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Yes, but it's hardly cheap to do so, and you could very well be prevented under legal limitations.

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Posted on 19-11-19, 20:45 in Anticipating near future [politics]
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I have never once stated in this thread that I agree with the current American president, just that he was effective at rejuvenating the Republican party. Those two aren't the same thing. For instance, I freely admit–and I sure hope this doesn't get me banned–that the other politician with whom he is often compared was very skilled at politics. This does not necessarily imply that I agree with him.

Furthermore, it is not even necessary to agree with someone to support them. I have never voted for a centrist party in my entire life. You find the most extreme candidate, and then you vote for them. Takes fifteen minutes at most. Even if you're a centrist, the end result will be an average between you and a few million others, so you best make your ballot count.

I have stated that before women are worse ("inferior") at chess and soccer, and I stand by those assertions. That's probably not what you're asking about though, so you'll have to clarify your question before I can answer it.

There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.
Posted on 19-11-19, 22:19 in Anticipating near future [politics]
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Right, poor use of words there. Support not used to mean "being a supporter of," but rather "giving support to".

The accurate comparison would be a man looking at 1930s Germany, thinking, "OK, this is a bit too left-wing for my tastes," and then voting for Hitler since he's the furthest right candidate you can find and you want to shift society rightward.

If you look at it mathematically: your ballot is just a number n you select between -1.0 and 1.0. The electoral outcome is the average of all ballots. Assuming you know the projected outcome, why would you ever cast a ballot where -1.0 < n < 1.0? Either your desired outcome is below the projected outcome, and then you vote 1.0, or it's above, and then you vote -1.0.

There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.
Posted on 19-11-20, 21:01 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with.
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Posted by tomman
Someone said at that VOGONS thread:
Don't rely on archive.org either, they accept DMCAs and will remove stuff on request.

...so while Archive is the way to go, you don't put all your eggs on a single basket.

That is an outright lie. Archive.org accepts DMCAs, but are generally very reluctant to remove things. There's large amounts of blatant copyright infringement they don't give a single fuck about, and then most of the DMCA'd stuff just gets hidden behind a login wall. In extreme cases (e.g. a complete archive of Library Genesis, kept for "research purposes"), you have to send them a nicely worded email.

For drivers, I'm going to bet good money Archive is the safest place on the Internet to put them.

There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.
Posted on 19-11-20, 21:06 in Anticipating near future [politics]
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Posted by BearOso
A google search defines support as: "give assistance to, especially financially; enable to function or act."

Look man, I'm an ESL speaker. Do you understand what I'm saying or not? I think it seems pretty clear anyway:
"To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid." (emphasis added)

No, an ethical person would look at him and realize that, even though he shares the same political alignment, his views are crazy, and it doesn't boil down to casual politics.

Doesn't matter, if he's a better choice than communists. Anything else, wasting your vote.

That assumption of yours won't pass muster. There are an electoral college, districts, and gerrymandering to deal with. It's winner-take-all. The resulting president isn't going to change alignment based on the voting average.

Only for populations - the net effect of my vote's pretty gradual, taking into account courts, news, overton, etc. Furthermore, FPTP is only in USA and UK.

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Posted by CaptainJistuce
Also, hiding functionality inside an FPGA is more difficult than pretty much any other active part, because the end user can configure it virtually any way they want. Any channel for spying or tampering would require hardcoded behaviors and pinouts that are in direct opposition to FPGA usage.

I can't imagine it would be too hard. If any IO pin receives some arbitrary (very long) bit pattern, then start loading firmware at the same frequency it was received. A competent actor could probably come up with a very clever scheme. Or just TEMPEST and stego over RF.
Posted by tomman
mind you, all three Big Axis of Evil do have their homebrew CPU architectures, but zero intentions of playing the libre HW game due to the same paranoid bullshittery that turns people into paranoid loons

Why'd they care? They have safe CPUs and custom distros, why bother appeasing Stallman? Russia did open source her military Linux distro, as I recall it.

There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.
Posted on 19-11-20, 22:52 in Anticipating near future [politics]
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I meant that supporting someone in any way is going to help push their agenda unless it's completely passive.

For sure, that's true. But supporting someone doesn't mean you support them, just that you are supporting them. That was the distinction I was trying to make: you can support the KKK without necessarily being a racist.

I was talking about Hitler.

So was I. People wanted to push the national conversation to the right, he was the right man for the job. Not even any need to dislike the communists.

My thesis here is simple: Voting for a non-extremist candidate is a waste of your vote since you could get more bang for your buck, so you just have to find the closest extremist candidate. By geometry, there are only two of them. Ergo, Hitler.

Regardless, you've stated that you're just a conservative, not a supremacist, so I won't question you any further.

I have never once stated that.

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Well, yes. But that assumes the whole of the factory isn't adversarial. That's the case for Intel, and that's the case for TSMC. Are you going to start up your own fab or what?

If decaps are so easy, then how come ME hasn't been RE'd yet? How come not a single die scan of any high-end CPU has leaked? It'd be trivial: <underdog company> gives Russian hackers a big envelope of cash to scan the chip and leak it online. The top company gains nothing as they already had that info. All the others can now leapfrog their gains and add their proprietary discoveries on top with the information in the public domain.

There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.
Posted on 19-11-24, 23:10 in Dolphin and the revival of Nintendo Wi-Fi connection (revision 1)
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How do they do that, why can't you just generate NAND dumps? Are they signed by some Nintendo public key and registered in some database?

EDIT: And what do they rate-limit off, IP?

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Yeah but I mean how do they check? If you have two unused Wiis and dump the NANDs of both by the same process, then whatever differs will be their IDs and such, no? If you fill this part with random data, how would they tell whether it's for a Wii in existence or not?

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Secret knowledge then, like security by obscurity?

I've always thought a cool and unexplored solution for solving the cheater problem in online games would be a Web of Trust, perhaps the first and last time anyone got some real-world use out of it:

* Your average Steam user probably has a list of 30-60 friends. Say 50.
* Steam has 90 million active users, say 100.
* ln (node count) / ln (avg connections) = degrees of separation
* Each Steam user can reach any other Steam user in 4.7 hops

Assuming the friend graph is public, then it's enough for some client-side blacklisting to permanently solve the cheater problem.

You'd presumably want some automation to avoid getting tainted by random strangers you added etc but the concept is solid. It would certainly work for this kind of stuff.

There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.
Posted on 19-11-26, 20:53 in Dolphin and the revival of Nintendo Wi-Fi connection (revision 3)
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Isn't it quite simple, really? They have an utterly nonexistent anti-cheat system, and they replace it by security through obscurity and a 7-day timeout. Since cheaters in video games tend to belong to a certain clientele, this system works almost perfectly: they don't have the agency to use a VPN, the skills to bypass the NAND check, the industriousness to plan ahead and make several accounts, or the patience to wait a week.

And thus you get security by obscurity: a system that only ever keeps the dumbest miscreants out. Because that's the entire threat model here. Like, there are no Russian hackers trying to steal money or anything, since there isn't anything to steal but a good game experience.

I still think they should go with a web of trust, because it'd be a really cool model, but it's probably enough that there's no turn-key solution for our underage friends to download and go.

There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.
Posted on 19-11-29, 13:44 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Firefox browser will block the IAB’s DigiTrust universal ID
Just block the damn ads already. The bribes would more than make up for the lost Google cash.


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Posted on 19-12-02, 11:27 in Computer Security news (revision 1)
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They are indeed harmless:
We have tested all the modules in our lab and confirmed them as working. Your mileage may vary however, depending on software version, configuration changes, service pack, operating system release and processor architecture, and may result in either:
* Your browser exiting and opening the Windows calculator (vulnerable). [demonstration video - youtube]
* Your browser opening the file and nothing happens (patched / immune).
* Your browser displaying an error message or crashing (vulnerable but your system does not match the correct exploit conditions).


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Posted on 19-12-20, 01:31 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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A solution some forums use is to put old threads on "autosage". That is, you can still post in them, but they won't get bumped. So your very interesting discussion about Netscape can go on for all eternity, but it won't be hot news for long. This also works for culling megathreads, forcing them to keep to a manageable size and re-summarize the old news for the newcomers.

There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.
Posted on 19-12-20, 01:33 in Anticipating near future [politics]
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It seems like we finally have some hard, quantitative data on impeachments.
https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/4353/What-will-be-the-balance-of-power-in-Congress-after-the-2020-election

It seems like it hurts the Democrats, but not that much. Their chance of winning has dropped by about 5%, which is not a great deal, although it isn't nothing either.

There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.
Posted on 19-12-20, 16:07 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Well, I'm not suggesting it here, because this forum is in my opinion too small to warrant such restrictions anyway. But is it really? Looking at the code on GitHub, it seems like you sort by lastpostdate, which is on the thread/board and not the last post in it. I would just think you need to change this part so that there's a condition to updating lastpostdate:
          $rFora = Query("update {forums} set numposts=numposts+1, lastpostdate={0}, lastpostuser={1}, lastpostid={2} where id={3} limit 1",
$now, $loguserid, $pid, $fid);

$rThreads = Query("update {threads} set lastposter={0}, lastpostdate={1}, replies=replies+1, lastpostid={2}".$mod." where id={3} limit 1",
$loguserid, $now, $pid, $tid);

And the same for editing posts.

Of course, if you've changed it to do a join or something, all dice are off the table.

There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.
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Has science gone too far? Is this article real or fake?
Posted by https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/24/colleges-are-turning-students-phones-into-surveillance-machines-tracking-locations-hundreds-thousands/

Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands

Syracuse University is among the dozens of schools in the United States that use tracking systems to monitor students' academic performance, analyze their conduct or assess their mental health. (Carolyn Thompson/AP)

By Drew Harwell

Dec. 24, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. GMT+1


When Syracuse University freshmen walk into professor Jeff Rubin’s Introduction to Information Technologies class, seven small Bluetooth beacons hidden around the Grant Auditorium lecture hall connect with an app on their smartphones and boost their “attendance points.”

And when they skip class? The SpotterEDU app sees that, too, logging their absence into a campus database that tracks them over time and can sink their grade. It also alerts Rubin, who later contacts students to ask where they’ve been. His 340-person lecture has never been so full.



I will give it to them, it's rare that I have genuinely felt a sense of nausea at reading something on the Internet. Well done, guys.

I wonder how long until it becomes compulsory?

It's sickening on several levels. Of course there is the visceral part, but when you think about it, what does it really entail?

“These administrators have made a justification for surveilling a student population because it serves their interests, in terms of the scholarships that come out of their budget, the reputation of their programs, the statistics for the school,” said Kyle M. L. Jones, an Indiana University assistant professor who researches student privacy.

...

She said she worries about school-performance data being used as part of a “cradle-to-grave profile” trailing students as they graduate and pursue their careers. She also questions how all this digital nudging can affect students’ daily lives.

They're a bloody college. How do they not already have enough "school-performance data"? Since when were grades not sufficient information to go on?

It is one of those things you never speak about.

There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this.
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I think there's a far simpler explanation, Occam's razor and all.
An ambitious program of cost-cutting, outsourcing, and digitalization had already begun.


What's the expression in English? Wise for a penny, stupid for a pound?

Basically, the issue is that outsourcing is a chimera. You hire "engineers," which aren't actually engineers but do have the requisite degrees for the bean-counters. They then hazard that even if they're less competent, since they're much cheaper, it will work out. On paper, it seems reasonable: 100 "engineers" each working at 0.1x the wage and being 70% less competent should be a net gain if they replace 20 engineers demanding six figures and health insurance.

This strategy yields short-term returns, then collapses horribly after a few years. The 'why' is left as an exercise for the reader.

(A similar pattern may be observed with regime shifts in some countries, for just the same reason)

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Posted by CaptainJistuce
"Penny-wise, pound-foolish" as I've heard it. And as I've heard it used, it describes the opposite situation, where someone is very thrifty and frugal on very inexpensive purchases, but very willing to just throw money at large expenses.

Think of someone that just spent two grand to build a high-end gaming PC, then attached a shitty ten-dollar mouse because "gaming mice are too expensive"

That would be it, thank you. The situation here is more like in the meme with the write-only memory or the Chinese steel guy: they reduce their costs for buying steel drastically, which is a huge win for the management, but they don't actually get any steel. So in a way they've saved money, but in a way they haven't.

I'm sure there's a relevant Dilbert strip somewhere.

I've heard "fictional reserve banking" used for a similar scenario, although it obviously doesn't apply here.
Posted by kode54
Which sort of explains my dad's situation with the iMac I gave him for Christmas a few years ago. He prefers the shitty corded Dell mouse that came with the shitty Dell minitower he bought before I gave him that machine, to the slightly annoying and terribly not ergonomic Apple Magic Mouse that came with the iMac.

Your father is a man of taste. The standard mice work fine, are pleasant to use, and have no significant downsides, unlike the Apple mice which lack the right click button and feel deeply unpleasant to use. They're too heavy to click and the feedback feels mushy.
(Fun fact: right click works as usual if you plug a standard mouse into a computer running Mac OS X)

Posted by tomman
Too bad the cellphone market won't understand that, otherwise I would already have a hi-end flip phone instead of $1K sealed-everything, portless glass slabs and $FREE-with-happy-meal lowend glass slabs.

But would you pay $1K for a hi-end flip phone?

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