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Any chance someone could upload the VX Heavens dataset of viruses to the Internet Archive? https://archive.org/details/malwaremuseum

Afaik it's a custom system with download-and-cache-on-demand. Note that there's nothing forbidding you from writing a virtual git filesystem that fetches objects from some centrali…

Yes but why not send a single email to the manufacturer before making it public? Does it really hurt so much? From a "cyberpunk hacker" mentality this only gives you an opportunity…

It's not about the companies. I do not care much about them. It's about people that may be hacked between someone's 0day disclosure and manufacturer's response. And if the manufact…

What bothers me is that they did not responsibly disclose the vulnerabilities to the manufacturers ahead of time. This is not moral, and I'm not sure what one gains by not doing th…

I'd be interested. The two still offending tools (spell and f77) sound super rarely used these days. I think it's fair to compare samples of commonly used tools in 1995 with sample…

Not sure why you're being downvoted. There's research indicating links between gut bacteria and (among others) mental health: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4662178/ …

Yup, climate change is real - it's evident from computing average temperatures. No point in debating that. I completely agree that smog is terrible and essentially kills people. My…

My point is that we can deploy more aerosols. See the first link

There are alternatives that can be deployed without reducing carbon emissions: https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/11/23/health/sun-dimming-aero... We'd already be over 2*C if not the a…

It's firmware. Very little firmware is. In information theoretic sense it's much more surprising if some firmware is open source.

Heh I was thinking that > 1TiB of data in an sqlite db is a bad idea :). How do you process that? The restrictions I had in my mind come from that it's infeasible to concurrently p…

I wish more people would publish data as SQLite databases (if the size permits, of course; usually it does). It's so much more reliable than CSVs, which have at least a few dimensi…

Yup, see no reason why not. This is answered in the post: > Any application state that can be recorded in a pile-of-files can also be recorded in an SQLite database with a simple k…

I don't understand these naysayers. I'm not trying to be mean here, but is there anything more to that than an old guy complaining about how it was awesome in his time and age, and…

This is a good point, and I agree with you completely. Perhaps the Brave org will come up with a working solution. It's likely the largest problem with the Internet economy today. …

Off-topic, but you should want to pay for news. You should want to pay a lot . Which kind of meal would you prefer? 1) Expensive, tasty and healthy. 2) Cheap and loaded with sugar …

(this is based on chats with guides in Auschwitz) Apparently survival inside the camp for this long was only possible if you knew how to climb the hierarchy, and Pilecki did it wel…

At first nobody believed because there really was no concrete evidence. This was changed by Witold Pilecki: > During World War II, Pilecki volunteered for a Polish resistance opera…

Depends on the company. I had a friend who spent most of his time at work not doing any work, but for example browsing catalogs and fixing his new apartment (while financing that w…

Are you up for working 8 hours a day? My experience is that many jobs (even in the top companies) allow you to stay relatively unmotivated after a certain point which is fairly eas…

I think the Internet is different. You see the absolute tops, be it real or slightly "boosted", of everyone's highs and project all of that onto a single imaginary awesome person t…