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In some countries, it is illegal to make unsolicited calls to a number that is on an official "do not call" list. Any number on that list is effectively a honeypot. I guess you cou…

Anti-spam measures work by increasing cost and friction for spammers, not by stopping them completely. A burner LLC costs more than a burner SIM card, so it's a step in the right d…

The satisfaction and feeling of superiority that comes from knowing that you did the right thing despite incentives to the contrary, in fact, is a very potent incentive in itself. …

I think the parent is referring to the possibility that one day, browsers might put up a blanket security warning for HTTP URLs instead of following redirects. Or they might try to…

They should make it mine actual coins for the site owner. The more bots try to access the site, the more profitable it will be!

A lot of attacks target that negotiation process, so it helps to minimize the number of parameters that need to be individually negotiated.

Makes sense. Nobody wants to deal with "this user-agent claims to support TLS 1.2, except this extension that was added in 2026" anymore. If you're going to add or remove features,…

We'll probably be able to tell if and when Yudkowsky's AGI arrives. Once AI can improve itself, frontier labs will no longer need human developers. So we might see a massive layoff…

Shady shell companies do an excellent job of proving ownership -- it's the only reason they exist! So if NYC is hit by an asteroid, you'll find backups of all the important papers …

You can get back your phone number once you have a photo ID and buy a new phone. Then you should hope that your service providers aren't secure enough to have disabled SMS-based ac…

Brb, gotta camp on top of the ash at the same lat/long coordinates to catch the mailman.

> Pascal strings, where the length is stored in the 0th character, were much worse Until unicode became widely supported, many databases used to reserve 1 byte for the length of a …

Thanks for the tip, but the usual open-source "you can change it" argument doesn't work in this case. People who like to control other people will interpret any deviation from the …

It only replaces the current page, and VPD is not a single-page app. So if you've been clicking around to find something, the previous pages will still be in your history. If you n…

This has been happening since a long time before digital became a thing. Remember Fagin from Oliver Twist?

But that wouldn't have looked like a bash script, only a random sequence of characters. The shebang at the start definitely contributes to the geek factor.

Well at least they're not instructing consumers to run curl | bash. That's better than half the tech howtos out there.

Yeah, that "extreme low pressure" part of the article had me scratching my head. Even a complete vacuum at the top will not suck water up more than 10 meters! The author was probab…

Actually, all matter is just trapped energy.

If most archers start shooting as soon as targets enter the range, and if their individual ranges are clustered around the average, wouldn't that result in a relatively high densit…

WhatsApp probably has better security than random KYC-as-a-service vendors who upload all the documents to a publicly accessible bucket.

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Vertical integration. Produce the chips, build data centers to run LLMs on the chips, and the robots to deliver the result to end users.

I wouldn't mind being mistaken for a TI-83. That was like a compliment back when I was in school. :)

It's not just about long vs. short passwords. IMO the greatest benefit of having a password manager -- whether it's a bloated Electron app or just a text file on your computer -- i…