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the current spikes tempt me to sell off my home lab. a mac mini to sell to the open claw bros, 5tb HDD, Intel NUC, some SSDs, and a 5 year old dell laptop. can always buy back after the crash.

Surely this is fraud? Unfortunately they have too much money and connections for anything to ever happen.

Looking at the contributor analytics: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/graphs/contributors

Doesn't look like he was, but then looking at the actual commit list: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/commits/main/?before=e49... He definitely had more than the 14 commits listed. They might've lost their email due to the conflicts & lost ownership over the commits?

I'd take consistent but annoying over pleasantly occasionally explosive

This is psychotic, but unfortunately I can see so many of my friends using something like this. Dark path the world is going down

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It took me 4 years from learning to code and getting my first check. My writing from 4 years ago (at 16 yrs old) is extremely cringe but here's a link: https://infosecwriteups.com/how-i-earned-47000-usd-as-a-high...

A lot of time has passed since then. There was a lot I didn't realize back then:

- With the money I earned + another bounty I got a year later, I was able to actually move to the UK for uni, something my parents never could've afforded

- Being known for reverse engineering was a huge factor in me getting 2 of my internships

- Having the background knowledge in cybersecurity has helped immensely for me as a software engineer for problem solving

- I am now building a startup in the cybersecurity space as a software engineer. No more relying on the good will of companies for bug bounties

Yes and no.

For the intended purpose of learning? Not at all. If you're legitimately interested in the subject, you'll learn more on your own.

For improving your prospects? Definitely. Say you were unlucky enough to be born in the third world. University is the easiest route into the first. I've spent almost £80k between tuition fees, rent, and living expenses over the past 3 years, all my own money from bug bounties, freelancing, and jobs/internships. I could've probably lived a comfortable life back in Malaysia with that much savings while working an average job. But the cap on my potential has definitely been raised several times that just by having a UK visa and a pathway to residency.

Also, I learnt this lesson way too late: it's not about what you know, but who you know. I wasted my first two years here mostly doing individual projects. Even though the 3rd year is the most busy, I'm making active effort now to work with professors on their projects. Some are genuinely interesting and at the same time, they have the ability to link you up with people with similar interests. If you can't seem to find people at your level IB Uni, it's because you haven't tried going the indirect route via professors. They know everyone

For me, it's a nice way to keep up with what's happening without going through the effort of following the right people in the right places. It's a stretch to call it a community though, although perhaps my definition may be a bit old fashioned. Anonymity just doesn't really fit. I do like seeing the diversity of opinion though. It's rare in real life to have people verbalize their disagreements, much less in a well researched manner.

I've never actually compared so I don't know if there's a better one for the price but the one I bought was "Zealsound RGB Recording Microphone With Articulated Arm/USB Condenser Mic with Tripod"

The sound quality doesn't feel crazy but definitely usable for anything I need. Also seems to filter out my laptop fan noise which is much appreciated

A £20 USB microphone from Aliexpress. The audio quality is so much better than laptop or headphone microphone

うっせぇわ (Usseewa) was a big one back during COVID. I remember people hacking into the school broadcast system and playing it everywhere.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qp3b-RXtz4w

For me, CP-SAT is the "dumb" solution that works in a lot of situations. Whenever a hackathon has a problem definable in constraints, that tends to be the first path I take and generally scores top 5

I do have that as well. I've noticed that sometimes all network connections out of the country gets blocked. With syncthing, there are relays within China that can be used which may be in less restrictive provinces.

Kind of a best case, worst case scenario thing such that I can switch between as necessary. WireGuard best case, Xray-core fallback, syncthing worst case

> Start with the low hanging fruit: your family.

Not always a good recommendation. A huge reason I was isolated before university was because of excessive control from my family. I'd personally say sports or other common outdoor activities like hiking are a great way to meet people. No strings attached and much more natural than randomly hugging strangers.

My university has one exposed to the internet, and it's still not patched. Everyone is on holiday and I have no idea who to contact.

I wander. Take the bus somewhere far, spin around a few times, and just start walking for hours in a random direction. Pray there is a bus line near wherever I end up. Not having to plan anything feels very freeing

It's another level of insane to put hard limits for self hosted open source software. I'm surprised so few people in the thread have just changed the source code and build it themselves.

> upload mp3s to their phone over a USB cable like it's 2004 again, just so they can avoid paying Spotify?

I do that not because I don't want to pay Spotify, but because it is more convenient. I want all of my music in one place (VLC), and Spotify doesn't let me export my library as OPUS or Flac. Some stuff in my library is only posted on SoundCloud, some are old mp3 recordings by friends, and another 30% are only on YouTube (small cover artists)

I personally believe that life is better if you do what you are naturally good at versus something you're interested in. I was lucky that I am both good at and interested in tech.

The LSAT doesn't feel too difficult, especially the sections based around logical reasoning. So if I went back in time and tech somehow wasn't an option, law is probably where I'd be

Indeed looks suspicious. This app takes control of your WhatsApp account. Could easily be malicious

That's what I usually use. The packet tunnel method is used if you want everything to be fully local. My plan was to make an app that can locally spoof your location on iOS without a third party able to MITM.

This is fun, but the fact that it is now so easy to process a massive amount of social media data to extract a person's political leanings, hobbies, etc and infer information about them scares me. It only takes one government change (cough cough, Reform UK) for this to be used against me. It doesn't matter if I'm politically correct when what is correct changes over time.

Took me a month to learn jujutsu. Was initially a skeptic but pulled through. Git was always easy to me. Its model somehow just clicks in my brain. So when I first switched to jj, it made a lot of easy things hard due to the lack of staging (which is often part of my workflow). But now I see the value & it really does make hard things easy. My commit history is much cleaner for one.

As someone on the hosting end, Anubis has unfortunately been overused and thus scrapers, especially Huawei ones, bypass it. I've gone for go-away instead which is similar but more configurable in challenges

> Japan

Pretty sure the US pressured Japan to up their exchange rate which was one of the factors in their stagflation. Germany never threatened the power of the US

I don't like this. Feels like easily become racist. E.g. people from Southeast Asia, Japan, or Korea who might not even speak Chinese but getting fired because they "look Chinese"

Apple gave me $47k back when I was 16 and it definitely changed my life. Was subsequently able to get out of my 3rd world country and pay for university in the UK. While the quality of education is disappointing, having a graduate visa makes it so much easier to get a job or start a business there.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Librewolf. It had sensible defaults and just works. I barely care about the privacy aspects. I just don't want to touch the settings

London's MCM had a lot of original artists this year. Surprisingly not too corporate captures.