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Re:LittleSnitch for Linux on Thursday April 09, 2026 @03:10AM (#47700286)
It was problematic, so we moved to blackice defender iirc
Cyble, with a large team of dark Web researchers based out of India cover that while giving flock plausible deniability
Re:Unlocking Free WiFi on British Airways on Saturday October 25, 2025 @05:50AM (#45702578)
That's EAN, also used by BA as the backhaul.
Re:How OpenElections Uses LLMs on Thursday June 19, 2025 @10:42PM (#44324271)
Why complicate? One LLM works, another reflects and then a decision engine to review would be cheaper.
Re:How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020) on Thursday January 02, 2025 @10:51AM (#42575463)
Dell makes devices with mpp compatible touch screens. Cheap stylii, good pressure response
Re:QUIC Is Not Quick Enough over Fast Internet on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:04AM (#41485602)
QUIC is the standard problem across n number of clients who choose Zscaler and similar content inspection tools. You can block it at the policy level but you also need to have it disabled at the browser level. Which sometimes magically turns on again and leads to a flurry of tickets for 'slow internet', 'Google search not working' etcetera.
Why wasn't there a PAM solution in place that logged all the mainframe user level activities and commands? Maybe cyberark or such? Would have help to trace the issues and even control such commands from being run by a novice.
Re:Is Tableau Dead? on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @02:15AM (#39521056)
Apache Superset is a good option if you are ok with open source.
Re:Anyone working on LLM tools for enhancing data quality? on Friday January 12, 2024 @11:37PM (#38977371)
1 is already a solved problem. My employer had originally put a ML based system to find DQ issues (already working) and is looking at pocs to add LLMs in the model mix. Hearsay is that our lakehouse vendor will have their own solution to this question via a acquisition.

2 is interesting, possible to do via LLM but I worry about data privacy and hallucinations making data more believable but not real.

There is a category of sms that won't show up in your inbox. Think of them as messages for your baseband/ system. But they will result in delivery messages. They used to be quite well used in the Nokia era.
Re:Accenture would cut 19,000 jobs on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:57AM (#35274000)
This is a company that bills it's sales team to clients indirectly. Wonder if they've automated/ ai-fied some of their mundane corporate functions and back office activities leading to this point.
Re:Ask HN: Carrier “lost” my number in a port request on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @09:08AM (#33435082)
Solution - need some big pull to get this done.

The number needs to be recreated at the original provider (assuming no one else has picked it up), activated, ported multiple times (if you have ported earlier) and then brought to the current final provider.

Source - lost a 20+ year old number during a port activity the same way. Fortunately the provider was a client, and got a circle head involved to recover the number in the way it is mentioned above. Took a week.

Re:NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @06:04AM (#29160109)
Succinct and specific. Thank you.
Precursor to the Matrix?
Re:Announcing Vitess 11 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @10:26PM (#28003782)
It seems like a large contributor to vitess and another tool orchestrator linked in another post is Slack? Very interesting.
Re:HashiCorp Boundary on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @12:59PM (#24778853)
Is this very similar to cyberark, but without the logging and recording of usage?
You're onto something here
Re:Major Microsoft Outage on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:19AM (#24153318)
Legit question, if it is a regional issue, can using a VPN to another Geo be helpful here in getting access to the affected services?
Re:Autodesk criticised by architects on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:10PM (#24039552)
Could you share more about Esri? That's an unknown example to me.
Re:Decrypt WhatsApp encrypted media files on Monday April 27, 2020 @12:39AM (#22992928)
If only this was available as a apk
Re:USB 4.0 [pdf] on Saturday February 01, 2020 @05:04AM (#22209720)
Yes. Some have only 2 leads, but the newer ones have all of them.
Re:My Second Phone Is in the Cloud on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:58PM (#22208317)
So, a virtual desktop in the cloud? That's new
Don't give them ideas, please.
Re:Ask HN: Which is the best book on nutrition? on Monday December 16, 2019 @12:39AM (#21801027)
Most people tend to forget the most important thing in nutrition:

If you are chasing an objective, remember to listen to your body. If you don't, it will be often cause a substantial issue while you course correct.

Also, don't experiment too much, the digestive system isn't bullet proof.

Jail in corporate America? Sacrilege!
Re:Which companies are using Erlang, and why? on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:52AM (#21111871)
IIRC a clearing co. CLS used erlang a few years ago. LinkedIn still has the erlang architect JDs somewhere.
Plausible deniability? Perhaps the ramifications were so huge (maybe for Apple and others) they would have gone bankrupt in lawsuits. So maybe this is a easier way to bail them out. Just using a tinfoil hat here.
Re:Predictive Scaling for Amazon EC2, Powered by Machine Learning on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @08:42AM (#18502567)
Am I wrong in thinking this will cause some havok via incorrect predictions? It is not necessarily possible to predict machine loads.
Re:Ask HN: How to expose fraudulent software startup on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @04:05AM (#18501217)
The answer is honestly that it depends. If the investors asked the right questions, but the answers were fudged/ deliberately incomplete, then perhaps you have something to pursue. But, if you are not asking the right questions, or you do not further evaluate answers to ascertain their correctness and completeness, then you slacked at some point, and then the answer is that perhaps you are liable for your losses.
Re:Helm: Personal Email Server on Thursday October 18, 2018 @12:51AM (#18246007)
How about a VM that I can host at a location of my choice? On prem, ec2, or a dedi somewhere?

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