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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Listening to the audio, this wasn't some surreptitious hot mic recording, he was addressing employees about his frustrations at personally observing them fucking off in meetings and they were laughing. Somehow listening to his aggressi
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How I wired my house. [video](youtube.com)
5 points by likeabatterycar 2y ago|1 comments
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
It's not. This is almost certainly Windows performing certificate validation. The "evidence" was just copy pasted from VirusTotal. In fact he forgot to copy from below the cut, which would have shown it also called out to www
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
> It is absolutely not that. To suggest this, considering the evidence posted, goes beyond idiocy into potential maliciousness The scary IPs are part of DigiCert's CDN for OCSP responder (probably depending where you are and their a
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Probably Windows checking certificate revocation on a signed binary (or linked library).
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Hit pieces are red meat to this place. They all high five each other, then quietly get into their Teslas for the drive home when no one is looking.
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
HN has been under a major astroturfing campaign lately IMO. The question is who is doing it.
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Fortune 500s pay Palo Alto millions a year for their product and it's written in... PHP?
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Yubikey is an event based token. You tap it with explicit intent. If you aren't expecting to tap it, then the fail safe is you don't. It works that way by design. You can't use a screwdriver handle as a hammer then complain
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
> is the windows platform hostile to those sort of tools No need for hyperbolics, just say you don't know. The built in Windows Firewall does this. No need to pay for a 3rd party magic app. Laud praise on Little Snitch all you want
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His todo list includes working with Boeing to speed up delivery of Air Force One(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by likeabatterycar 2y ago|0 comments
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Consider adding a mandatory keyword search when submitting a link - like every human-averse helpdesk. Maybe if submitters see something was already submitted 800 times, they'll get the message; though, I have my doubts.
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
[deleted] Hard to hold a discussion when everyone is arguing in bad faith.
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
> guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer So, like every private sector job nowadays? Everyone is acting like this is the first time in history someone's been called into a
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
How will these people mentally cope with the coming realities of having to trade their $300k comp (some of which didn't require a lot of work during their tenure) for making $80k writing CRUD apps and line of business software at some
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
No one in history has ever looked at a piece of machinery and thought, "You know what would make this better? Castration by EU government regulations." Meanwhile the EU bathes in the same Chinese garbage imported by the boat-load
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Why it is important not to have children (2012)(stallman.org)
11 points by likeabatterycar 2y ago|10 comments
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Signtool interfaces with any kind of certificate including on smartcard. https://www.mgtek.com/smartcard For automating pin entry
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
What is wrong with Microsoft's free signtool.exe?
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Or based out of Arizona, home of Tombstone and the OK Corral.
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
> Is Google going to avoid interviewing anyone from a HBCU now? No, because that would obviously be racist. DEI would be favoring one candidate over another specifically due to immutable personal characteristics, not their qualifications
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
My data says otherwise and you have provided nothing to back up your claim other than saying we have an industry full of dirty money paying programmers to write unethical code. I'm sure it inspires them to do their best work. Half thes
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Most people with jobs and families etc. don't have a day per week nor gas money to spare to drive seven hours each way to go egg foraging. It's great you can manage this luxury but it's just not practical and a fairytale life
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
> within 7 hours of NYC Literally the definition of "not local" > help supply the 19 million people of NYC with fresh eggs This sounds like it could be one of Kramer's schemes on Seinfeld, where he's loaded his rus
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
> For one thing it's trivial for malicious actors to change their user-agent. Absolutely true. But the programmers of these bots are lazy and often don't. So if Cloudflare has access to other data that can positively identify b
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
I run a honeypot and I can say with reasonable confidence many (most?) bots and scrapers use a Chrome on Linux user-agent. It's a fairly good indication of malicious traffic. In fact I would say it probably outweighs legitimate traffic
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
I love how British eggs have deep, amber yolks. Are they force-feeding the hens Earl Grey?
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Ok, but, you can't feed 340M people with "fresh, local eggs". While it's nice you buy six eggs at a time from Joe Farmer off the back of his '72 Ford, but factory farms are an unfortunate necessity to feed everyone
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
Next you're going to tell me that the cobalt used to make batteries for the electric vehicles literally saving the environment right now in the West is being mined by enslaved children in the Congo with archaic hand tools and no PPE
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by likeabatterycar 2y ago
> Remember how Apple couldn't just pick up and move the production of iPhones to India or Vietnam? You left out the part about dormitories full of modern-day slaves, complete with nets so they don't leap to their deaths. Genera

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