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2,796karma·554submissions·March 29, 2019
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I think if you ask the median human to count to 100... more often than not you'll hear "One, Two, skip a few, Ninety-Nine, One-Hundred".
20d ago·view thread
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> intercepted by any MITM Most things are... even SSH is Trust-on-First-Use. You can really only verify out of band. OTP is quite a bit better than CC or bank account numbers... assuming the OTP is…
1mo ago·view thread
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I've done something similar before with Btrfs https://gist.github.com/chapmanjacobd/bc6e31c8bc3647e0bcb0c4... pretty fun!…
2mo ago·view thread
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None of the comments here are really about the article! Of course one can always turn an ISO into a writable filesystem but this is doing something a bit different. Pretty interesting! Thanks for shar…
2mo ago·view thread
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Yeah I tried Kinoite on a couple machines for a couple years and it's so much easier and faster to use normal Fedora for single dev/server machine. However, I can definitely see some situati…
2mo ago·view thread
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> a bunch of pipes and valves can be conscious Billions * billions of pipes and valves can result in emergent behavior that appears conscious while at the same time the sound of a single independen…
2mo ago·view thread
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So the solution was to do the same thing that the hackers did?? > "tell the Meta support AI that the account is hacked and ask it to send the verification codes to an arbitrary email address t…
2mo ago·view thread
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maybe just check TERM? although to be honest--do you even need a pager if your shell/terminal is nice enough? I rarely pipe to a pager because kitty/fish/tmux support OSC 133 pretty wel…
4mo ago·view thread
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And it also doesn't really apply here... If YOU the individual (who owns your own medical records) agree that the transmission method is safe then HIPAA doesn't apply. HIPAA applies when the…
4mo ago·view thread
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Depends how simple you want it: - 200 line BASH script: https://github.com/Sub-SH/Beacon - 17k lines of Ansible YAML https://github.com/iiab/iiab …
4mo ago·view thread
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they're really packing in the whole kitchen sink into video games these days... https://old.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/p4xlpr/ark_is_over_200... …
4mo ago·view thread
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> and probably 8x less compressed than it should be ZIM uses zstd so it is pretty compressed--but the thing that takes a lot of room is actually the full-text search index built in to each ZIM file…
4mo ago·view thread
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So less energy than a human brain uses...
6mo ago·view thread
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Makes me think of Syncthing... I wrote a wrapper for it that attempts to make it easier for people to use: https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/syncweb-py https://github.c…
6mo ago·view thread
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You might squirm at using refurbished or used media but those 3TB SAS ex-enterprise disks are often the same price or cheaper than tapes themselves (excluding tape drive costs!). Will magnetic storage…
7mo ago·view thread