skunkpocalypse

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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
SIM cards are not secure either, you can glitch them. The ones in phones and credit cards, that is.
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
> Why don't all silicon chips have glitch and overvoltage detection? Reliability. This is basically the microchip version of Boeing's MCAS. The circuit you describe is not only an analog circuit, but is in fact a noise ampli
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
Brave is Chrome(ium)
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
I am convinced that DJB is actually the reincarnation of John von Neumann. Seriously, how many other people make contributions in areas ranging all the way from number theory to hand-written machine code?
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
This is horrifying.
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
> block “rogue” (read: tracking) IPs. With IPv6 that's as impractical as blocking "rogue" FQDNs.
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
Halftone magazine printing? Check. Videocasettes? Check. Internet? Check. Thank heaven for prurient smut, driver of all great technology. Without it we would still be in the stone age.
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
XML screwed the pooch by trying to add namespaces after the 1.0 standard was published. Handling namespaces correctly requires that the parser API be changed in non-backwards-compatible ways. This would have broken every single piece of co
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
WHATWG should have published a standard to replace Flash -- all the same goals as Flash, but a clean-slate standards-driven design. Instead they infected the HTML standard with everything Flash was being used for.
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
I'm talking about 501 W Second Ave; the building has changed hands a few times, and you need to use more than just Google to see what's going on. For a while it was owned by some nonprofit called "Telephone Pioneers". L
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
Lots of IXes used to be phone company switching offices way back in the day. The small ones are ugly (cinderblock huts) and the medium-sized ones are designed to not attract attention. And then there's that unholy behemoth in downtown
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
My "daily driver" is a chromebook running linux: Samsung Chromebook Plus RK3399. Keyboard feel is identical to the good old macbooks. Also: feather-light magnesium casing, gorgeous 300nit 2500x1600 screen, and 100% open-source: n
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
After using macs for a decade I switched back to Linux last year. I really like your hotel-vs-home analogy, that describes my experience (and motivation) quite well.
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
> I’ve lost all faith in Boeing. Guess what? They don't care because it doesn't matter. You really can't avoid their airplanes without avoiding air travel.
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
> How would fraud detection work in this model? Your business model is not our problem.
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
Ew, gross. Crates.io is already a security trainwreck in progress. Do we really need to add even more attack vectors? It's also solving a non-problem. I modify source code downloaded from crates.io zero times per day, so I compile ea
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
Yeah the big question isn't why code isn't published. The big question is why this failure to publish code is tolerated by program+steering committees.
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
> They've become somewhat unfashionable over the last decade not really sure why. Much, much larger memory consumption than LR/LALR or even GLR. They're called packrat parsers for a reason. Although the time complexity
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
it is pronounced "troll"
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
Unfortunately city planners are appointed by officials who are elected by the CURRENT residents, not the potential future residents. Preventing adequate construction is in the financial interest of current homeowners -- it inflates their pr
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
> I have kids so that means I can behave however I want so long as it benefits my kids. This is so full of awesome I am at a loss for words to describe it.
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
Not enabling Russian IP theft didn't make Russia go away either. What it did was make them lose the Cold War, since they couldn't cheat anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vetrov
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
... and can be repeated a hundred thousand times. Voila, $5 million launderized.
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
> I'm curious No you're not curious. You're sarcastic. And a wanker.
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by skunkpocalypse 7y ago
Agree. Thank goodness for reader mode.