tatersolid

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by tatersolid 12d ago
My kids stopped saying “six seven” about a year ago. I still have no clue what that was about.
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by tatersolid 14d ago
> sites are extremely pushy about replacing your perfectly good password with a passkey Your password was never “perfectly good” because it is easily phished. Even with TOTP or a push notification app as MFA. Phishing is an huge risk eve
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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses(krebsonsecurity.com)
483 points by tatersolid 15d ago|298 comments
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by tatersolid 16d ago
> most systems have the same username and passwords (customers never change the defaults) That is horrifying and 100% on your dev team. You should not ship default credentials, instead require unique creds to be set at install. Ship an u
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by tatersolid 20d ago
Entra External ID does not allow export of password hashes. It actually doesn’t allow a whole shitload of stuff that should be there by now. For example, it supports passkeys, but has no UI for adding or managing passkeys. You have to build
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by tatersolid 25d ago
USB Ethernet dongles generally suck. Even “name brand” dongles are cheap crap from contract manufacturers.
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by tatersolid 2mo ago
He’s a Florida Man . Do not underestimate his capacity to defile himself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Man
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by tatersolid 2mo ago
Current nuclear-powered ships are run by the world’s premier naval powers and protected by their own stealth or a huge array of armed escort ships. Have these guys factored in the cost of a task force of protective missile frigates, subs,
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The consumable space data center(networkingnerd.net)
3 points by tatersolid 2mo ago|0 comments
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Google and Reddit do not own the Internet, web scraper says after court win(arstechnica.com)
10 points by tatersolid 2mo ago|0 comments
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by tatersolid 2mo ago
It’s a rehash of a conflict from abut 3000 BCE onwards. Who really is the “historical people” of the land that is now Palestine/Israel has been the subject of bloody conflict for 5000 years.
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by tatersolid 2mo ago
So this is strange, it popped up on Cloudflare’s RSS feed so I thought it was new. I’m guessing they edited the article but haven’t been able find a a diff against the original 2022 version.
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Cloudflare R2 is now Generally Available (2022)(blog.cloudflare.com)
2 points by tatersolid 2mo ago|2 comments
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Zoom warns of critical account takeover vulnerability(bleepingcomputer.com)
5 points by tatersolid 2mo ago|0 comments
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by tatersolid 2mo ago
The Indiana variant of this phrase was “tighter than two coats of paint” which meant a person who was tight with money (cheap).
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by tatersolid 2mo ago
For tracking uniques, why can’t we just set a “first_visit=false” cookie if not present on first request? The number of new unique users is then the number of requests that came in without that cookie in whatever time window. Expiration t
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by tatersolid 2mo ago
Guild-style unions seem to be about setting and enforcing cartel pricing, not work quality. At least for the construction and remodeling subcontractors I encounter.
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by tatersolid 2mo ago
Why can’t Postgres auto-tune these values itself in 2026? Microsoft SQL Server has mostly done a good job of this since about 2005. It will set parallelism thresholds, soak up as much cache RAM and CPU as the runtime environment allows, etc
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by tatersolid 2mo ago
Illinois bans nearly all fireworks, not just commercial grade. You can basically only buy sparklers or tiny fountains. You have to visit Wisconsin or Indiana to get anything that pops, spins, bangs, or flies. Even those little ground spinne
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by tatersolid 3mo ago
That’s generally too slow though; these things run in kernel space as they scan every I/O stream. Context switching and memory copies would kill performance.
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by tatersolid 3mo ago
> they have not hiked up their prices yet That one aged poorly. Apple massively hiked prices 2 days later, by thousands of USD on some RAM-heavy configurations. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672732
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by tatersolid 3mo ago
This is market-dependent. We offer email OTP login for small business customers because it is “poor man’s SSO”. You’re basically validating the recipient is still at the company, able to receive at their work email. Larger customers have IT
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by tatersolid 4mo ago
Clarification/correction: The Nagasaki “Fat Man” bomb was the same plutonium implosion design tested at Trinity. The Hiroshima “Little Boy” bomb was the uranium “gun” design that was never tested before combat use. The physics and engi
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Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding(third-bit.com)
2 points by tatersolid 4mo ago|0 comments
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by tatersolid 4mo ago
Vena is one of the most popular enterprise budgeting/forecasting packages. It ships as a new-style Excel extension making Excel the UI for department heads contributing to a rolled up enterprise budget
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by tatersolid 4mo ago
The key is still in the TPM in that scenario it just requires a password to unlock it.
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by tatersolid 4mo ago
Luxury goods are funny. No way an owner of this $650K car can stomach the same app as the peasant who owns a $250K Ferrari Amalfi.
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by tatersolid 4mo ago
Purple-gray text on a black background is totally unreadable. Text zoom being overridden as well. Can’t use product with middle-aged eyes.
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by tatersolid 4mo ago
One thing that gets neglected by policymakers is that our top priority for energy policy should be resiliency . That means distributed systems with varied generation sources, without dependence on foreign suppliers. This requires regulatio
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Ebola outbreak with uncommon strain erupts in Congo and Uganda; 65 deaths(arstechnica.com)
12 points by tatersolid 4mo ago|0 comments

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