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>pentesting consultants...exist to help companies check a box that reduces their legal liability

I get it, but that's a bit of a false dichotomy. That is, there's also valid pentesting and that's the good thing, as opposed to being attacked by criminals (bad thing). And, the purpose of standing up defenses would be to prevent successful attacks. So, if it's the successful attack that prompts those defenses, then it's already too late.

The bigger point is that, in general, I'm puzzled by the constant stream of people thanking the criminals and blaming the victims after each of these attacks.

I think people underestimate the complexity that has evolved over time in many company systems. Securing systems/networks is hard. Doing it retroactively with mountains of technical debt is even harder. The reality is that some of these companies don't have the wherewithal to do it and, even if they did, the timeline to getting them there would leave them vulnerable for some time.

So it sounds great, but very idealistic to say "hey this will help them harden their security". The reality is we need to stop thanking the criminals and support/protect our companies/agencies with a "layer" above their own security, including via deterrence at the nation-state level.
This has been the case for as far back as I can remember.
I think I have the same model. There's a button you can press to turn the ionization on or off.
You're thinking of an electron microscope
Thanks! I'll do that soon, and the code is at https://git.alles.cx/Alles/zentrum if you want to try running it yourself right now (although you'll need credentials from https://identity.alles.cx for the login system)
Yup, there is craft everything now. For example, macaroni and cheese. To me, that will always be the poor folk food of my youth, even though my friends rave about eating it at fine dining establishments. I'm sure soon we'll have artisinal sloppy joes as well -- why not, with high quality ingredients and a creative chef, you can make any dish interesting.
Including pervasive tracking of driving habits and who you associate with, sold to the highest bidder. :-(
The single host model is really pretty common

Personal or small/medium business sites, research software, free web utilities

What's considered lean in startupland can get pretty beefy compared to the shoestring a lot of projects are compelled by necessity to get by on

Compose can be great if you just need a web server and maybe a database and background worker and you don't have anybody suing you or losing millions for the occasional maintenance hour
Flogging it, pretty much.

I have a manual license, but I'm not interested in them. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
Nobody uses antiviruses on Linux (except if they host a mail or file server). As far as I know most people who use MacOS do not either. It is true that a lot (most?) windows users use antiviruses but this is not an argument against the claim that it causes massive slowdowns.
> Then there's the Acer way of naming products like "XR382CQK bmijqphuzx"

This take is deceitful. Acer typically uses a very simple scheme to define their products, which goes something like "Acer <product line> <model>".

The scheme "XR382CQK bmijqphuzx" is more a kin to a product ID, which goes way beyond make and model and specifies exactly which hardware combination is shipped in a particular product.

Complaining that Acer names its products like "XR382CQK bmijqphuzx" makes as much sense as complaining that Apple names its laptops like MVFM2xx/A, which Apple uses for the same effect.
Fascinating! Can you explain this a bit more and share some examples?
The store seems to be down, any idea how much it costs?
I drink but don't have one drink a week. The vast majority of weeks I have 0 drinks. Once in a great while I might have a couple of drinks (if I'm in the mood) but it's not a regular thing at all.

I'm not morally opposed to it and I'm certainly not an alcoholic, I just don't care much for or about it. It's kind of a low level toxin and it feels like it.

Is this really that strange? I know a lot of people that very rarely drink and certainly don't habitually, but will have a drink on occasion.
Yeap. It helps that Intel has missed the ball in the last 5 years or so. And tech savvy users are used to watching CPU/RAM usage, which helps a lot too.

My wife had a “my computer is slow” issue the other day. Fans blowing like crazy, extremely hot, battery draining fast. Turns out, lsof was stuck on some corrupt preferences file. Killed the process and file and all was fine. Regular people lack the tools to diagnose the problem and just deal with it, restart or buy a new one. We really should make diagnosing easier.
That's the first thing I thought when I saw this (hopefully your detractors will explain themselves). It seems almost tautological. If you've accepted that the vaccine is effective, then it's effective when it gets used at scale.
I don't see a world where the iPad pro has a fan in it so i think they'll have to commit to good thermals for the foreseeable future
I assume he means step down in clock due to thermal pressure… not literally hang (stop working)
At the least, it is a genuine public health measure AND a crackdown on dissent. Therefore it is not so simple to argue that it is a reprehensible move, if you are in favour of restrictions to prevent covid: you are saying that facilitating dissent is more important than "saving lives" from covid. It doesnt matter what the intention is: you believe that travel restrictions save lives. You must be subconsciously doing some sort of calculation between human rights and mitigating the pandemic
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> Then respond with force, arresting people, targeting however you can.

Yeah that's a nice fantasy. "Hands up, Russky bastards, the Navy Seal Bin Laden crew is here to take you out." Shoots up a row of laptops while bearded Russian hackers cower in fear.

Except for that to happen the Seals would have to have reliable intel from inside an uncooperative foreign state, and the ability to move freely, carrying guns, in that foreign state; and if they raided in it without permission, that would be an act of war.
You've received so many replies already, but mine is different. The older I get, the less I want to deal with the video game-like elements of hand-eye coordination, intense visual attention, and timing. I'm tired of things going wrong because I clicked a few pixels off or clicked on the wrong thing because I was surprised by a UI element appearing in a slightly different place or with an unexpected delay or with slightly unexpected contents because of a software update or just something I didn't predict.

With keyboard commands, I don't have to verify the accuracy of my mouse movements, and I don't have to react to the timing, location, content, and focus changes of UI widgets. I just press the keys in the right order. It requires so much less vigilance, it's a big relief.
Thanks for the tip, this will go into my gift list.
I work from my living room, my girlfriend works from the bedroom. Sure she sometimes comes out to get water or something and walks past me and into the kitchen and I can see her and hear the sink running but it isn't exactly a huge distraction
Wait, what?

From the WHO:

https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/disease-prevention...

"The WHO European Region has the highest proportion in the world of total ill health and premature death due to alcohol."
I gave a responsible, sane but poor elderly homeless guy I was acquainted with a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012), chargers, and canoeing dry bag. The MBP was originally a base 4 GiB and 500 HDD that, at some point, I upgraded to 16 and 480 SSD (OWC when it was $1.5k) + 500 HDD - optical.

OSes, platform toolchains, and apps need to prioritize UX (UI response time and time-to-first-window) to lessen the perception and the reality of waiting on apps doing unimportant activities rather than appearing and beginning interaction.
Doesn't this reflect exactly back though.....if there is money from a small group, articles like this are worth even more....outrage culture is typically two sided or more.

Big tech will make money regardless ... they monetize discussion inherently so all discussion whether is it is restricted or not will be monetized. by clamping down (I am pro free speech myself) you end up just saturating the areas and forming underground movements....
It seems to read similar to a leveraged buyout. Easier to do things when the company doesnt have to show its books.

Also interesting is that these are market areas that AWS is starting to expand into.
It's pretty common for people who own Intel cpus to say 5th gen or 9th gen or to easily find on the device or in the software the name of cpu like i5-4670k or i9-9900K
Well it comes down to personal preferences. For me, SF is unhabitable due to crime, shit + syringes, homelessness, and the fact that it's a ghost-town on weekends.

Combining that with the fact that we don't do bars, we cook and need car ownership so we can do hike-trips...
The 1440p monitor issue seems like an especially bad bug. I run a 2160p monitor at a scaled HiDPI resolution (3008x1692) and never run into that. The discrete GPU idles at around 9W.

(Though also using a thunderbolt -> DisplayPort cable might be helping? Connecting over HDMI could exacerbate things).
Yes I agree. It isn't really that Spark killed Hadoop but S3/GCS made managing Hadoops clusters pointless. Spark plays well with the storage ecosystem so it's thriving now. But my whole point is that it seems unlikely to me that Cloudera would just become a compute company if they had invested more into Spark. The core thing they were selling became less and less important over time. That was the problem
You're going down a dangerous road with that "seems almost tautological" perspective, because it is only one step away from "it's tautological, why bother checking?"
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There is $99 fee for listing your website. Is that part of the business model at all?
I doubt it. I've worked in a couple different social media companies and default age system is ml guessing unless you do something extreme like this. That gives you reasonable accuracy, but still very noticeable error that's a lot worse than id requirements. It's fairly hard to have confident age especially when a very high percent of people lie about there age if you just ask directly. I remember hearing a number like half of people underage just lie at work although unsure how serious that stat was. There were engineers that did spend projects on better age modeling as other ways just seemed unviable. If you make a legal requirement well enjoy id requirements.

The main path I can see around this is if the government/some company became accepted standard place for basic profile information. But that's just another id except a digital one. You can probably make a digital id system with good way of specifying which fields you grant to another company. The actual digital id when created will still need a physical id/government check though.
Replace Geek Squad with a very small (AI/ML) script.

No, seriously. Once the root cause is found, humanize the description of the problem and ask the user what they want to do about it.
No one knows the herd immunity threshold for these vaccines. Based on cases of vaccinated people getting Covid infections, this is just the vaccine preventing serious infections.
Obs is amazing. I’m using it to record my screen for YouTube videos. I have one unrelated issue, though. My screen recording feels super washed out. The colors are awful. This happens with obs and other screen recorders as well (even quick time), but OBS it’s a bit worse. I have no idea how to fix it, so I just compensate in post, but it feels unnatural.
> The current push for anti-trans legislation in multiple states is also being driven by tribalism. Keeping trans people out of bathrooms and sports didn't suddenly become an emergency to anyone because of any brand new risk or development or scientific discovery. There's no reason why this would be more pressing to Republicans now than it would have been 4 years ago.

No one was talking about that 4 years ago. Its like saying its tribalisme to care about the environment compared to a century ago.

For the trans its just we have move higher in the scale of 1st world problems.
Do you employ others within your LLC? If not, how do you drum up clients / contracts? Would it have been possible to drum up some contracts at lower hour amounts while still working full-time?
They are logged. These are just SAML federations, ForgeRock has a bunch of these rolled out across Europe.

They are logged, and law enforcement does get the logs on request.

Read the ToS.
So Macbook Air that came out in 2008 is as fast as the one that came out in 2020?
The anti-vaccine movement is not going to stop because these people are not persuaded by facts or arguments. Yes, we know epidemiology works. No, this proves nothing to people who do not listen.
It affects me from US and NZ ip addresses.
> use of my iPhone as the video camera for Zoom calls

FWIW I've used iVcam until recently, and I'm now an happy user of Reincubate Camo
I am not much of a youtube-dl user (I can download fine from YouTube with a few lines of shell script) but I notice youtube-dl tries to send a "consent" cookie for every video even when not logged in. For example:

cookie: CONSENT=YES+cb.20210328-17-p0.en+FX+203
Since as in time, not causative...
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"Step 10 - Post-processing" has some steps
I lead a team to implement CIFS server in VMS on Itanium after deciding not to port ASV (Advanced Server - CIFS server for Alpha since it had a lot of hand tuned assembly for a specific architecture).

We ported Samba and implemented a lot of C runtime functions to make porting less intrusive. As part of porting Samba to VMS, I made the early port of CVS client and streamline merging upstream changes with our VMS specific changes.

Some of the most infamous 4 letter words we cussed all time was the missing 'fork' and 'fcntl' and all the work arounds we had to put in to get Samba working...

I did meet quite a few very competent engineers from DEC times as part of my work and also interacted with David Butenhof of POSIX threads fame when debugging a thread library he and their team had developed and was used by ASV.
I pointed an air conditioner at mine for awhile and it definitely helped!

Though when I really want to avoid the fans I just disable the processor’s turbo boost. In my case that means the frequency never goes above 2.4GHz. For sustained workloads it doesn’t matter much since after boosting it’ll just throttle itself back to 2.4GHz or lower anyway.

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I've seen the generation mentioned first in almost all places. For example https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/laptops/xps-15-laptop/spd/xp... lists "9th generation Intel core i5". How come people pay attention to the other number more?
Well I mean, maybe knowing who people are when they connect to the internet IS the hardening we all need.

We dont need the internet to express ourselves freely but it sure sucks ass when you credit card is gone. I d trade your anonymity for my money back.
Looks like 17% of Americans, and declining, live in the Midwest[1]. Meanwhile the south and west are home to 60% of Americans and growing. I'd expect to see these warmer growing regions, especially the densely populated coasts, to see investment before the Midwest. It might take a while before your requirements are met.

[1] https://www.census.gov/popclock/data_tables.php?component=gr...
I love your comment above, nate. And your dedication to refuting this individual. But I have to offer this in response to their comment:

I have the opportunity of a lifetime for anyone who pays u/throwawaygh $850 per hour for any type of work.

I own a beautiful bridge in Brooklyn. It's all yours for the right price. I'd love to talk to you about it.
>repairable and upgradable

Unfortunately, the best ones aren't anymore.
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There is actually more interesting things going on here then the title suggests.

They split this small city into 4 and offered each section vaccines at a different time to get a better real-world test of the exact herd immunity point.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04747821

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-pandemic-ser...
Nope, single just me. My previous Obamacare plan which was worse in everyway was $450 a month.
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I imagine it’s only gotten worse with the pandemic.
Individual freedom and sovereignty are more important to society than electricity. I'm pretty sure you haven't thought of Bitcoin in that way, or how Bitcoin might enable this. Importance is subjective, but I think most people would choose freedom over electricity. After that, we might argue whether Bitcoin would actually be helpful in enabling this.

It's not a simple concept to explain so here's a couple of videos which might help you to understand it better.

Bitcoin Is Protecting Human Rights Around the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYYh4aPXAM

Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrehEWYj16s
It's somewhat more subtle, pure medical grade methamphetamine (desoxyn) taken orally is theoretically the best ADD medicine available but it's almost never prescribed for political reasons.

Meth has lot less sympathetic side effects than dextroamphetamine per unit of dopaminergic stimulation, this simple difference enables abuser to consume ridiculously large dose and those high doses are destructive.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/know-your-amphetamines
I'd love to be fired. I hate the job, I hate the work environment, I hate the pay and I hate programming.
Taxes are not abuse, especially not pensions or healthcare. You do realize that in all likelihood your parents benefit from both, and so will you, unless ofc you are a lot more wealthy than most citizens.
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It's very likely that Pearl Harbor was intentional to get popular support for entering World War 2. There's evidence that the president had been briefed on the attack and they intentionally did not move the fleet.
...share? :)
The puritans are undeservingly white-washed and praised.

They were extremists by contemporary standards (an insanely low bar).

They barely waited until they stopped starving to start being jerks to each other and antagonizing the natives.

If you want to idolize early settlers idolize Rhode Islanders, they were basically successive waves of people who left Massachusetts because the latter was no place for anyone who let their conscience get in the way of their ideology (amazing how little some things change in 400yr) and they managed to maintain some of the best relations with the natives.
Interesting, and I agree. The opposite result, mass vaccination and no change in outcome would have been important news, because it's new and unexpected information. But news that a vaccine that is shown to work works is a much less interesting outcome.