seethishat

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by seethishat 6d ago
It always amuses me when I hear people complaining about the privacy issues with Flock cameras (on public roads) while wearing an Apple Watch or carrying an iPhone in their pocket everywhere they go.
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by seethishat 11d ago
The announcement only mentions DoH and not DoT... I guess both are going away?
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by seethishat 14d ago
They didn't pick the bad vendor, the herd did. They all go to the same conferences, attend the same vendor lunches and buy the same garbage. And today, most of the IT managers are not technical at all. They have art degrees and have ne
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by seethishat 16d ago
Theo is probably autistic. I work with a lot of great engineers with similar behavior. Their arguments are not personal, although they seem to be. They are just very passionate and care deeply about certain things (in this case operating sy
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by seethishat 20d ago
Yes, I see your point. You could argue that humans, too, are trained to produce expected outputs (family, societal and peer pressure, etc.).
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by seethishat 20d ago
Because it is common sense. This is software trained to produce outputs. It doesn't feel anything.
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by seethishat 20d ago
LLMs are trained to produce outputs that humans would find reasonable. That's it. They don't do anything else. To say they have feelings and that they can think/reason is insane.
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by seethishat 26d ago
I read once that a CT scan is roughly equivalent to 1000 hours of flight WRT radiation exposure. I've had about 6 or 8 of those over the years.
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by seethishat 26d ago
Property damage is a crime. I don't object to Flock cameras or any other public cameras. But if I did, I would write to my congress person rather than commit a crime and destroy someone's property.
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by seethishat 28d ago
I know it is not a popular opinion. But it is my opinion. Do you seriously think that governments need Flock cameras when they have Apple, Microsoft and Google?
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by seethishat 28d ago
People cite Flock as an example of this. Yet the same people walk around with iPhones and Android devices that can record conversations (who talks to whom at what times and for how long), know our exact locations and log everything we do on
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by seethishat 28d ago
Go is good enough for many tasks. Google wrote that as a replacement for C++ too. I guess Carbon is intended to be more for systems programming? Go had that intent initially, but soon realized that's not a good fit.
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by seethishat 1mo ago
Why is it OK for everyone to carry a surveillance device (smart phone) everywhere they go, but installing a camera on a public roadway is not OK? I don't understand the hatred for Flock. And I don't think the complainers see the i
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by seethishat 1mo ago
They all use Zyn now.
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by seethishat 1mo ago
The Internet was built for adults. Then, we gave kids tablets and phones. Now, decades later, we have a problem. Kids see things meant for adults. Maybe we need an adult only portion of the Internet and verify identity only on that (like ba
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by seethishat 1mo ago
From a historical perspective... Debian and Redhat brought package management to Linux 30 years ago. That's why so many other distros were built on top of them. And now today, we have a lot of new packages mangers on top of that, which
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by seethishat 1mo ago
This is why I keep a ~/.ssh/config file. I store all the hosts and various connection parameters (uernames, alternate ports, keys, etc.) in that file. Would that work for you?
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2026 Defcon Password Cracking Contest(contest-2026.korelogic.com)
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by seethishat 2mo ago
It is illegal to lie to a police officer in the US. It's better to remain silent than to tell a lie. Giving a false PIN is a lie. And that by itself is a crime. I'm not taking sides here, I just wanted to make that clear. And you
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by seethishat 2mo ago
They appreciate technical correctness and they do not exaggerate. Most 'security researchers' are not technically correct and they exaggerate a lot (seeking fame and all). Dismissing their claims is not being selective, it's
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by seethishat 2mo ago
I'm not sure there are any regulations around opting to do that in the US. Do you have a phlebotomist friend? If so, they might do it for you, but it can be risky and they might not want to take the risk, get sued, etc. It is an intere
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by seethishat 2mo ago
Yes... travel, tattoos, drug use and sexual behavior can and should disqualify a person from donating blood.
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by seethishat 2mo ago
Doing whole blood donations seems to significantly reduce PFAS in the blood. Here's one paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... Edit: This also helps others who are in accidents
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by seethishat 2mo ago
No backdoor is secure. Read the "Keys under Doormats" paper from 2015: https://www.schneier.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/paper-ke...
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by seethishat 2mo ago
Wildcard certs were somewhat useful for hiding this. Not sure that's still true.
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by seethishat 2mo ago
Any LSM can stop that POST. SELinux, AppArmor, Tomoyo, etc. They are built-in to the kernel. You just need to know what you are doing to use them.
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by seethishat 3mo ago
Some spiders seem to think, recognize people and take immediate evasive action. Contrast that with a beetle, or ant. They just keep walking along like I'm not even there. I turned the kitchen light on once and saw a spider in the middl
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by seethishat 3mo ago
Obviously no one knows every detail all the way down the stack. It's not possible, but having some level of understanding of how a system operates is useful especially if you ever have to fix it yourself or explain why/how it is b
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by seethishat 3mo ago
c't published articles about a few programs that I wrote (many years ago). They always sent me copies of the magazine with a CD when they did that. The CD had all the free/open source programs that were discussed in the magazine.
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by seethishat 3mo ago
It's a joke. By using RAID, more bits will be corrupted, thus more efficient.

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