simondedalus

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by simondedalus 7y ago
You would have a point if the exploit were more serious, and looked harder to fix than it does. As is, this is a phishing type variant that it’s not at all clear gatekeeper was even designed to stop. However, the default behavior described
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by simondedalus 7y ago
Good thing, since America has had a variety of socialist policies in place since before anyone currently alive was born and continues to.
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by simondedalus 7y ago
Maybe your experience is “another interesting perspective worth writing about or considering” and not a refutation of the author’s experience and her conclusions about what it meant.
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by simondedalus 7y ago
Socrates “knows that he knows nothing” and spends his time trying to refute that. He looks for knowledge earnestly but usually doesn’t find it. Socrates is less devil’s advocate, more “how can we be sure of X when Y? If not Y because Z,
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by simondedalus 7y ago
we grit our teeth and "believe" that anyone traceably affected got an email directly from the company or something :D (that said, google main page vulnerable to xss is kind of like... what, we're afraid someone will take ove
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by simondedalus 7y ago
it is of course just a matter of time for either of the companies you mentioned to "be hacked" (obviously it's happened countless times with Microsoft, both the OS and their cloud services like O365, and there was a recent hi
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by simondedalus 7y ago
as i replied in the comment below, the goal isn't "absolute porn free paradise," it's "keep our current control working." sound shortsighted to you? it is. it's also the easiest thing, and frees everyon
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by simondedalus 7y ago
this is getting really boring and repetitive, but you didn't give a "cheaper" solution, you gave an administratively more expensive solution (change files on machines rather than bulk remove an app which is out of the box fun
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by simondedalus 7y ago
the DNS filtering works on chrome. yes, people can bypass it, but it doesn't even work on firefox, so they remove firefox. this isn't rocket science, and you're being foolishly contrarian instead of trying to understand w
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by simondedalus 7y ago
of course it's possible to do so. but DNS filtering works for most users, and is much easier to centrally manage on a budget (in terms of time / people / money) than browser settings. i'm belaboring this point now, but
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by simondedalus 7y ago
firefox messes up their DNS filtering, chrome doesn't. so they remove firefox and enforce chrome. if you see that as a slippery slope, you're imagining it. they probably 1) have a decent app like ninite to remove and install ap
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by simondedalus 7y ago
amusingly, putting enough safeguards in place that kids would do this would actually be providing some good education for kids on the path to hacking.
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by simondedalus 7y ago
yeah, they're saying just route to the porn site through the custom hosts file.
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by simondedalus 7y ago
no, using the nuclear option of removing the browser outright when others work is the smart, efficient option that someone who actually works in IT with limited resources would (and should) use. this stuff about finding all the right config
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by simondedalus 7y ago
"Don't do that. A job interview is a structured process designed to let you consistently evaluate multiple candidates. If you are asking each candidate different questions, that's not a fair test." if this is the thing y
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by simondedalus 7y ago
having caught his program on 13 several times, i would venture to assert that your association is about as apt one as could be. i associate rick steves with sick days, nick stellino, and pati jinich.
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by simondedalus 8y ago
i gave you the benefit of the doubt when i read your earlier comment, but this doubledown shows you're extremely naive / have no experience with the space. you realize there are entire industries (plural) premised off the fact th
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by simondedalus 8y ago
IT or cybersecurity both benefit from CS (cybersecurity especially, since that's basically just CS/IT + read the news / some sec feeds + basic risk assessment and management). the good thing about IT for you in particular is
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by simondedalus 8y ago
always unfortunate when not only 1) is the article title a clickbait "provocative question," but 2) the question has an obvious answer.
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by simondedalus 8y ago
there's a gulf as big as the ocean between acceptance and explanation. we have good reason to assume that consciousness (whatever it is) depends on the physical. great, but what is it?
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by simondedalus 8y ago
nature of consciousness is the biggest one IMO, precisely because it doesn't appear to be captured by "nature of existence." we have good physical/mathematical models on hand re: causation, such that we can at least sta
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by simondedalus 9y ago
there's also of course the possibility that uber violated the CFAA if someone exfiltrated data from waymo, though the distinctions re: access without autorization and access that exceeds authorization are quite nuanced. if "uber-s
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by simondedalus 9y ago
in what fantasy world is chess.com more "serious" than the ICC? the one where attracting a couple super GMs to play promotional tournaments is more "serious" than having thousands of titled players online? not to menti
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by simondedalus 9y ago
best way to learn vim: (optional) first, go thru vimtutor (just type vimtutor in your shell and press enter). second, get a vim cheat sheet (google). finally (most important), code a few things using vim. keep google at the ready to look u
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by simondedalus 9y ago
(: these aren't the droids you're looking for. taking down the internet (or specific pockets of it) via BGP is not a question of method, it's a question of access. BGP hijacking can be easily done by computer science grad s
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by simondedalus 9y ago
not to put too fine a point of it, but there's a world of difference between creating a ledger that creates a "distributed" SQL database whose integrity is guaranteed among non-trusted nodes through a blockchain, and using sm
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by simondedalus 9y ago
not only would it be hard, but using a blockchain (a type of database) to represent a functional SQL database using smart contracts is a mind-numbingly bad idea. (insert "should i use a blockchain" infographic, which is amusingl
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by simondedalus 9y ago
and the virtue of allowing a single point of 2FA. the seed is just the seed, and will always be the seed. the master password can change and be supplemented by 2FA / other enhancement schemes.
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by simondedalus 9y ago
this film is pretty great. i got it on video from a catalogue in the 90s (heard of it because one of the stars was in kurosawa's "ran"). if you like this, you would probably like shuuji terayama (of emperor tomato ketchup fa
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by simondedalus 9y ago
yeah, i recently downloaded intellij idea for the first time (i generally eschew IDEs) to try my hand at kotlin, and when the "use vim keybindings? " option popped up during setup i was like "(very satisfied and refreshed) ah

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