been a shift towards the walled gar
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
> I think it’s pretty clear at this point that the notion of the web as a self protecting organism that naturally rejects misinformation and stops bad actors is completely wrong. It's an interesting question, but the point isn'
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
I still remember the days when almost everyone on Internet forums used pseudonyms and closely guarded their identities. It was even taught in schools not to reveal who you are online. Google, FB and other tech giants changed the norms aroun
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The End Is (Not) Nigh: Disaster Prepping with Michal Zalewski(nostarch.com)
2 points by hyper_reality 5y ago|0 comments
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
See Vanity Fair's excellent long-form article "The Body in Room 348" for a real life example! https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/true-crime-elegan...
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
This is fascinating and a great bit of work by Stefan Marsiske. Loved the technical writeup in PoC||GTFO too. This quote from the TFA really shows just how difficult it was for the public to access decent cryptography at the time: > In h
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
Absolutely right, the essay writes from a comfortable UK perspective and ignores large amounts of the world where well-regulated, trustworthy financial institutions aren't available. And even UK banks aren't immune from failure or
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
Inspiring interview, as the interviewer says there's a zen about Joey where he's dedicated himself to producing great open source software (git-annex, debhelper, ikiwiki) instead of trying to make millions. Surely he can look back
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
Transhumanist philosopher David Pearce has a fascinating piece arguing along these lines. The dystopic Brave New World "has come to serve as the false symbol for any regime of universal happiness", and Island offers a counterp
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
It would increase disk usage by a significant amount, since transaction IDs appear twice in tuple headers (xmin/xmax). Essentially they are overhead on every database row. This submission has a discussion on it: https://news
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
PostgreSQL is one of the most powerful and reliable pieces of software I've seen run at large scale, major kudos to all the maintainers for the improvements that keep being added. > PostgreSQL 14 extends its performance gains to the
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
Here's an example of purple prose that has nothing to do with the complexity of cybersecurity, from his first post on Substack ( https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/lifting-the-mask ): > Though my relationship t
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
On the other hand, I feel the show also pushes a positive view of American go-getter mentality: optimism and infectious enthusiasm which is sorely lacking in the British characters.
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
Ted Lasso is a show that I didn't think I'd like at all based on the synopsis. But after a rave review from a friend, I gave it a go and found it to be compulsive watching. It just goes to show that music, movies, and art that is
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
I recommend reading about "blameless postmortems" [1]. Our natural tendency is to look for who is responsible for an incident and point the finger of blame. Over time this leads to a cover-your-ass culture, whether you like it or
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
This is an interesting exploration of the incarceration statistics, but it doesn't go one step further and explain why American prison sentences are so long. I've seen numerous explanations for this, one being that there is a st
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
One big difference is explained in the article. The fact that code going into the kernel is not as secure as we might hope is already known to the open source community. Maintainers are overworked and none would be surprised if you told the
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
This is an excellent tool to have as a security consultant, and it just keeps getting better and better. When approaching a large codebase, it enables you to write custom rules that match on certain antipatterns you've spotted that may
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
This is funny and I would love to hear your personifications of other languages. I imagine Python and Perl offer a lot of material.
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by hyper_reality 5y ago
Great and clear guide to this thorny topic. However, even this article gets a little confused in its wording at one point: > In such cases, we want our API to set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to our website’s URL. That will mak

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