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Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @11:20PM (#28612790)
By “expensive” are you talking in the $20-30 range for a single sufficiently long cable? I don’t replace cables that often but I don’t see the big deal paying a reasonable for a high throughput cable when needed.
Re:Three ex-US intelligence officers admit hacking for UAE
on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:56PM (#28543618)
They’re probably trying to separate their billing information from public IP address which is the benefit of using a service that is crypto friendly
Re:ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swis...
on Monday September 06, 2021 @10:56AM (#28434281)
It’s pretty sad that they claim IP logging only occurring in “extreme criminal cases” and that somehow includes nonviolent protesting.
Re:Schools opened, suicide attempts in girls skyrocketed
on Saturday July 24, 2021 @03:06PM (#27943605)
I think a lot of this might be projection from the HN community. How is this even relevant to schools opening? It seems obvious that forcing kids to wake up at 7:30 to go to a conveniently free and "safe" underfunded facility so both parents can work yet still not make ends meet is the actual culprit. The gender difference is notable, but kids and young girls are very cruel to each other, especially when packed together in close proximity.
Re:Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters
on Monday July 12, 2021 @10:00PM (#27817007)
Kind of bad faith to throw rent in there, of course right to repair doesn't mean you have the right to repair rented things.
Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @11:32PM (#27217065)
That's a great idea, just use the ePub standard. Never made the connection between ebook formatting and email formatting before, nice.
Re:Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware
on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:05PM (#26974181)
Using inductive reasoning, they're probably still deploying first-stage malware en mass that activates under certain network conditions. Truly scary stuff.
Re:CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange warns: crackdown on cryptocurrencies ...
on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:37PM (#26786056)
I admire that controversial opinion, but would you really be comfortable with a federal authority telling you which software on your computer is "great for society as a whole" and which is a fad?
Re:CVE-2021-27135: xterm flaw may allow remote code execution, CVSS 9.6
on Saturday March 20, 2021 @03:17PM (#26525368)
https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_366
Specifically, the overflow is in the upper limit of the text selection buffer when characters are combined in UTF-8.
Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona prisons beyond ...
on Monday February 22, 2021 @06:44PM (#26232162)
The onerous budget item we are talking about here is a feature that multiply days sentenced by 0.7 if the inmate completes one checkbox item. You know, just to keep things in perspective.
Re:Emails a browser extension developer gets from scammers
on Sunday January 24, 2021 @04:33AM (#25890644)
Browser extensions can still run local code as the user. Example of a Chrome extension loading an arbitrary .dll: https://twitter.com/evilsocket/status/1339566046265696256
Re:Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
on Sunday June 28, 2020 @09:20PM (#23673487)
Nothing’s in the same category when you look deep enough into them.
Re:Linode Security Advisory
on Friday February 19, 2016 @05:10PM (#11137048)
"no evidence" or insufficient logging. The wording is spun to their favor throughout the entire advisory. Like "Security Investigation Retrospective" making it sound like they have the whole thing wrapped up. Also that everyone will be fine once their passwords are reset, when it sounds like they still don't really have any solid idea if they fixed the problem or not.
Re:Unlocking my Lenovo laptop, part 3
on Saturday February 13, 2016 @02:24PM (#11095305)
Nice article, that was a really enjoyable read. But one of the things that stuck out to me was:
> The last four bytes of the EC firmware image clearly appeared to be a checksum, and there were some other locations that consistently varied as well. I guessed (correctly) that if I programmed an image with the wrong checksums the EC would fail to boot and I would have a brick on my hands, so trial and error was not a very good option.
I was under the impression that the checksum is validated before flashing? Isn't that the primary purpose of checksums in ROM images?
Re:Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw
on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @06:34PM (#9926353)
It's funny that you say that now after agreeing with, and adding to the comparison of drones = cars and planes = bicycles. Now when someone flips the comparison, equating drones to bicycles, the comparison is apples to oranges?