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Cocodapuf

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  • The security co-processor in many CPUs is insecure

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  • Yeah, this has actually been a known thing for a while. The government has been sneakily getting their hand into NIST standards and trying to ensure they have back doors in the commonly used "best practices".

    So as a result for instance, encryption based on pseudo random numbers generated with hashing algorithms are actually safer that these theoretically "actually random" numbers generated in dedicated security modules in hardware.

  • Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling 'Unsafe'.

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  • Holy shit, I see Lemmy make jokes about guillotines all the time, but it turns out, that may actually be the answer!

  • A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras

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  • I've been wrong before, this wouldn't be the first time. But what part of it was wrong? Genuinely, can you clear it up?

    As far as absorbing IR light, I'm not even sure how that would work, wouldn't it just be emitted again as heat?

  • Suppose the last movie you saw and the last videogame you played had a crossover. What would that world look like?

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  • Truly, it sounds goofier than the sum of its parts.

  • Suppose the last movie you saw and the last videogame you played had a crossover. What would that world look like?

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  • "The devil himself is aboard the ship!"

    "Quick, block off the airlock and the corridor to the bridge with this 64 tons of cobblestone I have in my pocket!"

    "It's too late... we're all dead"

    "What... I'm alive again. Wait, where's all my stuff?"

  • Suppose the last movie you saw and the last videogame you played had a crossover. What would that world look like?

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  • Structurally blonde?

  • Suppose the last movie you saw and the last videogame you played had a crossover. What would that world look like?

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  • Well I just finished binging a season of Ted Lasso and the last game I played was Balatro.

    I don't believe it! After an abysmal first half, Richmond will be walking away with a win today, scoring 1,780,560 points in the final minute of the game! That secures their position and they'll be going on to play Man City in the next blind, where goalies will be debuffed!

  • Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?

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  • Absolutely right! And to be fair, sometimes you can get that tangible satisfaction in tech hobbies. You know, I've hacked some consoles, installed custom router firmware, built a crypto miner. Stuff like that can absolutely be personally satisfying.

    But I think you hit the nail on the head, however you get it, I think we really do need some kind of tangible product of our efforts sometimes. You need to be able to say "yeah, I did that".

  • Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?

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  • I worked in IT for years, I'm good at it, I like problem solving, I like fixing things, I like building things.

    But as time went by, I found myself in a more managerial role and truth be told, that's not really my jam. And when I wasn't doing that I was the specialist who could support some of our organizations' worst and most troublesome systems. I was also put in charge of training people to use the company's new web app (which was supposed to make people's jobs easier, but really didn't). Let me tell you, I do not like supporting shitty software or hardware, and I really do not like encouraging users to embrace useless web apps that don't work well and serve no real purpose. I hated my job and it was time for a change.

    So at that point I decided to completely shift my career and learn to code. I figured, if I hate supporting shitty software, why not just build good software. So I took some free classes through MIT's open course ware, and learned to code. I spent a couple of years coding, picking up skills, learning languages, working with different compilers, taking additional math classes. And by the end of it all, one of my major takeaways was that I do like building things. But... as a professional software developer, I probably wasn't going to be doing a lot of that. At the end of the day I might be able to say, "I squashed some bugs in some code that I didn't write and don't really know the greater purpose of". Or if I'm lucky, "I wrote some functions that took in some inputs and produced some outputs". But that doesn't really feel like building something, that just feels like being a cog in a machine.

    Over that same period when I was learning to code I was also picking up a second set of skills. We inherited the home my wife grew up in (which to be sure, is a pretty great deal). But it's a fixer upper, it needed a bunch of attention. And since I was basically home schooling myself I thought I'd earn my keep by doing a lot of that maintenance myself rather than hiring a pro. I collected power tools, I learned to use hand tools, I made a lot of trips to Home Depot. I went through the basement full of rusty tools and restored many of them, replaced handles, sharpened blades, greased gears. I learned how to replace drywall, how to install an electrical outlet, how to repair a dryer. I replaced thermal fuses in kitchen appliances to bring them back to life, I mixed cement and rebuilt a crumbling retaining wall in the backyard.

    Over time I got good enough at this that I started helping some of our friends with their homes. I could strengthen a rickety front step, or repaint a room, or replace a toilet. I had skills that people needed and actually, I generally liked doing it.

    TLDR: In the time it took me to discover that being a programmer might somehow still not allow me to build things, I also learned that being a handyman would allow me to build things.

    So yeah, career changes are scary, and it rarely looks like a good choice, but it is an option. And honestly, I've been a computer guy my whole life, but seriously, working with wood and screws and PVC has been super rewarding. So yeah, I guess I'm saying keep an open mind, and consider trying something different, you never know what might work for you.

  • A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras

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  • Have they tried painting a fire hydrant a truck and and a bicycle on the back? Let's test if these cameras are a robot or not.

  • A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras

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  • To me, this looks a lot like taking one dose of a prescribed antibiotic. All it really succeeds in doing is training dazzle resistant strains of cameras.

    Trying to trick the cameras is playing into an expensive game of cat and mouse. And sure, fine, that may work for a little while, but it's not a solution.

  • A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras

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  • Not really. We don't have materials that absorb or reflect infrared light. It's one of the reasons it's hard to beat inferred-guided (heat seeking) missiles, the only real solution is to drop something hotter than your plane, aka a flare.

    So... get ready for a new era of commercial automotive flares I guess?

  • is it a good idea to put foamboard covered with aluminum foil on top of windows in my attic?

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  • That's a great (and cheap) solution!

  • is it a good idea to put foamboard covered with aluminum foil on top of windows in my attic?

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  • I mean, comparatively.

  • What was the last emergency situation you were in? What happened and what part did you play?

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  • My 9 year old woke me up before 6 on a weekend saying "Dad, dad, there's an emergency!"

    I got up to find the bathroom covered in sand and water and a toilet full of sand and shattered glass after a jar had been dropped in it.

    Honestly, I had no idea what was going on, and yet complete certainly that someone was doing things they were not supposed to be doing and that the fact that I had to be awake right now means that this was going to be a bad day.

    Don't worry though, there's a happy ending. We sold the child to a gang of poachers and regained all the free time and peace of mind we've been missing out on. And with the profits I plan to buy a Miata.

  • Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

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  • This sounds a bit cliche, or like just a joke, but it's really quite true.

  • How do you tip?

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  • This comment is 100% correct and anyone voting it down should seriously try to reframe their thinking.

    You don't have to like the situation, I don't like the situation... but if you don't tip at least 15% you are underpaying a server and meaningfully impacting their life.

    Servers should be paid more by their actual employers and it's ethically wrong that establishments are allowed to underpay their employees just so they can offload that cost to the customer and deceptively list a lower price on their menu. That said, this is the current situation in the US, that cost is offloaded, effectively making restaurant customers the primary source of income for restaurant servers. They are effectively your employees now, so please, don't underpay your employees.

  • How do you tip?

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  • 20% of the bill (before tax).

    In some states the tax may even be 10%, in these states it can be easy to calculate the tip by simply doubling the tax amount.

    And then if I'm leaving a cash tip, I may round that resulting number up, so if it happens to be something like say 59.46, just make it $60.

  • Do women know of a man has feelings for them?

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  • Alright, so probably not boning then.