klingonopera

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Routers tested: All 127 of them with security deficiencies [pdf](fkie.fraunhofer.de)
2 points by klingonopera 6y ago|0 comments
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by klingonopera 6y ago
Wow. That seems like a lot of work. I just use GnuCash, a scanner, some good old Samba file-hosting on a local Debian server running 24/7, and WOL and VNC (or just SSH and SCP) if I need to access anything from not at home.
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by klingonopera 6y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write all that down. I fully agree with most of it. I tried quitting Facebook, WhatsApp, and whatnot, to no avail. It just doesn't work out like that for me. I'm born to expatriate parents in some
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by klingonopera 6y ago
The problem with being a Facebook-user is quitting it while trying to keep in touch with your friends. Presently, this only works if Facebook itself would fail. I believe if it were still possible to keep in touch with Facebook friends and
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by klingonopera 6y ago
I find it ok for Facebook to do something like their "Top stories" based on what their algorithm determines for me. But I'm somewhat annoyed that "Most recent" doesn't actually sort the news feed chronologicall
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by klingonopera 6y ago
> "I mentioned this in a previous thread, but we absolutely do not want Mark Zuckerberg or his employees to make decisions on what is or isn’t newsworthy. They have far too much power, and not enough internal controls, to be involv
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by klingonopera 6y ago
> "the average font size has been steadily creeping, maybe 1.5 pts per 5 years." To be fair, so has the monitor resolution and its density. I'm looking at HN, and imagine, ten years ago, I was using 1280x1024 then, this
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by klingonopera 6y ago
Acting like the don't exist either, isn't either. I coincidentally found this yesterday, and while it is on the topic of racism, you can just as much transpose races for classes, and still be on point: https://everydayf
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by klingonopera 6y ago
Anything can go wrong, anywhere. Still, I think the IT guys and gals in space-tech have (necessarily) one of the best track records in reliability.
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by klingonopera 6y ago
No, it completely makes sense on the compilation aspect, I don't deny it. But where do you test the compiled software? If I use an analogy from the Internet, it's like web developers using hugely uncompressed pictures, but nobody
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by klingonopera 6y ago
...it's funny, because if anyone can write code that wouldn't require 32 cores to run, Linus would certainly be one of them. Don't forget to keep in touch with reality, a bunch of people on this globe still have to get by u
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by klingonopera 6y ago
I'm just going to hook up on your example of the document and the deadline, and state the following: You're assuming a (very) pessimistic scenario (that you likely justify with your experience of IT systems and their bugs, but Apo
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by klingonopera 6y ago
And so the next step would be to actually throw out the written word and replace it with actual code. I'm serious. Why let "government code" be subject to all the shortcomings and pitfalls of natural language when you could j
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by klingonopera 6y ago
I actually develop my own solutions, there is no third-party analytics involved in my blog, the only "analytics" I do, is to keep track of which IP visits what resource, the only cookies that are set on my blog are session and cha
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by klingonopera 6y ago
AFAIK, GDPR only really becomes an issue for you, if your blog crosses a certain threshhold of views/comments. Not sure where I read it, but it was in the range of something around 10,000 per day/week/month. Definitely not
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by klingonopera 6y ago
> "outlier results at odds with every other study thus far published" ...which would be? AFAIK, there aren't any comparable studies to date, which is why there was such a buzz about it.
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by klingonopera 6y ago
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-29/corona...
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by klingonopera 6y ago
Despite it opposing their previous stance on it? They're now mostly backpedalling, and discrediting the study. Or, at least, how it was presented - but can anyone blame them for that?
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by klingonopera 6y ago
The final bits of text indicate that the full study is to be published as soon as it's available. All statements made in the paper are marked with "vorläufig", which translates to preliminary. Considering the gravity of the s
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by klingonopera 6y ago
I don't know, I find pseudo-anonymized, but (mostly) civilized and on-point debate that touches varying spheres of sciences as well as degrees of accuracy on them, quite valuable, too. It could probably be more "valuable", if
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by klingonopera 6y ago
> "This is incorrect. You're reducing the number of deaths. Think of it like this: imagine 2% of people need ICU care. 100% of those that don't get ICU care die." Quoting my earlier reply: "According to the ar
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by klingonopera 6y ago
Well, yes. More, but shorter. That's why people are calling it a "gamble". According to the article, ICU capacity is currently at a quarter. They could probably "afford" a higher rate, and be done with it faster. In
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by klingonopera 6y ago
This is a headline we're gonna repeat as long as Sweden stays on their course, no? Because it's then perpetually always true. It's laughably juvenile, like countries exerting peer pressure as if they're in kindergarten.
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by klingonopera 6y ago
...there's the thing about Chicken Pox, isn't it not far more severe, and deadly, in adults? I can remember having caught it as a kid, but if I didn't... I'd believe, I'd rather be thankful than scornful towards my
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by klingonopera 6y ago
> "multiple cultural taboos" Honestly asking, are Chicken Pox parties also considered taboo? I don't have kids, but it sounds sensible to me, and I've heard people talk about it like it's normal. But if that&#x
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by klingonopera 6y ago
No, it's not, it would be if the cities were still crowded and no one would be working from home, but that's not the case. Most of us skepticals aren't arguing that we shouldn't do anything, but that we should gracefully
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by klingonopera 6y ago
Is it possible yet, to identify whether someone has already had the virus and is immune? My gut feeling tells me, that half of the other 47 of the total 98 residents may also have already had the virus.
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by klingonopera 6y ago
Yeah, but for a virus that even more heavily affects older people, it's super unlikely you'd get 13 under-60s and not a single over-60. It's like flipping a coin and getting 13 times heads, possible, but super unlikely. And w
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by klingonopera 6y ago
> "All our ICU patients are in their 50s or younger" I was expecting a Triage-scenario to be the cause of this, but since they're not just yet at capacity, that can't be the case either. How is this anomaly to be ex
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by klingonopera 6y ago
That's just over a quarter of the annual deaths due to malnutrition. Is it okay for me to just shed the equal amount of tears, or are people then going to accuse me of being emotionally stunted?

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