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firefax

1,244karma·643submissions·October 21, 2024
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old reddit is useful for osint :-( (tor friendly)
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Ok, I don't know their emotional state. Fair point. Maybe I'm projecting my own biases ;-)
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The bigger takeaway is someone that smart is pissed off and dropping their shit with zero warning... but hey, that's just like, my opinion man.
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never thought being a script kiddie would make me smart, but here we are in 2026. i had one place, they were using all these shady pay with a credit card for "points" to do these web gui thi…
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I see a lot of essays on noncommercial self hosted blogs on HN.
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Meant to title it "99 Problems...". Apologies for the error!
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schadenfreude
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They recently raised the enlistment age, so there's always the comedy option I could be the oldest man in officer's boot apparently. But to be coerced into servitude after "doing things…
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I was more lamenting that I thought I was trading my time for income, and ended up with neither income nor free time. I'm involuntarily destitute , not involuntarily celibate :-)
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>Vienna waits for you I've been there before, but its my understanding I'd have visa issues doing anything beyond tourism.
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>Stop living for your idea of others and start living for yourself. Unfortunately, I exhausted my emergency fund trying for certs and attempting to escape a domestic violence situation, so I do not…
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>He got all of the "Free Kevin" attention because of how long he was left in jail before trial and then being stuck in solitary confinement after sentencing for months. That was uncalled …
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grep
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>I'm old enough to remember all the "Free Kevin" gifs scattered around the internet. A generation of hackers (specifically, the vBulletin generation) stayed as far away from the CFAA…
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I have so many stories about his absolutely terrible behavior at conferences. He once refused to pay the entry fee to a charity event and had to be physically ejectedy . Absolutely better at PR than …
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Sadly the ones conservative on AI tend to also be conservative on things like WFH or honoring the hacker manifesto. (Judging based on religion, national origin etc) And where do we go from here? Law? …
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Title edited slightly for length.
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I haven't been this confused by a headline since Keir Starmer declared himself a "gooner". I think a big issue with a lot of AI enabled coding is that tokens are currently heavily subsi…
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So... they fired him for doing a 20% time project? I'm glad I don't have any of their stock to sell, what terrible management.
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Both, for different reasons. I don't have a source yet for the second, but fingerprinting is powerful, and if you look like a cop criminals do all sorts of things...
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What is your threat model exactly? The sites that will serve you up exotic malware are usually CSAM sites overtaken by feds. You can browse without imagages, and no one has ever, once, in the history …
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Non paywalled obituary: https://apnews.com/article/greenspan-federal-reserve-death-2... …
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japan actually seems averse to any kind of change in a way they aren't. do swiss atms close at a certain time of day? do many takeout places want you to fax orders? there's a lot of things t…
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Edited the title slightly for length.
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If you're in a flow state, why not just... write the code? You keep using this word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
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One of the little gems the Russians pulled off in the twenty aughts when they were flooding nonprofits in the USA with dirty money was hijacking the green movement to promote fracking. (Because surely…
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