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grifball

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    Comment #31671343

    $ cat com.txt | sed 's/^\(\S*\.com\)\.\s.*/\1/' | sort | uniq A bit easier than a ruby script

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    Comment #29445502

    For understanding: this proof makes sense if you (incorrectly) assume that any two horses are the same color, because then you can take any pair of horses in an n-sized group and s…

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    Comment #29308523

    Myth busters did this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MAfAVGES-Yc ?13? Years ago?

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    Comment #29025985

    >My favorite part of the photographic process was watching prints come to life. I loved starting with a blank sheet of paper and applying various photographic methods to bring the …

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    Comment #28957167

    Yeah, there's a lot of crypto that's specifically tailored to minimizing the effect of mistakes like IV-reuse and it's not solved, the primitives can't do everything, so it's good …

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    Comment #28922943

    Lemme know if you find them

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    Comment #28839348

    Lol they're using the old discord logo that got all that buzz about the slight purple color tweak.

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    Comment #28817483

    For most use cases, you should also add a local bind, "-Llocalhost:5900:localhost:5900" or else everyone at the coffee shop will be able to access your insecure Vnc server

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    Comment #28595437

    Can you recommend a good blog then?

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    Comment #28592932

    What's MLS data?

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    Comment #28455598

    We spend a ton of time locking down OS API/ABIs to prevent sandbox violations and I wouldn't trust a shared server with sensitive data unless I had an IT team working on it. JS see…

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    Comment #28375739

    You can buy a usb numpad for blender. I did this to save money on a mechanical keyboard.

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    Comment #28282456

    My gcc is tens of KBs $ wajig size | grep gcc gcc-5-multilib 6 installed gcc-multilib 8 installed gcc 44 installed gcc-6-base 60 installed gcc-5-base 66 installed libx32gcc1 98 ins…

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    Comment #28112739

    If you know the g's of vibration (force) and the hertz they needed to use on the screen, can't you calculate it? Maybe you also need to know the weight of the passenger as well as …

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    Comment #28092206

    Yeah. Mostly, the difference is whether you're protecting against big tech or smaller hackers. The only other difference is that computer security also protects your computer as a …

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    Comment #28057292

    Yeah I did this at work recently with netcat. Our file sharing "solution" wasn't going to work so I just thought to try it for the hell of it. I also setup a horrible video chat in…

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    Comment #28032040

    Yeah I've been following malware for a while and this is the first time I've heard of a Wiper. I guess it's like ransomware without the ransom

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    Comment #26640585

    I only skimmed the paper, but I think the title extracts and confuses a small part of the paper: "Google collects around 20 times more handset data than Apple" They didn't intend t…

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    Comment #26582296

    >My computer just does what I tell it to do, and nothing changes unless I want it to. >whenever I do have to boot into Windows to run some specific application, it's like I've invi…

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    Comment #26437198

    If there were an easy indicator of justified scoffing, investing would be a lot easier.

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    Comment #26209101

    Yeah, honestly, I hate the truth that this compartment-based system is the best method for security. I never have the access to do my job, and it's a constant frustration to get ac…

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    Comment #26149325

    It sounds impossible, but I've read the abstract of this article which claims to provide a cryptographic proof of a physical object (nuclear warhead): https://www.pnas.org/content/…

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    Comment #26147807

    Haha, but actually, you might have to put up with that soon. There's recent research on a blockchain technology called: "proof of space" which would require systems with large stor…

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    Comment #26145890

    What laptop do you have? You may know this, but for anyone who doesn't: with Linux, you really have to choose the laptop model from a list. Here's a good list for Ubuntu: https://c…

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    Comment #26145627

    Seems that a lot of these attacks (except for this one) are just simple social engineering: an employee is phished to get into the company VPN, and from there, it's maybe a couple …