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by hyper_reality 6y ago
Summary of the article is in this paragraph: > This is actually quite impressive! Although 9 out of 25 is only a 36% accuracy rate, I still remember when reading The Singularity is Near for the first time that almost all of the predictio
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
It's because this is a discussion about free speech, not gun ownership. Gun ownership was just being used as an analogy in the comment you were replying to. They'll also downvote this comment, because it asks why people voted a ce
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
Thanks for the fact check, I didn't read that article closely enough.
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
It's been known since at least 2014 that this company has been selling software to regimes that violate human rights, squash freedom of information, and monitor pro-democracy activists. They were hacked and their client list was leaked
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
The truth is somewhere between your statement and parent's, in my opinion. Copyright is necessary but the laws today are draconian and far too extensive. For works since 1978, copyright lasts for the entire length of the author's
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
Can't we assess this article on it's own merits instead? It's offering advice that is completely independent from past scandals on the platform it's hosted on. From the article, I thought this advice hit home the most: &
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
This is a misunderstanding of the purpose of Debian, which comes in several flavours: Stable, Testing, and Unstable. Stable does indeed "lock" older versions of packages, but this comes with the enormous benefit of reducing mainte
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
Yes, that will work. As part of running `apt upgrade`, the package base-files will get upgraded from 10.3+deb10u5 to 10.3+deb10u6 which will update /etc/debian_version to say 10.6 instead of 10.5.
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
Christianity decrees its followers to be stewards over the created order, but outside of some small groups, there's no major tradition of vegetarianism in Christianity, nor any particular care for ecology and sustainability as is pract
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
Many countries with high population density have managed to deal with COVID-19 rather well, and vice-versa.
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
Perhaps you're trying to make a point, but the command should work with /usr/sbin/service or prefaced by sudo. If you run `whereis service` you can see that the binary is located in /usr/sbin (at least on Debia
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
Nice find! That brings back memories. Yeah Ragnarok was the replacement for Niflheim, although both were buggy and stopped working altogether at some point. KongregateHack was really young, impressive that he ran a whole online community ag
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
I don't think so, that website looks a lot newer. And I'm pretty sure the original was called KongreHack or KongregateHack.
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
Yes! That's how I spent a lot of my spare time too in adolescence. There was a forum called Kongrehack run by a Swedish guy where game-hacks were shared. Initially we used Cheat Engine to modify select memory locations in games, but th
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
To summarise: the authors speculate that the NSA invested in a lot of resources into breaking Diffie-Hellman key exchange for certain 1024-bit primes. Just a few hardcoded 1024-bit primes were used in the majority of VPN handshakes and a si
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Booting unmodified Windows 10 over USB(blog.zorinaq.com)
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
Check out the paper "Ron was wrong, Whit is right" for a survey of keys found on the web and the surprising number of RSA keys that have weaknesses.
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
We haven't really considered monetisation yet but you've given some interesting food for thought, thank you!
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
Hey all, I would like to present a side project which I have been building with a friend. We bonded over our shared passion for solving crypto CTF challenges, and found that infosec people are often curious about crypto - but see it as an i
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Show HN: CryptoHack – a fun platform for learning cryptography(cryptohack.org)
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by hyper_reality 6y ago
Yep, the response they received was incredibly condescending. The follow-up from Cloudflare remained polite and added a lot more data, and was ignored. It's a shame because I've seen this condescending attitude quite frequently in
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by hyper_reality 7y ago
$500m would give every American $1.50
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by hyper_reality 7y ago
You make a good point, but how would you implement this? Would you place artistic limits on directors? Why do you think that torture scenes are so popular in film and TV - is this an issue with filmmakers trying to satisfy a bloodthirsty au
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by hyper_reality 7y ago
The Register have an article about this guy from 12 years before this where he apparently besieged a mailing list with his plans for a revolutionary anti-spam system: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/11/w
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by hyper_reality 7y ago
Miranda is still taught as a language for University College London's Functional Programming course: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/module-catalogue/modules/functional-pr... Students grumble at having to learn such an
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by hyper_reality 7y ago
That's really his problem for working in secret for GCHQ. Diffie, Hellman, Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman are the ones who are rightfully lauded for bringing public key cryptography to the public sphere.
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by hyper_reality 7y ago
The crux of this article is just repeating some researchers finding that: > Innate intelligence plays, at best, a 1 to 2 percent role in a child's future success. Instead, financial success is correlated with conscientiousness: Self
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by hyper_reality 7y ago
It's a good article but there are much easier ways to use binwalk than presented here. In the first example he uses the "--signature" and "--term" flags, these are unnecessary. Running binwalk with no flags will pro
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by hyper_reality 7y ago
I for one am glad they released a factual account and timeline of what went wrong. I don't see it as an attempt to minimize their actions. They even admit that they have no clear explanation of the original issue, when they could easil
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by hyper_reality 7y ago
The Panama Papers are a good nomination, the "creepy" part being how quickly it all blew over. The story was squashed by the rich and powerful, especially in China where it was wiped off the Chinese internet. Business continued as

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