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Stierlitz

101 karma · joined January 4, 2020

I mod down every post I don't agree with because I am too intellectually challenged to forward an opposing argument. I only ever come here to have my own prejudices confirmed.
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Stierlitz··on Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media
Paywall protected, could anyone provide the full text? ^[ref](https://pastebin.com/)
Stierlitz··on Explorers given approval to retrieve Titanic’s Marconi telegraph
“Because of a backlog of personal messages, the wireless operators had ignored ice warnings from other ships.”

Actually no, ice warnings* were passed onto the Bridge, which the Captain choose to ignore, as he was endevouring to beat the record for the fastest crossing on a maiden voyage. The lesson being, don't go full steam ahead into an ice field, in the middle of the ice season, at night under a moonless night.

“On the 11th April, she received 6 warnings from ships stopped in, or passing through, heavy ice, 5 more on the 12th, 3 more on the 13th, and 7 on the 14th.”

http://www.titanic-titanic.com/the-ice-warnings-received-by-...

Stierlitz··on How to Use Trend Micro's Rootkit Remover to Install a Rootkit
“Most of the driver feels like proof-of-concept garbage that is held together by duck tape.”

Oouch!

Stierlitz··on Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective
@ainar-g: “IMO, HackerNews has a few frills, mechanics-wise. Like the fact that you can't downvote direct responses to your comments. ”

I would prefer a voting-up only option, else the down-voting option gets abused.

Stierlitz··on Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective
@beders: “Ah, hacker news, the web site that can't detect duplicates or afford a message preview.”

They could provide a report a duplicate link.

@beders: “Anybody else amused that we use this bare-bones, no-frills forum to discuss high-tech? ;)”

I find it one of, if not the best tech forum online. They could stop modding comments that they disagree with into oblivion.

Stierlitz··on Oil crash busted broker’s computers and inflicted big losses
@tester89 > I don’t really understand why the traders would end up owing money. If they thought they were paying 0,01 $/bbl but we’re actually “paying” -37 $/bbl wouldn’t IB owe them?

My thoughts precicely, is there anyone on here that could explain the intricacies of these kind of trades?

Stierlitz··on Oil crash busted broker’s computers and inflicted big losses
> Crude was actually around negative $3.70 a barrel when Shah’s screen had it at 1 cent

A bit of a design flaw, I wonder did they spend as much money on the software as Equifax did?

if (-3.70 != 1) { send an alert; }

Stierlitz··on We are not mostly empty space
@sporkologist

> Inside your body, you aren’t mostly empty space. You’re mostly a series of electron clouds, all bound together by the quantum rules that govern the entire Universe.

> So we are mostly electron clouds... and clouds by definition are mostly empty space.

But empty space isn't .. er .. empty ...

Stierlitz··on Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
Annual costs, backups, security and latency.
Stierlitz··on In Defense of Inclusionism (2009-18)
“The fundamental cause of the decline is the English Wikipedia’s increasingly narrow attitude as to what are acceptable topics and .. what are acceptable sources, where academic & media coverage trumps any consideration of other factors.”

.. as well as self-serving corporate and political interests. As in they sit on an article 24/7 making sure nothing controversial get in.

“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”

Except for those that contradict the inner party. Go to the Talk Page and discuss it they say. Do that and your account gets disabled for violating some obscure WP rule.

Stierlitz··on Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retrospective
TLDR: down with sYstemd :]
Stierlitz··on Reverse-engineering the audio chip in the Nintendo Game Boy Color
“MicrosoftTM Windows VistaTM Compliant”

Remember when the software had to comply with the hardware instead of the other way round :]

Stierlitz··on How I recovered a lost email from my email client’s memory
I've noticed the same with web-able apps, you spend time typing-up some missive and then it freezes and refreshing the page loses it all. Could linux write everything to a file every 30 seconds. A bit like a keylogger, only you know it is there.
Stierlitz··on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
There was nothing wrong with Synaptic + Deb files that needed fixing. Same with Systemd and now they're going after our home directories (never mind that it breaks SSH). My home directory is already portable as in all my config information is in .dot files. As for snap, yet again a solution in search of a problem. you can download a nightly-build as a compressed archive and run it without installing. I too will be moving with my next installation. any recommendations for a small fast distro where the GUI doesn't get in your way?
Stierlitz··on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
> .. and it is hardly unreasonable to accommodate them.

I think he meant you can't totally disable snap auto-updating.

Stierlitz··on Gates Foundation will commit 'total attention' to coronavirus pandemic
Interesting ..

> It's not on the Gates' Foundation radar but how about a very high quality, matching set of mask and glasses/goggles? Costing about $30.

> The mask is reusable and the glasses fit very close to the skin around the eyes...perhaps even with a neoprene apron that seals against the face and the mask. It would also stop your hands from easily and unconsciously touching your eyes, nose and mouth.

> The idea here is that, in public, it protects the wearer against others and protects others from the wearer. If widely adopted this gear would vastly reduce the cost of the "test and track" effort and everyone would just feel safer in public.

> This virus is unlikely to be going away any time soon. Some say it will be with us for a "very long time" because even a vaccine is likely to be effective only over the short term and therefore the "herd immunity" will never really take place. We need to get serious about the long term strategy. This could be a one cheap, quick and effective tactic for reopening.

Stierlitz··on Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments
> Institutions, companies and governments can't bother to edit from a VPN, or from a tethered cell phone?

IP addresses are masked if using a registered account. It would be interesting to cross-reference those except Wikipedia don't gave this out.

I do know I opted-out of Wikipedia after being censured for posting the birth date of a deceased individual. In violating of privacy policy or some such WP:bla bla bla. The terms of which are impossible for the average individual to decode. A fortnite later the information was inserted by some senior administrator. I guess all Wikipedians are equal, except some are more equal than others.

Stierlitz··on Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/04/information-...

‘Long term readers will recall the Philip Cross Affair. A Wikipedia Editor named “Philip Cross” was relentlessly conducting a propaganda operation’ ..

‘The incredible thing about “Philip Cross” was that he never took a single day off. From 29 August 2013 to 14 May 2018 “Philip Cross” edited Wikipedia every day, including Christmas days, for 1,721 days.’

Stierlitz··on The Decline of Usability
> Ubuntu got worse at 18.04 ..

Give Lubuntu a try.

https://lubuntu.net/

Stierlitz··on The Decline of Usability
> All of these title bars denote active windows. The top one, Outlook, looks exactly the same when inactive ..

Yes, when did active-clickable-elements go out of fashion and everything became the same faded shade of cold blue brushed aluminum.

Stierlitz··on Microsoft Teams breaks daily record with 2.7B meeting minutes, tops high by 200%
It's well known that ones productivity increases in proportion to the number of meetings one attends.
Stierlitz··on Why Windows 95 and 98 would crash after 49.7 days of uptime
Not just windows 95 and 98 and it would have to be something buried in the OS for a 32 bit counter going to zero to freeze the system.

"Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plane pile-up"

https://www.techworld.com/news/tech-innovation/microsoft-ser...

Stierlitz··on New System76 Laptop: Lemur Pro
> .. software issues were always letting it down, and I was wasting lots of time trying to patch/fix linux configuration issues & bugs ..

Ten year old FUD!

Stierlitz··on One man lost his life savings in a SIM hack, you can try to protect yourself
@guessmyname: ‘It sounds like you are not aware of the existence of the term “Social Engineering”.’

Sorry for the delay in answering, “Social Engineering” is not hacking. Manipulating the SS7 protocols for nefarious ends, could be considered hacking.

https://blog.securegroup.com/phone-hacking-through-ss7-is-fr...

Stierlitz··on Playboy magazine will stop producing a print version
“Playboy magazine is closing down”

Oh FAP ..

> They are stopping the print version of the magazine, not digital.

Have you any idea just how difficult it is to get dried-in yogurt out of an iPad screen.

Stierlitz··on One man lost his life savings in a SIM hack, you can try to protect yourself
How is someone persuading your provider to transfer your number to another provider, a hack?
Stierlitz··on Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust
> I want to be able to secure my computer (an ATM, say) against people with physical access to it. A root of trust (that the original purchaser of the device controls) allows for that.

Why not generate a unique key for each device on first boot? isn't it a fact that the original purchaser does not have control of the trusted computer platform. Trusted as in the OEMs trust they can control your computer.

Stierlitz··on Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (2015)
You didn't wake up before the alarm went off. What happens is your mind is dreaming about a minutes worth of some random scenario. At the moment the alarm sounds, this scenario undergoes an alternation to incorporate the alarm into the dream and is then stored in your short-term memory. When you fully wake-up, your mind replays the dream, the last bit of which contains the sequence of you waking-up just before the alarm going off.
Stierlitz··on Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months
> Pretty bad when the FBI has to step in and alert you that someone has brute forced their way into your servers.

Yes ..

Stierlitz··on Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months
If the hack was conducted through the use of account hijacking then why didn't anybody at Citrix notice. Unless once the hackers got in they migrated within the network using as yet unknown vulnerabilities. Makes one wonder of there are backdoors in all networking equipment. So as the various state security entities can keep an eye on us.
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